The Nevada County picayune., 1906-12-07

jniunctive process tends 10 threaten its very existence, for if the American peo- pie ever become convinced that this process is habituaily abused, whether in matters affecting labor or in matters ai- fecting corporations, 1t will be well-nigh impossible to prevent Its abolition"
 The Negro Problem.
 The negro problem is given considera- ble 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 ject of lynchings, and especially as ap- piled 10 the negro of the south. He says the greatest existing cause for mob law is the perpetraton by the blacks of the crime of rape, a crime which he terms even worse than murder. He quotes the by Gov Candler, 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- gro criminal who commits the dread 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 fall 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 made by which the punishment may follow immediately upon the heels of the offense; 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 other hand should understand that every lynehing represents by just so much loosening of the bands of civ ilization; that the spirit of lynching 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 hu- man being without having his own moral nature permanently lowered. Every lynching means just so much 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 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 a direct bearing upon this matter of lynching and of the brutal crime which sometimes calls 1t forth and at other times merely furnishes the excuse for It's existence. It is out of the question for our people as a whole permanently to rise by treadng 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 fancicd 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 a good elementary education, lies at the foundation of our whole political situ atiOn. In every community the poor est citizens, those who need the schools most, would be deprived of them if they only received school facilities proportionately to the taxes they paid. country as of another. It is as true for the negro as for the white man. The white man. if he is wise. will de 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 good citizen, but it does much. The lowest 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 or very litle, just as they are almost invariably men who puts money by out of his earnings like the man who acquires education is usually lifted above mere brutal criminality. Of course the best type | of education for the colored man. ta- ken as a whole, is such educa tion as | Is conferred in schools like Hampton | and TuSkeGee, where the boys and girls. the young men and young wo- l men. are trained industriaIly as well | as in the ordinary, public school branches. The graduates of these schools turn out well In the great ma | jority of cases. and hardly any of them become criminals, while what little i crlminaIty there IS never takes the form of that brutal violence which in- vtes lynch law Every graduate of | these schools--and for the matter of that every oher colored 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 IS 1t 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 colored pupils and to the colored peo- pie. it 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 "to preach hatred to the rich man. as such. to seek to msead 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 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:
 '-fhe plain people who thInk-the mechanics farmers. merchants. work CTS with head or hand. the men to fra lon who love their country and try to act decently by their neighbors owe 1t 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 issue is raised in this country nothing can be gained by hinching from it. 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- umph of the plutocracy and to have