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Show 7 "ryn . v L i , i C Southern E'3Itcr Declares It Is Kccess2ry to Protect Pro-tect Women. ATLANTA, C a,. Se-jJ, 28. In ft lead-' tag editorial In the News, John "Temple Graves advocate lynching and also b revival of Ku-Kluxism la order to terrorize ter-rorize the negroes. Graves-aaya - fa rart: , ; . . ... . . . ' '?The white menof thia Southern country will protect their women from' the unspeakable lust of unspeakable brutes, and neither law nor statutes bob' public opinion nor; armed forces nor Federal courts nor any Other court will prevent the stern expression of the popr ulax horror and outrage -0 toward this most Infernal of a' human' crimes. There Is no need to try to scare the people peo-ple p(.hl Southern country with the threat of. the Federal court. It the Fedr eral tourt Invades, the State's, authorlty indi Jakes charge' of these cp.pes, .herc J?et remains "the memory aiid the renaissance renais-sance of the Ku-Klux Klan,' which was, perhaps, after all, the. most effective agency that this Southern country has ever known against the crime and lawlessness law-lessness that followed a period of war. Even this may not entirely accomplish; it work of reform. But it will. If anything any-thing Will or' if anything can, and this appeal to the superstitious terrors of the criminal classes roust nqf be left untried." un-tried." . - ' |