New-York tribune., 1919-05-06
Americas Professed Ideals
Mockery While This Bar
barous Practice Thrives.
He Tells Conv vcntion
NJ o b Law ssailed
Both Negroes and Whites
Demand Enforcement of
Guarantees Under Law

Before America insists upon Justice
in foreign lands she should establish
justice at home, Charles f. Hughes
told the National Conference on Lynch
ing at its opening session last night
in Carnegie Hall. Both negroes and
whites cheercd his demand for enforce
ment of the guarantees Of the Federal
Constitution.
Referring to the guardianship over
backward peoples proposed by the cove
nant of the league Of nations, Mr.
Hughes said:
We are hearing much in these days
of the drawing together of the nations
IN cooperation to establish interna-
tiona justice. There has been a sug-
gestion made with respect to the
manner in which there may be exer-
clsed the guardianship of the strong
and civilized nations with regard to
those less favored-those which have
been called the backward peoples 1t
has been said in the most formal
manner IN the proposed covenants of
the league of nations that the we'll
beng and development of these peoples
is the most sacred trust Of civilization
| say that that duty begins at home.
Calls tor Strong Justice
every little can be done in the calls
of international justice unless nations
make every effort, and SUCCESSFULLY
prosecute the endeavor to establish
strong, and secure the foundations Of,
justice within their own borders We
never can properly appear as the ex
emElar of justice to the world as long
as the black man. because he is a
black man, is denied justice within the
United States
The salvation of democracy must
he IN those days of peace after the
victory has been won when citizens
under democratic government prove
themselves capable of seif-restraint
and prove themselves able toNnaintain
government assuring the justice in
whose cause they have professed to go
forth and fight for victory.
Mob Law Attacked
Il look with confidence into the fu-
ture, no matter what absurd and fool
lsh preachments may come from those
VINO are nothing but visionary and i'm
practical. I bottom my confidence UPON
the sober sense of an intelligent cleo
torate. There is, however, no hope for
the future IN any community, however
1t may phrase its formal language in
constitution or in statements of gov
ernmental principle if there is a broad
disposition to overturn the processes
OF justice and to enthronc mob vio-
lence and the rule Of force That is
the path of sure destruction. You can
not expect lawless sentiment to be
confined to any section Of the country.
II lawlessness succeeds in one place
1t Will break out in another
"IO O-daV in the citv oc Now Norl o,,,
security is simply in the sentiment of
law and ordsr-and nothing else. And
you cannot dethrone justice in the
South and let lynching go unpunished
there and expect to be secure in the
great metropolis of New York"
DR.. Shaw Assails Lynching
Dr.. Anna Howard Shaw, honorary
president of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association. told the
negroes that she could appreciate their
emotions because she herself was one
of the inferior peoples who had been
denied the right to vote
Any country which is not able to
punish crime, which yields to mob law,
IS not civilized country" she declared.
Brigadier General John II Shcrburno
who commanded the 1G7th Field Artil,
lery, Of negro soldiers, testified to their
exceptional showing in the first attempt
TO use negroes IN any service other
than infantry or cavalry.
Before America stands forth to de-
fend the justice of the League of Ma
tlons before the world she should es-
tablish that virtue within her own
land, Charles +. Hughes told the mass
meeting which gathered in Carnegie
Hall last night to protest against
lynching.
In speaking of the nations attitude
of guardianship toward backward ma
tionalities, he said:
81 say that that duty begins at
home. Very little can be DOPE in the
cause of international justice unless
we make every effort and successfully
prosecute every endeavor to establish
foundation of justice within our
own borders.
eve can never happily pose as OK
empars Of justice to the world as long
as the black man, because he is q
black man, is denied justice at home "
Brigadicr General John ii. Sher-
burne and Anna Howard Shaw also
spoke.
Sentiment Against Lynching
Emmet O'Ncal, Ex-Governor Of Ala
bama, said the South was determined