[337]. Governor Jelks, of Alabama, in his message of Jan. 14, 1903, said in reference to the lynching in Pike County of a negro who was taken away from a constable: “His offense was probably swearing contrary to one of his white neighbors in a justice trial on a proof of character. This was a cold-blooded murder and without excuse at all.... The murderers go about. None of them will be hanged as they should be.”
[338]. The News-Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, Aug. 27, 1902.
[339]. American Law Review, March—April, 1900 (34: 238).
[340]. For a discussion of the problem of punishing lynchers and for some statistics with reference to the punishment of persons who participated in lynchings during the first six months of the year 1892, see paper by George C. Holt, on “Lynching and Mobs,” American Journal of Social Science, No. 32, p. 67 (November, 1894).
[341]. Carroll D. Wright: “Outline of Practical Sociology” (1899), p. 357.
[342]. This view of the matter is ably set forth in the Green Bag for September, 1900 (12: 466), by O. F. Hershey of the Maryland Bar.
The same idea is expressed in a different way in an article on “American Quality,” by N. S. Shaler. See International Monthly, July, 1901.
[343]. Francis J. Grund: “The Americans in their moral, social, and political relations” (London, 1837), I, 323. (M.)
[344]. Quoted from the Journal of Jurisprudence (Edinborough). See American Law Review, May—June, 1891 (25: 461).
[345]. For a comprehensive discussion of the “native question,” see “A Sociological View of the ‘Native Question,’” by Albert G. Keller, Yale Review, November, 1903.