Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-12-04
Read Today---Many Recommendations
Made and Action Urged on Import
ant Legislation Strong Rebuke to
People of San Francisco on Stand
Taken in Excluding Japanese from
Public Schools-.-No Comments on
Panama Canal. Changes in Army
and Navy--,Laws Governing Courts
Roots Speech as Appendix.

VI applying luJlinCllOnS III ldDOl CASES
should be wholly abolished. 1t Is al
least doubtful whether a law abolish
ing altogether the use of injunctions
in such cases would stand the test OF
the courts; in which case of course
the legislation would be ineffective
Moreover, | believe 1t would be wrong
altogether to prohibit the use of in.
functions. 1t is criminal to permit
sympathy for criminals to weaken our
hands in upholding the law; and if
men seek to destroy life or property
by mob violence there should be no
impairment of the power of the courts
to deal with them in the most sum.
mary s~d effective way possible. But
SO far as possible the abuse of the
power should be provided against by
some such law as | advocated last
year.
lynching.
In connection with the delays of
the law, | call your attention and the
attention of the nation to the preva-
lence of crime among us, and above
all to the epidemic of lynching and
mob violence that springs up, now in
one part of our country, now in an
other. Each section, north, south,
east, or west. has it's own faults; no
section can with wisdom spend its
time jeering at the faults of another
section; it should be busy trying to
amend its own shortcomings. To deal
with the crime of corruptioWit Is
aeoessarsIfo have an awakened pub
lie conscience, and to supplement this
by whatever Legislation will add speed
and certainty in the execution of the
law. When we deal with lynchlng
even more is necessary. A great
many white men are lynched, but the
crime is peculiarly frequent in respect
to black men. The greatest exiAting
cause of lynching is the preparation,
especially by black men, of the
hileous crime of rape-the most abom.
Unable in all the category of crimes,
even worse than murder MObs fire.
quently avenge the commission of
this crime by themselves torturing to
death the man committing it; thus
avenging in bestial fashion a bestial
deed, and reducing themselves to, a
level with the criminal.
Lawlessness grows by what 1t feeds
upon; and when mobs begin to lynch
for rape they speedily extend the
sphere of their operations and lynch
for many other kinds of crimes, so
that two-thirds of the lynchings are
not for rape at all; while consid-
erable proportion of the individuals
lynched are innocent of all crime.
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
ether times merely furnishes the ex-
cuse for its existence. 1t is out of
the question for our people as a whole
permanently to rise by threading down
any of their own number. Even
those who themselves for the moment
profit by such maltreatment of their
fellows will in the long run also suf-
fer No more shortsighted policy can
be imagined than, in the fancied in
terest of one class, to prevent the edll-
cation of another class. The free pub
lie school, the chance for each boy or
girl to get good elementary educa-
ton, lies at the foundation Of our
whole political situation. In every
community the poorest citizens, those
who need the schools most, would be
deprived of them if they only received
school facilities proportioned to the
taxes they paid. This is as true of
one portion of our country as of an.
other 1t lis as true for the negro as
for the white man. The white man,
II he is wise, will decline to allow the
negroes in mass to grow to man.
hood and womanhood without educa-
tdon. Unquestionably education such
as is obtained in our public schools
does not do everything towards max
Ing man a good citizen; but 1t does
much. The lowest and most brutal
those for instance who com.
init the crime Of rape, are in the
great majority men who have had
either no education or very little; just
as sthey are almost invariably men
vino own no property; for the man
who puts money by out of his earn
ngs, like the man who acquires eLu-
cation, is usually lifted above mere
brutal criminality. OF course the best
,ype of education for the colored man,
aiken as a whole, IL such education
IS Is conferred in schools like Hamp-
on and Tuskegee; where the boys
Ind girls, the young men and young
women, are trained industrially as
we'll as in the ordinary public school
branches.
Capital and Labor.
In dealing with both labor and capi- !