3d.  Bring to the intelligent consideration of Southern people the refusal of capital to invest where lawlessness and mob violence hold sway.  Many labor organizations have declared by resolution that they would avoid lynch infested localities as they would the pestilence when seeking new homes.  If the South wishes to build up its waste places quickly, there is no better way than to uphold the majesty of the law by enforcing obedience to the same, and meting out the same punishment to all classes of criminals, white as well as black.  “Equality before the law,” must become a fact as well as a theory before America is truly the “land of the free and the home of the brave.”

4th.  Think and act on independent lines in this behalf, remembering that after all, it is the white man’s civilization and the white man’s government which are on trial.  This crusade will determine whether that civilization can maintain itself by itself, or whether anarchy shall prevail; Whether this Nation shall write itself down a success at self government, or in deepest humiliation admit its failure complete; whether the precepts and theories of Christianity are professed and practiced by American white people as Golden Rules of thought and action, or adopted as a system of morals to be preached to, heathen until they attain to the intelligence which needs the system of Lynch Law.

5th.  Congressman Blair offered a resolution in the House of Representatives, August, 1894.  The organized life of the country can speedily make this a law by sending resolutions to Congress indorsing Mr. Blair’s bill and asking Congress to create the commission.  In no better way can the question be settled, and the Negro does not fear the issue.  The following is the resolution: 

Resolved, By the House of Representatives and Senate in congress assembled, That the committee on labor be instructed to investigate and report the number, location and date of all alleged assaults by males upon females throughout the country during the ten years last preceding the passing of this joint resolution, for or on account of which organized but unlawful violence has been inflicted or attempted to be inflicted.  Also to ascertain and report all facts of organized but unlawful violence to the person, with the attendant facts and circumstances, which have been inflicted upon accused persons alleged to have been guilty of crimes punishable by due process of law which have taken place in any part of the country within the ten years last preceding the passage of this resolution.  Such investigation shall be made by the usual methods and agencies of the Department of Labor, and report made to Congress as soon as the work can be satisfactorily done, and the sum of $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay the expenses out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

The belief has been constantly expressed in England