The Globe-republican., 1906-12-06
The Negro Problem.

fecting corporations, II will be well-nigi
impossible to prevent Its abolition"
The Negro Problem.
The negro problem is given considera.
pie attention, after calling attention t.
the. fact that no section Of the country
10 Tree from faults, and that no section
has occasion to jeer at tho shortcomings
o. 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 or rape, a crime which he terms
even worse than murder. He quotes the
admonitions to the white people spoken
by Gov. Gambler. OF Georgia. some years
ago, and by Gov. Jelks, Of Alabama, re-
Gently. and then says srf ~
Every colored man should realize
that the worst enemy OF his race Is the
negro criminal, aud above all the me-
4 gro criminal who commits the dread
ful crime Of rape; and 1t should be felt
u 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
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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
| 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
me members Of the white race on
the other hand should understand that
every lynching represents by just SO
much loosenlng Of the bands of civ
ilzation; that the spirit OF lynchings
inevitably throws into prominence I'M
the community all the foul and evit'
creatures who dwell therein No man
can take part In the torture OF hui
man being without having his own
moral nature permanently lowered.
Every Iynching means Just SO much
moral deterioration in all the children
VINO have any knowledge of IT, and
therefore Just 80 much additional
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 II forth and at other
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 momeM profit by such |
maltreatment OF their fellows will in |
the long run also suffer. No more |
shortsighted policy can be imagined |
than, in the fancied interest of one |
n n ha adj tAa
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 stu
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 our
country as of another. 1t is as true
for the negro as for the white man,
The white man. IL he Is wise. will de.
cline to allow the negroes In mass to
grow to manhood and womanhood
without education. Unquestionably ed
ucation such as Is obtained in our pub
lie schools does not do everything to-
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: just
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
or course the best type
OF education for the colored man, ta-
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 industrlally as well
as In the ordinary public school
branches. The. graduates of these
schools turn out well in the great ma
tority of cases. and hardly any of them
become criminals, while what little
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 oher colored man or wo-
leads life so useful and
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 toll
help the negro Is his white neighbor
who lives near him: and our steady
Effort should be to better the relations
between thetwo. Great tho the bsne-
1T of these schools has been 10 their
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1le 1t may we'll be questioned whether
The benefit has not been at least as Il
great to the white people among whom
these colored pupils live after they
graduate" ,..-.... .,.., -.s,.,
Capital and Labor. i
On the subject OF capital and labor
he president takes the agitators Of Glass
latred to task and says ito preach
iatred to the rich man, as such,
o seek to mislead' and inf1ame to mad
lesss honest men whose slayes are hard
raining which will permit them to ap-
,reciate the danger In !. the DOCTRINES
,reached is to commit a crime Against
lie body polite and TO be false TO every
Worthy principle and tradition of Amer
eaH national s9 afe" Continuing on this
THE ,. plain people WHO thlnk-the
RS with head or hand the men to
whom American traditions are dear,
Who love their country and try to act
Iecently by their neighbors. owe 1t to
themselves to remember that the most
damaging blow thatscan be given pop
llar government is to elect an un-'
worthy and sinister agitator on, IN
latform Of violence and hypocrisy
bis couRtry nothing cah b gaiped by
Ilnching dromslt. TOR rf3sueh case dem
cracy rs itself on trial. popuiax self
under republican forms is
tself on trial The triumph of the
mob Is Just as yeyiisas tjihg as the trf-1 /,
.mph ofsthes plutocracyg and TO have :
scaped one danger avails nothing J,
whatever IL we sucjumb to the other. !
n the end the honest man. whether rich | :
r poor. who earns his own living and !
ries TO deal justly by his fellows. has /
> much to fear from 1.-The insincere !
nd unworthy demagog, promising :
luch and performing nothing. or else !
erforming nothing but evil who !
yould set on the mob to plumber the !
Iehs as from hegcrafty corrupt onist;d i
tho. for his own ends would permit1 {