The Glenwood post., 1906-12-08

pie ever become convinced that this
matters affecting labor or in matters af-
fecting corporations. 1t will be well-nigh
impossible to prevent Its abolition"
The Negro Problem.
The negro problem is given considera-
BILE attention. after calling attention to
the fact that no section OF the country
has occasion to Jeer at the shortcomings
of any other section. he turns to the sub
piled to the % negro Of "d the % south. He as says avs
the greatest existing cause for mob law
is the repatriation by the blacks of the
even worse than murder. He quotes the
admonitions to the white people spoken
by ~ Gov. Gambler: ar Of Georgia, some years
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 it should be felt
against the whole country. and against
the colored race in particular, for
colored man to fail to help the officers
possible. earnestness and zeal every
such Infamous offender. Moreover. 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
made by which the punishment may
follow Immediately upon the heels OF
the offsnse; ons,ns. while the trial should be
be wantonly shamed while giving tes-
timony. and that the least possible
The members Of the white ' race @ @"ds; OK
the other hand should understand that
every lynching represents by just SO
iliZation: that the spirit of lynching
inevitably throws INTO prominence in
the community all the foul and evil
can take part in tho torture of a hu-
man being without having his own
moral nature permanently lowered.
Every lynching means Just much
moral deterioration in all the children
thap.far. Who have any any. knowledge of 4, and
Let Justice be both sure and swift;
but let 1t be Justice under the law.
and not the wild and crooked sayagery
of q mob.
Need for Negro Education.
There is another matter which has
n direct bearing upon this matter of
lynching and of the brutal crime which
sometimes calls it forth and at other
times merely furnishes the excuse for
its existence. 1t is out of the question
for our people as a 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
she snE an nosS dsS suffer No more
than. in the fancied interest of one
class, to prevent the education of an
chance for each boy or girl to get
good elementary education. lies at the
foundation of our whole political stu
est citizens, those who need the schools
most, would be deprived of them IL
they only received school facilities
n nyt lone f11x fs, I,n
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.
cline to allow the negroes in a mass to
grow to manhood and womanhood
without education. unquestionably ed
ucation such as is obtained in our pub
lie schools does not do everything to-
wards making man 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 very little: just
as they are almost Invariably men who
Puts money by out Of his earnings. IS
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
Jority of cases, and hardly any of them
become criminals, while what little
criminality there is never takes the
form OF that brutal violence which in.
these schools-and for the matter of
that every oher colorsd man or wo-
man-who leads 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
in no other way; for next to the negro
himself. the man who can do most to
help the negro Is his white neighbor
effort should be to better the relations
between the two. Great tho the bene-
fit of these schools has been to their
colored pupils and 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
graduate"
Capital and Labor.
On the subject of capital and labor
the president takes the agitators of class
hatred to task and says TO preach
hatred rel to o the he; s1dc, rich man. as such
ness honest men whose lives are hard
and who have not the kind of mental
lragns Ghoh NH VIII permit them to ap
preached is to commit a crime against
the body polite and to be false to every
worthy principle and tradition of Amer
lean national life" Continuing this
subject he says:
The plain people who think-the
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 un-
worthy and sinister agitator on
platform of violence and hypocrisy.
Whenever such an issue Is raised in
this country nothing can be gained by
ninching from 1t. for in such case dem
ocracy is itself on trial, popular self
government under republican forms is
itself on trial. The triumph of the
mob Is just evil a thing as the tri-
umph of the plutocracy. and to have
escaped ono danger avails nothing
whatever II we sucuumb to the other
In the end the honest man.whether rich
or, poor. who earns his own living and
tries to deal Justly by his fellows, has
as much to fear from the insincere