Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1899 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PULSE of the PRESS

The Lynching in Georgia. It is difficult to conceive any other punishment that would fit the crime.—Denver Times. Neither the law nor the wildest mobs can adequately punish the perpetrator of the crime against the Cranfords.—Louisville Post. How Georgia expects its rising generation to respect law and order after the terrible tragedies is hard to understand.—lndianapolis News. There will be more iynchings of this character whenever negro brutes are convicted of crimes against Women in the South.—Milwaukee Journal. Let the Southern people make what laws they will, impose what penalty they will, for this crime, but leave it to the courts to enforce them.—Washington Post. -> For crimes like this death by the rope or at the stake will continue to be meted out at the South, whatever the opinion of the rest of the world.—New Orleans States. The crime to be punished was brutal in the extreme. There Was no excuse for the display of devilish rage, of calculating cruelty, of savage glory in human suffering.—Washington Star. It is true that the crime for which this negro was tortured was unspeakable, but the punishment meted out to him is a blot on civilisation and would disgrace a band of bloodthirsty - savages.—Chattanooga Times. , Whatever influence the lynching exerted upon its victim perished with his breath, but Itfc influence upon all the thousands who participated as actual spectators or in sympathy survives. Is it for good or evil?—Boston Globe. • - The crimes for which this ia the punishment continue with an unpleasant regularity, One cruelty suggests another. The sensibilities of men are deadened by such scenes. The more wolfish the lynchers, the more besstly the criminal.—Milwaukee Journal. What happened at Palmetto on Sunday will happen anywhere else in this country when a similar crime is to be avenged. Sam Hose, If his crime had been commit--Louisville Dispatch. The Iynchings which have occurred in sstftwa intended. If the men who have been lynched had been punished under the forms of law the moral effect would have Hews. * €**».