The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-27
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lean author now living. that INDUSTRIOUS
| Missourian, Mark Twain, that human
| nature is strong, and we all have a
| heap of it in u.s." 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 likely to act in much the same
way under equal proyocatiOn? That's
what they ought to say. but that's pre-
| cisely what they will 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
AMI 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, estood bye CON
Senting." There was something like q
thousand of them in that mob at 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 lynchin@
a prisoner. They gave the poor devil
a chance to pray-which is. / believe
usual in such caSeS--and then strung
him up on d bridge. Really. that is
the usual caper-where a bridge is
handy.
1t will he remembered that not long
since President Roosevelt. on the a,t-
vice Of my friend Representative A1-
amSon of Georgia. gave aGeorgia Shel-
If a good fat office because he had
courageousiy fought a mob to protect I,
poor negro prisoner. but the president
will have no cause to reward Mr. SheT-
if Schermerhorn of Charles CITY. la.
for his valor. ana Mr. Andrew Carnc-
gle will hardly decorate him with q
hero's medal. Speaking of Georgia. it
is apropos to state that recently a
white preacher in Georgia was execut-
ed by the sheriff after fair trial and
an affirmation of his conviction by the
supreme court for as brutal 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 brothg up
north who is in favor of reforming CIV
erybody but himself ought to carry to
President Roosevelt the news Of CHS
fragrant ease atGharles Gity. Va Per
haps he might be induced to SEND in a
special message On the subject-at
least to give it can entire paragraph in
his next annual message u am GER
tain that it would be interesting Do OBJ
serve the countenancese Of the norfherH
contingent while the clerk was reading
a Rooseveltian lecture to the Bawk-
eyes on the ethics of lynching
Be it understood that q am cot Dc
Tending lynching 0 am trying 10 jog
the public memory to the fact that hu-
man nature is much the same in Iowa
as in Louisiana and that Anciling
will occur occasionally even in the best
regulated Republican communities 10
has been so from the beginning of
time. and it will be so to the end.
Wherefore? 1.-THE laws delaye is the
reason.