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Shear CommentTALK WON’T STOP LYNCHING*The Mississippi mob, its thirst for Negro blood umlaked by ib« lynching of two H-year-old boys, turned upon middle Nop] resting in a jail after conviction for killing bin while employer. 1 This Negro was tried by an nil while jury whh li t'onhim J murder but disagreed on his punishment, It seems under ike Mis'iJ atppl law that if a jury cannot agree upon the punishment tm numjJ a life sentence follows. The fact that white jurors lefu.vl to mflul the death penalty on the accused speaks a sermon in itself, 1 he vt idn* of guilty upon Which they agreed was probably nil then eotwu'nJ could tolerate. Perhaps had the accused been a white man lie wmiMn j even have been convicted, ]Unfortunately when this lynching business gets into She blood ol certain men it is not going to be removed without n pietty d a^ud medicine, The Intolerant members of a community, though in a mmorj ity, quite often carry their way because they are knit closely in^tM and determined, No amount of public speaking or private nrguinu will deter them l’rom their blood lust. But they would seal ter like ni.himt leaves before a really practical and hard-fisted policy. If the Mm, sippi governor were to declare martial lav,' In the community whose i Lynching had taken place and set up a drumhead court compos*! oj disinterested but resolute men from elsewhere In the Jd-ilc to by tin lynchers, and a few of such marauders were treated as they nhonld lie] we wouldn’t hear any more about lynching for n long time jAnd let the opposition to lynching be bused. ;is well it may be npoij the great wrongs done those destroyed and not. mejely upon n ronM over who should end the life of the accused, the state or a mob Fori the chance* arc high that this latest victim never merited .loan nd that he was not even guilty of a wilful killing, na the it-year-olds ,1Slt;J not deserve the rope for their offense even if guilty of eveiyihlr^ charged.—Appleton Pout-Crescent j
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Sheboygan Press
Sheboygan, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Oct 23, 1942
Page 8
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