| Show LYNCHING m conn The Tile lynching record of 1007 1907 show a fulling falling oft off of or about SO 20 O per cent cen as ne compared with that Iha t of the th previous year but It Is itt still too large Jarge Fifty Fiftysix rm Fiftysix six persons were done don to death by mobs mohR and nil lI of ot theco thelo crimes took place In tho Iho Ito Southern anti and 1111 1 Southwest Southwestern crud ern States The victims cero w ro two negroes and four white men The Tho number does docs not Include the tho victims of or the unwritten law bitt but they should ih bo ha added In order to make mako Iho tho record complete Thorn There Is Lw no material lIc between tho murders committed db by revengeful mobs Individuals A scrutiny of or tins statistics discloses tho Iho ito fact act that on third of ot the Cale originated In tIle thi usual offense That tact fact sIl nce the Iho of or apologists for or 1 They generally say bUtt the law docs does not nol provide protection for tOl innocence mobs are justified in III killing tho ito of finder But oven even that poor hour argument ment doe does not meet of ot the In which mobs Indulge Ono One man watt wal killed for tor being tho hit father of ofa a it hoy lilly who jostled a Il white woman another for fOI being victor over a 11 white while whiteman man mun In u Lu I light fight one for expressing ox sym Hymn sympathy pathy with a ml I mobs victim and a Negro woman and her hor son shot for tor the tho supposed crime of the hUH hue husband hand band and father whom nhom tile the mob could no find Ond Kven l lell a debt of ot three dollars was wa accepted In Ill one cut ca yalta a Its 1111 being n II excuse for lor murdering tho lie debtor Lynching was aR first resorted to in ex cx extreme extremo cases canes but It II seems that mur murder murder der tier lion lies become a lI pastime with Home SOnIC There Is If nothing that moro mON quickly destroys the tho manhood of II a nation and jeopardizes Its ItH existence tItan than proc practices Ices tices of cruelty Universal violence preceded tho the Hood flood rhoMe who aro are Concerned about tho the alleged evils of ot lI for tor or instance while mur murder murder der tier Is IH In tho the land aro are about us 11 rational as ne the probates of early who fought about abstract ab dog log dogmas mils mas the ho Ito hordes of Asia were closing In upon their cities carrying destruction In III their path pa Ih |
