“Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.”
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
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The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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