The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1919-10-01
sen ATOR DEFENDS
OMAHA LYNCHING
Williams of Mississippi Departs from
Treaty Debate to Answer BoraIl.
Real Issue OF Treaty Neglected

Whole Day.
Washington, Sept. 29.-Race clashes,
Senator Williams, Democrat, Missis-
sippi, declared in the senate today,
| were all due to ATTEMPTED outragcs on
| white women by negroes. It was too
far fetched, he said in answering Sen
ator i'orah, Republican, Idaho, to at
tempt to connect the league of nations
with race riots.
| Il will go in the pathwas of peace
as FAR as any mani would be willing
to arbitrate almost anything except
outragcs on q white woman by black
or white. | would surrender him as
criminal beyond the pale to the first
crowd that came to get him." he said.
"Thc condu OF the criminal at
Omaha deprives me Of all inclination
and power to say one word against the
crowd that captured the criminal and
punished the crime. Race is greater
than law, now and then, and protec-
ton of women transcends all law, hu-
man and divine"
This miserable beast In Omaha
paid just debt for his crime. When
it comes to violating innocent women,
it is no time to go to court. But here
we have men pleading for law and or
der while helpless women are being
treated by beasts as they please, and
yet these same men don't want any in
ternational law.
"The senator speaks OF established
law in the land and yet he's unwilling
to stand for established LAW in the
world
| washington and Jefferson sought
a just and enduring peace The Presi-
dent soughtit in Europe and the United
States, he has spent energy, intellect
and almost life. He has received currs-
es and calumny.
The senator from Idaho has been
preaching peace, peace when it comes
to niggers, when capital and labor is
involved, and yet when he comes to
international affairs he Is standing in
the pathway Of the very thing to
which he has paid so high an oratori-
cal tribute. He wants America to
stand isolated. She couldn't do it
forty-cight hours even if she wanted
to-"
Senator Borah made sharp reply to
Senator Williams, discussing partcu-
larly what the latter said concerning
lynchings.
If lynchings were confined, the
Idaho senator contended, to those in
cidents mentioned b ythe senator from
Mississippi, the human race might be
disposed td pass them by for one
reason.
But the disease spreads and men
are lynched for most trivial causes"
he added. "The record shows 217
negroes lost their lives the first year
OF the war, at time when negro boys
were giving their lives to the Republic
and displaying great heroism overseas.
There was no intimation that they
had been guilty of the particular crime
on which men seek to justify lynch
ing.
Il want to say considering the ulti-
mate welfare Of the human family,
there can be no justification for the
lynching OF any person, and the man
who breaches it is sowing the wind
that reaps the whirl-wind no matter
how black the skin of the victim may
be. II the Republic does not protect
the lives OF its people the seeds are
planted that ultimately will lead to
its disintegration.
Amendments Neglected.
Not one passing reference was made
in the long peace treaty debate in the
senate today to the thirty-odd Fall
amndments, which Vice President
Marshall had ruled would be the spe-
cial and continuing order Of business
The discussion embraced almost ev-
cry other point. 1t covered all the
ground from Omaha, Neb. to Persia,
and Vice President Marshall's predic-
tion that the senate. once it took up
the amendments would discuss every
thing else under the sun, was abund-
| antly fulfilled The discussion CEN
| tered about speeches by Senator
Borah. Republican, OF Idaho, and Sen
ator Williams, Democrat, OF MISSISSIPPI
| Di, both OF whom digressed to touch
| upon recent evidences Of mob rule.
There were no other speeches, but
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