The Green Forest tribune., 1906-12-08

It must De TcIlenlOereQ that a Drellm-f mary injunction in labor case, if granted without adequate proof (even when authority can be found to support tne nnSea oY oen Sf aw yete which ha it is between the parties; and therefore if improperly granted may do irreparable assume a natter-of-fact course granting of a preliminary injunction to be the ordinary and proper judicial disposition of , such hosn cases; and there have nndoubt by judges in connection with labor dis putes even within the last few years, former years; Such judges by their un- wise action immensely strengthen the hands of those who are striving entirely to do away with the power of injunction; injunctive process tends to threaten its very existence, for if the American peo- pie ever become convinced that this process is habitually abused, whether in matters affecting labor or in matters af- fecting corpora tions, it will be well-nigh impossible to prevent its abolition"
 The Negro Problem.
 The negro problem is given considera- ble attention. after calling attention to the. fact that no section of the country is free from faults, and that no section has occasion to jeer at tbe shortcomings of any other section, he turns to the sub 1ect of lynchings, and especially as ap piled to the negro of the south. He says
 
 Is the perpetration by the blacks of the crime of rane, crime which he terms even worse than murder. He quotes the admonitions to the. white people spoken by Gov, Candler, of Georgia, some years ago, and by Gov. Jelks, of Alabama, re- gently, and then says:
 that the worst enemy of his race Is the negro criminal, and above all the ne- gro criminal who commits the dread full crime of rape; and 1t should be felt as In the highest degree OMenSe against the whole country, and against the colored race in particular for a of the. law in hunting down with all possible earnestness and zeal every such infamous offender. Moreover. in my judgment. the crime of rape should 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 offense; while the trial should be be wantonly shamcd while giving tes- timony. and that the least possible publicity shall be given to the details. the other hand should understand that every lynching represents by just so much. loosening of the bands of civ inevitably throws into prominence in the community all the foul and evil creatures who dwell therein. No man can take part in the torture of hu- moral nature permanently lowered Every lynching. means just so much who 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 and crooked savagery of a 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 it forth and at other times merely furnishes the excuse for its existence. It is out of the question 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 shortsi ghted policy can be imag gined 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 educa tion, lies at the formulation of our whole political situ- ation. In every community the poor est citizens, those who need the schools most, would be deprived of them if they only received school facilities lely lO lHe IdXeS they Dalu. This is as true of one portion of our country as of another It is as true for the negro as for the white man. cline to allow the negroes s,1 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 a good citizen; but it does much. The lowest and most brutal criminals. those for instance yt,r y1ntf he nr{ry nf the great majority men who have had either no education or very 1itle; just as they are almost invariably men who own own no property; for the he man who like the man who acquires education is usually lifted above mere brutal of education for the colored man, ta- ken as whole is such education as is conferred in schools like Hampton and Tuskegee; where the boys and men, are trained industrally as we'll as in the ordinary, public school branches The he. r graduates .s z. of these iority of cases and hardly any of them become criminals, while what little criminality there is never takes the vitcs lynch law. Every graduate of these schools-and for the matter of that every oher colored man or wo- man-who leads life so useful and honorable as to win the good will and respect of those whites whose neigh bor he or she is, thereby helps the whole colored race as it can bef helped In no other way; forenext to the negro himself. the man who can do most to | help the negro is his white neighbor who lives near him; and ours steady effort should be to better the relations between the two. Great tho the bene- 1 fit of these schools has been to their colored pupils and to the colored peo- | ple it may well be questioned whether 1 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 agitators of class hatred to task and says .'to preach l to seek to mislead and inflape to mad i ness honest men whose lives are hard l and who have not the kind of mental i training which will permit them to ap- l preciate the danger in the doctrines l preached is to commit a crime against i the body polite and to be false to every worthy principle and tradition of Amer ican national life." Continuing on this subject he says:
 1 '"fhe plain people who thnl1-the mechanfcsi farmers, merchants, work CTS with head or hand. the men to whom American traditions are dear, 1 who love their country and try to act decently by their neighbors. owe it to themselves to remember that the most | damaging blow that can be given pop 1 ular government Is to elect an un- i worthy and sinister agitator on q 1 platform of violence and hypocrisy. yVTI- oh, i- f,,