Show PROVING SUPERIORITY Springfield Mo has done Itself much discredit b by the recent reent lynching lynchIng and burning of three negroes negroes That fiat city had rapidly achieved the Jo position of or a progressive e modern el city It I had hall won the good opinion of man many people popl from rein the north who had in- in ve ested their money in the thc southwest and had taken their thel families there ther for fol residence Bulo Business ss hod had gained a volume volume volume vol vol- ume and a credit reli were vere noted inthe Inthe in the better beter commercial circles circle of or the country conniry Reputation that thai blu adjunct 9 C a cRy city and of a man had b been en secured cured h by the people of or I Spring Spring- Held field In It a night they have havo loosed the very wor worst wont t passions of or their very velT wo worst t men and have ha stained their hands with wih a crime for which the they hey will wi not notI be he forgiven forgiven- It Il mn may escape the retribution I huton tha that society seeks to Impose on offenders a against the laws of the land hand But Springfield Mo o. o will wi go o through brought I life as on one of the towns which could not lot preserve order which h by Us Its citi ell ell- zens zeus set aside the statutes an and ordinances ordinances ordin ordin- anc ances that organized communities impose Im- Im po pose e and anti violently took tool the thc lives of ft three men following that act with wilh the unspeakable barbarity of burning buring the Iho bodies of the victims Added Alced to the already deplorable circumstances cir dr cr- cr that thal have been mentioned Is s the fact that the crime alleged Is Ig believed to have beer beel committed by l 4 sonic one other than the men who have c suffered Il It I Is stated slated on what looks like good authority that these victims were innocent of the thc crime of as with wih wHich they were charged No o one can c condone the offense of ofa a assault on nfl women It I is one o of tile the crimes for fOl which hichi there Is I no forgiveness forgive forgive- ne ness nn and against which no punishment I is ad adequate f alc to balance But lut In the thc ma madness nes which follows a charge of this sort a cit city cily may lose its Is r reason a on And In Iii the mad Iliad acts acs that follow the 10 lots Ios of or life even en c the unjust taking of life Is a n lesser misfortune than the dl disgrace which attaches to lo the corn com COI- COI nt U fl I t. t And no one can belittle the ever present prejudice of or ora a dominant an Inferior race It I may be fixed bied l n I-n in egotism II it I ma may be he fixed fixed In Ina it a sane estimate the race ace nce against the other But ButI Butt It I t Is l' l there And AiU nl when the occa occasion lon arises the worst men mel of or the place call cal Into action acton the wor worst t passions and mil the thc whole community ity Is carni carried ed perforce back to the atrocities of or an nn era more barbarous titan than that from which the savage inferior race lace wa was redeemed It I Is hopeless g to lo talk lalk of separating th the races as I a Po panacea Some Missouri Mis Mis- lowns are said suld to lo have hh c accomplished m- m that result but the they have havo hove thrown n own on other ithel towns to lo which the blacks have havo ha e gone Jone an un added peril peri an and an tm Increased difficulty Men len are arc not in the world to banish the Iho offensive lve Individuals but bul to lo mako progress In spite spile of If things thing us the they find frd them As q tho h iio world goes farther toward ion tion lon there then wi be an Increased d admixture admixture ad ad- nl- nl mixture of or al all tho lie races S. S nations ions are becoming more mor every cv- cv er cry ery diy day Sons of or every clime are ale destined destined des des- tined to work wor out ou the problems problems race race problems with wih th the T rest rest rest-in t-In t In mixed company And If Ir Caucasians lans haw have cornn no 10 more mono mol self control than to slay without without with with- wih- wih out trial and burn without men who arc are r recklessly accused thc they have no nn ri right ht even to demand a separation of or races and the expulsion of 01 nn any one onea oneas oneas a as their Inferiors Inferiors |