New-York tribune., 1904-10-08

lard Office. and 50 was witness O1 "a. e.
oeedinsz Under cover Of q state la"' % :,
sirsous charges % breach Of labor conti~0' =
vRyrancy negroes were arrested ana coi'oi =
Judgment given against them Unoer pre-
satisfying these judgments negroes "e'e =,
prisoned and sold 20 parties who held tne'.. =
fhe worst form Of slavery. Judge Jones' IO.
vtthssandfng the clsrnor Il raised ha6 seveTai OF
efe offenders convicted and heavily fneo- SO.H'
we're sent 90 the penifenIiary. Judge Jones oe
serves great honor for breaking Up the peohase
business IN Alabama Il was simply ne" ioIi'
OF slavery buf much worse than the old FORM
when the master had a property right in tne
dave and OF course. there was motive OF sell
interest: but these poems were IN as bad conci-
ton as the galley slaves Of the Barhary cor
Ealrz
democratic naember OF Congress. published
letter severely condemning Judge Jones on ae-
run, os the punishment Of these criminals. be-
.auss Hones sentenced them 20 punishment Hef-
lin compared him 10 JeTreys. the infamous
tvrant Of the English judges. After these Grim
,nais had suffered q short Imprisonment, on the
recommendation OF Judge Jones' the President
hardened them. and sent them out in the world.
admonished 10 go and sin no more Repre-
sentative Thompson. Of the Tuskeeee district.
died and the Democrats rewarded Helin for
him 20 hu out Thompson's unexDired term
Helm Is nov q candidate for reelection.
"T have received q copy Of q Montgomery pa
per which prints the entire speech of Hehin
delivered at Tuskegee on October 3. in which
Heain discusses the negro problem and the al
legged dinner TO Booker T. Washington by Presi-
dent Roosevelt The paper authoritatively states
that Hehin stated that II Czolgosz OF some other
anarchist had thrown bomb under the table
10 greet harm would have been done TO the
couutYy.' A dispatch in this mornings papers
says that Hefln declares he was merely Joking
when ne made this remark notice that Helm
adheres 20 what ne said about having Booker T.
Washington l,nched II he took any part against
him IN the Congress election. Now. there is no
doubt that pressure from Northern Democrats,
on aoCount cf the injury that Helms speech Is
doing Parker. has forced Helm 70 publish his
card OF denial Yesterday I met an Alabama
Representative. who had just been in Aew-York
ma king speeches. and he referred with great re-
sret 10 Helms III advised speech He said that
y would Go the Democratic party great deal
0s harm. But cannot see that Helms talk OF
g 5oke puts the matter in any better pcs ton
than Il Was before- Helm must have expected
his audience TO enjoy the Joke about the aFsas-
sination OF President OF the United States but
people who would laugh AT such an aNIu crime
could have no real horror IL the trime were
actually committed. But 70 lynch Booker I.
Washington Tor taking part as citizen 1,ai IN
sense would be as bad as the assassination OF
President
Il am glad 70 see that Ex-Governor Oates, a
Cne-armed Confederate soldier and former col
league IN Congress with Mr. Mckinley, has come
ont in a card advising the Democratic commit
tee to EnuzzIe Hehin. 90 n6t think the people
who heard Hehin saw the point IL he intended
MS remarks about assassination as a joke AS
for the talk about forcing the social equality OF
the races, that is nonsense Nobody wants TO
do such thing. and nobody can do II Social
intercourse rests on sympathy IN taste ana
mutual consent That law OF nature Is me toun-
dafion Of society. and regulates not only the
conduct of men, but of all animals. There is
snt classes Of white people as between white
people and negroes