The Phoenix index., 1940-03-23
The Impacts Of Lynch Law

GEORGIA HAS sustained the recent torture ol Euli-
and the death oggng of Ike Gastetwo serious @in.
sn4ng of the blood and nqons OF the dark
ages Both the works of those who represent the operations
outside OF the law and to the remedies tey Do seek 10
obtain.
The torture the South boy the outmooed method al
lowed long, INDUCED in by officers obtain COMES
sions" Knowing officer of the law that such Confessions
would hold court the actions of said officer in his
beating and burning of the helpless lad could have been nothing
but the reactions his innate and cultivated prejudice for Nhe
which South belonged and the satiation of the brutal
stncts inherent those who value little the majesty of the
law and who have such small conception Of their duty
Just the county of Fulton is in the midst of of
crime which open rewards have been offered to those who will
give information for the of violato Already this
investigation persons have been threatened with reprisal if they
dared give information leading the raid conviction Of
those engaged the awss practice In going into the open
ke for vgantes and lay prvates who themselves might have
been engaged the awess pasm depicts the distress and
dispersion of the legal department and its admission that is n
able to crime with its machinery.
Now along the South and CASTOR AT time
has the law been openly dared and such re has been
openly committed the peace and tranquil of the community
and
Ike died He might have been drunkard and ali
that charged to him. still he was entitled trial by jury
Of his peers and above ALL to life.
When conditions like these allowed be smohered
by pertuncory investigations and whewased in the Of
long drawn meaningless Investigations and groundess abis
gesture gyen favor of lynch law and OK stamped
the actions of those who not only and outrage the law but
audaciy under the label of the w the
ing OF their activities in public owned and operated vehicles
paid for and maintained by the dollar of the citizens
These of the things which prompt the federal courts
to intervene and ke actions under the due of law clause
in the face of the and the much worspped "ate Rights
These the factors which has called down the heads the
United States Congress blame for allowing lynch law
pant and in the face of constituted legal authority One lynch
ing many and until the states show themselves
able and willing stamp crime nausy be expect
ed that the federal government will be called upon for the
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Ike Gastons case the fuiment of the og ago prophey
of Booker T. Washington, that Tskgee sage who undered fol
generation against lynch Nw In of his celebrated preach
ments he declared that people who started ynchng black
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signed to his dust and the bringing in by of the officers the
horrible whip that punctued through his life stream, threw
the members of his family into Mysteries. Such sight should
shock the nation into action.
Fulton county has admitted inability handle its end Of
crime in ensng aymen and offering them rewards This has
brought forth the usual threats of repral that such procedure
always has Out of this sition the country has gotten its
underords. its gang rule and gumnen.
The shock the community and state has sustained should be
extended the honorable gentlemen Washington sitting
in the memorable of this nation in the grave question
whether the ljtion long endure half law and half mob