Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 4, 1920, Page 6

WASHINGTON, D. C., June 4. YEAR BY MOBS EMPHASIZE NEED OF LAW TO PREVENT LYNCHING | By FREDERIC 4, HASKIN, —A bill to prevent lynching is now} on the House calendar. The bill may not be considered before Con-} gress recesses, but eventually ity stands a good chance of becoming al law. For the first time in our history, Congress seems really deter-| mined to have lynching put in the accordingly. Eighty-five people were hanged, shot. or burned at the stake in the civilizea|auency of lynchings. United States last year, and this year similar atrocities are accumulating. as rapidly. In the past thirty ‘years, 3,- 500 persons have died at the hands of| J" removal of a prisoner from custody | infuriated mobs, and not more than a half dozen of the offenders were ever| HI¥ fined. fined or. imprisoned. When Chinese, Mexicans, and other | ¥iduais, all concerned will be foreigners know that they are in dan ger of death by violence if they offend the people of their neighborhood, it is no wonder that abroad America has a reputation of being a land where life|‘® lynching occurs and every county! is beset with hazar Ever since the days when Tory sympathizers tarred and feathered and then ordered to salute the Colonial colors, lynching] *®fety of prisoners, notably one which| has been named by foreigners as one of| ‘ows @ prisoner to demand a trans- the typical American sports, like ‘bull|@™ from state to federal jurisdiction if} America, they say,} {bere is danger of an attack on his per-| fighting In Spain. is a wild country. It makes a treaty with another nation in which its peo ple in America are promised the same were| ust forfeit $10,000 as a fine. same class with murder and treated] the state listed next to Georgia in ne| Law Makes Lynching Murder. The bill presented by Representative Dyer provides that any person involved | of an officer of the law will be heav- If a person is killnd at the hands of a mob of three or more in- pgard- ed as guilty of murder and tried ¢ this charge in ‘the federal cdurts. Fur-| thermore, in every case of unlawful killing by a mob, the county in which through which the victim is carried| Other provisions further sécure the} son. Inability ‘of states to cope with lynching is nation-wide. | states have their own laws against} protection of law as the Americany| Ob attacks, ahd éven when lynchings| have. But if thos disliked for their religion or national ity, they are quite likely to be seized by their neighbors and put to death. Foreigners Not Safe Here. As one witness before the judiciary committee of the house remarked: “It is not surprising that Mexico refuses to get excited over the fact that a few Americans are killed her revolu tions. s not a Mexican subject hung by Americans’in California and{¥ion to its own satisfaction before it| “the mother of New York women Dem another in Texas in 1893? Or to come down to recent times, were not twenty five Mexicans lynched in one state in 1917, and two more last year, and noth- ing ns done to bring the persons re- sponsible to justice?” This witness said that when in Tur key he heard a Turk deliver a lecturé} Which provides equal protection of the on America in which pictures of lynch-|/@w for every one, also provides that ings were used to show that America is not a elvilized nation. Unfortunately, these accusations that Americans lapse frequently into # state of barbarity are fully supported by facts. Since 1831, we have paid out over $800,000 to Mexico, China and!/'the committee. Mention attacks on The European countries for their subjects by American mobs. state department now has before ‘t un-|General: Palmer and Charles adjusted claims for deaths of Italians. Austrians, Greeks and Japanese. The usual procedure is for the Ital-|igress to take federal action, and that instance, to call] every three }.rison Italian workmen were hung to a tree|in jan ambassador, for our attention to the ‘fact that in a certain state. The state depart ment aits several months and then expresses it sorrow and explains that the United States government leaves responsibility for such affairs as-tynch- ings in the hands of the state govéri- ments. But to show that the United States is willing to do the right thing, we offer the Italian ambassador a thou- sand dollars or ‘so to console the fam- ilies of the dead. Negroes. Suffer Most. Negroes in this country’ have a stronger case than the aliens against American mob law. A witness at the hearing on the antilyching bill put the situation forcibly when he said: ‘How can you expect to breed an orderly, law-abiding citizenry, when 12,000,000 of its people live continually in fear of bodily violence, when they see yearly from 75 to 100 of their own people burned and murdered by mobs—mobs often composed of nearly the whole community—and no organized effort on the part of the body politic to correct ic?” Colored people have since the Civil war been the most frequent victims of mob violence. At first the outbreaks in southern states were declared justj-| fied on the grounds that the persons put to death by the mobs had attack- ed women, and southern honor demand- ed reparation. Soon, however, mobs hegag to seize negro prisoners await- ting trial for any offense whatsoever. In some eases, the prisoner's innocence was proved after he had been slaught- ered in an orgy of violence. Some- times the courts took a case up in an attempt at meting out justice to the lynching party, but nobody could ever be found who remembered any particl- pant in an affair, and the court had to dismiss the incident as a mystery. In recent years only nineteen per- cent of the persons lynched have been accused of violence against women. But, no matter what the charge, lynch: ing is in direct opposition to the prin- ciples of American government. In no section of the country is_ lawless kill- ing any longer defénded. The gover- nor of Georgia, where lynching bees people come toabs}@2@ announced several days hand, sheriffs and governors aside at last concerned itself with the lynch.|m: ing proposition. : Even where| » before-| present,” said M stand | tie: and declare themselves helpless.|both; how’ to improve our government This failure of the states is the main/and reason why the federal government has|When I speak of religion I “The only two things worth while at Crosby, * and religion. We all shor make better men and women. ean any particular creed put the religion of the Gospels, the Ten Com- The chief obstacle in the way of con-}mandments and the Sermon on the sressional legislation is the Possibility | Mount. that a national anti-lynching law might|ligion alone will free it from its selfish- The House/ness and unrest.” be found unconstitutional. Tudiciary committee decided this ques. reported the bill favorably to be placed} oc on the ‘calendar, matter in which Congress is not autho- rized to: interfere.’ ‘But the Judiciary The world is money-mad.- Re- Mrs, Crosby, who has been called rats,” a white-haired, dignitied matron it. MORGAN OFFERS LONDON HOME TO THE UNITED STATES AS PERMA- NENT EMBASSY—President Wilson has asked congress for uuthority to accept as a gift to the United States the home of J. Pierpont Morgan at Nos. 13 and 14 Prince's Gates, London. jthe convention with the determination to nominate @ strong man and put thru a “constructive” program. “It will be the greatest convention 1 lever held," she said, “because women don’t for the first time will have a voice in I expect to see a bitter fight, par- ticularly over the question of majority or unit rule, I can, of course only speak for myself and what the women may do when they enter the convention will de- ;pend largely upon the action they take in the preliminary caucuses." an effort will be made to put a plank in the platform calling for a modifica- Maintenance of or-}of more than three score years—she is|tion of the Volstead Enforeement Act der is ordinarily regarded as a state| the widow of a judge—declared the 300 > and permitting the manufacture and or more women delegates would go to,sale of light wines and beer. I believe, I believe committee points out that the four eenth amendment to the constitution, “Congress shall have power to enforce by appropriate. ‘legislation the provis- ions of this article.” Laws similar to the anti-] lynching bill which have been declared consti- tutional were quoted Jiy members of} 8 also taade that such authorities on constitutional} law as ex-President Taft, Attorney! Evans Hughes, former justice of the United States supreme court, have urged Con- president since Benjamin Har- has expressed himself strongly favor of a national anti-lynching law. One side of the lynching evil which is not touched in the proposed law is ot great consequence to the nation. This ts the effect of mob outbreaks on the people who take part. «Respectable citizens are converted into screaming} fanatics and devise and carry out tor- tures which in a normal state of mind they would shudder to read about. Some of the atrocities which have been car- ried out are unprintable. Yet specta- tors come from miles around as to a picnic to view burnings and hangings with the same curious detachment that they would watch a cat with a mouse, There, have been many at- tempts to bring the people of the coun- try to an understariding of the brutal- izing effects of mob action. The recog- nized fact that the community gets a bad name and trade suffers has not cut down the lynching figures. A federal law with a determined government back of it seems the only remedy. WOMEN'S TATUD IN POLITICS 10 BERELPED SOON Millions of Women Who Expect Citizenship Next November Will Become Power for Good in Nation NEW YORK—(By Mail)—The mil- lions of American women who expect) their political status to be changed by federal amendment to citizenship next, November-are going to become a power for good in the nation according to Mts, John Sherwin Crosby, a delegate to the Democratic national convention in San are most frequent, is strongly opposed to mob violence, while the anti-lyneh- ing bill before Congress was drafted by _Representati Franciseo next June. A woman presi- dent of the United States, she says, is ote but not, impossible, say, i lris Pa Dancing Every Evening Excepting Sunday Union Orchestra vilion The Picture That Never Grows Old Lyric Theater Continuous 1 P. M. to 11 P. M. TODAY Viola Dana ‘Blue Jeans ‘THEN: N 3 THREE-REEL COMEDY / ——_—_Next. 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