# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1917_S79
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Vermischtes. 79

advance and decline.“ — Kann man aber die Bibel mit ihren er⸗
habenen Lehren nicht erklären durch Evolution, so bleibt als andere
Alternative nur die Offenbarung. Dabei erklärt sich ganz von selbst
die Degeneration der Völker und ihrer Religionen aus der Sünde, wie
sie in ihren alles zersetzenden Wirkungen heute noch der ganzen Welt
als Tatsache vor Augen liegt. F. B.
Lynchmorde in 1916. R. R. Morton vom Tuskeégee Institute
schreibt: I fnd. according to records kept by Monroe N. Work, head
of the division of records and research of the Tuskegee Institute,
that in 1916 there have been 54 lynchings. Of those lynched, 50 were
neégroes and 4 were whités. This is four less negroes and nine less
whites than were put to death in 1915, vhen the record was 54 negroes
and 13 „hites. Included in the record are three women. Fourteen,
or more than one-fourth of the total lynchings, occurred in the State
of Georgia. Of thosé put to death, 42, or 77 per cent. of the total,
were charged with offenses other than rape. The charges for which
whites were lynched were murdér. 3; suspected of cutting a woman, 1
(a Meéxican). The charges for which negroes were put to death were:
Attempteéd rape, 9; killing officers of the law, 10; murder, 7; hog
stealing. and assisting another person to escapée, 6; wounding officers
of the law, 4; rape, 3; insult, 2. For each of the following offenses
one person was put to death: Slapping boy; robbing storé; brush-
ing against girl on streéet; assisting his son to eéscape; entering
a housé for robbery; defending her son, who, in deéfense of mother,
killed man; fatally wounding a man with whom he had quarreled;
speaking against mob in act of putting à man to death; attacking
a man and wife with club. Lynchings occurreéd in the following
States: Alabama, I; Arkansas, 4; Florida, 8; Georgia, 14; Kan-
sas, 1; Kentucky, 2; Louisiana, 2; Mississippi, 1; Missouri, 1;
North Carolina, 2; Oklahoma, 4; South Carolina, 2; Tennesséee, 3;
Texas, 9.“ — Wir Amerikaner predigen gerne andern Nationen Huma⸗
nität und brüsten uns mit unserer Liebe, Gerechtigkeit und andern
Tugenden. Wo gibt es aber in der Welt ein zivilisiertes Volk, vor
dem wir nicht unser Antlitz verhüllen müssen, wenn wir an die barba⸗
rischen Lynchmorde denken, die sich Jahr für Jahr wiederholen, ohne daß
unsere Regierung dagegen ernstliche Schritte getan hätte? F. B.
Edison und die Decke Mosis. Die hiesige Post-Dispatoh berichtet
aus New York: „The Rev. Adams, pastor of St. Andrew's Methodist
Episcopal Church, who read from his pulpit answers to the question,
What are the greatest safeguards against temptation? has received
the reply of Edison, which was delayed. Edison said: J cannot
answer the question contained in your favor of the 5th inst., as I
have never had any eXperience in such matters. I have never had
time, not even five minutes, to be tempted to do anything against
the moral law, civil law, or any law whatever. If I were to hazard