The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-12-06

to do away with the power of Injunction:
h u therefore such careless use of the
very existence. for if the American peos
pie ever become convinced that this
process Is h~abitually abused, whether in
feeting e areor;ag labor r or OIL, In IN matters 1ts11sni at,
impossible to prevent its abolition"
The Negro Problem.
ble enc ett negTo problem is given considera-
q tne rr Iact that no section Of the country
az sn occasion afhon to Jeer at the shortcomings
Piled to the negro of the south. He saws
tne greatest existing cause for mob law
crime Of rape. a crime which he terms
even worse than murder. He quotes the
~sed'1onitions to the white people spoken
go ~ s end Gba y aeG Of 4., Georgia; some years
Gently. and then says:
Every colored man should realize
nat the worst enemy Of his race is the
ere criminal who commits the dread
.ul crime OF rape: and it should be felt
as In the highest degree an offense
colored man to- fail to help the offcers
OF the law In hunting down with all
such infamous offender. Moreover, in
my Judgment. the crime of rape should
ntways be punished with death, as, is
t me- ease with murder; assault with In
capital crime. at least In the discretion
OF the court, and provision should be
fn1in1 Dy which the punishment may
the onense: while the trial should be
SO that the victim need not
t;m wantonly shamed while giving tes-
publicity shall be given to the details,
me members of the white race on
the other hand should understand that
much a loosening Of the bands Of CIV W
ilization: that the spirit Of lynchins
inevitably throws into prominence in
the, community all the foul and evil
can take part in the torture Of a hu-
man being without having his own
moral nature permanently lowered.
moral deterioration in all the children
who have any knowledge of it. and
therefore Just SO much additional
trouble for he 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
sometimes calls it forth and at other
times merely furnishes the excuse for
its existence; 1t is out Of the question
to rise by treading down any Of their
own number. Even those who them
selves for the momen profit by such
the long run also sufrer; No more
sh~ortsighted policy can be imagined
than, in the fancied interest of one
class, to prevent the education of an
chance for each boy or girl to get a
good elementary education, lies at the
foundation OF u whole political stu
most, would be deprived of them if
they only received school facilities
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,
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. Unquestionably ed
n%cation such as is obtained in our pub
lie schools does not do everything to-
wards making a man a good citizen;
but it does much. The lowest and most
brutal criminals, those for instance
the great majority men who have had
either no education or very little; just
as they are almost invariably men who
wv no property; for the man who
like the man who acquires education,
is usually lifted above mere brutal
c~riminality. OF course the best type
ken as a whole, is such education as
is conferred in schools like Hampton
and Tuskegee; where the boys and
men. are trainea industrialliy as We'll We'll
as in the ordinary public school
branches. The graduates of these
schools turn out we'll in the great ma
iority of cases, and hardly any of them
become criminals, while what little
c~riminality there is never takes the
form of that brutal violence which in
vites lynch law. Every. graduate OF
tina every one 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 coiored race as it can be helped
in no ether way: for next to the negro
help the negro is his white neighbor
who lives near him; and our steady
effort should be to better the relations
fit of these schools has been to their
colored pupils and to the colored PEG
pie, it may well be questioned whether
great to the white people among whom
these colored pupils live after they
graduate"
Capital and Labor.
! On the subject of capital and lato.
the president takes the agitators OF clas.
hatred to task and says ito preach
hatred to the rich man.. as such, -.
to seek to .mislead 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 ap.
preciate the danger in the doctrines
preached is to commit a crime against
the body polite and to be false to every
worthy principle and tradition of Amer
lean national life" Continuing on this
subject he says:
1.-THE plain. people who think-the
mechanics. farmers. merchants, work
ers with head or hand, the men to
whom American traditions are lear
who love their country and try to act
decently by their neighbors. W it 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
this country nothing can be gained by
finching from it. for in such case dem
ocracy Is itself on trial. popular self
government under republican forms is
itself on trial. The triumph of this
mob is Just as evil q thing as the tri-
umph of the p%lutocracy. and to have
escaped one danger avails nothing
whatever il we Sucuumb to the other