The Ordway new era., 1906-12-07

pie ever hscs,, LOT U the American peo-
process Ia habitually sbuse% that this
sscs,r.s hnecting labor or IN rnas,-' ~
imposs,,r corporations. Il viii be weli.n .niuh a
~ prevent Its abolition"
r. The Negro Problem.
al, hs negro problem In rivan
the ftuon; faet ion; after calling attention ~
irce from faults. and th,, ne country
of anw aension n,an to 1ecr ut the shortcon,,,m ,,,om
ject OF Wncb,n.o no turns to the sub
piled To The nerra ~ and especially as up
tne ~ greatest existing cause far ~ ntS says
Grim. perpetratlon by the blacks ~, tw ,ha
even worse III; tS,, u crime which he terms
~, hsunnonitions nons 10 tho white pcon,a @ me
a ny oov. Gambler. of Georgia Some sPoken u,,s,
Gently. an5 ,n.M' hoy Jelks. OF Alabama, re
Every colorcd man shou,, .,,
nna. .hc worst enemy of hIs rnce 10 ~. ~
gro cr,minai, inihai, and above ali the ne
au' erlme OF rape. and IL shouiJ ha ~.
Us n IN the highest degree nm n,ronla t"i.
Tie noio ,he whole country, and agninst
coiored man To c fali IN 10 p%hrtieIlar. hn. for
na.su Jaw IN hunting down with ali
poss'pl" cnrncstness and zeal ,,a.,,
NV iuam uannoas r onender. Moreover. in
aIwhys be punished with Jentb o"in ~ ~
.nc chse with murder; nssault VIII a., -
coni,,p commit rape should be made n
enp.thi crime. at least In In, dIscraiIo,
oi ,ho court; and provision shontd In
mnue nue ny which the punishment ,,,y
how thn n Immediately upon tho heels Of
NO eonS,c,.., while thc trial should be
H. wnuhrt"d That the victim need moi
~. wan'only shnmed while giving t,ge
unphy. ana that tho least nns,t,I.
Thc n anhii be given to the details.
,, mclb"rs OF the white rnce ON
,me other hand should understand that
,r,,g lShchlng represents by Iust 40
II,.aht Innoh loosenlng OF tho bands OF civ
inEhllon. that the spirIt OF lynchjn,
inevitably throws iItto promInencn ~
tnc community all Ihe foul ana ,y,i
a,',ntes cn,, ,ir who dwell therein. No man
M, ukn part in the torture OF a hu-
man ,n being without having his own
moral nature permanently lowered
ay ,yhchlnE means just so much
,xTrai ,xS,n dstcrioration in all the children
therefore Just SO much ndJI,,anni
trouble for the next generation OF
Let Justice he both sure and swift.
but let II be Justice under the law
OF mob,
Need for Negro Education.
There is another matter which has
hlrect bearing upon this matter OF
lynching and OF the brutal crime which
,iolnetimes sonnet calls II forth and at other
IT'S existence, II iS out of the question
for our people MS a whole pcrmanentiv
to rise by treadlng down any OF their
own number. Even those who them
selves for tho moment profit by such
mhltreatmcnt OF their fellows will In
The long run also suffer. No more
ihortsishtsd policy can he imagined
than. in the flncicd 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 al the
foundation Of our whole political sltu-
alton, In every community the poor
est citizens. those who need the schools
most. would be deprived OF them IL
they only received school facilities
prOportionately to the taxes they paid,
This is ns true of one portion OF our
country ns OF another. II is ns true
The white man. II he is wise. will de-
cline to allow the negroes In mass to
grow to manhood and womanhood
without education unqucstionably ed
ucation such as Is obtained in our pub
lie schools does not do everything to-
wards making man good citizen:
but II does much. The lowest and most
brutal criminals. those for instance
who commit the crime OF rape are In
the great majority mon 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 tho man who acquires education
is usually iifted above mere brutal
OF education for the colorcd man tn-
ken ms "A whole. is such education nS
is conferred in schools like Hampton
girls. the young men and young wo-
men. are trained industrIaily as well
ns in the ordinary public school
schools turn out well In the great ma
iority of cases and hardly any OF them
become criminals. while what little
criminniity there is never takes the
IN pf
yltes lynch law. Every graduate OF
these schoola--and for the matter of
that every oher colorsd man or wo-
man-who leads life so useful and
honorable ns to win the good will and
respect OF those whites whose neigh
bor ho or she Ia. thereby helps the
In no other way; for next to. the negro
himself, the man who can do most to
help the negro is his white ncighbor
who lives near him; and our steady
between the two. Great tho tho bene-
ut Of these schools has been to- their
colored pupils and to the colorcd peo-
the benefit has not been at least as
great to the white people among whom
these colorcd 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 anu suys " "cbSH
hatreI 10 the rich man. ns such. :.
10 seek to mIslead and in,iame to mad,
ness honest men whose lives arc hard
ma who have not the kind OF mental
training which will permit them to ap-
prcciate the danger In the doctrines
nreached il to commit n crime against
he body polite and to be false to every
worthy principle and tradition OF Amer
lean national life" Continuing on this
"Thc plain people who thlnk.the
or. with hend or hand. the men to
whom American traditions ,,v are "a dear; an;
Snccntiy by their neighbors. owe II to
themselves to remember that the most most
IN ma ging blow that can be given pop
,,Inr government Is to elect an un-
Worthy and sinister agitator on
platform of violence and hypoerisy,
,his country nothing can be gained by
from t. 70, In such SnnG,se case asm seIf
government under republican forms Is
itseif on trial. The triumph of the