TO STOP LYNCHING.

Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2647, 10 November 1919, Page 7

TO STOP LYNCHING.

American newspaper proprietors are apt to do unconventional things, so one ought not, perhaps, to be surprised at an announcement recently made by the San Antonio “Express."

That journal which exerts a strong influence in Texas and neighbouring States, has set aside £20,000 as an anti-lynching fund. Out of this sum £2OO will be paid to each person causing the arrest, with subsequent conviction and punishment, of any person instrumental in lynching a negro or in arousing a mob to commit such a lynching. A reward of £IOO is similarly offered when the victim is not a negro. The difference is due to the fact that a large majority' of lynchings in America belong to the former class, and it is therefore thought that the larger reward shoeld be applied in the case of the more widespread evil. Not only private persons but officials, are eligible. The offer is to apply to all parts of the United States, and will hold good for a period of five years at least.