The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-01-19

hibited and the remedies for their pro
hibition should be as easy and al uni
versal as possible. No defendant should
be heard to say that he should not be
enjoined or prohibited from the COM
mission OF an unlawful act because he
can be held in damages or otherwise
compelled to compensate. Actions of
an equitable nature should be sustained
ven though there be another remedy
known among the lawyers as the strict.
ly legal. Equitable and legal remedies
should be cumulative. Preventive pro-
cesses should be encouraged and
larged. The policy of every judicial
system should b. to prevent the com
mission of wrong. With the centuries
looking down upon US since the law
was given thou shall" and 'thou shall
not" We should have passed the period
when a complainant could be told from
the judgment seat ''you have shown
that the defendant is about to wrong
you but you must wait until he does it
and then get compensation"
SUGGESTION TO ABOLISH LABOR STATS
TICIAN.
The condition of the State Treasury
is such as to demand the most severe
economy in all departments of the
State government. This is an exigency
which should be faced and not evaded.
The expenses of the State government
outside of the p~enitentiary and the
agricultural department have increased
from about 1928, 900 in 1880 to 1882, 600
in 1890 and 1927, 900 in 1896. This is an
increase in expense of 10 per cent. in
ten years and 175 per cent. in sixteen
years, while the increase in wealth in
ten years was only 45 per cent. and in
sixteen ears only 65 per cent. The
property of the State has been and is
taxed to about the limit of reasonable
endurance. 1t is not clear that the
only remedy is in the reduction of pub
lie expenditures There might be a
saving in the abolition of the agricul
tural bureau but for the fact that it is
supported by a fund which cannot be
directed into the State treasury for
general purposes without involving
grave constitutional questions. By the
abolition of the bureau of statistics and
of the geological bureau there can be
saved by the State about - and by
close scrutiny of all appropriations in
all departments our expenditures may
be considerably reduced.
LYNCHINGs MODS.
When this legislature adjour2s the
word should go out to the world that
the crimes called lynchings must stop
in North Carolina. The way to end it
is plain. Remove the excuse for it. 1t
is no justification to say, what is not
denied, that in many cases the victims
& eserve what they get. Barbarious
brutes who commit nameless crimes
must be killed. But let it be done under
the forms Of law. Let there be none of
the laws delay. Give the executive
the power to call a court instanter;
order the judge by telegraph to the
county of the crime. Try the criminal
if proper for an appeal, convene the
appellate court on shortest possible
notice. ee1d down the judgment and
instantly perform its mandates.
Scarcely a case of mob n urder of a
guilty culprit has occurred wherein he
would not have bee convicted by judge
and jury. In most cases the lynchings
have been attributable to a spirit of
lawlessness. The only reasonable ex-
cuse that can be offered is in the failure
of the delay of the law. Make the law
so that there can be no delay and no
reasonable apprehension of failure.
Provide better remedies for the prose
, cution of criminals who take the law
into their own lawless hands. Authorize
, their Indictment and trial in counties
removed from their influence and put
! them on trial before juries who believe
J in order and law.
RAILROADS
The regulation of State and inter.
State commerce by common carriers
| is among the most important and far
reaching question of the day. North
Carolina has derived more material
benefit in the last fifteen years from
railroad development than from any
other one source. We should not for
get that however profitable these in
vestments may have been to non-resi
dent capitalists. We also have been
and are their benefciaries. Their in
> vestments in these properties should be
protected by our laws and by a public
sentiment that frowns upon all at