The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-06-25
YESTERDAYS TRAGEDY.

Much unpleasant comment wa
made last evening with reference i
the tragedy which occurred on lowe
Commercial avenue BIZ which one whit
man may lose his life and another i
almost sure to lose limb. Unpleas
ant comment Is to be expected in sucl
cases and much OF It Is generally of ;
nature that good citizenship can no
approve. The perpetrator of the deed
Is frst the object of denunciation: then
the police power OF the community.
and this leads by an easy stage 40
threats OF taking the administration of
law out OF the hands OF the property
constituted authorities. The feeling Is
natural and may be excused. and the
talk is natural and may be excused Ia
certain extent. But. one is usually
short-lived and the other is always
harmless In community where
enough cool headed men are always
present to correct the thoughtless
curb the reckless or do the right thinx
at the critical moment.
There were cries of xiii hint
Lynch hint" Shoot hint" from n
crowd Of hundreds that gathered in
minute after the desperate negro had
done his bloody work; but cool headed
nervy d. f. Mccarthy and Officer Nc.
Namara rushed their prisoner throutAa
the surging, clamoring crowd, hustled
MIN into the first vehicle they came
to and landed him lin Jail, where no
VIII remain safely until. by due pro |
cess of law, he shall have been trans.
ferred either to the state penitentiary
or the gallows. %~ ,
The wildeyed. loudmouthed. hair
Drained fellow, whose tongue wagsI
while his brain scrambles and cizzIes
Is always ready to talk of race war on
occasions like this, and about the ex.
termination OF the negro, and he would
very likely be the fisrt to hunt cover
tne moment his bluff seemed likely
to be called
And then there Is the good. citizen
who seas'lin All sudhllaHasrsafhe iege+ J.
mate. result of Sunday base ball. Sun
day excursioes; popular Slnriay tecre
atoms OF every kind It is not neces-
sary to take issue with him In gener.
81 way, for sometimes and to some
extent he may be right II is certain {
that il one never does ANYTHING or :
goes anywhere nothing is likely to
happen TO him-that is, nothing that Ia
is likely to care very much b
about In this world or the next. But q
IN this instance the ball game can not a
De blamed-the tragedy would prob n
ably have happened II there had been 1
no ball game. with the only difference a
mat instead of q Paducah ball player v
being shot In the leg, the victim would a
probably have been some one else v
However, all criticism is not out of v
order- That our large negro population {,
s heavy burden is not open to cues c
Ion, bur the burden must be borne as
'ecomes civilized men and IL is graft
wing TO note that the number of the Il
Hack race who are helping to carry Il
he burden, while comparatively few o
steadily inereasig. There are two v
WAYS IN which We can n
1T the weight gradually from orr m
houlders, as far as that may be pos. %
the churches. the "a
chools and honest industry: discour er
&c FagaboBdage and crime. In the
'rmer We have been doing our duty in
obly fer years; in the latter we have be
cen remiss and we see our neglect in 10
lie great number Of Niger" vaga- an
,ndss Niger pistol toters, Niger II
'ap shooters. niger dive keepers of
10 Gain, Ana too often are allowed ST