The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-05

Let justice he both sure and swift;
but let It be Justice under the law. and
not the wild and crooked savaGery OF
mob.
There IS another matter which has n
direct bearing upon this matter Of lynch
ing and OF the brutal crime which some
times calls II forth and at other times
merely furnishes the excuse for it's ex-
lstence. II 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
maitreatmcnt OF their fellows Will IN
the long run also suffer. No more
shortsighted policy, can be imagined
than, in the fancied interest Of one
class. TO prevent the education OF an
other class. The free school. the chance
for each boy or girl to get good ele-
mentary education, lies OF the loUnda-
tion OF our whole political situation. In
every community the poorest citizens.
those who needs the schools most, would
ceIved school facilities proportioned to
the taxes they paid This is as true OF
one portion OF our country as of an
other. i, Is as true for the negro as for
is wise. Will decline 10 allow the ne
groes In mass 10 grow 10 manhood
and womanhood without education.
Unquestionably education such as is
obtained In our public schools does not
do everything toward making a man a
good citizen. but II does much. The low
est 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 very little
just as they are almost invariably men
who own no property. for the man
who puts money by out OF his earnings.
like the man who acquires education.
is usually lifted above mere brutal
crlminalty. OF course the best type of
education for the colored man, taken
q whole, is such education as is con-
ferrcd In schools like Hampton and Tus-
kesee; where the boys and girls. the
young men and young women, are trained
lndustrially as well as In the ordinary
public school branches The graduates
OF these schools turn out well in the
OF them become criminals. while what
little cyimlnalty there Is never takes
the form OF that brutal violence which
Invites lynch law. Every graduate of
every other coiored man or woman
who leads life so useful and honorable
as 10 win the good will and respect Of
those whites whose neighbor he or she
Is. thereby helps the whole colored
race as IL can be helped in no other
way: Tor next TO the negro himself, the
gro Is his white neighbor who lives near
him; and our steady effort should be 10
better the relations between the TWO.
Great though the benefit OF these schools
The colorod people. Il may we'll be ques-
toned whether the benefit has not been
az icdSl as great to the white people
among whom these colored pupils live
after they graduate.
BE " remembered. furthermore. that
the individuals who. whether from folly
from evil temper. from greed for office
or I'm spirit of mere base demagogy
Indulge in the inllammatory and incen-
diary speeches and writings which tend
to arouse mobs and 10 bring about
lynchine. not only ihus excite the mob
but also tend by what criminologists
call suggestion" greatly 10 increase the
likelihood of a repetition OF the very
crime against which they are IDveighing
When the mob Is composed OF the peo-
pie OF one race and the man lynched
Is OF another race. the men who in their
speeches and writings either excite or
Justify the action, tend, of course to
excite bitter race feeling and TO cause
the people of the opposite race TO lose
sight OF the abomlnable act of the Grim
inal himself, and I'm addition, by the
prominence they give to the hideous
deed they undoubtedly tend to excite in
other brutal and depraved natures
thoughts OF committing IT. Swift. re- |
Ienless, and orderly punishment under |
the law is the only way by which Grim
lna!lty OF this type can permanently be |