The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1906-12-06

ago, and by Gov. Jelks. of Alabama, re-
Gently, and then says:
Every colored man should realize
that the worst enemy Of his race Is the
negro criminal, and above all the ne
gro criminal who commits the dread
ful crime OF rape; and II should be felt
as in the highest degree an offense
against the whole country, and against
coiored man TO fail 10 i help the oiticers
of the law in hunting down with all
possible earnestness and zeal every
my judgment the crime OF rape should
always be punished with death. as is
the case with murder; assault with in
tent to commit rare should be made a
of the court; and provision should be
made by which the punishment may
follow Immediately upon the heels of
the onense; while the trial should be
so conducted that the victim need not
be wantonly shamed while giving tes-
timony, and that the least possible
publicity shall be given to the details.
The members of the white race on
the other hand should understand that
every lynching represents by just so
much loosening of the bands OF civ
ilization; that the spirit of lynching
inevitably throws into prominence in
the community all the foul and evil
can take part in the torture OF hu-
man being without having his own
moral nature permanently lowered.
every lynching means Just so much
moral deterioration in all the children
who have any knowledge OF il. and
therefore just so much additional
trouble Tor the next generation of
LET justice be both sure and swift;
but let IL be justice under the law.
and not the wild and crooked savagery
of mob.
Need for Negro Education.
There is another matter which has
a direct bearing upon this matter of
lynching and of the brutal crime which
sometimes calls IL forth and at other
times merely furnishes the excuse for
for our people as whole permanently
to rise by treading down any of their
own number Even those who them
selves for the moment profit by such
maltreatment of their fellows will in
the long run also suffer. No more
shortsighted policy can be imagined
than, In the fancied interest of one
class. to prevent the education of an
other class The free public school the
chance for each boy or girl to get
good elementary education lies al tho
foundation of our whole political situ-
alton. In every community the poor
est citizens. those who need the schools
they only received school facilities
proportionately to the taxes they paid
This Is as true of one portion of our
country az of another. II is MS true
for the negro as for the white man
The white man, If he Is wise. will de-
cline to allow the negroes In n mass to
grow 10 MANHOOD ana womanhood
without education. Unquestlonabiy ed
ucation such as is obtained in our pub
lie schools does not do everything to-
wards making a man good citizen:
but II does much. The lowest and 'most
brutal criminals, those for instance
who commit the crime of rape. are in
the great majority men who have had
either no education or very little; just
as they are almost invariably men who
own no property. for the man who
puts money by out OF his earnings
like the man who acquires education
is usually lifted above mere brutal
criminality. OF course the best type
Of education for the colored man. Ia
ken as a whole. is such education a.
Is conferred In schools like Hampton
and Tuskegee; where the boys and
girls the young, men and young wo-
branches. The graduates of these
schools turn out well In the great ma
iority Of cases, and hardly any of them
become criminals, while what llttl,
crimnality there Is never takes th,
form OF that brutal violence which in
,yltes lynch law. Every graduate OF
that every oher colored man or wo-
man--who leads a life so useful and
honorable as to win the good will and
respect of those whites whose neigh
Dor he or she is, thereby helps the
whole colored race as IL can be helped
In no other way; for next to the negro
himself. the man who can do most to
help the negro is his white neighbor
who lives near him; and our steady
effort should be to better the relations
mt of these schools has been to their
colored pupils and to the colored peo-
pie. Il may well be questioned whether
the benefit has not been at least as
these colored pupils live after they
graduate"
Capital and Labor.
on the subject of capital and labor
the president takes the agitators of class
hatred to task and says ito preach
to 70 'ns % sa nna AZ ssos 70 mad
ness honest men whose lives are hard
and who have not the kind of mental
preciats the danger in the doctrines
the body polite and to be false to every ever;
Ssr'As Soms and 0f A%s es,
D.iS people xsS thnstse
ers with head or hand the men % to
| whom American traditions are dear
| who love their country and try to act
decently by their neighbcrs owe u 70
damaging blow that can be given pop
uiar government Is to elect an un-
| worthy and sinister agitator on q
q u5s s0,sa1s ~ issue :nG
THIS S6hhtry nothing can be gained by
fiinehing from II. for In such case dem
rs 'S Sndsr s sPueT rms self
mob is Just as evil a thing as the. tri-
SSssR p tns anssr ya nd to no,Sns hfys
Mhvsn shs end hy e ,a G'As rsf
or poor. who earns his own living and
as much to fear from the insincerc
much and performing nothing. or else
se ON Sss'ns mob eS TO p,snSsr sS ws e;
rich. as from the crafty corruptionlst
who for his own ends, would permit
the eommon People 20 be sy!r exploited ,h,, p,
government fall into the hands of mer
show ourselves false to Americas past
Zionist often work hand in hand. Ther,
aries of such obtuse morality that they
cufes them when they Violate the law
or who seeks to make them bear theil
proper share OF the public burdens, al
being even more oo]sStlonaSie hn hna tina, a,
the mob to plunder the rich. There II
nothing to choose between such re
dictionary and such an agltator; funda
disregard OF the rights OF others; ant
II is natural that they should Join y
opposition to any movement OF whicl
the aim IL fearlessly to do exact ant
even Justice to ALL
Railroad Employees Hours.
He asks for the passing OF the bill linn
liting the number of hours o
employment of railroad employees, AM
classes the measure as very moderate
one. He says the aim OF all should b.
TO steadily reduce the number OF hour
q labor. with as q goal the senerai IN IN