The La Jara chronicle., 1906-12-07

Pile ever become convinced that this
process is habItuaIly abused, whether In
matters affecting labor in matters az
fecting corporations. 1t will be well-nish
impossible TO prevent its abolition"
The Negro Problem.
Tho negro problem is given considera-
Bile attention. after calling attention to
the fact that no section Of the country
is free from faults. and that no section
has occasion to Jeer at the shortcomings
OF any other section. he turns to the sub
ject OF lynchinEs, and especially ap-
Piled to the negro OF the south He says
Is the preparation by the blacks OF the
crime Of rare 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-
Every coIored man should realize
that the worst enemy OF his race is the
gro criminal who commits the dread
ful crime OF rape: and IL should be felt
as in the highest degree an orense
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
tent to commit rape should be made a
OF the court; and provision should be
made by which the punishment may
the oNense: 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 members Of the white race on
the other hand should understand that
every lynchinR represents by just so
much loosening Of the bands of civ
iltzation: that the spirit of lynchinE
Inevitably throws into prominence in
the community all lhs foul and evil
creatures who dwell therein No man
80 Pt NEN tka- laUr
man being without having his own
moral nature permanently lowered
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 It he Justice under the law.
and not the wild and crooked savasery
OF mob.
Need for Negro Education.
There is another matter which has
n 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
It's 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 moment proht by such
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 uf our whole political stu
alton. In every community the poor
est citizens, those who need the schools
most would be deprived Of them "
they only received school facilities
proportIonatoly To the taxes they paid.
This is as true Of one portion Of our
country AIS Of another. II Is AS true
Tor the negro as Tor the white man
.fa ID 10 q u. "a
cline to allow the negroes ia mass to
grow to manhood and womlnhupd
without education. tnqucstlouIbI ed
ucatipu such as Us obtained in our pub
lie schools does not do everything to
wards rnakinS a mar! man good citizen:
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
they are almost Invariably men who
own no property; for the man who
like the man who acquires education
is usually hfted above mere brutal
of education FOR the colnred man. ia
ken as whole, is such education as
and Tuskegee. whore the boys and
girls, the young men and young wo-
men. are trained industrially as well
branches. The graduates of these
schools turn out well In the great ma
Jority OF cases and hardly any OF them
criminallty 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 colorsd man or wo-
man-who leads life so useful and
honorable as to win the good Will and
respect of those whites whose neigh
bor he or she is, thereby helps the
whole colored race as IL 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
colored pupils and to the colored peo-
pie, it may well be questioned whether
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 aud says TO preach
natrel to the rich man. as such. q.
ness honest men whose lives hard
and who have not the kind of mental
training which WIN permit them to ap-
preached Is to commit a crime against
the body polite and to be false to every
wSrfhy n5mSpe ana tGad19n OF on psT f6
subject he says:
The plain people who think-the
ers with head or hand. the men to
whom American traditions are dear.
who love their country and try to act
decently by their nciehbors. owe it to
themselves to remember that the most
damaging blow that can he given pop
ular government Is to elect un-
worthy and sinister agttator on
platform of violence and hypocrisy.
Whenever such an issue Is raised in
this country nothing can he gained by
nInching 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-
--L. tA.Ah 10 a n IL D linz