Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-12-06
The Negro Problem.

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impossible 20 prevent its abolition.
The Negro Problem.
The negro problem is given eonsidsra-
pie attention, after calling attention to
the TACT that no section OF the country
Is free from faults, and that no section
has occasion to jeer at the shortcomings
or any other section, he turns TO the sub
Ject Of lynchings. and especially as ap-
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 rate, 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
Every coiored 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
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
always be punished with death. as is
the case with murder; assault with in
tent TO commit rape should be made
caTital crime, at least in the discretion
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 slammed while giving tes-
umony, 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 a loosening of the bands of civ
illEation; that the spirit of lynching
inevitably throws into prominence in
the community all the foul and evil
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 lynchinS means just so much
moral deterioration in all the children
who have any knowledge of 1t. and
therefore just so much additional
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
lynching and of the brutal crime which
sometimes calls il forth and at other
times merely furnishes the excuse for
It's existence. 1t is out of the question
for our people as whole permanently
to rise by treadng down any of their
own number. Even those who them
selves Tor the moment profit by such
maltreatment of their fellows will in
the long run also suffer. No more
shortsighted policy can be magined
than, in the fancied interest of one
class. to preyent 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
citizens those
most, would be deprived of them il
they only received school facilities
proportionatsly 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, II he is wise. will de-
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 ii 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 hs q
either no education or very little; Just
as they are almost Invariably men who
own no property for tho man who
puts money by out of his earnnge
like the man who acquires education,
is usually lifted above more brutal
criminaht OF course the best type
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