The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-11-14

day added one more incident to the
many such acts of violence through
which the South has suffered i'm
measurable injury.
The South has not been alone in
such outbreaks, but because of the
conditions prevalent in this section,
they have been much more numerous
end frequent here than elsewhere,
and they have served to give the
South an evil advertisement over
the outside world where Southern
conditions are not understood, and
where the manner of sentiment that
stirs the Southern blood to the pitch
of mob violence is not condoned.
The advertisement given by the re-
norts of these incidents spread the
impression that a state of extreme
hostility exists between the races in
tho South that makes life here pre-
carious and undesirable. The fur
Their impression is given that white
women in the South live in continual
jeopardy of assault and have no safe
ty without constant protection All
if this is damaging the South's well
! fare
The South has lost much desirable
immigration and millions of dollars
of capital because of the evil impress
sions thus created, and its develop
ment and progress have been great
Ily retarded in consequence.
I And mob violence, like all forms oil
llawlessness. has a very demoralizing
influence in the communities where
Il occurs. 1t creates disrespect for
| law and constituted authority and
leads to other ferns of lawlessness,
Lynchings for the one cause for
(which they are generally condoned'
thas led to many other lynchings for
other offenses The record show
that the latter are most frequent and
some Of these have been for causes
| comparatively trivial.
A Negro can always be speedily
convicted of a crime against a white
woman in any case where the EVIL
dence is at all convincing, and other
wise he is assuredly entitled to
fair trial
The white men of the South make
the laws and elect the officials
charged with their enforcement.
Negroes do not so much as serve
on iuries. This makes 1t the more
incumbent on the white man to up
hold the law and administer 1t fairly
in cases where Negroes are con-
cerned.
This is white mans country
The white man rules and the princl-
pie of nodless oblige should compel
him to observe the law of his own
creation and look after their just
execution, especially as it respects
| Negroes.
The lynching creates race hatred
and antagonism-not to the degree
supposed outside of the South-not
10 the extent that would be certain
with a race less submissive and DO
cile than the Negroes, but that sucn
feeling is created to some extent
is certain and it is evil in its effect
This telling among an ignorant and
undeveloped people tends to Increase
the crime the lynchings are intended
to prevent. Prompt legal xecutlons
would be much more effective as
preventive.
Nothing is ever gained by the over
throw of the law, but on the other
hand it brings innumerable ills in its
track The lynching practice should
be stopped in the South. Let the
law reign supreme.
The condoning of lychig is the
evil thereof. The daily press are
responsible for the reign Of lynch
llaw in this country, north as well as
south, and all because the heinous
practice is condoned The South
has sown to the wind and must reap
! the whirlwind.