The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-12-07

10 do away with the power of Injunction;
and therefore such careless use OF the me
very existence. for IL the American peo-
pie ever become conyinoed that this
process is haSitually abused. whether IN
fecting corporations, 1t win be well-nigh
impossible to prevent its abolition"
The Negro Problem.
The negro problem is given considera-
BILE 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 sub
1ect OF lynchings, and especially as APP
piled to the negro Of the south. He says
ssn tSs dSs o Of tSs
crime of rape. crime which he terms
even worse than murder. He quotes the
b1 o1 t. the people spoken
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 offense
against the whole country, and against
the colored race In particular, for
colored man to fail to help the officers
possible earnestness and zeal every
such Infamous offender. Moreover. in
my judgment the crime of rape should
tbs cssa DC w,th rdar wa.n s,ut witS as ms
tent to commit rape should be made
capital crime, at least IN the discretion
Of the courts. 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
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
much a loosening Of the bands of civ
ilization; that the spirit of lynching
Inevitably throws into prominence in
creatures who dwell therein. No man
can take part in the torture of HUI
man being without having his own
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 tho next generation of
Americans.
Let justice be both sure and swift;
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
tn merely furnishes n the excuse for
for our people as a whole permanently
to rise by treading down any of their
own number. Even those who them
maltreatment of their fellows will in
the long run also suffer: No more
shortsighted 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
good elementary education, lies at the
alton. In every community the poor
est citizens, those who need the schools
most would be deprived of them if
proportionately to the taxes they paid.
This is as true Of one portion of our
country as of another, 1t is as true
The white man, II 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 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
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
criminality. OF course the best type
of education for the colored man, ia
ken as whole. is such education as
and Tuskegee; where the boys and
girls, the young men and young wo-
men: are trained tndustrially as well
sne rSe eraduatss Of these
schools turn out well in the great ma
1ority of cases, and hardly any of them
become criminals; while what little
form of that brutal violence which in
vites lynch law. Every graduate Of
these schools--and for the matter of
man-who leads life SO useful and
honorable as to win the good will and
respect of those whites whose neigh
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
nsD tive esap bi his w6te
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, 1t 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 or 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 mislead 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
ers 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 to
damaging blow that can be given pop
ular government is to elect an un-
worthy and sinister agitator on a
platform of violence and hypocrisy.
Whenever such an issue is raised in
this country nothing can be gained by
flinching from it, for in such case dem
ocracy is itself on trial, popular self
itself on trial. The triumph of the
mob is Just as evil thing as the tri-
umph of the plutocracy, and to have
escaped one danger avails nothing
whatever IL we sucuumb to the other
In the end the honest man, whether rich
or poor, who earns his own living and
tries to. deal justly by his fellows, has
and unworthy demagog, promising
much and performing nothing. or else
performing nothing but evil who
would set on the mob to plumber the
rich, as from the crafty corruptionist
who. for his own ends, would permit