The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-12-04


~offense against the whole country.
and against the coIored race in parti
uIar, for a colored man to fall to help
the officers of the law in hunting
down with all possible earnestness
and zeal every such Infamous often
der. Moreover, in my judgment, the
crime of rape should always be pun
ished with death, as is the case with
murder; assault with intent TO com
NIT rape should be made a capital
crime, at least in the discretion of
the court; and provision should be
made by which the punishment may
follow Immediately upon the heels
of the offense; while the trial should
be so conducted that the victim need
not be wantonIy shamed while Civ
ing testimony, and that the least pos
sibIe publicity shall be given to the
details.
The members of the white race IN
the other land should understand
that every lynching represents by
just SO much a %loosening of the
bands of civilization; that the spirit
of lynching inevitably throws into
prominence in the community all
the foul and evil creatures who dwell
| fhnroip Mo n non fnko mart in
the torture of a human being with
out having his own moral nature
permanently lowered. Every lynch
ing means just so much moral deter
ioration in all the children VINO have
any knowledge of it, and therefore
just so much additional trouble for
the next generation of Americans.
Let justice be both sure and swift;
but let it be justice under the law,
and not the wild n crooked savag-
cry of mobs.
Capital and Labor.
In dealing with both labor and cap
ital, with the questions affecting
both corporations and trades unions.
there is one matter more important
to remember han aught else, and
that is the infinite harm done by pre-
achers of mere discomfort. These
! are the men h eek to excite a vic
lent class hatred against all men of
wealth. They seek to turn wise and
proper movements for the better con
troll of corporations and for doing a.
way with the abuses connected with
wealth. into a campaign of hysterical
excitement and falsehood in which
the aim is to inf1ame to madness the
brutal passions of mankind. The sin.
lister demagogs and foolish ~visionar
les who are always eager to under
take such a campaign of destruction
sometimes seek to associate them,
selves with those working for a gen.
uine reform in governmental and so
cial methods, and sometimes mas
querade as such reformers. In real
ity they are the worst enemies of the
cause they profess to advocate. Just
as the purveyors of sensational Sian.
der in newspaper or magazine are
the worst enemies Of all men who are
engaged in an honest effort to bet
ter what is bad in our social and
governmental conditions. To preach
hatred of the rich man as such, to
~invectfve against him, to seek to mis-
lead and infiame to madness honest
men whose lives are hard and who
have not the kind of mental training
which will permit them to appreciate
the danger in the doctrines preached
the body polite and to be false to ey
cry worthy principle tradition OF
American national life. Moreover,
while such preaching and sucn agi-
tation may give a livelihood and a
certain notoriety to some of those
who take part in it, and may result
in the temporary political success
OF others, in h long run every such