Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-12-13

improperly granted may do irreparable
wrong. Yet there are many judges who
assume a matter-of-fact course granting
or a preliminary injunction to be the
of such cases: and there have undoubt-
edly been fragrant wrongs committed
by judges In connection with labor dis
putes even within the last few years,
altho I think much less often than in
former years. Such judges by their I'M
wise action immensely strengthen the
hands OF those who are striving entirely
to do away with the power of Injunction;
ana therefore such careless use of the
ln1unctiVe process tends to threaten it's
very existence, for If the American peo-
process Is habitually abused, whether in
matters affecting labor or in matters af-
fecting corporations, 1t will be well-nigh
impossible to prevent its abolition"
The Negro Problem.
The negro problem is given considera-
Pie Pie attention. after sailing attention to
Is free from faults, and that no section
mas occasion to jeer at the shortcomings
of any other section, he turns to the sub
Piled to the negro of the south. He says
the greatest existing cause for mob law
Is the preparation by the blacks of the
crime of rape, a crime which he terms
even worse than murder. He quotes the
admoRitions 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 colored man should realize
that the worst enemy of his race is the
negro criminal. and above all the ne
full crime of rape; and 1t should be felt
as In the highest degree an offense
against the whole country, and against
the colored race in particular, for a
colored man to fail to help the officers
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 a
capital crime, at least in the discretion
of the court; and provision should be
made by which the punishment may
follow Immediately upon the heels Of
the onense; while the trial should be
be 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 just SO
much loosening of the bands Of civ
ilization; that the spirit of lynching
the community all the foul and evil
creatures who dwell therein. No man
can take part in the torture of a hui
moral nature permanently lowered.
Every lynching means Just SO much
moral deterioration in all the children
who have any knowledge of II and
trouble for the next generation of
"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
a direct bearing upon this matter of
lynching and\of the brutal crime which
sometimes calls it forth and at 9th r
its existence. 1t is out of the question
for our people as a whole permanently
to rise by treading down any of their
own number. Even those who them
maltreatment of their fellows will in
the long run also suffer. No more
shortsighted policy can be imagined
class, to prevent the education of an
other class. The free public school. the
chance for each boy or girl to get a
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 If
proportionately to the taxes they paid.
This is as true of one portion of our
country as of another. 1t Is as true
for tho negro as for the white man.
The white man, If he is wise, will de-
cline to allow the negroes in a mass to
grow to manhood and womanhood
without education. Internationally 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
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
~ a he.
puts money by out of his earnings,
like the man who acquires education,
is usually lifted above mere brutal
of education for the colored man. ia
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 we'll
as in the ordinary public school
branches. The graduates OF these
,ority of cases, and hardly any OF them
become criminals, while what little
criminality there Is never takes the
form of that brutal violence which i'm
vites lynch law. Every graduate Of
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 1t can be helped
himself, the man who can do most to
help the negro is his white neighbor
who lives near him; and our steady
effort should be to better the relations
between the two. Great tho the bene-
fit of these schools has been to their
colored pupils and to the colored peo-
pie 1t may well be questioned whether
the benefit has not been at least as
great to the white people among whom
these colored pupils live after they
graduate"
Capital and Labor.
On the subject of capital and labor
the president takes the agitators OF class
hatred to task and says ito preach
hatred to the rich man, as such, , . .
to seek to mislead and. inflame to mad
ness honest men whose lives are hard
and who have not the kind of mental
training which will permit them to APP
preciate the danger In the doctrines
preached is to commit crime against
the body polite and to be false to every
worthy principle and tradition OF Amer
lean national life" Continuing on this
'The plain people who think-the
mechanics, farmers, merchants. work.
ers 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 IL to
themselves to remember that the most
damaging blow that can be given pop
ular government Is to elect an un-
worthy and sinister agitator on a
platform OF violence and hypocrisy.
Whenever such an issue Is raised In
fiinching from It, for In such case DEM
ncracy In itself On trial pOpular aelf-