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a spirit of sullen hatred and anarchy, plotted to
overthrow justice at a blow, and glut their hatred
by an act unparalleled even in the bloody history
of lynch Jaw. Mobs are always cowards, The
murderers hoped to strike swiftly and escape.
They did strike swiftly. Waiting until the act
of Governor Slaton in commuting Frank’s sent
ence tmd Leeu generally accepted as the wisest
course, they organized a force suflicient to over
power the ordinary penitentiary guard dragged
their victim forth an'd put him to death.
Governments are not set up to be overridden
by assassins. Governors are not elected and put
in office to have their decisions liouted by mur
derous mobs. There can be no condoning any
lynching. A lynching of this daring and atro
cious character is an insult not only to the people
of Georgia, but to the people of the whole United
States. There must be no refuge for these butch
ers. To give them aid or comfort, to offer them
opportunity for concealment, is a criminal act,
and should be punished as such.
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The bate-crazed who con
demned this Jew. as guilty, were twelve hon
est jurors, two honest Superior Court judges,
two Supreme Courts, composed of fifteen of
the best lawyers that can be chosen.
The assassination consisted in carrying
out the sentence of the Law, thrice pro
nounced.
£, Not daring to molest n courageous man
(Slaton), the cowards who composed the
mob retired.”
It was the courageous man who retired:
the cowards all stayed right here. They will
remain: and perhaps the courageous man
hid better settle somewhere else.
“Governors are not elected and put in
office to have their decisions flouted by mur
derous mobs.”
Are juries and judges elected and put into
office to have their decisions flouted by a
corrupt Governor, whose own client was the
beneficiary of his illegal flouting of two Su
preme Courts?
The Chicago Tribune sends us this one:
The South is backward. It shames the United
States by illiteracw and incompetence. Its nil!
men and poor whites, its masses of feared and
bullied blacks, its ignorant and violent politicians,
its rotten industrial conditions, and its rotten
social ideas in circumstances which disgrace the
United States In the thought of Americans and
in the opinion of foreigners.
When the North exhibits a demonstration of
violence against law by gutter rats of society,
there is shame in the locality which was the
scene o‘s the exhibition. When the South exhibits
-it there is defiance of opinion.
The South is barely half educated. Whatever
there is explicable in the murder of Leo M. Frank
is thus explainable. Leo M. Frank was an atom
in the American structure. He might have died,
unknown or ignored, a thousand deaths more
agonizing in preliminary torture and more cruel
in final execution, and have had no effect, but
the spectacle of a struggling human being, help
less before fate as a mouse in the care of a cat,
will stagger American complacency.
The South is half educated. It is a region of
illiteracy, blatant self-righteousness, cruelty and
violence. Until it is improved by the invasion of
better blood and better ideas it will remain a re
proach and a danger to the American republic.
Boston, Mass., does not forget us, in our
time of ordeal and gauntlet, but helps us
along, as follows:
The lynching of Leo M. Frank, considering all
the circumstances of the case, was one of the most
heinous crimes against law and order ever com
responsibility he State of Georgia must bear a
mitted in this country. It was a crime in whose
large part and the stigma of which she can live
down only by bringing the actual perpetrators of
not wholly. For punishing these assassins will
the deed to the bar of justice, and then perhaps
not bring back to life the man whom the State
means at its command.
of Georgia was bound to protect with every
But if such a characterization fit the foul deed
of this bloodthirsty mob, what is to be said of
the utterance of J. G. Woodward, mayor of At
lanta, who in an address at San Francisco, un
blushingly defended this act of anarchy, this de
fiance of law, this reversion to savagery? It is
a tribute to liis audience that his remarks were
not applauded and it is a tribute to the citizenship
of the country as a whole that it has nothing but
contempt for such an utterance.
What are we coming to when men in public
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office, sworn to uphold the laws, justify and sanc
tion mob violence? What are we coming to
when the former Governor of a State is warned,
as this man Woodward warned ex-Governor John
M. Slaton, not to return home for a year, if ever,
because as a consequence of having done his sworn
duty he would run the risk of assassination?
What are we coming to when the chairman of the
State Prison Commission declares that he does
not believe anyone can be blamed for conditions
which made it perfectly simple for a mob to
break into a State prison and kidnap a prisoner?
Now, Mr. Mayor Woodward, you take
warning, and quit telling the Truth, when
you go away from home.
Tell 1 ies, as Slaton has been doing, and the
Hearst papers, and the Jew-f earing press
will make a hero out of you.
“What are we coming to,” when Mayors
tell the Truth, and fugitive Governors plas
ter the continent with Lies?
Indeed, are we fallen upon evil times!
The Northwest also excommunicates us,
the Milwaukee Free Press saying:
The spirit and method of the Ku Klux Klan
has once more triumphed in Georgia. Once more
Southern “gentility” and “chivalry” have re
vealed their true character in murder, secession
and anarchy. For the same bestial spirit that
sought to disrupt this Union, the same spirit that
lashed and ravished the helpless slave, the same
Southern spirit that even today is celebrating the
blood-lust of the Ku Klux Klan as a virtue, is
living in the persecution and murder of Leo
Frank. The trial and conviction of this unfortu
nate Jew, as accomplished by the courts of Geor
gia, was enough to damn the people of that State
as unfit for citizenship. The horrible sequel of
his assassination proves them to be something
worse than barbarians. Americans have gazed
askance at the bloody immorality of Serbia. But
Serbia is a paradise of civilization compared with
the State of Georgia.
Wow can the Nation —the civilized, responsible
and self-governing part of it —logger tolefate
this anarchy, this bio d-lust on the part of a
section that once defied humanity and govern
ment till it had to be broken with swords and
bullets? The North, with the familiar sentiment
ality of the conquerer, has been inclined to accept
the Southern explanation of the continued per
secution of the blacks. With a romanticism un
worthy of school girls, the North has swallowed
the pretense of “chivalry, “honor” and superior
“gentility” with which the South has veneered
its barbarism.
It is time that this folly came to an end.
Statistics prove that not 3 per cent of negro lynch
ings are for the crime of rape. Statistics prove
that Southern whites are the rape-fiends and nbt
the blacks. The truth is and it should be driven
home to every fool who applauds “Dixie” —the
tune that was played to disrupt the Union and
conserve slavery—that negroes are lynched for
the pettiest of crimes to satisfy the racial venom
blood-lust of their former masters.
And then this rot about the dangers of mis
cegenation! Who is responsible for the mixture
of of Caucasian and tEhopian blood in the coun
try, the negro or the Southern white? Not one
light-colored black in 5,000 is the result of a
negro’s design on a white woman. The light
colored black, with scarcely an exception, dates
his ancestry to the lust of some Southern white
master, who did not hesitate to make the creature
he bought and sold as an animal the mother of
his children. So much for the Southern hypocrisy
that prates of miscegenation to justify its crimes.
But because the South seems helpless to re
deem itself is no reason why the bulk of the Na
tion should stand idly by and permit it continu
ously to disgrace this country in the eyes of the
world; least of all, to propagandize its doctrine of
race-hatred, anarchy and blood-lust throughout
the land by means of lying novels and motion
pictures.
If the cries of the burning black victims of a
hundred Southern stakes have not been able to
rouse the conscience of the North, can it remain
deaf to the last agonized prayer of Leo Frank as
his tortured body was swung by “Southern gen
tlemen” from a Southern pine?
If Georgia cannot be scourged from out the
sisterhood of States, if she canot bo reduced to a
condition of dependence lower than that of the
Philippines, she can at least be visited with a
commercial, social and political ostracism which
will convince its gentry that true Americans still
enthrone justice and humanity as the chief bul
warks of the Nation.
O you Sherman’s Army! Led by a great
general who had helped to lynch the mur
derer of a man!
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