Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1894 — THE ENGLISH LYNCHING INVESTIGATION. [ARTICLE]

THE ENGLISH LYNCHING INVESTIGATION.

English philanthropists have sent a commission to this country to investigate the numerous lynchings Of colored men in the South, exaggerated reports of which have been wafted across ' the waters. ‘ They “felt called upon” to reform us and their»arrival has created something f of a sensation in the South. There may have been some outrageous pro - cecdings of this character in Dixie 4 Land, but an English investigation of the matter is a thing the American people are not likely to view with calmness and equanimity. Uncle Sam is in the habit of attending to his own business and so far has managed to get along pretty well without foreign aid. To be classed with cannibals and other savages by London reformers is an indignity we can not endure with good nature. To add to the impudence of these zealous moralists, comes a cable from London in regard to the burial of infants in the East End of the world’s metropolis. Only as long ago as Sept. 6, the coroner at an inquest brought out the fact that many poor people sent the bodies of their children to undertakers with five dollars for the expenses of burial. No

funerals were held, and the disposition of the remains depended on the good faithof the undertaker. Ona undertaker admitted that it was the custom to allow bodies to accumulate for weeks and then give them a wholesale burial in a common grave. This ought to send the lynching investigators home by the first, steam- - er. They certainly have plenty of , material to work on without spending their “bloody gold” traveling about the earth in search of “bloomin’” crime, or abuses of any character.