The only way to suppress mob violence is to make punishment for the leaders in it, sure and certain.

The reason we have mobs is because the leaders of them know they will not be punished.

The enforcement of the law against lynchers will break it up.
The white ministers should take up the cause of justice rather than endorse the red shirts, or carry a Winchester themselves.

They should be the counselors of peace and not the advocates of bloodshed.

Most of them, no doubt, do regret the terrible deeds committed by mobs on helpless and innocent people, but it is a question as to whether or not they would be suffered by public sentiment to "cry aloud" against them.