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Missourian. Mark Twain, that human
nature is strong, and we all have a
heap Of it in US, and apologize for
the wholesale abuse Of the south and
west? Will they state to an expectant
world the bald truth that southern and
western people and Iowa people are
quite iikely to act in much the same
way under equal proyocation? That's
what they ought to say. but that's pre-
ciseIy what they win not say They
will probably keep somewhat mum
about this Hawkeye lynching and
make amends by an unusual outburst
of Indignation when the next one oc-
ours in the south or far west. From
the press reports touching this Iowa
lynching at Charles City it seems that
four or five preachers, several women
and most of the prominent citizens at
tended this strenuous function, some
as active participators, while the rest,
after the manner of Saul of Tarsus at
the stoning of Stephen, 'stood by, con-
senting.n There was something like a
thousand of them in that mob. 1T is
said there was no effort on the part of
the lynchers TO disguise themselves.
They, battered down the Jail doors, ter
rorized the sheriff and did the usual
things done by mobs bent on lynching
a prisoner They gave the poor devil
a chance to pray-which is, | believe,
usual in such cases and then strung
him up on bridge Really, that is
the usual caper-where a bridge is
handy.
It will be remembered that not long
since President Roosevelt, on the adj
vice of my friend Representative Ad-
amson of Georgia, gave Georgia sher-
iff a good fat Office because he had
courageously fought mob to protect
poor negro prisoner, but the president
will have no cause to reward Mr.. Sher-
ifT Schermerhorn of Charles City, Ia,
for his valor, and Mr.. Andrew Carne-
gle will hardly decorate him with a
hero's medal. Speaking of Georgia, ii
is apropos to state that recently a
white preacher in Georgia was execut-
ed by the sheriff after a fair trial and
an affirmation of his conviction by the
supreme court for as brutal a double
murder as ever took place in America.
The Georgians did not lynch him, but
let the law take its course. The citi-
zens of Charles City, Ia, however,
could not wait for the slow processes
of the law upon their double murderer
They worked him off themselves.
Some good Republican brother up
north who is in favor of reforming ev-
erybody but himself ought to carry to
President Roosevelt the news of this
fragrant case at Charles City, La. Per
haps he might be induced to send in a
special message on the subject-at
least to give it All entire paragraph in
his next annual message | am GER
tain that it would be interesting to OBJ
serve the countenances of the northern
contingent while the clerk was reading
a Rooseveltian lecture to the Hawk
eyes on the ethics of lynching.
Be it understood that / am not de-
Tending lynching. | am trying to jog
the public memory to the fact that hui
man nature is much the same in Iowa
as in Louisiana and that lynching
will occur occasionally even in the best
regulated Republican communities. 1t
has been so from the beginning of
time, and it will be so to the end
Wherefore? 1.-THE laws delay" is the
reason.