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...York Times: "Mayor Hylan was originally a Yellow Hero created by the Yellow Press. He has openly appealed to the basest motives. But now the idol goes down together with its builder in political ruin. New York may breathe more easily this morning. It has got rid of a vulgar and debasing tyranny...
...Fairbanks, you are right. Far-distance glasses. He has failed to perceive that justice is elemental in the state and that when, after a succession of the basest deeds has been perpetrated against society in general (not to men certain material causes which would tend to incite retaliation by whites upon the blacks), the fundamental concept of emotional justice, whether it is justified or not, is bound to force action. I dare say that were a succession of 28 assaults and outrages by negroes upon white women to occur in any city in the country, eastern cities included, there would...
...world, has been exceedingly great since 1917, and the total number of negroes is estimated at more than 10,000. The negro problem in the South, and now, as never before, in the Middle West, is steadily advancing to the fore. With the perpetration in Omaha of the basest crimes by negroes, the escape of most of the criminals, in spite of police vigilance, and the mediocre and insufficient punishment administered by the courts, the outbreak of a lynching fever was only to be ex-expected. The writer does not apologize for the outbreak, but merely attempts to explain...
...willing that drinking shall be set up--as it surely will be by the outside world, if continued,--be a Harvard ideal. Are we willing to express such an influence? For temptation is largely a matter of emulation. Are we not drifting into Tuetonic "kultur," and into "basest hedonism"--as expounded by Harold E. Stearns of Boston American fame? LLOYD REILLY...
...through the impulse of their passions are punished by the forces of nature; the sinners through craftiness are punished by the worst tortures ingenuity can devise; and, finally, those who betrayed their friends are punished by burial in a plain of ceaseless ice. They--Brutus, Cassius, Judas--are the basest sinners...