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Show MOBS PROTECT OUR WOMEN Southern Man Defends the practice of '- ' ' ' Lynchirfg. Chautauqua, N. Y., August 11. Unique among all summer gatherings is the "mob conference,", now .in pro-' gres6 here". Tlie increase-of mob spirit shown by feuds, lynchings, riots, assassinations assas-sinations and other lawless happenings gives great importance to this conference. confer-ence. Among today's speakers was John Temnle Graves, of Atlanta, Ga who spoke oir "The Mob Spirit of the South." He defended lynching as a remedy for the crimes Oi assault, holding hold-ing that though lynching-is a crime it is justified by the crime which .provokes .pro-vokes it. and will never be, discontinued until that crime is eliminated. The remedy for lynching must 'be -the elimination elim-ination of. the crime of assault and this, he maintained, could be done oixly by the separation of the two races inSthe United States. He said in' part: "The problem of the hour is not hoW to prevent lynching in the south, but the larger question, how shall we destroy de-stroy the crime which always has" and ! always will provoke lynching? The answer which the mob returns to this vital question is already .known. The mob answers it with the rope, the bull-t and sometimes, God save us, with the. torch. And the mob is practical; its theory is effective to a large degree; the mob is today the sternest, the strongest and the. most effective restraint re-straint that the age holds for the" control con-trol of rapine." Mob Protects -Women. The lyncher does not - exterminate the miscreant. Mr. Graves , contended, but he holds him mightily in check. As a sheer, cold, patent fact.Vthe mob stands today as the most potential bulwark bul-wark between the women of the S&JJth and such a carnival of crime as woiri-rt infuriate the world and precipitate the annihilation of the negro race. The masses of the negroes, he held, are not-afraid not-afraid of death coming on in the regular regu-lar way. They love display and the spectacular element of a trial and execution exe-cution appeal to their imaginations: Expediting the processes of the law would not be adequate to eliminate .lynching. The repeal of the amend-I amend-I ments and the establishment of the j negroes' inferiority in law 'and society, j said Mr. Graves, though desirable, ore not suffiicent, "for the negro," ho added, "is a thing of the senses and with this race and with all similar races the desire of the.senses must be restrained by the tenor of the senses, if possible under the law." But One Kemedy. No influence of suppression so mighty and effective could be brought to beat' as ;i law making amputation the penalty penal-ty for the crime of assault. But this i-a curfew-like tdict. separate- laws for white or black or the treatment of the crime of assault as separate and outside of all other codes are but expedients, ex-pedients, he maintained; there is no real remedy but one. No' statute will permanently solve this problem. Religion Re-ligion does not solve it. Education complicates it. -Politics complicates it. "The truth which lies beyond and above all these temporizing expedients," he concluded, "is that separation is .th:: logical, the inevitable, 'Aie only -solution of this great problem of the racse." In the afternoon mob conference "John Temple Graves answered questions. The . north and south were' about equally represented. repre-sented. Mr. Graves' plan for the solution solu-tion of the race troubles is a state set aside for negroes and disfranchisement outside of that territory.- He proposed no general exodus', but a gradual emigration. He said the south would riot object to the-loss the-loss of- the negroes, for it is learning the superiority of white labor. "Is mob execution.", he was asked, 'a matter of economy to the south?" "No," he replied; "the south never weighs money- m the matter of woman's honor." . . . . Another question was: "Are not the southern mobs largely white trash and men of murderous. intent?" - He replied; "By no means. The mobs have included the highest iii .the land, officials of-ficials and professional .jrien," He declared, .that, the .VfhlU' map" would .be lynched as quickly' a'si a negro for an offense against a white .woman's ' honor. He instanced in brief the (inly lynching in Newr Orleans in recent years. ; : |