| Show LYNCHING JH SOUTH CARO LIDA I 1 the south corolina house bouse of representatives has just passed anan ti lynchick lynching law tha that it will pas pais the upper house receive the governors signature and bec become a law there is little doubt jt it provides that in all cases of lyne lunching lynching lyn ching anrig where death ensues the county wherein it takes place shall be liable to exemplary damages in a sum BUM of vot not less than 2000 to be recovered by a suit at law by the I 1 legal representative of the person lynched it is quite likely that this law also hag as stringent elial inal provisions though the dispatches say nothing on this head such laws are a new departure in the south and afford evidence of the awake awakening nino of a better moral sentiment and a desire to rid itself of the stigma that numerous lynch ings have cast upon it ly n ebbings while abile more nu nume melous ious it in the south are not confined to that section alone and they are arc as bad and show as great contempt of law when they occur in the north as they frequently do nor are those who participate in the crime of lynching lunching lyn ching 0 in the north made t to suffer buff erthe tha consequences of it any more than they are in the south that a mob murders a man does not make it any the less a murder yet the mob goes unpunished though the men composing it be known not only this but when an officer does his duty in protecting his prisoner he is censured while weak officials without backbone catering to a maudlin sentiment with hope of political preferment in the background have him indicted and cause him no end of expense and worriment as witness we the case of colonel colt in ohio south carolina has ma made e a start in the right direction one that many of her sister eister states north as well as south would do well to follow herald |
