The Tupelo journal., 1906-12-07

improperly granted may do lrreparable
wrong. Yet there are many judges who
assume a matter-of-fact course granting
of a preliminary Injunction to be the
ordinary and proper judicial disposition
of such cases; and there have undoubt-
edly been fragrant wrongs committed
by judges in connection with labor dis
putes even within the last few years,
altho l think much less often than in
former years. Such judges by their I'M
wise action immensely strengthen the
to do away with the power of injunction;
and therefore such careless use of the
injunctive process tends to threaten its
very existence, for If the American peo-
process Is habitually abused, whether in
matters affecting labor or in matters af-
fecting. corporations, it will be well-nigh
impossible to prevent it's abolition"
The Negro Problem.
The negro problem is given considera-
the fact that no section of the country
is free from faults. and that no section
has occasion to jeer at the shortcomings
of any other section. he turns to the SUBJ
ject of lynchings, and especially as ap-
piled to the negro of the south. He says
the greatest existing cause for mob law
crime of rape, a crime which he terms
even worse than murder. He quotes the
admonitions to the white people spoken
by Gov, Gambler. of Georgia, some years
SoOp cAAio ~ " oSAhe
Gently, and then says:
Every colored man should realize
hat the worst enemy of his race is the
negro criminal, and above all the ne
gro criminal who commit the dread
full crime of rape; and it should be felt
as in the highest degree an offense
against the whole country, n against
the colored race in particular, for a
colored man to fail to help the officers
of the law in hunting down with all
possible. earnestness and zeal every
c1Inh in a m ~ nffnndar MOranVar in
my judgment, the crime of rape should
always be punished with death, as is
the case with murder; assault with In
tent to commit rape should be made a
capital crime, at least in the discretion
of the court; and provision hou be
made by which the punishment may
the o~ffense; while the trial should be
SO conducted that the victim need not
be wantonly shamed while giving tes-
timony. and that the least possible
The members of the white race on
the other hand should understand that
every lynching represents by just so
much a loosening of the bands of CIV
ilization; that the spirit of lynching
inevitably throws into prominence in
the community all the foul n evil
creatures aTa who d; dwell ELL therein iUrtdr \ No man nan
man being without having his own
moral nature permanently lowered.
Every lynching means Just SO much
lllO q dtlOh LII GIL lliC L ~
who have any knowledge of it, and
therefore just SO much additional
trouble for the next generation of
lie justice be both sure and swift;
but let it be justice under the law,
and not the wild and crooked Savagery
of a mob.
Need for Negro Education.
There is another matter which has
a direct bearing upon this matter of
wv, ~ aD1 nf Tho br1r win "a yhtoh
sometimes calls it forth and at other
times merely furnishes the excuse for
it's existence. 1t is out of the question
for our people as a whole permanently
own number. Even those who them
selves for the 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
chance. for each boy or girl to get a
good elementary education, lies at the
foundation of our whole political stu
alton. In every community the poor
est citizens, those who need the schools
most, would be deprived of them if
they only received school facilities
proportionately to the taxes they paid.
This is as true of one portion of our
country as of another. 1t is as true
for the negro as for the white man.
The white man., if he is wise, will de-
cine TO allow the negroes III d mass TO
grow to manhood and womanhood
without education. Unquestionably ed
u~cation such as is obtained in our pub
lie schools does not do everything to-
wards making a man a good citizen;
but it 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
ike the man who acquires education,
is usually lifted above mere brutal
criminality. OF course the best type
of education for the colored man, ta-
ken as a whole. is such education as
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
become criminals, while what little
criminality there Is never takes the
form of that brutal violence which in
vites lynch law. Every. graduate Of
the every oher co1ored 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 it can be helped
In no other way; for next to the negro
himself, the man VINO can 90 most to
help the negro is his white neighbor
who lives near him; and our steady
effort should be to better the relations
between the two Great tho the bene-
fit of these schools has been to their
| colored pupils n to the colored peo-
pie, it may well be questioned whether
the benefit has not been at least as
great to the white people among whom
these colored pupils live after they
graduate"
Capital and Labor.
On the subject of capital and labor
the president takes the ag1tators of class
hatred to task and say "to preach
hatred to the rich man, as such, !.
to seek to mislead and inhame to mad
| ness honest. men whose lives are hard
and who lave not the ii of mental
training which will permit them to ap-
preciate the danger in the doctrines
| the body polite and to be false to every
worthy principle and tradition of Amer
| lean national life" Continuing on this
subject he says:
saThe plain people who think-the
| mechanics, farmers. merchants, work
ers with head or hand, the men to
| whom American traditions are dear,
who love their country and try to act
decently by their neighbors, owe 1t to
themselves to remember that the most
| damaging blow that can be given pop
| ular government is to elect an UNI
worthy and sinister agitator on a
PLATFORM of violence ? n hypocrisy.
WheneverAsuch an issue Is raised in
this country nothing can he gained by
finching from it for in such case dem
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