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Show OPPOSES LYNCHINGS. Booker T. Washington Talks of Out-j Out-j rages in South, NEW YORK, Sept. 27. Booker T. Washington, president of Tuskegee Institute, In-stitute, last night addressed tho Brooklyn Brook-lyn Institute of Arts and Sciences at Association hall, on his work among his fellow-negroes. In speaking of recent lynchlngs In the South, ho said: "Within the last few weeks a public sentiment stronger and more deeply rooted, I think, than ever before, has gone forth from the words and actions of Governors, the dally press, Confederate Confeder-ate veterans and grand Juries, which are saying In thunderous tones that we, as a nation, must not only be hearers of the words which teach us to protect the weak, but we must be doers when It comes to an Important enforcement of the law. "A white man cannot shoot down a negro without cause and not lower himself. him-self. A mob of white men cannot lynch a negro and not bring shame on themselves them-selves and their race." |