| Show LYNCHING Tho The Chicago Tribune baa ft a C table showing the number of by mobs In the United States for tor the last 2516 2510 And sixteen years yearn The total Is IB of ot this title number 2080 occurred In ts youth south anti and 36 In the north Of the time vie vic victims tims 1078 were negroes 21 were In Indians diane 9 0 and 7 Mexicans There Thero were ere SOl whIte victims of nationalities and M 51 l were women Utah Is one ono of tho the states III In there wore no lynching during the tho pe period period nod covered by tho the grim statistic The Tho other states are Dole Dolc ware waro Massachusetts New Now Island and Vermont With regard to tile the other states tate th lynching figures are ns no follows Three occurred In Maine one In Connecticut one in III New Jersey and two In Now New NewYork York Counting every state In indiana of tho the south as ns a northern state diana dlana lends leads In time the north with 30 18 lIle gal nl executions then come In Kansas with 35 Nebraska 33 Colorado 30 io Wyoming 29 California 27 Illinois 14 H Ohio 13 amid Iowa lawn 12 Hut during the lIast past five rears yeats not Including 1901 there have havo been no Nebraska ka kit In six years none nono im h In Iowa In three e eyears years none In California In two yean none In Illinois and Wyoming In th tim there thero were Vere lynching In Mis Mississippi lIs sl 2 In Texan In Loul lann 29 In Georgia In Alabama IC In iii Tennessee In Arkansas Arkansan 10 In fn Ken Kentucky J el tucky In Florida J U Si In South Caro Carolina Carolinn linn lina 78 In Virginia 65 In Missouri Mi SJ 53 In North Carolina and 35 5 In West Vir Virginia Virginia ginia In Maryland there were ere 2 Oklahoma Territory has bas a n record of ot 35 36 since and Indian Ter For Territory 53 3 As to the causes of these executions by mobs murder murd r and criminal assault ns ault are arc the tho most mOlt common but by no means meun time the only emily ones The Tribune says One man was rae lynched for slapping a child chillI mother another for tor Jilting a 11 girl an pa another other for fir drunkenness another for throwing Stones atones another for colonizing lag ing In negroes n groes another for enticing a ser servant rant vant away two to paid the extreme pen penalty alty alt for eloping two for writing Insult Insull InsultIng Ing tag letters letten three for being unpopular two for or practising three for keeping saloons five for swindling anti and an two for tor gambling Ten persons were vere executed for no offence while were lynched for un an unknown unknown known causes This Is a terrible record nut Hut there Is la evidence that a n reaction has set In InIn InIn inin In favor fa or of more civilized warfare against crime The Southern press has hu proved that mob law Is la no de do deterrent of crime ethnic The Columbia South Carolina States some time ago pointed out that the tM fearful examples set get by lawless multitudes always were vere fol followed followed lowed by a IL series of new crimes crimea And ant other ether Southern papers took a similar Mew lew |
