Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-12-06


to do away with the power of injunction:
and therefore such careless use OF the
injunctivA process tends to threaten It's
very existence, for II the American peo-
process is habitually abused, whether in
matters Affecting labor or In matters ar
fecting corporations, i will be well-nigh
impossible to prevent its abolition"
The Negro Problem.
The negro problem Is given considera-
BILE attention, after calling attention to
is free from faults, and that no section
has occasion to jeer at the shortcomings
of any other section, he turns to the sub
ject of lynchings. and especially as APP
piled to the negro OF the south He says
the greatest existing cause for mob law
is the perpetration 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
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
full crime of rape; and II should be felt
as in the highest degree an offense
against as 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
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
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
the community all the foul and evil
creatures who dwell therein. No man
can take part in the torture of hu-
man being without having his own
m9eay T Mature permanently s lowered
moral deterioration in all the children
who have any. knowledge of r. and
ttherefore Just SO much additional
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 1t forth and at other
times merely furnishes the. excuse for
its existence. 1t is out of the question
for our people as q whole permanently
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
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 stu
alton. In every community the poor
est citizens, those who need the schools
they only received school facilities
proportionately to the taxes they paid
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
without education. PROFESSIONALLY ed
uoation such as is obtained in our pub
lie schools does not do everything to-
wards making a man a good citizen;
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.
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
is conferred in schools like Hampton
and Tuskegee; where the boys and
girls. the young men and young wo-
men, are trained industrially as we'll
as in the ordinary, public school
branches. The graduates of these
schools turn out well 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
these schools--and for the matter of
that every cher colored man or wo-
man--who leads life SO useful and
respect rG5I Of those whites whose neigh
| Dor he or she is, thereby helps the
| whole colored race as 1t can be helped
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
| 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
| 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 says Ito preach
hatred to the rich man, as SUCH
| to seek to mislead and infiame to mad
| ness honest men whose lives are hare
| and who have not the kind of menta
training which will permit them TO ap
| preciate the danger in the doctrine:
| preached is to commit a crime agains
the body polite and to be false to every
worthy principle and tradition of Amer
lean national life." Continuing on thi!
| subject he says:
'The plain people who think-th'
mechanics, farmers, merchants, work
ers with head or hand, the men t,
whom American traditions are dear
who love their country and try to &C
deoently by their neighbors. owe It t.
| themselves to remember that the mos
damaging blow that can be given pop
ular government Is to elect an un
worthy and sinister agitator on
platform of violence and hypocrisy
Whenever such an issue is raised Il
this country nothing can be gained b.
hinching from it, for in such case dem
ocracy Is itself on trial. popular self
government under republican forms 4
Itself on trial. The triumph of tn
mob is just as evil a thing as the tri
umph of the plutocracy, and to hav
escaped one danger aYails nothinj
whatever IL we sucuumb to the Other
In the end the honest man. whether rio