. Review of reviews and world's work. ^ i -? tkAA n I,. Ill, i|i« I. THE PEN IS MKillTlKR THAN THE SHOTGUN. From the Herald (New York). 396 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY RE^IEJV OF REl/IEU^S. is that it lias quite frankly abandoned its old pre-text that lynching was reserved for the punish-ment of men unmistakably guilty of crimes ofviolence against women. Nearly all the lynch-ings of the past two or three years have been forother offences, and many of them on mere sus-picion of things so trivial as to be either notpunishable at all by law or else deserving only asmall fine or a few days detention. The
. Review of reviews and world's work. ^ i -? tkAA n I,. Ill, i|i« I. THE PEN IS MKillTlKR THAN THE SHOTGUN. From the Herald (New York). 396 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY RE^IEJV OF REl/IEU^S. is that it lias quite frankly abandoned its old pre-text that lynching was reserved for the punish-ment of men unmistakably guilty of crimes ofviolence against women. Nearly all the lynch-ings of the past two or three years have been forother offences, and many of them on mere sus-picion of things so trivial as to be either notpunishable at all by law or else deserving only asmall fine or a few days detention. The Southitself, of course, must rise to the solution of its
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