Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attacks. There was absolutely lacking any proof of these twenty-eight alleged attacks--the facts are merely alleged, and no alleged fact without supporting evidence can or does stand before the law. If it was impossible to secure evidence or apprehend the offender it is a reflection on the Omaha officials, and they should be replaced; but this I can scarcely believe. The alternative is that no such attacks occurred, and they have been merely alleged. At all events, it still rests with the accusers to produce the evidence and the facts to substantiate their claims; this has not been...
Second, during the Omaha riots another negro was accused of an attack on a white woman and confined by the military authorities. The case was printed in scare-crow headlines in all our newspaper. In a later edition of the Boston Herald, in small type, at the fag-end of a long article on the riots, the statement was made that the accused had been released-nothing else. Can any fair-minded American believe that this is honest and fair dealing? Why was the world not told in as bold type and as plainly as the accusation was made that...
Third, admitting that William Brown, the negro lynched, was guilty, and even deserved the death penalty the citizens of Omaha have presumably elected city, officials whose business it is to administer justice. The moment that a single citizen "took the matter into his own hands" he transgressed the law of the state and of the nation, and, in killing Brown committed murder. Furthermore, he introduced into Omaha the principle of anarchy. The individual became superior to the government and to the law. If we want mob law in our country, why not go about it in an orderly fashion...
...course, conceivable. The electorate, and, consequently, the administration, being hopelessly corrupt, a small but determined band of citizens might possibly feel that there was no alternative to taking upon itself the execution of justice, and proudly abiding the consequences. But does Mr. Rosenblatt really think so badly of Omaha's administration, or see in a herd of men that yelp themselves into blood-lust, and then scuttle like rabbits, her true patriots? We ask leave to doubt...
...indeed a proud statement for the CRIMSON to make that New England has not witnessed a lynching for 22 years, but Omaha had not seen one either for a similar period. Also, New England, fortunately, has no real "negro problem" with which to deal. Sol A. Rosenblatt...