Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-10-09

ternal evils in it's own way and through
It's own instruments, The Age has hailed
with encouragement every outgiving of
Southern press and pulpit pointing in this
direction. We take occasion now to well
come and reproduce a significant denuncia.
ton OF mob rule by Bishop Theodore Du.
bose Bratton Of the Episcopal diocese of
Mississippi, which the jackson Daily News
one OF the leading dailies of the State en-.
dorsed editorially as "an indication of the
attitude of the sober thinking high-minded
people of Mississippi
BISHOP Bratton was quoted as follows
''Lynching is an indefensible act of law.
less brutality. 1t is rebellion against or.
ganized society, and it's inevitable tendency
is toward disorder and murder and barbaric
cruelty. It is, whether realized or not,
disregard Of the sacredness of life. AS
resorted to in our midst, it is probably
practical expression of unbelief in the
humanity Of the Negro race, and, in the
Christian (and scientific as wel) declara-
ton that Good hath made of one (blood)
all the nations Of men,
AT one time resorted to for the crime
OF rape, it has now come to be used in the
case OF many lesser crimes. An example
in point is the lynching briefly and casually
noted IN the papers on Sunday, August 49,
OF two Negro prisoners in Corinth for
knocking ther guard down (not killing
him. and attempting their escape-the no.
tlce concluding by saying that one of them
had no part in the attack upon the guard.
Yet this brutal, barbarous, unlawful lynch.
ing was resorted to to avenge deed which
every officer of the law knows may happen
at the hands of prisoners, and for which
ne is ever prepared. I have no patience
with any newspaper which can publish such
an atrocity without one syllable of con-
,lemnation Of it. Even in the extreme case
of rape, lynching has no defense, and I
can never believe that the women of our
South can want such protection at the
cost of law and order and the safety of
society and government. It is a protection
which does not protect, but rather imperils
the only source of protection which good
people, men and women alike, have
1T is high time that law-abiding and
liverty-loving people proclaim their con-
demnation of this base form of barbarsm
and Danish from our borders this disgrace
upon our Christian civilization The lust
of blood is characteristic Of the jungle, the
lust of revenge Of the savage"
No stronger Indictment of the crime of
mob murder could be framed than this
dcliverance Of Christian preacher from
the pulpit on a Sunday morning
Nor is there any reservation in the edi-
torial endorsement by the News 1t con-
cedcs the justice of the indictment and
points out the following facts:
"The Negro race is race of human be-
ings, entitled to the same humanitarian
considerations as any other race. The Ne
gro acts our every day life He is part
Of us and his degeneration or advancement
is linked inseparably with the degeneration
or the advancement Of the white man. The
Negro is brought up under the same en-
vironment in which we live, he is taught
the same ideals Of living, he reads the same
textbooks in our schools, cherishes the same
flag, and worships the same flag and wor-
ships the same God.
''The peaceful Negro has no patience with
the ]awless element of his race. He is as
ready as the white man to take deter.
mined stand against those who violate the
laws of the state and the laws of decency.
While in considering personally the crime
for which many Negroes have been mobbed
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