New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-08-18

drawing to itself an increasing mum
Der of the best students, awakening ii
them higher kind of enthusiasm thar
we sometimes see in our highest colleg
es, and sending them forth to take up
kind Of leadership which is greatly need
ed Just now in America. This would re
quire,oe course,some sacrifices on the par
of the teaching force; but there are men t.
whom that call would not be unwelcome
men who clearly understand that the
life of college, like the life of man,
''consisteth not in the abundance Of the
things which it possesseth''-men who
would count it all joy to teach in the
plalnest rooms, and to live us frugally
as German professors live, if only they
might he free to speak what they have
seen. Perhaps the day is coming when
the best work of colleges can lie done
only by those which are knowE to be
poor, and are determined, for the truths
sake, to keep themselves poor. If that
day should come, the men who would
have the least reason to rejoice in it
would be the men who are now doing
what they can to hasten its coming.
The Chicago Record thinks that a
means has been discovered for abolish
ing lynchlng. 1t says:
An interesting and important expert.
ment which is on trial in North Carolina
promises to afford means of abolish
ing, or at least abating, the crime of
lynching. The fact that certain horrible
crimes, which would formerly have re-
suited surely in lynching party, have
been left for the judgment of the courts
is the best evidence that the experiment,
if properly carried on, may prove sue
cessful. ..& -...
With special view to abolish lynch
ing and secure speedy justice for GER
tain class of Grimm ais, the state legislature
enacted, some time ago, law empower
ing the governor, on the commission of
an offense of this class, to order spec
ial term of court for the trial of the
criminals. A case which occurred not
far from Raleigh recently is typical of
the workings of the law when faithfully
carried out. The citizens, when made
aware of the crime, telegrephed to the
governor, who ordered special term of
court to meet two weeks later and hear
the evidence, and appointed one of the
best-known Superior court judges in the
state to preside. In the certainty that
the accused would be tried at once, and
that, if guilty, he would be hanged with
in the next fifty days, the citizens made
no attempt to modest the prisoner in Jail,
and he now awaits his trial by due pro-
cess of the law.
Probably this remedy would not be
efficient in all cases, or where the popu-
lace is peculiarly inaammable. But III
the instance mentioned the crime was
particularly revolving and there is con-
siderable race prejudice il the neighbor-
hood. It IS fair to assume that, with the
certainty that hideous crimes would be
dealt with legally and with 10 needless
delay, lynching would become decidedly
less common. It is the expectation of
delay and the doubt as to the outcome
of protracted technical chickering's that
lead people to take. the law into their
own hands. If the North Carolina law
is found to work we'll on further trial it
should be adopted in the other southern
states.
OF Judge Jackson's injunction against
Debs, the Boston Herald says: "It is
good judicial opinion that in enjoining
Mr.. Debs from melting the employees of
the Monongah Coke & Coal company
from trespassing upon the property of the
company, or the approaches thereto, or
interfering in any manner whatever,
either by word or deed, in the company's
affairs, Judge Jackson of the United
States district court of West Virginia
.asss gone too far. It is the right and
privilege of the company to ask for and
to receive the protection of the courts
against trespasses upon its property, but
it is scarcely within the power or author
ity of the judiciary to go beyond this, as
Judge Jackson has done. Meanwhile,
Mr.. Debs is not helping his case bv,de-
nouncing the authority of the courts and
by indulging in the violent and abusive
language that characterizes most of his
utterances. His remedy for any SEEM
ing oppression is still in the courts,
which ran he 1enande1 nnOn fO do ms