The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-08-09
DESIRE CONGRfSs
TO INVESTIGATE
LyNG4Ae us.
HUGHES, ROOT, PALMER SIGN
ADDRESS 70 il iAEn.
ING ACTION.

Demand for an INVESTIGATION by
Congress Of mob yiolenec and lynch
ing in the United StateSis made in an
address to the Nation Signed by $50
citizens throughout the country in
eluding ex-President Taft, Attorney
General A. Mitchell Palmer y. Henry
van Dyke, the governors Of seven
states including Governor A. II. Rob-
erts Of Tennessee, every living ex-
attorney general of the United States,
the heads Of California, Illinois, Prin-
ceton, Western Reserve. Fisk and Van
jerb;lt Universities, Charles w. Elliott,
Elihu Root, Charles Evans Hughes,
J. R. Bingham of Mississippi, and
Senator Arthur Cooper of Kansas.
The Address to the Nation is an out
come Of the National Conference on
Lynching which was held in New York
City, May and 6, last.
"The people of the United States
suffer justly under the grievous
charge that they continue to tolerate
mob MURDER" says the address. an
the year 1918 no less than 67 per-
sons were done to death without trial
OF any process of law, having been
denied the right to a day in court
accorded by the federal and state con-
ststutions to all citizens.
at is well known that the innocent
with the guilty suffer the cruel in
Elections of mob violence. Mobs have
even invaded court rooms and prisons
to seize and murder prisoners who's e
punishment had already been fixed.
Early Ia 1919, hospital was invaded
yy mob, and the attack resulted in
death from shock of a patient that
day operated upon
Patriotic citizens throughout the
country feel the shame which lynch
ings cast upon the nation but they
have assumed partial responsibility
for this shame by their silence and
heir acquiesence. The time has now
come when citizens of the United
States can no longer contemplate
without protest the setting at nought
Of the fundamental principles upon
which their citizenship is based.
tIhe undersigned,- therefore, as cit
.lzens Of the United States without sec
tional or party bias, with the interest
only Of the Republic at heart, urge
all public spirited men and women to
oppose with all their power the re-
currence Of the crime and the shame
Of mob murder; they urge the gov
ernors of the several states to do all
that is possible to prevent and punish
lynching; they pledge their support
to the officers of the law, who, in the
face of mob excitement, discharge
their duties; and they urge upon the
Congress Of the United States nation
wide investigation Of lynching and
mob murder to the end that means
may be found to end this scourge." !"
Among the southern signers of the
Address are Charles j. Bonaparte of
Maryland, former attorney general of
the United States; George M. Bailey,
rditor Of the Houston Post; William
M. Hunley of Lexington, Va, Secre-
tary Southern Race Commission; viii
liam S. Sutton, Dean Of Department Of
Education of the University Of Texas.
Among the signers from New York
are the editors Of The Evening Post,
The Independent, The Public, The New
York Age, The New Republic, The
Nation, The Survey, The Crisis, the
publisher Of The New York Times, and
the Bar and Merchants Associations,