The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-12-04


press their Judgment in such matters.
and xabove all those belonging to the
great and honorable profession of the
bar. SO profoundly influential in Am
erican life, take the position that
taere shall be no criticism of a Judge
under any circumstances, their view
not be accepted by the American
people as a whole. In such event the
people will turn to, and tend to ac-
cept as justiiable, the Incorporate
and improper criticism uttered by un
to leave to such critics a fun
ction, right in itself, which they are
to abuse. Just and temperate
criticism, when necessary, is a safe
guard against the acceptance by the
as a whole of that intemper-
ate antagonism toward the judiciary
which must be combated by e
right thinking man, and which, if it
became widespread among the people
at large, would constitute a dire e
ace to the Republic.
L%ynching.
In connection with the delays of the
law, l call your attention and the at
of the Nation to the preva
hence of crime among us, and above
to the epidemic of lynching and
mob violence that springs up, now in
one part of our country, now in anoth
er. Eacn section, North, South, East,
or West, has it's own faults; no Sec
ton a with wisdom spend its time
jeering at the faults of another Sec
ton; it should be busy trying to
amend its own shortcomings. To
deal with the crime of corruption it
is necessary to have an awakened
public conscience, and to supplement
thIo " y "AdICfCI lSSIStdllOh Will duu
speed and certainty in the execution
of the law. When we deal with lynch
ing even more is necessary. A great
many white men are lynched, but
the crime is peculiarly frequent in
respect to black men. The greatest
existing cause of lynching is the per-
petration especially by black men, of
the hideous crime of rape-the most
crimes, even worse than murder.
Mobs frequently avenge the commits
sion of this crime by themselves tor
turing to death the man committing
it; thus avenging in bestial fashion
a bestial deed, and reducing them
selves to a level with the criminal.
Lawlessness grows by what it feeds
upon; and when mobs begin to lynch
for rape they speedily extend the
sphere of their operations N lynch
for many other kinds OF crimes, so
that two-thirds of the lynchings are
not for rape at all; while a consid.
cradle proportion of the individuals
lynched are innocent of all crime.
Moreover, where n crime COM
mitted by a member of one race
against a member of another race is
avenged in such fashion that it seems
as if not the Individual criminal, but
whole race, is attacked, the re-
suit is to exasperate to the highest
degree C. feeling. There is but one
safe rule in dealing with black men
with white men; it is the same
that must be applied in dealing
with rich men and poor men; that is
each man. whatever his color
his creed, or his social position, WITH
justice on his real worth
as a man. White people owe it quite
as much to themselves as to the col
ored race to treat well the colored
man who shows by mis- life that he
deserves u treatment; for it Is
surely the highest wisdom to encour-
age in the colored race all those in
1iViduals who are honest, indus
trious, law-abiding, and who there
'ore make good safe neighbors