The Lamar register., 1906-12-05

wrong Yet there are many Judges who
assume matter.of-faet course granting
ordinary and proper judicial disposition
OF such cases: and there have undoubt.
by judges in Connection With labor dis dis.
putes even within the last few years.
former years; Such Judges by their un-
wise acton immensely strengthen the
hands those who are striving entirely
to do away with the power of injunction;
and therefore such careless of the
intunctiye process tends to threaten its
very existence. for il the American peo-
pie ever become convinced that this
process is habitually abused. whether in
impossible TO prevent its abolition
The Negro Problem.
The negro problem is given considera-
the faet tSai no o'e sec fan ef ahe soantrS
Is free from faults. and that no section
has occasion to jeer at the shortcomings
ject of lynchings. and especially as ap-
piled to the negro of the south. He says
is the preparation BY the blacks OF the
crime of rape. crime which he terms
admonitions to the white people spoken
by Gov Gambler. OF Georgia some years
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
full crime of rape: and II should be felt
against the whole country. and against
the colored race in particular. Tor
coiored man to fail to help the officers
possible earnestness and zeal every
such Infamous offender. Moreover. In
always be punished with death. as is
the case with murder; assault with in
capital crime. at least in the discretion
of the court; and provision should be
made by which the punishment may
the offence: while the trial should be
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 other hand should understand that
every lynching represents by just so
much loosening of the bands of civ
ilization: that the spirit Of lynching
the community all the foul and evil
can take part in the torture OF a hu-
man being without having his own
Every lynching means just so much
moral deterioration in all the children
Tn9 haye knowlsase of Il and
trouble for the next generation of
LET justice be both sure and swift:
but let II he justice under the law.
and not the wild and crooked savagery
of n mob.
Neeo for negro eoucation.
n direct bearing upon this matter of
lynching and Of the brutal crime which
sometimes calls it forth and at other
times merely furnishes the excuse for
its existence. 1t is out of the question
for our people as a whole permanently
own number. Even those who them
selves for the moment profit by such
the long run also suffer. No more
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 stu
alton: In every community the poor
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 of another. 1t Is as true
for the negro as for the white man.
cline to allow the negroes In a mass to
grow to manhood and womanhood
mcation such as is obtained in our pub
lie schools does not do everything to-
wards making mar nan ,n good citizen;
brutal criminals. those for instance
| who commit the crime of rape. are in
either no education or very little: just
| as they are almost invariably men who
sy out OF his
| like the man who acquires education:
is usually lifted above mere brutal
| Of education for the colored man. ia :
| ken a whole. Is such education as
and Tuskesee; where the boys and
girls. the young, men and young wo;
as in the ordinary public school
branches. The. graduates of these
sa an %e I'd shs e
| become criminals. while what little
=, criminality there is never takes the
| vites lynch law. Every graduate of
these schools-and for the matter of
man-who leads a life so useful and
honorable as to win the good will and
respect OF those whites whose neigh
whale coiored race as it can be helped
| in no other way; for next to the negro
who lives near him; and our steady
between the two. Great tho the bene-
| fit of these schools has been to their
colored pupils and to The eoiored psor
| the benefit has not been at least as
great to the white people among whom
| these colored pupils live aftcr they
graduate"
| Capital and Labor.
On the subject of capital and labor
| the president takes the agitators OF class
| hatred to task and says TO preach
| to seek to mislead and infame to mad
ness honest men whose lives are hard
and who have not the kind of mental
| training which Will permit them to APP
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
| lean national life" Continuing on this
| subject he says:
mocha MICS farmers. merchants work
| ers with head or hand. the men to
| whom American traditions are dear.
| who love their country and try to act
| decentIy by their neighbors. owe 1t to
| themselves to remember that the most
| damaging blow that can be given pop
| uIar 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
iinchinR from II, for in such case dem