1882, Negroes murdered by mobs 52 1883, Negroes murdered by mobs 39 1884, Negroes murdered by mobs 53 1885, Negroes murdered by mobs 164 1886, Negroes murdered by mobs 136 1887, Negroes murdered by mobs 128 1888, Negroes murdered by mobs 143 1889, Negroes murdered by mobs 127 1890, Negroes murdered by mobs 171 1891, Negroes murdered by mobs 192 1892, Negroes murdered by mobs 241 1893, Negroes murdered by mobs 200 1894, Negroes murdered by mobs 190 1895, Negroes murdered by mobs 171 1896, Negroes murdered by mobs 131 1897, Negroes murdered by mobs 156 1898, Negroes murdered by mobs 127 1899, Negroes murdered by mobs 107 Of these thousands of men and women who have been put to death without judge or jury, less than one-third of them have been even accused of criminal assault. The world at large has accepted unquestionably the statement that Negroes are lynched only for assaults upon white women. Of those who were lynched from 1882 to 1891, the first ten years of the tabulated lynching record, the charges are as follows: Two hundred and sixty-nine were charged with rape; 253 with murder; 44 with robbery; 37 with incendiarism; 4 with burglary; 27 with race prejudice; 13 quarreled with white men; 10 with making threats; 7 with rioting; 5 with miscegenation; in 32 cases no reasons were given, the victims were lynched on general principles. During the past five years the record is as follows: Of the 171 persons lynched in 1895 only 34 were charged with this crime. In 1896, out of 131 persons who were lynched, only 34 were said to have assaulted women. Of the 156 in 1897, only 32. In 1898, out of 127 persons lynched, 24 were charged with the alleged "usual crime." In 1899, of the 107 lynchings, 16 were said to be for crimes against women. These figures, of course, speak for themselves, and to the unprejudiced, fair-minded person it is only necessary to read and study them in order to show that the charge that the Negro is a moral outlaw is a false one, made for the purpose of injuring the Negro's good name and to create public sentiment against him. If public sentiment were alive, as it should be upon the subject, it would refuse to be longer hoodwinked, and the voice of conscience would refuse to be stilled by these false statements. If the laws of the country were obeyed and respected by the white men of the country who charge that the Negro has no respect for law, these things could not be, for every individual, no matter what the charge, would have a fair trial and an opportunity to prove his guilt or innocence before a tribunal of law. That is all the Negro asks--that is all the friends of law and order need to ask, for once the law of the land is supreme, no individual who commits crime will escape punishment.