The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12


 as '. which has in it no trace of race preJu, sn,' s' and strikes at the crime alone' so,,,, or th Ol us, as conscientious men da. ,1e. 1i.ae TOT all other offenses. there ls So,. piorapie tendency to mob black men io- erlmes and misdemeanors, which. wheli committed by white men. are alloWeu to ~ so unpunished, or left to the court .,.is punish? What excuse is there TOT liii9 eonaition of things? :, ne white race Is superior ana Nsi.s-a .-a .ne power of government Ihe Hes-o .o .'.'s practically no part in 1t. The is'" D are made by white men. White men pre- sue In the courts. White men slL up0Ii 'he Juries. The danger Is not tnat a suiity negro will escape just punlshiiiei.l !. U ae the hands of the law, but thdl III many instances the innocent may meet with unjust punishment The preteXt .hat the criminal will not receive Jus elee, if the law is allowed to take US eoufse, is wholly wanting.
 Is a False Teaching.
 Underlying the whole evil in the be- ginning, was the false teaching, which has taken deep root, that mob violence Tor every serious crime committed by the negro is essential to the safety or the whites in sparsely settled sections. ana that 1t should be inflicted in cruel and unusual ways, lest the lessons would not be effective. Mob violence grows by what it feeds on, and soon lesser of1enses In some communities began to be dealt with in that way.
 Attempted justification for this, tn place of calm and orderly punishment in the courts. found it's way in public prints and private converse tions Respect for law was thus constantly and greatly less ened. Then there are those with us. who Tor notoriety ,or to carry some selfish end, always make low appeals to the pasest passions of our race, in the dis eussion of every public question which in the slightest degree touches upon the relations between the races.
 These men constantly assault the right of equality before the law, by the base teaching that giving a negro his right under the law would result In socia equality, though they well know what justice without respect of persons in wolves neither social nor political right but only that men should do as they would be done by, and maintain a decen respect for the rights of their fellow human beings ome of these questions which 1t Is for the highest good anC peace of the whole people, white ana black, should be considered closed, an, beyond the pale of controversy, hay opened by such speakers and writ
 For Liberal Education.
 The wisdom of the state realizing tha if 1t does not lift the negro up In th scale of intelligence, he will drag u down, has adopted a settled policiy O providing literally for his commo schools. All sensible men knew that t take away the appropriations would in volve an overthrow of either the con stitution or the courts would administe It. They know too that all who wor for wages or pay rent. bear their shar of taxation. They know also, that it i a menace to the progress and peace c the state, when 1t contains among 1t population large numbers of inhabitant no matter to what race they belong. wh are so ignorant they cannot read tn Bible, the laws they are to obey, an the contracts they sign.
 Yet bitter assaults are continual made upon the system, by men who hay their own advancement and not the goo of the state at heart and 1t is de nounced as a grievious wrong to tn white children and an odious sacrific for the benefit of a race which bear none of the burdens of taxation. l Is small wonder then, under such teach ings that the impressionable mind c the young white child unless great pain are taken to counteract it. receives tn impression that the black race Is hi enemy, and that so believing he begin so to act The impressions the negro re ceives, when he hears these tlrade'