For a discussion of the problem of punishing lynchers and for some statistics with reference to the punishment of persons who participated in lynchings during the first six months of the year 1892, see paper by George C. Holt, on “Lynching and Mobs,” _American Journal of Social Science_, No. 32, p. 67 (November, 1894). Footnote 341: Carroll D. Wright: “Outline of Practical Sociology” (1899), p. 357. Footnote 342: This view of the matter is ably set forth in the _Green Bag_ for September, 1900 (12: 466), by O. F. Hershey of the Maryland Bar. The same idea is expressed in a different way in an article on “American Quality,” by N. S. Shaler. See _International Monthly_, July, 1901. Footnote 343: Francis J. Grund: “The Americans in their moral, social, and political relations” (London, 1837), I, 323. (M.) Footnote 344: Quoted from the _Journal of Jurisprudence_ (Edinborough). See _American Law Review_, May—June, 1891 (25: 461). Footnote 345: For a comprehensive discussion of the “native question,” see “A Sociological View of the ‘Native Question,’” by Albert G. Keller, _Yale Review_, November, 1903. Footnote 346: W. E. B. DuBois: “The Souls of Black Folk” (1903), p. 143. Footnote 347: William Hayne Levell: “On Lynching in the South.”—_Outlook_ Nov. 16, 1901 (69: 731). Footnote 348: “Lynching and the Franchise Rights of the Negro,” Annals of the American Academy of Science, May, 1900 (15: 493). Footnote 349: On the suggestibility of crowds, see Gustave LeBon: “The Crowd. A Study of the Popular Mind” (2d ed., 1897). See also Boris Sidis: “The Psychology of Suggestion” (1898), Part III. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling. 2. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 3. Re-indexed footnotes using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter. 4. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.