The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-12-07

improperly granted may do irreparable
wrong. Yet there are many Judges who
assume a matter-of-fact course granting
of a preliminary Injunction to be the
ordinary and proper judicial disposition
of such cases; and there lave undoubt-
eddy been fragrant wrongs committed
by judges in connection with labor dis
putes even within the last few years,
altho l think much less often than In
former years. Such judges by their un-
wise action immensely strengthen the
hands OF those who are striving. entirely
to do away with the power Of injunction.
and therefore such careless use of the
.injunctive process tends to threaten its
very existence, for II the American peo-
pie ever. become convinced that this
process is habitually abused, whether in
matters affecting labor or in matters at
fecting corporations, 1t will be well-nigh
impossible to prevent its abolition"
The Negro Problem.
BILE 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
Of any other section. he turns to the sub
piled to the negro of the south. He says
the greatest existing cause for mob law
Is the preparation by he blacks OF the
crime Of rape, a crime which he terms
even worse h murder. He quotes the
%admonitions 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
gro criminal who commits the dread
full crime of rape. n 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 n 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 offense; while the trial should be
SO conducted that the victim need not
be wantonly shamed while giving tes-
timony. n that the least possible
publicity shall be given to the details.
the other hand should understand that
every lynching represents by just so
much a 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
mar 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 1t, and
therefore Just so much additional
trouble for the next generation Of
Americans.
but let 1t be Justice under the law.
n not the wild and crooked savagery
of a mob.
Need for Negro Education.
There is another matter which has
q 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
its existence. 1t is out of the question
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
s~hortsighted policy can be imagined
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 stu
alton. In every community the poor
est citizens, those who need the schools
most, would be deprived of them IL
they only received school facilities
proportionately to the taxes they paid.
This is as true Of portion Of our
for the negro as for the white man.
The white man, If he Is wise, will de-
cline to allow the negroes in q mass to
grow to manhood and womanhood
~ucation such as is obtained in our pub
lie schools does not do everything to-
wards making o man a good citizen;
but It does much. The lowest and most
who commit the crime Of rape, are in
the great majority men who have had
either no education or very little; lust
as they are almost invariably men who
own no property; for the man who
ike the man who acquires education.
is usually lifted above mere brutal
criminality. OF course the best type
Of education for the colored man. Ia
ken as a whole. is such education as
and Tuskegee; where the boys and
girls, the young men and young wo-
men, are trained industrially as well
as Ia the ordinary, public school
branches. The graduates Of these
joritS Of 'S cases sa and %e hardy rG sh any gre e. them maa
become criminals, while what little
criminality there Is never takes the
form of that brutal violence which in
vites lynch law. Every. graduate Of
that every oher coiored 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 cclored race as It can be helped
himself, the man who car 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 Tvs, Great Sss tho the bsns-
colored pupils and to the colored peo-
pie, II may we'll 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
the president takes the agitators of class
hatred to task and a y TO preach
70 seek Z to mi misiead and indame to mad.
ness honest men whose lives are hard
and who have not the kin Of mental
training which Will permit them to APP
preciate the danger In the doctrines
tse Sody polite ana to be false to every
worthy principle and tradition Of Amer
lean national life" Continuing OF. this
safhe 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
decentiy by their n~eighbors, owe II to
themselves to remember that the most
damaging blow that can be given pop
uiar government ID to elect an un-
yvorthy and sinister agitator on Z
platform OF violence and hypocrisy.
whenever such an issue y raised. In
6inching from II, for in such q 8 DEM
ocracy u itself on trial. popular self.