NATION ASKED TO
STOP SLAYING OF
INNOCENT MEN
Lynch Law Takes Lives of
. Thousands, Association
Tells Attorney General
Now York, May 16.—The National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, through its secre
tary, John R. Shiliady, of New
York, issued the following statement
Ito-day in the form of an open let
ter to Attorney General Gregory
commenting on the latter's recent
address to the executive committee
of the American Bar Association in
which the Attorney General urged
a.n educational campaign against
lynch law and mob violence.
"In the press of May 6 and May
7 thefc is reported an address said
to have been delivered by you to
the Executive Committee of the
American Bar Association in which
you urged an educational campaign
against lynch law. Such a campaign
is sorely needed. In the press reports
of your address to ttye Bar Asso
ciation reference to individual cases
is wholly to mob violence occasioned
by public resentment of alleged Ger
man propaganda. In one part of
j our address you say, very truly,
that tlnless the hysteria which re
sults in the lynching of men is
checked it will create a condition of
lawlessness from which we will suf
fer for a hundred years.
"We would most respectfully 'call
to your attention the fact that this
condition of lawlessness which you
apprehend and from which you be
lieve we will suffer for a hundred
years unless steps are taken imme
diately to check it, is now and has
been in existence for many years
past. Its victims have been largely
negroes. Since 1885 between 3,000
and 4,000 cases of lynching have
been reported. Recently this asso
ciation caused one of its staff to
make a careful investigation of the
tiles of the Chicago Tribune, the
New York Tribune and other daily
papers, magazines and books, for
the purpose of compiling informa
tion in detail concerning lynchings.
The compiler has found only three
instances in which lynchers have
been punished. In two of these cases
the victim of the mob was white.
In the third case, that of a particu
larly atrocious murder of a Ten
nessee farmer and his two daugh
ters, the lynchers were two young
and friendless white boys.
Many Unjustly Murdered
"Since the United States entered
the war on April 2, 1917, our infor
mation is that 219 negro men. wom
en and children have been killed and
lynched by mobs in addition to two
white men, one of these being Rob
ert Prager. Four negroes were
lynched in Alabama, two in Arkan
sas, one in Florida, seven in Georgia,
one in Kentucky, eleven in Louisi
ana, three in Mississippi, ore in
North Carolina, two in Oklahoma,
two in South Carolina, five in Ten
nessee, nine in Texas, two in Vir
ginia, one in West Virginia and one
in Wyoming. In addition to these
cases of lynching per se. 175 men,
women and children were tortured,
burned and killed at East St. Louis
in July, 1917, and three negroes
,Tere killed by a mob at Chester, Pa.,
pin September, 1917. In some of these
cases the lynchings were particularly
atrocious. In Tennessee, for ex
ample, three men were burned at
the stake, the burnings being accom
panied by savage torturing. In one
case, which occurred two weeks
ago, the body of the victim was
burned at the stake after having
been lynched by hanging.
"In the case of the negroes who
have been lynched no question of
loyalty to their country has been
raised in any case. The crimes of
which they were accused were ordi
nary crimes for which courts do
now and have always provided ade
quate remedies and certain punish
ment. Furthermore, these negroes
were not men and women (for cow
ardly mobs lynch women as well as
men) of wealth and position with
opportunities through the engage
ment of' learned counsel to secur<
delays in trial or mitigation of pun
ishment, but they have been the
poor, the friendless:, and we regret
to say, the despised.
Ask For Action
"The association regards as signifi
cant the pronouncement which you
have made as Attorney General. We
would most respectfully suggest to
> ou tins expediency of making a sec- ,
ond pronouncement in the name of '
jour high office, or better still, it
would be desirable that this pro
nouncement be made in the name of
the President of the United States,
calling not alone upon the lawyers
of the country but upon the Gov
ernors of states, sheriffs of counties
and the citizens of local communi
ties to assert their regard for the
laws of the nation which is now
calling upon these citizens to fight
to make the world safe for demo
cratic government. One hundred
thousand of the best colored youth
of the land have responded to the
call of the country and are prepar
ing to give their lives in its defense
and in support of the cause upon
which it is embarked. They, in com
mon with their many millions of
white fellow citizens, have the right
to believe that while t(jej' are risk
ing, and if need be, sacrificing their
lives for their country, that their
country through its highest spokes
men should call upon officers sworn
to obey the law to make an honest
effort to prevent the disgraceful
practice of lynching negroes when
ever it suits a mob to engage in this
exercise.
"We would further call your at
tention to the fact that not even the
contention can be maintained that
these lynchings are the result of un
controllable anger at the perpetra
tion of unmentionable crimes
.i gainst women. The facts show
that at least three-fourths of all
lynchings in recent years have had
nothing to do with attacks upon the
person of white women, but on the
contrary, the lynched negroes have
been accused of all kinds of crimes
from serious ones to the most trivial
offenses.
the best information avail-
Kile to this association. It can assert
Without equivocation that the color
ed people of the nation are loyal to
its purposes in this as in every other
crisis of the nation's history. They
have been deeply stirred and in
spired by the nobility of the Presi
dent's utterances and by the fact
that he has placed America's par
ticipation in the war upon so high
a plane. Their response to the na-,
tion's appeal for service In the
trenches, in the factory and on the
farm has been without conditions.
"Despite these facts, discrimina
tion against them because of race
and the lynching of their people un
der circumstances which would not
•THURSDAY EVENING. . HARIUSBURG TELEGRAPH MAY 16, 1918.
occasion the lynching of white peo
ple, constitute a blot upon the char
acter of civil government i n Ameri
can states. We suhmit that respon
sibility for the correction of such
gross injustices ugainst patient, de
voted and loyal Americans of color
has by the force of events been laid
at the door of the nation as such."
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MRS. TAYLOR HOSTESS
Dauphin, P*., May 16. —On Tues
day evening the' Ladies' Aid Society
of the United Evangelical Churqh
met at the Tiome ol Mrs. George Tay
lor in Erie street. After the regular
business, a social time was enjoyed.
Refreshments were served to: Mrs.
Elmer Feaser, Mrs. Catharine Kint
er, Mrs. Jane 'Jarman, Mrs. George
Shoop, Mrs. Charles Brlcker, Mrs.
Charles Welker, Miss J&ne Blckel,
Miss Lydia Maurey, Miss Cora Co
fro'de, Miss Alice Feaser, Mr. and
Mrs. George Tavlor. The next meet
ing xvlll he held at the home of Mrs.
Catharine Kinter, Tuesday evening,
June 25.
MITE SOCIETY ENTERTAINED
Dauphin, Pa., May 16.—The Mite
, Society of the Presbyterian Churoh
■ was entertained by Mrs. Freeman C.
I Gerberlch, Tuesday, from 4 to 8
■ o'clock, at their private park, the
"Kim." Supper was served to the
following: Mr. and Mrs. Harry 8.1
Gneenawalt, Mrs. Sarah Sponsler,
Mrs. George W. Heck, Mrs. Alice B.
Hess, Mrs. John W. Hummel, Phil
adelphia; Mrs. Blanch Robinson,
Mechaniciburg; Mrs. J. D. M. Reed,
Mrs. Harry Reed, Mrs. Jane Sellers,
Mrs. Belle Hawthorne, Miss Mar
garet Brook, Miss Mary "Umberger,
Miss Bertha Sellers, Miss Anne Mil
ler, Miss Sarah Margaret Haw
thorne, Dorothy Kline, Miss Carrie
Gerberich, Dr. W. P. Clark, Russel
Reed, Wellington Deibler and Mrs.
Freeman C. Gerberlch.
BCTTS-PHIDIPS WEDDING
Waynesboro, Pa., May 16.—Miss
Susan Brotherton Philips, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Philips, and
Charles Stahl Butts, Gettysburg.
I were married Tuesday at. the
. of the bride's parents.
I.ODKK OK OWI.S CHARTERED
Nfwpor t. Pa., May 16.-r-Newport
i l/idgr, No. 16.10. Order of Owls, has
• been chartered and is now initiating:
members.
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