The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-12-07

to do away with the power OF Injunction;
and therefore such careless use or tne
| injunctive process tends to threaten its
very existence. for II the American PEG
process Is habitually abused. whether IN
matters affecting labor or in matters al
fecting corporations. 1t will 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
has occasion to jeer at the shortcomings
of any other section. he turns to the SUP
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 ne 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 reaiize
that the worst enemy of his race Is the
negro criminal. and above all the ne
gro criminal who commits the dread.
ful crime of rape; and 1t should be felt
as in the highest degree an onense
against 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
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
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-
publicity shall be given to the details.
The members of the white race on
the other hand should understand that
every lynching represents by just SO
ilization: that the spirit of lynching
inevitably throws into prominence In
the community all the foul and evil
creatures who dwell therein. No man
man being without having his own
Every lynching means just so much
moral deterioration In al the children .ed
therefore just so much additional
trouble for the next generation of
Americans.
LET 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.
mere ~ iidteCi
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
it's 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
the long run also surfer. No more
shortsighted policy can be imagined
than. in the fancled 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
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 If
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. IL he Is wise. will de-
grow to manhood and womanhood
without education. Unquestionably ed
ucation such as is obtained in our pub
lie schools does not do everything to-
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 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 well
as in the ordinary public school
schools turn out well in the great ma
jority 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
that every cher colored man or wo-
man-who leads q 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 colored race as it 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
between the two. Great tho the bene-
At 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
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 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 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
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
| decently by their neighbors. owe 1t to
| themselves to remember that the most
| damaging blow that can be given pop
| ular government is to elect an I'M
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
fiinching from It, for In such case dem
| ocracy is itself on trial. popular self
| government under republican forms is
| itself on trial. The triumph of the
4 mob Is just as evil a thing as the tri-
umph of the plutocracy. and to have
escaped one danger avails nothing