Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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For more than a generation American statesmanship has persistently striven to avoid, ignore or forget an inconsistency in our American institution whose existence is a blot upon our national honor the criminal practice of lynching. Outbreaks like that which held the city of Omaha, Nebraska, in a reign of terror...
How many more such outbreaks must occur? How much longer must we congratulate ourselves upon "only 62 lynchings" for a given year, before the aroused conscience of the American people, efficiently asserting itself through Federal authority, moves to stamp out this national disgrace?
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...
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 following appointments have been made: Lecturers: Henry Maurice Sheffer, in Philosophy; Charles Howard Walker, in Architecture; Arthur Stone Dewing, on Corporation Finance; visiting lecturers: Professor H. O. Hormell, in Government; Malcolm C. Campbell, from Indiana, in Law; George C. Clancy, from Beloit, in English; director: Herbert Sidney Langfield, of...