k to punish them, or that the officers charged
with that duty were in some way lacking in their performance. The evil
cannot be cured or remedied by silence as to its existence. Unchecked,
it will continue until it becomes a reproach to our good name, and a
menace to our prosperity and peace; and it behooves you to exhaust all
remedies within your power to find better preventives for such crimes.

A FRIENDLY WARNING

From England comes a friendly voice which must give to every patriotic
citizen food for earnese thought. Writing from London, to the _Chicago
Inter Ocean_, Nov. 25, 1894, the distinguished compiler of our last
census, Hon. Robert P. Porter, gives the American people a most
interesting review of the antilynching crusade in England, submitting
editorial opinions from all sections of England and Scotland, showing the
consensus of British opinion on this subject. It hardly need be said, that
without exception, the current of English thought deprecates the rule of
mob law, and the conscience of England is shocked by the revelation made
during the present crusade. In his letter Mr. Porter says:

While some English journals have joined certain American journals in
ridiculing the well-meaning people who have formed the antilynching
committee, there is a deep under current on this subject which is
injuring the Southern States far more than those who have not been drawn
into the question of English investment for the South as I have can
surmise. This feeling is by no means all sentiment. An Englishman whose
word and active cooperation could send a million sterling to any
legitimate Southern enterprise said the other day: "I will not invest a
farthing in States where these horrors occur. I have no particular
sympathy with the antilynching committee, but such outrages indicate to
my mind that where life is held to be of such little value there is even
less assurance that the laws will protect property. As I understand it
the States, not the national government, control in such matters, and
where those laws are strongest there is the best field for British
capital."

Probably the most bitter attack on the antilynching committee has come
from the _London Times_. Those Southern Governors who had their bombastic
letters published in the _Times_, with favorable editorial comment, may
have had their laugh at the antilynchers here too soon. A few days ago, in
commenting on an inter