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...petition now being circulated by the Harvard Inter-Race Council has been attacked as illiberal, and seeking to foist anti-lynch legislation on the South as a war measure...
...Tories of the Revolution and the Copperheads of the Civil War. Today, another crucial war measure, the granting of Dominion Status of India, is assailed only by the enemies of democracy and the appeasers still at large in the democratic capitols of the world. The argument against anti-lynch legislation at the present time because it is a war measure will not stand...
...anti-lynching bill is a constructive, liberal measure, and it has long been generally desired. The present petition now being circulated in the Houses, however, contains the germs of a highly illiberal attitude. The circulators of this petition would like to have the anti-lynch bill passed as a "war measure." In other words, they would like an anti-lynch measure forced upon the South much as Prohibition was foisted upon the nation at large during the last World War. This would dangerously split the country. The South should not be pampered on this matter, but the method being used...
James Doherty Lynch...
James Doherty Lynch...