The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-12-06


process is habltually abused. whether in
matters Affecting labor or in matters af-
iecuns corporations IL will be well-nigh
"'poSs'Dle to prevent its abolition"
The Negro Problem.
~ Ihe negro problem is given considera-
PIE attention, after calling attention to
~ tne lact mat no section of the country
70 rec from t@ults, and that no section
mas occasion to jeer at the shortcomings
OF any other section, he turns to the sub-
y Ill., OF Xnchings, and especially as APP
the greatest existing cause for mob law
IL tne psrpetratioh by the blacks OF the
crime OF rape. a crime which he terms
even worse than murder He quotes the
admonitions to the white people spoken
by Gov. Gambler of Georgia, some years
ago, and by Gov. Jelks, of Alabama, re-
Gently. and then says;
Every rv,Sred man should realize
that the worst enemy Of his race is the
negro criminal, and above all the ne
gro criminal who commits the dread
Iui crime of rape and IL should be felt
as IN the highest degree an offense
against the whole country. and against
tne colored race in particular. for q
colored man to fail to help the officers
OF me, law In hunting down with all
posSlple 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 murder; assault with in
tent TO commit rape should be made a
capital crime, at least in the discretion
or the court; and provision should be
MADE by which the punishment may
follow Immediately upon the heels of
the ouense; while the trial should be
so conducted that the victim need not
De wantonly shamed while giving tes-
timony, and that the least possible
publicity shall be given to the details.
The members of the white race on
the other hand should understand that
every lynching represents by lust SO
lOOSnrIinR hn ha dc .Nf gtxr
ilization; that the spirit of lynching
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 a hui
man being without having his own
moral nature permanently lowered.
Every lynching means Just so much
moral deterioration in all the children
who have any knowledge of 1t. and
therefore Just so much additional
trouble Tor the next generation of
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 II forth and at other
times merely furnishes the excuse for
its existence. 1t is out of the question
to rise by treadng down any of their
own number. Even those who them
selves for the moment profit by such
maltreatment of their fellows will in
the long run also suffer. No more
shortsighted policy can be imagined
than, in the fancied interest of one
class, to prevent the education of an
other class The free public school the
chance for each boy or girl to get a
good elementary education, lies at the
foundation of our whole political stu
"a In ,,t,tt 10
est citizens, those who need the schools
most would be deprived of them if
they only received school facilities
proportionately 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.
cline to allow the negroes in a 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 good citizen;
but 1t does much. The lowest and most
brutal criminals. those for instance
who commit the crime OF rape, are in
the great majority men who have had
either no education or very little; jus,
as they are almost invariably men who
puts money by out of his earnings
like the man who acquires education
is usually lifted above mere brutal
OF for Se tee best
ken 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 wo.
men. are trained industrially as well
as in the ordinary public school
branches. The graduates of these
jority of cases. and hardly any of them
become criminals. while what little
criminality there is never takes the
form of that brutal violence which in
lynch law EVarV 10 n
these schools-and for the matter OF
| that every cher colored man or wo-
man-who leads a life so useful and
honorable. as to win the good will and
! respect of those whites whose neigh
Dor he or she is, thereby helps the
whole colored race as it can be helped
| in no other way; for next to the negro
| himself the man who can do most tC
| help the negro Is his white neighbol
who lives near him; and our steady
| effort should he to better the relations
| between the two. Great tho the bene.
fit OF these schools has been to theii
colored pupils and to the colored PEG
| pie, it may well be questioned whether
| the benefit has not been at least a.
great to the white people among whom
these colored pupils live after the,
| graduate"
Capital and Labor.
On the subject of capital and labo
the president takes the agitato Tor, Of elias,
hatred to the rich man, such,
to seek to mislead and intiame to mad
ness honest men whose lives are hare
| and who have not the kind of menta
training which will permit them to ap
| preciate the danger in the doctrines
| preached is to commit crime agains
| the body polite and to be false to ever!
worthy principle and tradition of Amer
| lean national life" Continuing on th
| subject he says:
THE plain people who think-th
| mechanics, farmers, merchants, work
! ers with head or hand, the men t.
| whom American traditions are dear
who love their country and try to &C
decently by their neighbors. owe II Z
| themselves to remember that the mos
| damaging blow that can be given pop
ular government is to elect an un
worthy and sinister agitator on
platform of violence and hypocrisy
| Whenever such an issue is raised II
this country nothing can be gained b.
| fiinchng from II, for in such case dem
| ocracy is itself on trial. popular self
government under republican forms /
| itself on trial. The triumph of tn
mob is just as evil a thing as the tri
umph of the plutocracy. and to hav
escaped one danger aVails nothing
| whatever IL we sucuumb to the other
| In the end the honest man, whether ric
or poor who earns his own living an
tries to deal justly by his fellows ha