NEGRO BURNED AT THE STAKE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1671, 11 February 1913, Page 7

NEGRO BURNED AT THE STAKE.

. . LYNCH LAW IN AMERICA. By Telegraph—Preea Association—CoDrritrhS New York, February 9. At Houston,', Missouri, after he had confessed to the murder, of a. white woman, tho crowd lynched a negro named Reacker. An armed mob kept the sheriff's posse powerless. The negro was chained to a pump and burned to cinders. / | Tho mob then hanged another negro suspected of being implicated •in the crime, and later discovered that he was guiltless. ■. '

According to Dr. Giddings, Professor of Sociology at Columbia - University, tliero is a race war coming in the, 'United States between whites and blacks whioh willjappal civilisation. ((i He mentions that there are tivolvo million coloured people ■in America, and they multiply with great rapidity.He' denounces the enfranchise-' ment of-tho negro as: a great-political blunder, and maintained that political rights had been a hindrance rather than, a help to the negro. Dr. Giddings. considers that'the • Civil War did not solve the problem of slavery, that the conditions in the South are as bad as ever, and that;tho black man cannot win social equality, through political liberty, "The white man,," he concludes, "considers the black man so inferior to himself that he does not oppose him or give him much consideration as a'rival; but, with tho improved opportunities of the negro, with bettor education and extended privileges, he, must inevitably claim a place alongside the .white man as his equal. If ho should be able to. back up his claim on the strength of educational and economio equality, then we ntay prepare to witness a race conflict compared to which the present situation is a lovo feast."

; Dr. Giddings's idea is that the neero should have been enfranchised gradually, according to his mental development, and in that way. many problems which , now vex hi? condition would have been avoided. '/