River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-06

improperly granted may do irreparable
wrong. Yet there are many judges who
assume matter-of-fact course granting
of preliminary injunction to be the
ordinary and proper judicial disposition
of such cases; and there have undoubt-
eddy been fragrant wrongs committed
by judges in connection with labor dis
putes even within the last few years,
altho | think much less often than in
former years. Such judges by their UNI
wise action immensely strengthen the
hands Of those who are striving entirely
to do away with the power of Injunction;
and therefore such careless use of the
in5unctive process tends to threaten its
very existence. for if the American peo-
pie ever become convinced that this
process is habitualIy abused, whether in
matters affecting labor or in matters at
fecting corporations, it will be well-nigh
impossible to prevent its abolition"
The Negro Problem.
The negro problem is given considera-
bic 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
ject of lynchings, and especially as APP
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
admontions 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 cOlOfGQ man SnOulQ T6dilZe
that the worst enemy Of his race is the
negro criminal, and above all the ne
gro criminal who commits the dread
full 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
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
a wit
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 by which the punishment may
follow Immediately upon the heels of
the offense; while the trial should be
so conducted that the victim need not
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 q loosening of the bands of civ
ilization; that the spirit of Iynching
inevitably throws into prominence in
the community all the foul and evil
can take part in the torture OF a hui
man being without having his own
moral nature permanently lowered.
| Every lynching means just SO much
| moral deterioration in all the children
who have any knowledge of it,, and
| therefore just so much additional
"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
| q direct bearing upon this matter of
| lynchsng and of the brutal crime which
times merely furnishes the excuse for
| its existence. 1t is out of the question
| for our people as whole permanently
| to rise by treading down any of their
| own number. Even those who them
selves for the moment profit by such
maltreatment of their fellows will in
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
| chance for each boy or girl to get a
| good elementary education, lies at the
foundation of our whole political situ-
est citizens, those who need the schools
most, would be deprived of them if
they only received school facilities
proportionately to the taxes they paid.
| 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
ueation 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
who commit the crime of rape, are in
the great majority men who have had
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
crlminality. OF course the best type
| of education for the colored man, ta-
1..~l< x~Tx >r71~1r
| is conferred in schools like Hampton
| and Tuskegee; where the boys and
] girls, the young men and young wo-
| as in the ordinary public school
| branchex. The graduates of these
schools turn out well in the great ma
| become criminals, while what little
{, criminality there is never takes the
! form of that brutal violence which in
/ 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
| respect of those whites whose neigh
/ Dor he or she is. thereby helps the
whole o celored race as it can be helped
| himself the man who can do most to
| help the negro is his white neighbor
effort should be to better the relations
| between the two. Great tho the bene-
| TT of these schools has been to their
Il
pie, it 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"
i 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 infiame to mad
ness honest men whose lives are hard
| and who have not the kind of mental
4 training which will permit them to APP
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:
iaThe plain people who think-the
i 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 it to
i themselves to remember that the most
/ damaging blow that can be given pop
| uIar government is to elect an UNI
| 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