The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-08-05
BY THEIR ACTS, NOT THEIR WORDS
YE SHALL KNOW THEM

YE SHALL KNOW THEM
Under the caption" American pogroms"
the New York World, administration or
gan, calls attention to the fact that there
have been five mob murders, based upon
race hatred, in five states during the first
five months of the year. The states are
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi
and Texas. In only two cases these lynch
ings involved alleged assaults on white
women, and in one of these the mob killed
the wrong man. In this case, Lloyd Clay,
negro, arrested on charge of attempt
ed assault, at Vicksburg, Miss, was taken
before the victim, who said he was not
the man. Nevertheless a mob formed,
forcibly took him from jail, stripped him
of his clothing, poured coal oil over him,
applied a match and hosting his naked
body high to the limb of a tree, burned
him to death amid yells of huge crowd
which included many women and chill
dren.
The World thinks there is some incon-
sistency between all this and American
professions before the world-for in
stance for arguments in the Senate
against wrongs done to Shantung. But
China are not those of the representa-
tives of the states in which these lynch
ings and many others like them have oc-
Cured. The senators from these states
are a unit in behalf of that compact
which has saved the world for democra-
cy, eliminated injustice from human re-
lations and has otherwise done the world
over on pattern of social justice. They
are members of that faction Of the south
ern Democratic party headed by Mr.. Will
son who is considerably more concerned
about self determination and social JUS
tice in Europe and Asia than in Missis-
sippi and South Carolina. In this posi-
ton he is in entire harmony with the New
York World and other journals which
make broad their phylacteries as they sni-
vel about self determination and social
justice and the emancipation of the peo-
pie who do the work of the world-out-
side of that particular section of the Unit
ed States where the mock has been put in
Democracy by the very political party
leadership which dominates the present
national administration.
The World refers to these lynchings as
characteristic of " section of America
which leads in the present widespread
creation of new crimes at law while in
dulging by whole communities in the
most cruel and debasing and demoralizing
instincts known to human nature in def
ance and contempt of law" All this may
be true of a certain element in the south,
but that is the element which furnishes
to the present day Democratic party its
leadership, leadership which holds the
party in thraldom as complete as that of
the old slave gang to the plantation own
en- The World is the organ of the party
which is the tail of this particular dog;
and we are told that this southern Demo-
cratic junker system which has disfran-
chised all of the black and much more
than half of the white population of the
old slave states, is now engaged in giving
to the American people in exchange for
their ancient independence and national
individuality, new and beautiful ideal Of
justice in human relations which makes
III Of previous American history seem
cheap and sordid And yet there are
those who will continue to believe that
leadership which is particeps criminis in
such political and economic system as
has been thrust upon the South by this
autocratic political faction, and holds
power at Washington today only as the
beneficiary of that system, is utterly in
capable of even an elementary under