The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-12-08

and therefore such careless use OF the
very sa:,.RScS Tor isn the
process Is habItually abused. whether In
fectins corporations. Il viii be weli-nigh
impossible to prevent Its abolition"
Tho Negro Problem.
The negro problem IL given considera-
BILE attention, after calling attention to
the fact that no section OF the country
u FREQ from faults. and that no section
Of any other section. he turns to the sub
1ect OF lynchings, and especially as APP
piled to the negro of the south. He says
is tho perpetration by the blacks OF the
crime OF rape. crime which he terms
BY Gov. Gambler. OF Georgia, some years
ago, and BY Gov. Jelks. of Alabama, re-
Gently. and then says:
that the worst enemy of his race Is the
negro criminal, and above all the me-
gro criminal who commits the dread
as in the highest degree an offenss
against the whole country, and against
the coiored race In particular. for q
OF the law In hunting down with all
possible earnestness and zeal every
such Infamous offender. Moreover. in
Always be s% WITH Of dsah sn .s Is
the case with murder: assault with In
tent to commit rape should be made
Of the count ana shouid Se
made by which the punishment may
follow Immediately upon the heels of
that the ns victim tTa nssa n Ss
timony, and that the least possible
. sns Be si .Ss w 9 the ss On
the other hand should understand that
every lynching represents by just so
iiization: that the spirit Of iynching
Inevitably throws into prominence in
the community all the foul and evil
can taEs part the tortnre 70 nn
man being without having his own
moral nature permanently lowered.
moral deterioration in ali the children
who have any knowledge of It. and
tth ners, 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 a mob.
Need for Negro Education.
There is another matter which has
iynching and OF the brutal crime which
sometimes calls II forth and at other
times merely furnishes the excuse for
for our people as a whole permanently
to rise by treading down any OF their
own number. Even those who them
maltreatment OF their fellows viii in
the long run also suffer. No more
shortsighted policy can be imagined
| 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 situ-
alton. In every community the poor
est citizens, those who. need the schools
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 a mass to
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
either no education or very little; Just
as they are almost invariably men who
own no property; for the man who
like the man who acquires education.
In usually lifted above mere brutal
criminality. or course the best type
ken as whole Is such education as
is conferred In schools like Hampton
and Tuskegee: where the boys and
men, are trained industriaiiy as well
branches. The graduates Of these
tority of cases, and hardly any OF them
become criminals, while what little
criminality there Is never takes the
form Of that brutal violence which in
yites lynch law. Every graduate OF
these schools-and for the matter OF
that every oher colored 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
whole colored race as II can be helped
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
pie. 1t may well be questioned whether
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 labor
hatred to task and says Ito preach
hatred to the rich man. as such,
10 seek 10 misleau ana lnHame 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 a 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:
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 II 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 is5ue liz raised in
this country nothing can be gained by
ninching from II, 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 liz just as evil n thing as the tri-
umph OF the plutocracy. and to have
escaped one danger nvails nothing
whatever IL we sucuumb to the other.
In the end the honest ma n. whether rich
or poor. who earns his own living and
tries to deal Justly by his fellows has
as much to fear from the insincere
and unworthy demagog promising
much and performing nothing, or else
performing nothing but evil. who
would set on the mob to plumber the
rich. as from the crafty corruptionist,
who. for his own ends, would permit