The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-12-06

YIN ~ Lie Gnu 70 DOtl races IL we. SUI
stttute for this just rule the habit of
treating all the member of the race. good
and bad. alike. There is no question of
social equality" or negro domination"
pun:shing bad men, and of securing to the
good man the right to his life, his liberty,
and the pursuit of his happiness as his
W qualities of heart, head and hand en-
able him to achieve it.
Every colored man should realize that
the worst enemy of his race is the negro
and above all the negro criminal
commits the dreadful crime OF rape;
and it should be felt as in the highest de-
gre an offense against the whole country,
and against the colored race in particular,
for a colored man to fail to help the off
GERS 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 always be punished with
death, as is the case with murders: assault
with intent to commit rap 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 inn
mediately upon the heels of the offense;
while the trial should be so conducted that
the victim need not be wantonly shame
while giving testimony, and that the least
possible publicity shall be given to the de-
tails.
The members of the white race on the
other hand should understand hat 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 evil creatures who dwell therein.
No man can take part in the torture of a
human being without having his own
moral nature permanently lowered. Every
lynchihg means Just so much moral de-
terioration in all the children who have
any knowledge of It, and therefore Just so
much additional trouble for the next gem
eration of Americans.
Let justice be both sure and swift: but
let i be Justice under the law: and not
the wild and crooked savagery of a mob.
As TO the Schools.
The, free public school, the chance for
each boy or girl to get a good elementary
whole political situation. In every com
munity the poorest citizens, those who
need the schools most, would be deprived
of them if they only received school ia
cilities proportional 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, ii he is wise, will de-
cline 10 allow the negroes in a mass to
grow TO manhood and ~womanhood with
out education. PROFESSIONALLY educa-
tion such as is obtained in our public
schools does not do everything towards
making a man a good citizen; but it does
InQch. Inc lowest and most brutal GRIM
mas, those Tor instance who commit the
crime OF rape, are in the great majority
men who V had either no education
or very little; just as they are almost
Invariably men who own no property;
for the man who puts money by out of
his earnings. like the man who acquires
brutal c~rirninality.
OF course, the best type of education
for the coIored man, taken 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 women, are trained indus
trially as well as in the ordinary pub
lie school branches. The graduates of
these schools turn out well in the great
majority of cases, end hardly any of
them become criminals, while what little
crinlinality there is never takes the form
OF. that brutal violence which invites
lynch law.
Capita; and Labor.
In dealing with both labor and capital.
with the questions affecting both corpo-
rations and trades unions. there is one
matter more important to remember than
done by preachers of mere discomfort.
These are the men who seek to excite a
violent class hatred against all men of
proper movements for the better control
of corporations and for doing away with
the abuses connected with wealth into a
f~alsehood in which the aim is to infame'
kind.
The sinister demagogues and foolish vis-
lon3rIes who are always eager to un-
dertake such a campaign of destruction
sometimes seek TO associate themselves
W - 'iCSN " ms IL socIluillc ISloIi1l
in governmental and social methods, and
sometimes masquerade as such REFORM
erS.
In reality they are the worst enemies
of the cause they profess to advocate.
Just as the p~urveyors of sensational
SANDER in newspaper or magazine are
engaged in an honest effort to better
what is bad in our social and govern
mental conditions.
To preach hatred of the rich ma as
such, to carry on a campaign of SANDER
and inNective against him, 20 seek to
mislead and inflame to madl,eas honest
men whose lives are hard and who have
not the kind of mental training which
will permit them to appreciate the dan
ger in the doctrines ~preached-all this
petite and to be false to every worthy
plrinciple. and tradition of American ma
tional life.
Moreover. While such preaching and
such agitation may give a livelihood and
a certain ntptoriety 10 some of those who
f fame PAR RI IL no,i "a ios and lnn may result : 3 in the Ie
the long run every such movement will
either fail or else will provoke a violent
RE- c5ion; which viii itself result not
ny the denagogne ard the agitator, but
in undoiag the good that the honest
reforner, the true ~upholder of popular
rights, has painfully and laboriously
achieved.
Corruption is never so rife as in com
mlnltles Where the d~emagogue and the
oSoA "a sway, bsSduse III SucH
communities all moral sands become
loosened, and hysteria and setlsationalism
replace the spirit of son:,d judgment and
fair dealing as between man and man.
The plain people who think the me
chanics, farmers, merchants, workers
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 it TO themselves to
remember that the most damaging blow
that can be given popular government is
to eject an unworthy and sinister agitator.
on q platform of violence II HYPOCRISY.
Whenever such an issue is raised in
this country nothing can be gained by
hinchi1rs from it, for in such case democ-
racy is itself on trial, popular self gov
eminent under republican forms is itself
on trial. The triumph of the mob is
Just as evil a thing as the triumph of
the plutocracy, and to have escaped one
danger avails nothing whatever if we
succuIlb to the other.
Railroad Employees.
] call your attention to the need Of
passing the bill limiting the number of
hours OF employment of railroad en-
ployes. h measure is a very moderate
one and | can conceive of no serious oh
lection to it. Indeed. SO far as it is in
our power, it should be our aim steadily
to reduce the number of hours of labor,
with as a, goal the general Introduction
of an eigh-hour day.
Chiid-Won,an Labor.
Congress at its last session wisely pro-
vided for a truant court for the District
of Coluinbia; a marked step in advance