Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-12-07


. o.oe Go Gee IL
to DO away with the power Of Injunction:
ana thsrefore such careless use of the
mJuncuve process tends to threaten its
very existence, for IL the American peo-
pie ever become convinced that this
process Is h2bitnaliy abused, whether In
matters Affecting labor or in matters az
ieetins corporations. il will be weil-nigh
impossible To- prevent It's abolition"
+, The Negro Problem.
The negro problem is given considera-
pie attention, after calling attention to
tne taet that no section OF the country
y Tree from faults. and that no section
mas occasion TO, jeer al the shortcomings
OF any otnef section. he turns to the sub
1ect. Of lynchings, and especially as an
piled to the negro of the south. He SAYS
the greatest existing cause for mob law
Is Inc perpetration BY the blacks of the
crime or rape, crime which he terms
even worse than murder, He quotes the
aomonitfons 70 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.
gro criminal who commits the dread
1ul crime OF rape; and It should be felt
as IN the highest degree an oifense
against the whole country. and against
colored man to fail to help the ofsners
OF the law in hunting down With ali
possible earnestness and zeal every
sucn 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, commk rape should be made q
capital crime, at least In the discretion
OF the court: and provision should be
MADE by which the punishment may
Iciiow Immediately upon the heels Of
the onense; while the trial should be
80 conducted that the victim need not
pe wantonly shamed while giving tes-
timony, and that the least possible
publicity shall be given to the detaiIs
The members Of the white race on
the other hand should understand that
every lynching represents by lust so
much loosening of the bands of civ
ilzatlon; 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 hu-
man being without having his own
moral nature permanently lowered
Every iynching means just so much
mora deterioration In all the children
who have any knowledge of it. and
therefore, Just so much additional
trouble Tor 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 ii forth and at other
times merely furnishes the excuse for
its existence. II Is out of the question
for our people as whole permanently
to rise by tresding 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 fancled interest of one
class, TO prevent the education Of an
other class. The free public school the
chance for eace boy or girl To get a
good elementary education; lies at the
foundation Of our whole political situ-
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 oir
country as of another. 1t is as true
for the 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 10 manhood and womanhoOd
without education. PROFESSIONALLY cd.
ucation such as is obtained in our puh-
lie schools does not do everything to-
wards making a man q 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: lust
as they are almost Invariably men who
own no property; for the man 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 tyne
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 well
as In the ordinary public school
branches. The graduates Of these
schools turn out we'll In the great ma :
jority Of cases, and hardly any of them
become criminals, while what little
eriminality there Is never takes the
form of that brutal violence which in-
. yites lynch law. Every graduate Of
these schnols-and for the matter of
that every oher colored man or wo-
honorable as to win the good will and
respect OF those whites whose neigh
bnr he or she Is. thereby helus fbe
whole colored race as II can be helped
in no other way; for next to the negro
himself. the maR who can do most to
hslp the negro is his white mel rhhor
who lives near him; and our steady
effort should be to better. the relations
between the two. Great tho the bene-
1T of these schools has been TO their
colored pupils and TO the colored peo-
pie, it may well be questioned whether
the beneft has not been at least as
great to the white people among whom
these col0red 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 mlsead and infiame to mad
ness honest men whose lives are hard
and who have not the kind OF mental
training which will permit them to an
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
loan national life" Continuing on this
subject he says: - -
The plain people who think-ths
mechanics. farmers. merchants, work.
ers with head OF hand. the men to
whom American traditions are dear.
who love their country and try to act
docently 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 10 raised in
this country nothing can be gained BY
flinching from II. for in such case DEM
ocracy is itself on trial. popular self
government under republican forms Is
itself on trial. The triumph Of the
mnh In inst as evil q thing he fba "a