Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-12-06

injunctiye process tends ~ thrsatsn its
very existence Tor n he AInofiean peo-
pie ever become convinoo1 that this
Drbcoaa 10 habitualIy abused, whether In
matters Affecting labor Or In matters At
fecting corporations, Il VIII b Woli-niGh
Impossible to prevent It's abolition"
The Negro Problem.
The NEGRO problem IL givoa conBiderA-
bic alienation, after calling attention to
sns ss'i u ' ts nc sse, sS the o ssoy
has occasion 10 jeer ~ the Shortcomings
Of any ether section, he turns to the sub
1ect Of lEnchings. and especially as ap-
piled 70 the negro OF the south. He says
the greatest exciting cause for mob law
Is the Preparation BY the blacks OF the
crime OF rape, a crime which he terms
adm0nitons to the white people spoken
by Gov. Gambler, OF Georgia, some years
ago, and by Gov. Jelks, OF Alabama, re-
Gently, and then says.
Every colored man should realize
that the worst enemy Of his race is the
negro criminal, and above all the ne
ful crime OF rape; and 1t should be felt
as In the highest degree an offense
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
capital crime, at least in the discretion
Of the court; and provision should be
made by which the punishment may
follow Immediately upon the heels of
the onense; while the trial should be
so 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 lynching represents by Just so
much a loosening of the bands of civ
ilizauon; that the spirit of lynchins
inevitably throws into prominence in
the community all the foul and evil
creatures who dwell therein. No man
can take part in the torture of a hui
moral nature permanently lowered
Every lynching means just so much
moral deterioration in all the children
who have any knowledge of it, and
trouble for the next generation Of
Americans
Let Justice be both sure a7d swift;
but let It be Justice under tie law
and not the wild and crooked saw gerry
OF mob.
Need for Negro Education.
There is another matter which has
direct bearing upon this matter of
lynching and of the brutal crime which
sometimes calls it forth and at other
times merely furnishes the excuse for
its existence. 1t is out of the question
for our people as a whole permanently
to rise by treading down any of their
own number. Even those who them
selves for the moment profit by such
maltreatment 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 public school the
chance for each boy or girl to get
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 if
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
cline to allow the negroes in a mass to
grow to manhood and Womanhood
without education Unquestionably ed
ucation such as is obtained in our pub
lie schools does not do everything to-
wards making a man a good citizen;
but II does much. The lowest and most
brutal criminals those for instance
who commit the crime OF rape, are III
the great majority men WHO have had
either no education or very litle tu t
as they are almost invariably men who
own no property; for the man viii.
puts money by out of his earnings
like the man who acquires education
is usually lifted above mere brutal
criminality OF course the best typc
Of education for the colored man I -
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 industrially as well
as in the ordinary public school
branches. The graduates of these
schools turn out wen in the great ma
iority 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
Vites lynch law. Every graduate of
these schools--and for the matter of
that every cher colore0 man or wo-
man-who leads a life so useful and
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
who lives near him; and our steady
effort should be to better the relations
fit of these schools has been to their
colored pupils and to the colored peo-
pie, it 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 takes the agitators of class
hatred to task and says ito preach
hatred to the rich man. as such,
to seek to mislead and infame to mad
ness honest men whose lives are hard
and who have not the kind of mental
training which will permit them to ap-
preciate the danger In the doctrines
preached is to commit a crime against
the body polite and TO be false to every
worthy principle ana 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 IL to
themselves to remember that the most
dana ging blow that can be given pop
ular government is to elect an UNI
worthy and sinister agitator on
platform of violence and hypocrisy.
Whenever such an issue is raised in
this country nothing can be gained by
hinching from IL. for In such case dem
ocracy Is itself on trial popular self
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
escaped one danger avails nothing
whatever if we sucuumb to the other.
In the end the honest man, whether rich