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Hp Allots. The Blame For The Lynching
Tto the Editor of The Evening Sun—Sir:
I cannot but express my horror at the t< irrible lynching that has blackened the n ime of our State. We can well hang our h sads in shame that in this twentieth cen-U iry such a thing could hajspen in a civil-iz ed community.
!But let us think soberly and go deeper tl »an that first shudder of disgust. You and I helped drag that Negro out of the hos-pi tal, and you and I helped place the rope. You did it and I did because we are a part at public opinion—a very slack public opinion, but a public opinion that should have been so strong that no officer in the United States would have dared to have so forgotten his duty; that no authorities of a h. ?spital would submit to the sacrilege com-m'itted except over their dead bodies; that n |
