| Show 1 i li 01 Boston Hoston Transcript Tran Administering forty orty lashes each of ot which drew blood to 10 the lie bare barc back of ofa a n delicately l nurtured 1 woman by the lie of or a U Georgia prison Is only a little less hose horrible than the tho lynching bees which have hate so befouled the States reputation Still when prominent cit citizens citizens engage enRage In the latter hatter what better Jetter can we expert expect of them when Invested with authority than that they the will ex ox exercise It In lit a n brutal manner There Thore are aro threats of against those Inhuman officials It Jt the tho prominent nt citizens will trill turn their lynching cm db orgies upon lIon one Oile another then hen t perhaps I oven even the tho superior race will como come to tonn toan toan an nn understanding of ot the logic of the practice Milwaukee Wisconsin Th Thi agitation In Georgia over oven the re reported reo reported ported whipping of the th white woman toman convict Mamle Mamie DC Do Grist is io not dim cult cull to 10 understand Irom From any lossL possible ble iio standpoint the punishment was In Inhuman inhuman human mind outrageous The report that thal Miss Do Crist Is highly connected and that the for tor which she was WIlS lash lashed lashell lashed ed ell was refusal to work In the fields with negroes n groell may Inay add aM fuel tuel to the flame of popular Indignation In Georgia Out But whatever the OIl the punishment was wal an unrelieved barbarity anti and the lie prison r under which It II could occur IH is not nol fit to exist In or ordering ordering dering a 11 thorough Investigation Go by Tyrol Troll has taken n a n course ourse that will be universally approved Springfield The woman Is now In histories hysterics and shrieks continually Dont take oft ore my clothes clothed cloth ll Dont Donl lilt hIt me Is III not nol so no exceptional a case caso In the pen lIen penal Penal al nl system of Georgia us ItS one could wish If It It Il had hail been a negro woman possibly It would not havo hao aroused threats of lynching Alagood 1 The thing to lo do Is not that but the citizens of Georgia pre June are called upon to set earnestly O to work to bring their prisons their and nil nib the rest Into a II condition conditio 11 Wing fitting the age of ot civilization In which we are supposed to live New York livening Post pol The whipping of a white while woman In n R Georgia prison ha has aroused universal Indignation In that State Similar pro prole le tet might not have been hoard heard had the tho victim loUm been a like hike the theone theone theone one who was beaten to death In peon peonage peonage age in Alabama He lie this as nil It may maylie the lie Incident will serve n a useful lI purpose If It stirs up the thu Georgia public sum lIum sufficiently to demand a modernization of the States Slates prison and com convict let system The Georgia House Houlle last week reenact reenacted 01 ed the thu convict lease system In a n form which the Atlanta Journal declares declarer to tobe tobe tobe be more moro vicious than that existing hitherto The new De bill has hll ha a clause In It permitting l county or municipal au nu authorities to hire convicts at altO 1120 10 a year ear anti nil all their expenses This was In Intended Intended tended to blind the outraged moral sentiment of th tue State for tor no county wilt will lease convicts at that tines price and much less lew a town lown Naturally the Jour Journal nal declares the th bill n a fraud traut and the whole system tein Inhuman on os unwise private greed but buttressed by public graft V Cleveland Plain Dealer Deeler The victim leUm In this ease cate was a while whim woman a notorious thief and forger torger who so 0 forgot CorKol herself h lf as AI to lo WM sass th the wife of oC the prison warden Th The h offend ollend od woman Induced her husband up the female convict and ond subject her herto herto to an unmerciful whipping on the hare ben benback back ns nil a 1 result of which the victim nearly died after which she was al put PUl tn Ii work In a 0 field lIeM gang Jang the th only PersOn t In n a crowd of ne fo convicts Naturally this outrage utra has hall the whole state Itale to a I la ax lon inn of r |
