Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-05-29
JUDGE LYNCH AND GEORGIA
(From Jim Jam Jems, Feb, 1920

court in sixteen states in the U. S. A.
His jurisdiction is very largely Southern.
He sat 81 times in Georgia, IL times in Ar.
kansas, ~ times in Mississippi, time in
Alabama, 7 times in Louisiana, times in
Florida 4 times in Texas, times in North
Carolina once in South Carolina, one in
Tennessee. twice in Missouri, twice in West
Virginia, twice in Colorado, once in Wash.
ington, once in Kansas and once in Ne
braska.
Judge Lynch executed 80 human beings
in the U. s. a. in 1919, as against 81 in
1918 proving that his business is on the
increase by about thirty per cent. He still
prefers "dark meat" on his menu, for rs
were Negroes and Z were whites. He pre-.
fers males to females for 81 were males and
one was a female. Rape or attempted rape
accounts for 19--not one-fourth of the nun.
ber-and down goes the old fetch that only
rapists or attempted rapists are lynched.
Fire roasted to death and 9 were roasted
after being first slaughtered Of those
roasted to death three were charged with
rape. two charged with murder, one
with killing a sheriff and one was just
casually roasted to death without any
charge OF those roasted after death one
was charged with rape, three with at.
tempted rape, three with shooting an Of
Hcpr. one Will lllttINcI anu OIlC Will III
cendiary talk
Murder was the charge against all of the
seven white men lynched. Against the
sevcnty-fve Negroes lynched the charges
were as follows: Murder 13: attempted
rape 10: rape 9: riots 4 shooting officers
+: insulting women + killing officers +
incendiary talk 2; writing improper let
ters .: charges not given g. shooting a wo.
man l; robbing l getting murder sentence
changed to life imprisonment l; shooting
Waterman l: wounding a man 1; compile
ity in killing officer 1: killing n sef-defense
|: Killing over crop settlement l; no
charge made l; being acquitted of shooting
|: talking about race riot |; keeping com
pany with a white woman l; for being
found under the bed l for boasting l; for
misleading a mob 1 for appealing court
ease l and for discussing lynching /:
OF the 80 lynchings ID were charged with
murder and 10 with rape or attempted
rape, thus leaving So charged with but
minor offences.
These are the facts about 80 barbaric
atrocities, accompanied by the roasting to
death of 7 living human beings in this
land of law. And of course, the South,
the land of 'chivalry' leads the van with
the Empire State of the South Georgia.
proudly stepping DIT Ine uedU OIL lue Vail
with 81 lynchings to her credit in the year
Of 1919 Almost exactly one-fourth OF
these atrocious savageries Of lynchings in
the L. S. A., were perpetrated in the state
of Georgia. If every State in the U. S. A..
had been as 'chivalrous' and as "cultahed,
as Georgia, there would have been l,OOo
lynchings in the U. S. a., for the year 1919
With less than 3 per cent OF the popula-
ton 'chvalrous and 'cultahed' Georgia
for the year 1919 provided almost IS per
cent of lynchings. What's the answer?
The one answer, the only possible answer,
is that Georgia is the most perslstently
barbarous, atrocious, lawless and blood
thirsty place in the United States. With
less than per cent of the population and
with almost 25 per cent of the lynchings
no sane human being can reach any other
oncusion.
There are just two horns to the dilem.
ma. Either Georgia's Negro population is
Ill I so,o