The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1906-12-06


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 aboninabIe In all the category
of crimes, even worse than murder
Mobs frequently avenge the commits
sion of this crime by themselves tor
turing to death the man committing
it; thus avenging in bestile fashion a
bestile deed, and reducing themselves
TO level with the criminal.
Capital and Labor.
In dealing with both labor and cap
ital, with the questions affecting both
is one matter more important TO re
member than aught else, and that IS
the infinite harm done by preachers
OF mere discomfort. These are men
who seek to excite a 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
to a campaign of fysterical excite
ment and falsehood in which the aim
| is to infama to madness the brutal
passions of mankind. The sinister
demagOgs and foolish Missionaries who
are always eager 10 undertake such
| campaign of destruction sometimes
seek TO associate themselves with
those working for a genuine reform
in governmental and social methods,
and sometimes masquerade as the
reformers. In reality they are the
worst enemies of the cause they pro
fess to advocate, just as the purvey-
ors Of sensational slander in news
paper Of magazine are the worst
enemies of all men who are engaged
in an honest effort to better what is
bad in our social and governmental
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 l can conceive Of
no serious objection to it. Indeed, 50
far as it is in our power, it should be
our aim steadily to reduce the num-
Der of hours of labor, with as a goal
the general introduction Of an eight
hour day. There are industries in
which it is not possible that the hours
of labor should be reduced; just az
there are communities not far enough
advanced for such a movement to be
for their good, or, if in the Tropics,
50 situated that there is no analogy
between their needs and ours in this
for instance, the conditions are in
every way so different from what
J they are here that an eight hour day
would be absurd; just as it is absurd
so far as the Isthmus is concerned
where white labor can not be employ
ed, to bother as to whether the neces
:. sary work is done by alien black mer
OF by alien yellow men. But the
wageworkers of the United States arr
. of so highr grade that alike from
/ the merely industrial standpoint ant
from the civic standpoint it shoule
, be our object to do what we can il
the direction of securing the genera
{ observance of an eight hour day.
Employers Liability.
Among the excellent laws which tn;
: Congress past at the last session wa
an employers liability law. It wa
marked step in advance to get tn,
recognition. of employers liability ol
the statuts books; but the law did no
9 go far enough. In spite of all precau
tions exercised by employers there ar
q unavoidable accidents and ever
;. deaths envolved in nearly every lin
: Of business connected with the me
Z chanic arts This is enevitable sacr;
e fee of life may be reduced to a mini
s mum, but it can not be completei
: eliminated.
v Investigation Of Disputes Between
I Capital and Labor.
The commission appointed by tn
= President October 16, 1902, at the re
i quest of both the anthricite coal op
: orators and miners, to inquire into
r consider, and pass upon the question
= III controversary in connection wit,
! the strike in the anthracite regions o
: Pennsylvania and the causes out o
: which the controversary arose, i
: their report, findings, and award ex
: prest the belief "that the State an,
: Federal governments should provid
: the machinery for what may be call
ed the compulsory investigation o
controversies between employers an
e employees when they arise"
b Corporations.
q The present Congress has take
e dong strides in the direction of secur
t ing proper supervision and contro
by the National Government owe
I corporations engaged in interstat
business-and the enormous maJorit..
: of corporations of any size are engag
: ed in interstate business. The pas
sage of the railway rate bill, and onl,
= to less degree the passage of tn
6 pure food bill, and the provision TO
increasing and rendering more effee
tive national control over the beet
. packing industry, mark an impertal.
! advaee IN the proper direction. L
the short session it will perhaps b
i difficult to do much further along thi
line; and it may be best to wait unit
= the laws have been In operation for
= number of months before endeavorin
y" to increase their sScopa hoeauSa oul