The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-12-20
.LYNCHING UPHELD
BY GOV. BLEASE
Serves Notice That Avengers Of
Assaults on Women Will
Go Unpublished.

IN tue name Of the State OF South
Carolina, Governor Blease served notice
to the Governors conference here TO.
day that lynchers of negro lssailants
Of white women in this state would 20
unpublished Governor Bease warmly
defended his use of pardoning power
as well as declaring that in twenty-five
months he had pardoned or paroled
approximately 400 persons and that he
hoped the Number at the end of tho
second term would be 500.
" l have said all over South Carolina
ana say it again now, he declared.
that will never order out the militia
TO shoot down their neighbors and pro.
tect black brute who commits the
nameless crime against white woman
therefore, in South Carolina. LET IL
NC understood that when a negro as
saults white woman all that is needed
Is that they get the right man and they
VINO get him will neither need nor re.
ceive a trial.
Governor Blease justified the use he
ma made OF his pardOning power he
sald ny conditions he had found in the
pehhl institutions of the State.
convicts Dying at Work.
l walked through the penitentiary
found 1t n tuberculosis incubator where
poor neNlis were dying at their tasks,
n"Nihs money Tor other people, poor
"eNlIs VINO mad no choice but to stand
ana work or take the lash Inst tbo
other day, Jim Roberts. negro from
charleston, stopped me as I was walk
ing through and respectfully asked ner.
mission to speak to me. lie told me
that he had been kept in laiI twenty.
two years for stealing a $27 watch.
. said: If you are telling ma +be
truth, you viii eat your Christmas
dinner with your folks at home He
sad: Governor, ! have no follts T,
Them ! replied, 'you will cat it away
from here and he will Another nc.
gro had served eleven years and seven
months for stealing SO; n Judge wrote
TO me that he had sentenced to death a
man when he did not believe the man
rad been convicted beyond reasonable
doubt Another wrote me that he had
sentenced to death man whom he did
not believe should be put to death. He
ana not believe it at the time. nor does
he believe it now.
These are the errors of injustice I
am trying to right with my power of
pardon. j am proud of my record ,,
Baldwin Favors Flogging.
flogelng, in some cases for children.
the whipping post for violators of Ger.
tam laws, and sterilization of assail
ants OF women, were advocated by
Governor Baldwin of Connecticut in an
address this afternoon. Governor Bald
wan said he was more in sympathy with
the Classical school of penolopv,'
than that new or noisier one, mainly
made up of sentimental humanitarians
or theoretical psychologists.
The former school, he said, maintains
that criminals should ordinarily be pun.
ished by subsection to some form of
sufferingj the other that they should
ordinarily not be made to suffer for
their misdeeds except as nature forces
It upon them through the mind, but that
their treatment by the State should be
aimed primarily at their moral improve.
ment.
There is certain crime of which
one seldom speaks,' Governor Baldwin
continued. "Its very name has come
to be bonished from our newspapers.
Yet the thought of it is daily terror
TO every woman in the South and brings
sense of uneasiness and constraint in
to the lives of her Northern sisters. It
is the cause of most of these lynchine
cases which disgrace our civilization.
IL is to be kept down only by the Sc
verest methods.
Courts Cannot Protect.
is 1t too much to say If the courts
are not ready to deal effectively with
this crime the people Wilt
"The people who may thus bring
some rufiian to his death will not be
the best people in the community. They
may occasionally have tho wrong man.
Eut has conviction ever yet been had
in the United States of any one of n
mob OF Iynchers for hanging a negro
accused of such a erimef
"That crime does n wrong to n
woman which many Of them have deem
ed worse than death. Such man is no
fit subject for an indeterminate SEN
tence. He has proved his inherent
weakness Of will power. Tn every clear
case, in my judgment, there should be
an operation of sterilization. -
Governor Baldwin, address follow
ed an address by Governor Shafroth
OF Colorado, in which Governor Shat
roth advocated lenient but certain pun
ishment TO criminals and cited his own
state as an example where this system
had worked we'll
Deterrent 10 Crime.
Governor shafroth declared that SO.
we're punishment had proved no deter.
rent to crime. Certainty Of punishment,
In his opinion, with an opportunity to
shorten the sentence through labor and
good behavior, not only punished tho
criminal, but served alike as deter.
rent against future crimes and as an
Incentive 10 reform.
He advocated the system In vogue IN
Colombo, under which gangs OF Afty
men worked without guards, save az
nights, on the public roads, and express
I'D the hope that the time was near
when the entire State eould do mora
than this and pay the convict nominal
wage for the work DO performed.
Governor Donagbey 0f Arkansas do.
elaTel toI severe penalty foF ynehers.
No punishment save death, be- said,
wonld deter mprderen from their erima,