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...Sheriff later apprehended two Negroes suspected of causing the double death. They were conveyed to jail in the adjoining town of Mound City. Slowly a grumbling mob assembled. A storm-cloud of violence hovered over the scene. Then a man came forward from the crowd. He pleaded with them not to resort to violence. He prayed with them. There was no lynching that...
...took some pictures. Immediately the crowd rushed upon the Americans, crying out that they were Bahaists. They dragged them from the carriage, cut them, beat them. In vain did native servants of missionaries explain that the Americans were not Bahaists. The police were powerless to stop the infuriated mob. Four hours later, Vice Consul Imbrie was dead; Seymour was taken to a hospital in a critical condition...
...bring the guilty persons to justice. The message indicated, however, that "the Imbrie and Seymour accident was due to their own carelessness in going to a sacred place and persisting in taking pictures. The police and army forces which went to protect them, when they were attacked by the mob, received serious injuries. Three policemen were mortally wounded and one of the soldiers died a few hours later as a result of injuries received...
...nation has witnessed the holding of a dull and lifeless convention of political puppets in this very Hall. It has also witnessed the antics of what seemed to be a disorderly mob meeting in New York City, but which responded to boss control quite obediently in its voting. In Cleveland, there was one boss. In New York, there were several. In Cleveland, there was the chill hand of approaching dissolution upon the party. In New York, the fever of class, religious and sectional hatreds burned in its veins...
Japan herself is at present in no coalition to back up her objections with armed force; but if, as seems not unlikely, the mob spirit runs beyond control, and results in the killing of isolated American citizens, the initiative will be transferred from the government at Tokio to that at Washington. In such an event, the spectacle presented by the United States will be that of a powerful nation, which has already badgered a smaller neighbor to the point of desperation, forced into aggressive action to preserve its national prestige--with the unpleasant conviction in the background that the entire...