Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-12-06

section can with wisdom spend its
time jeering at the faults of another
section; it should be busy trying to
amend its own shortcomings. To
deal with the crime of corruption it
Is necessary to have an awakened
public conscience, and to suppliment
this by whatever legislation will add
speed and certainty in the execution
of the law. When we deal with
lynching even more is necessary. A
great many white men are lynched.
but the crime is peculiarly frequent in
respect to black men. The greatest
existing cause of lynching is the per-
petration, especially by black men,
of the hideous crime of rape-the
most aboninable in all the category
of crimes, even worse than murder
Mobs frequently avenge the commits
sion of tbis crime by themselves tor
turing to death the man committing
1t; thus avenging in bestile fashion n
bestile deed. and reducing themselves
~ level with the criminal.
Capital and Labor.
In dealing with both labor and cap
ltal, with the questions affecting both
corporations and trades unions, there
Is one matter more important to re
member than aught else, and that is
the infinite harm done by preachers
or mere discomfort. These are men
who seek to excite violent class hat
red against all men of wealth. They
seek to turn wise and proper move
mentS for the better control of cor
porations and for doing away with
the abuses connected with wealth. in
70 campaign of hysterical excite
ment and falseEood in which the aim
is to lnflame TO madness the brutal
passions OF mankind. The sinister
demagogs and foolish Missionaries who
are always eager to undertake such
campaign of destruction sometimes
those working for n genuine reform
III governmental and social methods,
and sometimes masquerade as the
reformers. In reality they are the
worst enemies of the cause they pro
J lfeSs to advocate, just as the purvev-
lors of sensational slander in news
paper of magazine are the worst
eenemiea, N all men who are engaged
in an honest effort to better what is
lad In our social and governmental
h Conditions.
Railroad Employees Hours and Eight
Hour Law.
call your attention to the need
Of passing a bill limiting the number
Of hours of employment of railroad
employees. The measure is very
moderate one and i can conceive OF
70 serious objection to it. Indeed, so
far as 1T is in our power, it should be
our ann steadily TO reduce the mum
her Of hours of labor, with as n goal
the general introduction of an eight
Hour day. There are industries in
which 1t is not possible that the hours
q labor should be reduced; Just az
there are communities not far enough
advanced for such a movement to be
Tor their good, or, il in the Tropics,
s. situated that there is no analogy
be,ween their needs and ours in this
matter. On the Isthmus of Panama.
| fof instance, the conditions are in
every way so different from what
they are here that an eight hour day
/ would be absurd; just as it is absurd.
so far as the Isthmus is concerned,
wfnre white labor can not be employ
ed, to bother as to whether the neces-
sair. work is done by alien black men
or)sby alien yellow men. But the
| "aeeworkers of the United States are
| OF 20 high grade that alike from
| the merely industrial standpoint and
! from the civic standpoint ii should
be cur object to do what we can in
the direction of securing the genera,
| observance of an eight hour day.
Employers Liability.
Among the excellent laws which the
Cong'ess past at the last session was
an employers liability law. 1t was
marked step in advance to get the
recognition of employers liability on
the statuts books; but the law did not
go far enough. In spite of all precau
tions exercised by employers there are
unavoidable accidents and even
deaths envolved in nearly every line
OF business connected with the me
chanic arts. This is enevitable sacri
fee of life may be reduced to a mini
mum, but it can not be completely
eliminated.
Investigation Of Disputes Between
Capital and Labor.
The commission appointed by the
President October 10, 1902, at the re.
quest of both the anthricite coal op
orators and miners, to inquire into.
consider, and pass upon the questions
IT controversary in connection with