Note and Comment

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 12, 1902

The Chicago Tribune considers the increase of lynchings in this country a matter of note. It says:—

For two or three years past, lynchings have decreased materially in the South, and apparently there were grounds for the belief that law and order were gradually taking the places of lawlessness and disorder, but that section has again taken the backward step. Lynchings have been resumed, not because there has been an increase of crime, nor because any extraordinary crimes have been committed, but seemingly because the mobs engaged in lynchings prefer violence to order, and hence seized upon any pretext that offered itself, after a period of comparative quiet, to renew the system of mob murder.

The Tribune has no remedy to suggest for this lawlessness, but merely observes that the South is not the only section of the country to blame, since lynchings in the North are increasing also.