Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-12-12

l 1 the pcrpctratiun especially by black l men, of the hidcous crime of rapc-thc ! most abominablc iu all the category of ! crimes even wors" than murder. Mobs ] frequently aycug" the commission of this l crime by themselves torturing to death | the man committing it. thus averaging in btstial fashion bcstai deed. and rc- ducing themselves to a level with the l criminal
 l iawlrssucSs grows by what it feeds up- on. and when mobI begin to lynch for | rape they speedily extend the sphere | Of their operations and lynch for many other kinds of crimes. so that twu-thirds of the lynchings arc not for rape at all; | while considerable proportion of the individuals lynchod are innocent of all | crime Governor Chandler. of Georgia. | stated un one occasion some years ago: "I can say of a Vcrity that [ have. with In thc last month. saved the lives of half I dozen innocent negroes who were pur- | sued by the mob. and brought them to | trial in n court of law in which they ot Mississippi has finely said When the rule of mob obtains. that which dis. tinguiShes high civilization is surr"nd- cred The mob which iynches a negro charged with rape will in little while | lynch a white man suspected of crime. Every Christian patriot in America eternal protest against the mob spirit that is threatening the integrity of this Republic" Governor Jelks, of Alabama, has reccniy spoken as follows: ''The
 
 crime is inexcusabie anywhere-it is 0 defiance of orderly governments: but the killing of innocent people under any provocation Is infinitely more horrible and yet innocent people are likely to die when mob's terrible lust is once aroused. The lesson ts this: No good citizen can afYord to coun'enancc de. fiance of the statutes no matter what the provocation. The innocent fre- qucntiy sufycr. and. N is my observation more usually suncr than the guilty The la .Nu ..( fl..s ts..ol l.s ehA whole colored race on the ground that even the better clements lend no assist ancc whatever in ferreting out criminals of their own color. The respectable col their criminals. but 10 assist the officers In bringing them to justice. This Is the larger crime. and provokes such lanta. The two races can never get on until an understanding on the part of both to make common cause with .he law-abiding. against criminals of any
 Moreover. where any crime commit ted by member of one race against a member of another race is avenged in such Fashion that it seems as If not the individual criminal. but the whole race. is attacked. the result is to exasperate to the highest degree race feeling There Is but one safe rule in dealing with black men as with white men: it Is the same rule that must be applied tn deai- Ing with rich men and poor men. that ", w tfrht eutu man, whatever ntS color. hts creed or his social position. wi,n even-handed justice on his real worth as a man
 CAPITAL AND LABOR
 In dealing with both labor and capital. with the questions affecting both corpor- ations and trade unions. there Is one matter more important to remember than aught else. and that is the infinite tent TSs.@. @ sre the men 1T, who % seek to excite violent class hatred against all men of wealth. They seek to turn wise and proper movements for the better control of corporations and for donX away with the abuses connected with wealth. into a campaign of hysterical ex- citement and falsehood in which the aim sions of mankind. The sinister derna- gogues and foolish visionarics who are always eager Co undertake such a cam Tsiign of destruction sometimes seek to associate themselves with those working for a genuine reform in governmental and social methods. and sometimes mas Iucrade as such reformers. In reality they profess to advocate. Just az the purveyors of sensational slarder in rews- paper or magazine are the worst ene- mies of all men who are engaged in an honest enort to better what Is bad in our social and governmental conditions. To preach hatred of the rich mn as shh' to carry on campaign of sianler and lnvectiv, against him. "a seek ,o
 
 men whose lives are hard and who nave not the Kind of mental training which will permit them to appreciate the dan ger in the doctrines preached-all this Is to commit . crime against the body pol He and to be false to every worthy prin- cipic and tradition of American national life. Moreover. while such preaching and such agitation may give a liveli- hood and n certain notoriety to some of those who take part in it, and may re- suit in the temporary politica, success of ment will either fall or else will pro- yoke n violent reaction. which will itself result not merely tn undoing the mis- chief wrought by the demagogue and he agitator but also iu undoing the good that the honest reformer. the true up- holder of popular rights. has painfully ana laborlously achieved Corruption is never so rife as in communities where the domagogues and the agitator bear iull sway, because fin such communities all moral bands become oos.ned, and hystcria prd sonsationalism replace the spirit or sound judgmct and fair dealings ds between man and man. In sheer re- volt against the squalid anarchy thus produced men are sure In the end to turn toward any leader who can restore order and then their relief at being free from the intulcrable burdens of class hatred. violence and domagbguery is such that they can not for som time he aroused to Indignation against mis- deeds by men of wealth: so that they permit new growth of the very abuses which were In part responsible for the original outbreak. The one hope for success for our people lies fin q resolute and fearless, but sane and cool headed advance along the path marked out last year by this very Congress.
 The plain people who think-the me- chanios 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 ncighbors. owe it to themselves to remember that the most damaging blow thnt can be given popular government ,s to elect an unworthy and sinister agi- tator on platform of violence and hy- pocrisy. henever such an issue is raised In this country nothing can be gained by flinching from it, for in such case democracy Is Itself on trial. popular sef-government under republican forms ls itself on trial The triumph of the mob is Just as evil n thing as the tri- umph Of the plutocracy and to have escaped one danger avails nothing what ever 1T we succumb to the other
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