Warren sheaf., 1906-12-06

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The re,ro pr ohlem Is sivsa oSnsideraa
Die attention. after calling attention to
the !s faof that no sectkon ef the country
is free fren faults, aad that ne section
Of aay sthsr section, he tarns t1 the sub
paisd 1 e the nesro q the sssth. Ne says
is the perpetration by the hlacis sf the
crime Of rage a crime Whtnh he terms
even verse than murder He quotes the
by Gov. Candler, ef decrsia, sone years
ago, and by Gov. Jelks, Of Alabama, re-
Gently, and then says
81 every colOred man should realize
negro criminal, and above Ill the me-.
gro crin,inalS who commits the dread--z
Sful crime Of pe;and 1t shsuld be felt
as IN the highest do9ree an oEense
against the whole country, and a6Hinst
the eolorAd race in particular, tor
colored man to fail to help the oncers
i
possible earnestness and zeal every
such infamous offender. Moreover. in
my Judgment. the crime Of rape should
always al 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
follow Immediately upon tho heels of
the offense: while the trial should be
SO conducted that the victim need not
timony, and that the least possible
publicity shall be given to- tho details.
The members OF the white race on
the thee other 1:n hand should understand W that
much loosenlng of the bands Of civ
ilization; that the spirit Of lynching
inevitably throws into prominence in
creatures who dwell therein No man
can take part in the torture of hu-
man m being without having his own
n9eay nnebne nntaIe
moral deterioration in al the children
who have any, knowledge of it. and
therefore, e1f just so much additional
LET Justice be both sure and swift;
put let it be Justice under the law,
and not the wild and crooked savagery
Of mob.
Need for Negro Education.
There is another matter which has
2 direct lire bearing - upon this matter OF
sometimes calls it forth and at other
times merely furnishes the excuse for
its existence. It is out of the question
to rise by treading down any Of their
own number. Even those who them
selves for the moment profit by such
the long run also suffer 4 No more
shortsighted policy can be imagined
tAan. 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 our whole political stu
alton: In every community the poor
est citizens, those who need the schools
most, would be deprived Of them if
they only received school facilities
nroportionately to the taxes they paid
@ counry as as Of is as Of
for the negro as for the white man
The white man, if he is wise, will de-
cline to allow the negroes in mass to
without education. Unquestionably ed
ucatiOn such as is obtained in our pub
lie schools does not do everything to-
but it does much. The lowest and most
brutal criminals, those for instance
who commit the crime of rape are in
the great majority major 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,
IKE the man f+gd who acquires education
criminality. OF course the best type
OF education for the reolored man. Ia
Ken as whole, is such education as
and Tuskegee; where the boys and
girls, the young men and young wo-
men. are trained industrially as well
the r6e u1 sfheo fhes
schools turn out well in the great ma :
jority of cases, and hardly any of them
become criminals, while what little
form Of that brutal violence which in
vites lynch law. Every graduate OF
these schools-and for the matter OF
that thai every very ,odS ohsr co1ored 1e9, man or wo-
honorable as to win the good will and
respect of those whites whose neigh
Dor he or She is, thereby helps the
in no other way; for next to the negro
himself, the man who can do most to
help the negro is his white neighbo1
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-
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 la, y
the president takes the agitatora Of clAs..
hatred to task and says ITO preac!
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
preciate the danger in the doctrines
the body polite and to be false to every
worthy principle and tradition Of Amer.
lean national Hfe." Continuing on this
subject he says: $
"The plain people who think-the
mechanics farmers, merchants. work
ers with head or hand. the men &c
whom American traditions are dear
who love their country and try to act
decently by their neighbors owe 1T tc
themselves to remember that the most
damaging blow 49, can be given p,p.
ular government is to elect an un-
worthy and sinister agitator on q
platform of violence and hypocrisy
Whenever such an issue is raised II
this country nothing can be gained by
|zhinching from it, for in such case dem
ocracy is itself on trial popular self
government under republican forms Is
itself on trial. Tbs triumph Of the
mob Is just as evil q thing as the tri
umph Of the plutocracy, and to have
escaped one danger avails NOTHING
whatever if we Sueuumb to the Othc r