Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-24
SUPPOSE 1T WAS
YOUR BOY?


ay the lash on a human back, AS
the question:
If it was my boy whose bacI
vas laid bare to the will of a con
,ict boss, what would my attitud
,e toward the question of corpora
Of convicts?
Then if you would hesitate t
AVE a big, burIy man whip you
,wn son, what of the son of you
leighbor, for
Il am my brothers. keeper"
eve look back with shame to tn,
lays when it was a custom in thi
to whip men at the stake,
says the Moultrie observer, ant
continues:
care we not reyerting to
that custom when we send men
to convict camps and authorize
whipping bosses to use the lash
on them when they see fit?
Are the men who do the
whipping at convict camps the
type of men who can be trusted
with the use of the lash?
There are many stubborn
young chaps sent to the con-
Wet camps who have no better
sense than to resist, the ward
ems, deputies, guards, bosses.
"You may have a boy like
that, and you know his sensi-
tiveness and rebellious spirit,
and you know how little you
have accomplished by whipping
him in moderation.
"Your boy may violate a
law, and if you are not rich
or influential, your boy may be
sent to the changing. Do you
favor giving a big, strapping
boss, by nature and environ
ment rough in his dealings
with others, to be given the
right to take down heavy
leather whip and frail the
blood out of your boy?
"Do YOU want your neigh
boris boy beaten by a whipping
boss in a state prison?
"The men who favor the
lash in prisons should talk to
their wives about it. They
should think Of their own boy,
and the possibility that it may
some day come very close
home to them.
IF you feel that it would be
all right for your boy to be
flogged, then 90 ahead and adj
vocate the restoration of the
lash in the hands of the whip
ping bosses.
The grand jury in Colquit
ounty has recommended to tn
yolquitt members Of the state Les
stature to vote for a constitutions
amendment permitting the use O
he lash in convicts.
Did you get that? Write tina
aw into the state constitution
make beating and flaying of huma
icing part of your magma charter
Georgia needs many things
says the Moultrie Observer,
"She needs advertising for one
thing, but she does not need
the kind Of advertising that
will be given her when the leg
islature seriously sets about to
write into the constitution of
the state that discipline in pri-
sons shall be maintained with
1.-THE lash.
Georgia has suffered al
ready by swinging on to things
of the past, and refusing to ac-
cept methods and modes that
are modern.
"We would like for the great
popular mind of Georgia to
swing around to the point
where it weighs the value of
the work that is gained or lost
through the lash in prisons,
against that which we lose in
good name and surrender in
humaneness when we return to
whipping men. And weigh our
roads against the damage we
do to our civilization by cling
ing to the whipping-post.
Is road work in Georgia so
important that we can occa-
sionally have a man beaten to
death in the great good roads
drive? 20" '~1
rs work more to us than
human life?
eve look back with shame
to the days when it was a Gus
tom in this country to whip
men at stake.
The Observer is we'll aware
that there are many good men
who feel that it is necessary
to use the lash in convict
camps. Many of them advo-
cate the lash because they
think it is a necessity.
aBut The Observer feels that
there can be no necessity that