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the official certificate of election and will retain membership all through the weeks that may be requii to delate mt(/\conditions in Alabama. This time tl. Senate 1b fetin|L constitutionally.
Governor^ Ritchie and the Maryland Lynching
The lynching and burning at the stake of a confessed negro slayer at Salisbury, Maryland, threatens to become a serious issue and, be a'Vital factor in the movement to wipe out the lynching stain upon our boasted civilization. The city and county authorities have promised a sweeping probe of the affair; but it is said that Governor Ritchie is keenly interested in the matter and has pironfBSd 16 make his own investigation. He has ordered the Attorney General to see that a vigorous prosecution be instituted. This is understood to include, not only the leaders, but the members of the mob.
It so happens that the Maryland incident comes almost on the heels of the report made by the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching. This body not only assembled a mass of facts concerning lynchings, but also discussed what such things mean to the communities and to the Nation. The obvious results include "the crucifixion of law and government, the barbaric and depraved behavior of the lynchers and the untimely death of unconvicted people." The dangerous tendency
is to translate barbarisms into virtues. There are also c^LaUa iudlleCt flnancial losses t0 communities that
t°onsanriStUhh-thlnf • Th6y are shown ta labor cations and the investment of capital
The report declares that the indirect losses are really the greatest. The worst of these is "the unfavorabte invoS K' T °nJy t0 the immediate community countrie; 1 e ?h°le SeCti0n- The Press °f other
United tngtJeS T* SPaCe t0 these incidents- The known thr„, \an,+fPeCiaUy the Sontta States, are dutaTir h!gMff W°rld as the <** °ne* thai intoSllthJ dreadful practice." For this reason, and tor many others, it becomes the solemn duty of the
Ktfattf'8-^ "" thiS matter t0 the ^«om and to see that the guilty are punished.
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