The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-01-07
LYNCHINC AND THE DYER BILL.


nounced and from study find that mob murders have
increased than decreased that law and authority are
weaker this year than in former years. that besta impulses
have held greater over the American people IN tne year
just closed than in 1920
The statement compares the records and 1921 thus:
officers of the law prevented So ynchngs in 1920 they prevent
1921 There SO actual ynchngs in 1921 as COM
pared 81 1920 OF the number Of ynchngs occurring IN
SO occurred the South and in the Morth b. Of the VIC
9 or less than 13 Of the victims were charged
with rape
small pleasure the contemplation of this record OF barb
m which its ghtfuness supasses the barbartes which
suffered at the or
tribes which boosted civilization and aspred to no world Lead
ehp i is record which when carefully considered together
occurred during the past should true lovers OF order
procedure hudder for the welfare Of America during the
An increase Of savagery of free and the
home of the brave which since 1889 has done 399 persons to
without due process of law increased speed in
the easy descent reign of bded passion and license from
which state the ascent to state of decent living will be far
And the wonder of it is that in those communities where
this most pronounced there is the greatest oppos
Almost concident with the publication the yncpg record
that the Dyer Bill now pending vote
tave of those states in which yncngs have been most fire.
quen Representatives of South Carolina Tennessee North Caro-
quality of their opposition this bill aimed the suppression Of
ynchng which is slowly but surely rendering the work OF the
Of American civilization void and
And the states which they represent have contributed greatly to
sso S 1880 5 lbd ssS ersons Louisiana 8S6
199 South Carolina 128 North Carolina g. Of this
number of persons eleven In the list Of states which
have been remarkable for their ynchng propense Texas
stands second with its $685. being exceeded in this only
Georgia which leads the country with total OF 428 mob MUIR
ders since 1882
1t will indeed be deplorabe if the better mind of America
fails itself and safeguard American interests from
the pagng hands of her unesaned citizens who are besnc
ing her good and hooking her boosted democracy
If ynchng does not stop the orderly of law must
stop. The two cannot exist cojointly
The opposition to the Dyer bill be bassed upon the
assumption that would allow the federal government to en-
the rights of states and render their sovereignty
For this has been called dangerous and has
been prophesed that its will be followed by increase
in yncng which federal will find itself poweress to stop
1t may be successfully argued that such reasoning has been
largely responsible for the increase of nchng the point that
efforts at its control being made by the federal govern
ment.
And it is that since 1889 every state in which
nchng has occurred has had opportunity to exert its
sovereignty and which would have rendered fed
efal Intervention at this time But of them
have chosen TO do this And while it is to understand
when we review the history of the last hundred years
is bronze feel that if they should begin to-
realize that just ncng not purely sectional neither would
federal intervention for its suppression be- And whatever other
considerations might arise they should realize that without some
sort of intervention speedily assured neither their sovereignty
that of the Federal will be able to maintain itself
nor guarantee its perpetuation
There time in American life when sectional bit
enesses and political chickering's will be lost sight of in the de-
sire that the united efforts of all be conferred upon the high
est good OF national accomplishment nation OF nches is not
worthy of emulation it hope long to maintain itself
lynchng any state is American ynching Any such bar
baritv has place in an enlightened government.
Every American state well realize that such record for
barbay should be rewritten in terms of orderly procedure
at the expense of federal cotrol.