Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-12-05

to do away with the power OF INJUNCTION:
and therefore such careless use of the
injunctive process tends to threaten its
very existence, for If the. American peo-
pie ever become convinced that this
process is habitually abused, whether in
matters affecting labor or in matters at
fecting corporations, it will be weli-niSh
impossible to prevent its abolition"
The Negro Problem.
The negro problem is given considera-
bic attention, after calling attention to
the fact that no section of the country
is free from faults, and that no section
of any other section, he turns to the SUBJ
ject of 1ynchings. and especially as ap-
piled to the negro of the south. He says
the greatest existing cause for mob law
is the preparation By the blacks of the
crime of rape, crime which he terms
even worse than murder. He quotes the
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
gro criminal who commits the dread
full crime of rape; and it should be felt
as in the highest degree an yoffenSe
against the whole country. and against
the colored race in particular, for
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
always be punished with death, as is
the case with murder; assault with in
tent to commit rape should be made
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 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 members of the white race on
the other hand should understand that
every lynching 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 a hui
man being without having his own
moral 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 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 it forth and at other
it's existence. 1t is out of the question
for our people as a whole permanently
to rise by treading down any of their
own number mi Even those who them
selves for the moment profit by such
maltreatment of their fellows will in
the long run also suffer. No more
than, in the fancfed interest of one
class, to prevent the education of an
other class. The free public school, the
chance for each hoy or girl to get
good elementary education lies at the
foundation of our whole political stu
alton In every community the poor
est cltlzens, those who need the schools
most would be deprived of them if
they only received school facilities
proportionately to the taxes they paid
Phis is as true of one portion of our
for the negro as for the white man
The white man. if he is wise, will de-
grow to manhood and womanhood
without education. UnquestionabIy ed
ucation such as is obtained in our pub
lie schools does not do everything to-
wards making a man a good citizen;
but it does much. The lowest and most
Brutal criminals, those for instance
the great majority men who have had
either no education or 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
of education for the colored man. ia
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 as; in the ,r, ordinary public school
schools turn out we'll in the great ma
jority 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
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 it 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
| 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
| 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
1
| to seek to misead and infiame 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 and tradition of Amer
lean national life" Continuing on this
| subject he says:
THE plain people who think-the
| mechanics, farmers, merchants, work
crs 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 it tic
| themselves to remember that the most
| damaging blow that can be given pop
! uiar government is to elect an un-
| worthy and sinister agitator on a
| platform of violence and hypocrisy
| Whenever such an issue is raised in
his country nothing can be gained by
! ninchinS 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 a thing as the tri.
umph of the plutocracy. and to have
| escaped one danger avails nothine
| whatever If we Sucuumb to the other