Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1922-03-31
SOUTHERN MOBS
OFf-SCOURlNG
OF CREATION
Representative Southern
Daily Says Poorest Morally
Of Poor White Trash Plug
Ug.ies and Thugs of Every
Description Form Lynching
Crowds.
Reppresentative Southern Daily

Representative Southern Daily -
GREENSBORO, N. c. Mar. 30
What is regarded as one of the fin
es. editorial expressions ever writ
ten in a plea for law and order,
while at the same time npbraiding
the South for dealing with facts
arzifieially, appeared recently IN
Greensboro Daily News, with ref
renee to a Bullock case. This news
paper Is one Of the most influen-
tial publications Of the South, and
may be regarded as speaking Off
cially, when writing under The head
ine Of "Wha, Lynching Means to
the South The News says:
"The Governor will not humili-
ate The state. he declares, BY send
Ing Witnesses 10 testify for It in a
petty Judicial officers court in Can.
ada. No danger. That isn't what
has humiiiated the state. II the
state had sen; a few Warren County
iynehers to the penitentiary, it
xcll5 probably have been under no
obligations 10 send witnesses TO Can
ada in order to secure the extrad.-
tion Of Bullock.
Let Us keep this thing straight,
Canada may have been a little over
JEALOUS, but she had plenty Of rea-
son. We have reputation Of being
llood-shirSty murderers down here
in North Carolina. and IL is our in
durstrous lychers who have secured
that reputation for US. We shall
never be regarded - thoroughly
civilized people until We stop this
lynehing BUSINESS. les no use taxi
sng in grandiloquent Tom Dixonish
terms about what white man viii
stand and what white man won't
stand. A white man has got to
stand BY the law, II he expects TO
hold up his head among other white
men.
..Ail his snorting about the ilefee
pride Of the Anglo-Saxon race Is
the most disgusting poppyeoek ever
invented. II no Negro we're ever
bnched for anything but rape II
might have some shadow Of excuse.
But alleged rapists constitute only
small proportion Of the victims Of
mobs in the south these days. Ne
groes are lynched for all manner OF
crimes, ranging down 10 simple mis-
demeanors. Matthew Bulloek's bro
ther was not lynehed for rape, but
for shooting at white men. Fur
fhermore as every southerner knows
mobs are not composed Of iiercely
pxoud Ango-Saxons. but usually Of
the oif-scourings Of crcation--tbe
poorest, morally, of poor white
trash, plugruglies and thugs OF
every imaginable description, many
Of them wanted themselves by the
police, occasionally under the leader
shin Of some semi-respeatable white
man Of the rattleheaded type. The
idea that any thoroughly decent
citizen took part in any Of the -four
affairs Of the sort that disgraced the
state last year is absurd.
"This sort Of ritf-raf has no race
pride, nor any other sort of pride,
il has merely congenial tendency
toward disorder, easily inflamed in
to crazy blood-lust. But it also has
votes. Therefore, elected officers
more inerested.in holding their jobs
than in doing their duty, fear il
with a ghastly fear, and rcpudiating
their oaths let the mob work its
viii That is what lynching means
in the South today. There is not
one redceming element, not one
word that can be said in its defense
Ii is our everlasting disgrace, the
one foul shame that blots out civil
ization and as long as we continue
TO palate and condone it, i will dis
grace u.s.
.essra. sasass.