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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Lynching, like Slavery, has never recognized racial or geographic limits; as the fate of the Mayor of Omaha forcibly reminds us. Hundreds of white men in this country have been victims of lawlessness and mob violence; it was the lynching of a Montana labor leader that called forth President Wilson...
America is the accepted spokesman of world democracy, but a chain is no stronger than its weakest link. A doctrine which breaks down at home can hardly be propagated abroad. We have passed the day of the pious slave holder who became so deeply impressed with the plea for foreign...
A few years ago a Turkish Ambassador was handed his passports for calling attention to the inconsistency between our national preaching and practice. Never once during the late war did the German press fail to gloat over American atrocities, while now, with the Treaty of Peace not yet signed, our...
The practice of lynching does not prevail in Canada, nor in England and France. How long must America be compelled to accept the reproach:
"Not even the guarded commendation so often found in foreigners, certainly none of the enthusiasm which may always be picked up from foreign writers concerning American achievements and American heroes, is anywhere discoverable in the writings of this native American, with his alien taste.