Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theory, when 50 or 500 men and women rush through the night and hang a man or woman, they all?50 or 500?become murderers or accessories to murder. But in practice, in the South, lynchers have not been judged guilty of anything, because Southern governments habitually neglect to locate them. Last week, however, the most important news from Georgia was that one Gaines Lastinger had been sentenced to life imprisonment. He is the twelfth of a midsummer's night mob of lynchers to be convicted by Georgia...
...loaded to the scuppers with U. S. marines last week, but announced that she was merely sailing for "a secret destination in the Orient." British statesmen, not so subtle, baldly admitted that 12,000 British troops were being rushed to China last week-thereby enraging both the northern and southern factions of the Chinese Civil War. Retaliation. The northern War Lord, Chang Tso-lin, expressed his displeasure by knocking out the kingpin of the whole fiscal structure upon which foreign loans to China rest. The structure is the Chinese Maritime Customs Bureau, the duties collected by which are pledged...
...Both Northern and Southern leaders have affirmed that they would afford full protection to foreigners but this statement has not been strictly adhered to Foreign property has been seized and in some cases destroyed, missionaries have been driven from interior points and bodily harm to them has been reported in some instances. This, however, is usually the work of irresponsible mobs...
Plans are being made for a southern trip next Christmas, New Orleans being the ultimate destination...
...SOUTHERN HILLFOLKSONG...