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Show AMERICAN NAME AGAIN TARNISHED; The American name is again tarnished by the horrible burning ' at the stake of a negro in Texas. It is this harm to ourselves that constitutes the awful feature of such crimes' as the one' that took place the other day. The great truth that should move us as a people is that stated by Prof. Sumner in a preface to a recntly published book on our national crime of lynching. It is not so much that the victim may not have been bad enough, but that we are too good; that the community that would torture a poisonous snake or a mad dog does the greater harm to himself. ' The horrible effects of the slaughter in the Roman arena did not end with the death of the helpless victims, nor, great and cruel as this was, was it the worst. The worst was the effect oil the Roman character, the sodden and degraded view of life that it inculcated, finally sinking the whole Roman world in a welter of blood and bestiality bes-tiality Worse than the anarchy of the wilds where animals Vithout reason tear one another for food. Humankind today can no more abdicate Its obligations than it could in the days of Rome. Cause and effect operate with equal exactitude forever. God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man or a people sows, that shall he reap. |