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Negro criminals to meet the demands of Southern employers of cheap labor.
It is a danger to which every colored man is exposed in the South, because
Southern Courts are as a rule administered in the interest of the employer
class wherever the Negro is concerned. There have been a few notable
instances of Southern Judges who have refused to lend their Courts to this
iniquitous business, like Judge Emory Speer, of Georgia, and the late
Judge Jones, of Alabama, but such examples are like angels' visits--few
and far between in that land of race repression and oppression.

Take another and different case, which is common enough in the South also.
It is, like the preceding clipping, taken from the _Washington Post_:

LYNCHED BY MOB OF 1,000.

LITTLE GIRL'S ASSAILANT DRAGGED FROM JAIL AS TROOPS ARE ASSEMBLING.

Shreveport, La., May 12.--Edward Hamilton, colored, held on the
charge of attacking a 10-year old white girl, was taken from the
parish jail shortly after noon and lynched.

For three hours a mob of 1,000 men and boys stood in the rain outside
the jail doors, hammering away with a heavy railroad iron at the
barrier. Steel saws finally were used, and entrance was gained by the
mob. Sheriff J. P. Flourney had telegraphed the governor for troops
and orders had been sent the Shreveport company of the national guard
to report for service. Before the company could be assembled the
prisoner had been taken from the jail. A rope was placed about
Hamilton's neck and he was dragged half a block from the jail to a
telephone pole opposite the parish courthouse, and strung up. A knife
was left sticking in the body.

Here we have Judge Lynch's Court in full operation in the execution of one
suspected Colored criminal and the manufacture at the same time of a
thousand white criminals. This Colored man was only suspected of the usual
crime. There was no trial of him to find the facts, not even by Judge
Lynch himself. Edward Hamilton might have been guilty and then again he
might have been innocent. I think that a private inquiry into his case
subsequent to his murder, pointed to his probable innocence. But he was an
object of suspicion, and that was enough to justify the act of his
murderers. If the mob failed to lynch the guilty and lynched instead an
innocent man, it was so much the worse for the innocent man, not at all
for the mob, however red their h