The Elbert County tribune., 1906-12-06

and therefore such careless use OF the
fntunctNe process tends to threaten its
very existence. for IL the American peo-
process is habitua1ly abused. whether In
matters affecting labor or in matters af-
impossible to prevent its abolition
The Negro Problem.
The negro problem is given considera-
BILE attention, after calling attention TO
the fact that section OF the country
Is free from faults. and that no section
has occasion TO 1eer at the shortcomings
OF any other section. he turns to the sub
ject of lynchings. and especially as APP
the greatest existing cause for mob law
Is the perpetrasion 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
ago and by Gov. Jelks, of Alabama. re-
Gently. and then gays:
Every colored man should realize
that the worst enemy of his race is the
gro criminal who commits the dread
ful crime Of rape: and 1t should be felt
against the whole country. and against
the colored race IN particular for n
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
tent TO commit rape should be made a
capltal crime. at least in the discretion
OF the court: and provision should be
made by which the punishment may
the otense; while the trial should be
so conducted that the victim need not
be wantonly shamed while giving tes-
tlmony. 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
inst
much loosening of the bands of civ
ilizatton; that the spirit of lynching
the community all the foul and evil
creatures who dwell therein. No man
can take part IN the torture Of a hu-
moral nature permanentiy lowered
Every iynchinR means just so much
moral deterioration in all the children
who have any knowledge OF it, and
therefore just so much additional
trouble for the next generation of
Let justice be both sure and swift;
but let II be Justice under the law.
of a mob.
Need for Negro Education.
There is another matter which has
lynching and OF the brutal crime which
sometimes calls it forth and at other
its existence. II 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
maltreatment of their fellows VIII 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 stu
alton. In every community the poor
est citizens. those who need the schools
most would be deprived of them II
they only received school facilities
proporuonately 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
without education. Unquestionably ed
ucation such as is obtained in our pub
lie schools does not do everything to-
WARDS making man n 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
either no education or very little: just
as they are almost invariably men who
puts money by out of his earnings,
IKE the, man who acquires education.
criminality. OF course the best type
of education for the cole red man Ia
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 industriaIly as well
as in the ordinary public school
branches. 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
these schools--and for the matter Of
that every oher colored man or wo-
man-who leads n life so useful and
hOnOra will a
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 neighbor
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 coiored peo-
pie. 1t may well be questioned whether
the benefit has not been at least as
these colored pupils live after they
graduate"
Capital and Labor.
On the subject of capital and labor
the president takcs the agitators of class
hatred to task and says ito preach
to seek to mislead and infame to mad
ness honest men whose lives are hard
training which will permit them to ap
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
ican national life" Continuing on this
subject he says
The plain people who think-the
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 1t to
themselves to remember that the most
damaging blow that can be given pop
ular government is to elect an un-
worthy and sinister agitator on
platform of violence and hypocrisy
Whenever such an issue is raised in
fiinching from 1t. for in such case dem
ocracy Is itself on trial. popular self
government under republican forms Is
itself on trial The triumph of the
mob is Just as evil thing as the tri-
umph of the plutocracy, and to have