The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-12-15

improperly granted may do irreparable
wrong. Yet there are many judges who
assume matter-of-fact course granting
OF preliminary injunction to be the
ordinary and proper judicial disposition
ediy been fragrant wrongs committed
by judges in connection with labor dis
putes even within the last few years,
altho think much less often than in
former years. Such judges by their UNI
wise action immensely strengthen the
hands of those VINO are striving entirely
to do away with the power of injunction;
and therefore such careless use of the
1njunetIve process tends to threaten its
very existence for if the American peo-
process is habitually abused, whether in
matters affecting labor or in matters af-
fecttng corporations, it will be well-nigh
impossible to prevent its abolition"
The Negro Problem.
The negro problem is given considera-
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
1eet OF lynchings, 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, a crime which he terms
even worse than murder. He quotes the
admonitionS to the white people spoken
by Gov Gambler, of Georgia, some years
Gently, and then says.
Every eolored man should realize
that the worst enemy of his race is the
gro criminal who commits the dread
full crime of rape, and it should be felt
as in the highest degree an offense
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
N ~ Marhn3rar
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
capital crime, at least in the discretion
of the court; and provision should be
made BY which the punishment may
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
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
ilization: that the spirit Of 1ynching
inevitably throws into prominence in
the community all the foul and evil
can take part in the torture of a hui
man being without having his own
moral nature permanently lowered.
moral deterioration in ali the children
who have any knowledge Of it, and
therefore just so much additional
trouble for the next generation of
Americans.
tLet 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.
tsThere 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
times merely furnishes the excuse for
its existence. 1t is out of the question
for our people as whole permanently
to rise by treading down any of their
own number. Even those who them
selves for the moment profit by such
nlaltrea tment 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 a
good elementary education. lies at the
foundation of our whole political situ-
alton: In every community. the poor
est citizens. those who need the schools
most, would be deprived Of them If
they only received school facilities
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.
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 UnquestionabIy ed
ucation such as is obtained in our pub
lie schools does not do everything to-
wards making man a good citizen;
but 1T 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 little; Just
as they are almost invariably men who
puts puts money By out q his earning zlo
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 d whole, is such education as
is conferred in schools like Hampton
and Tuskegee; where the boys and
men, are trained fndustrially as well
as In the ordinary public school
branches. The graduates Of these
schools turn out well in the great ma
iority of cases, and hardly any of them
become criminals, while what little
crininality there is never takes the
vites lynch law Every graduate OF
these schoo1s-and for the matter Of
that every cher colored man or wo-
man-who leads life so useful and
respect of those whites whose neigh
Dor he or she is, thereby helps the
whole colored race as 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
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
coIored 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 eolored 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 mfslead and infiaule to mad
ness honest men whose lives are hard
and who have not the kind of mental
training which will permit them to APP
preeiate 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;
ssThe 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
deeentiy by their nefghbors, owe it to
themselves to remember that the most
damaging blow that can be given pop
llar government is to elect an un-
worthy and sinister agitat0r on
platform OF violence and hypocrisy.
Whenever such an issue is raised in
this country nothing can be gained by
ocracy IS itself on trial, popular self
ranphiioa is