Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-12-07

and therefore such careless use OF the
injunctive process tends to threaten its
pie ever become convinced that this
process is habitually abused, whether in
matters affecting labor or in matters af-
impossible to prevent its abolition"
The Negro Problem.
The negro problem is given consdera-
BILE 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 the shortcomings
of any other section, he turns to the sub
Ject of lynchings, and especially as ap-
1liod to the negro of the south He says
is the perpetration by the blacks of the
crime of rape, a crime which he terms
even worse than murder. He quotes the
by Gov. Gambler. of Georgia, some years
ago., and by Gov. Jelks, of Alabama, re-
Gently, and then says:
Every colored 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
ful crime of rape; and it should be felt
as in the highest degree an offense
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
always be punished with death, as is
the case with murder: assault with in
tent to commit rape should be made
capital crime. at least in the discretion
of the court; and provision should be
made"b by which the punishment may
follow Immediately upon the heels of
the onense; while the trial should be
so conducted that the victim need not
be wantonly shamed while giving tes-
tim9ny; and that the least possible
The members of the white race on
the other hand should understand that
every lynching represents by just so
ilization; that the spirit of lynching
inevitably throws into prominence in
the whd all the foul and evil
can take part in the torture of a hui
man being without having his own
Every Iynching means just so much
moral deterioration in all the children
who have any knowledge of It. and
trouble for the next generation of
Americans.
LET justice be both sure and swift;
but let 1t be justice under the law
and not the wild and crooked savagery
of mob.
Need for Negro Education.
There is another matter which has
n direct bearing upon this matter of
lynching and of the brutal crime which
sometimes calls 1t forth and at other
times merely furnishes the excuse for
it's existence. 1t is out of the question
for our people as a whole permanently
to rise by treadlng 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
| good elementary education. lies ut the
| foundation of our whole political stu
alton: In every community the poor
! est citizens. those who need the schools
most, would be deprived of them IL
| they only received school facilities
proportionately to the taxes they paid.
| This is as true of one portion of our
| country as of another. II 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
| wards making man n good citizen;
but it 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; just
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
criminality. OF course the best type
of education for the colored man. ta-
| 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
branches. The graduates of these
schools turn out we'll in the great ma
jorlty of cases. and hardly any of then
become criminals, while what littl,
| criminality there is never takes the
form of that brutal violence which in.
vites lynch law. Every graduate OF
a fg..-
that every oher colored man or wo-
man---who leads a life so useful ant
honorable as to win the good will anC
respect of those whites whose neigh
bor he or she is. thereby helps tn,
whole colored race as 1T can be helped
in no other way; for next to the negro
help the negro is his white neighboI
who lives near him; and our stead,
effort should be to better the relation!
between the two. Great tho the bene
fit of these schools has been to thei
colored pupils and to the colored peo
pie, 1t may well be questioned whethe
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 asitators OF clas
hatred to task and says Ito preacl
hatred to the rich man, as such. :.
to seek to mislead and infiame to mad
ness honest men whose lives are har
and who have not the kind of menta
training Which will permit them to ap
preciate the danger in the doctrine
preached is to commit a crime agains
the body polite and to be false to ever
worthy principle and tradition of Amer
ican national life" Continuing on thi
subject he says:
'"fhe plain people who think-th
mechanics. farmers, merchants, work
ers with head or hand. the men I
whom American traditions are deal
who love their country and try to ac
decently by their neighbors, owe II t
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 hypocrls!
Whenever such an issue is raised 1
this country nothing can be gained b
fllnching from It. 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 thing as the tri
, umph OF the plutocracy. and to hav
escaped one danger avails nothn
,, whatever If we sucuumb to the othe
In the ond the honest man.whether ric