The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-05

class. to prevent the education of an other class. The. free public, school, a good elementary education, lies at the foundation of our whole .poncica
 situation. In every community the the poorest citizens thSse ba wdS denriyed Hyed M o1 them if they only received school Ia cilities proportioned to the taxes they paid. This Is as true of one portion O. our country as of another It IS as true for the negro, as for the white man The wife man, If he IS wise. will decline 10 alluw the negroes Tn mass to grow to manhood ana woman 4in,tin hood without education. Cnquestlona- blV education such as obtained In our public schoC's does not do eLerythng towards making a man good cltlzen' , but t does much. The lowest anC most brutal criminals. those for in- stance who commit the crime Of rape. are in the great majority men Mno have had either no education or very little; just as they are almost inVarla- bly men Who own no property; for the man who puts money by out or ms earnings like the man who acquires education. is usually lifted above mcrt brutal criminalitv. or course the best type of education for the colored man
 taken as a whole, Is such educatloni as is conferred in schools like iamp- ton and Tuskegee; where the boYs ano girls the young men and young wo
 men. are trained irdustriallY as vel
 as in the ordinary public schoo
 branches. The graduates of thes' schools turn out well in the great ma iority of eases, and hardly any of then
 become criminals, while what little crimnalitv there is never takes the form of thDt brutal violence which in- vites lynch law. Every graduate ot these schoGls-an7 for the matter oi that every other colorei IF an or wo man-who leads a life so useful and honorable as to win the good will and respect of those whites whose nei5hhol he or she is. thereby helps the whole colored race as it can ne heiped m gro himself. the man who can do thc most 10 heln the negro is his whitf neighbOr who lives near him; and our steady effort should he to better the though the benefit of these schools has been to their colored nupls anr to the colored people. It may well b. questioned whether the benefit has not been ot lo0st as great to the white people m "0~ whom these colored pu- riis live "ffcr thcV graduate.
 Re il rcTamhcrcd, furthermore that the individuals who whether from t1l- ly. from evil temper from greed foI office, "r in a spirit of mere base dema- ~ngy. indulge in the inflammatorY and ipCcndi9ry speeches and writings winch tend to arousc mobs and to bring abou lvrChiu9, uot onl- thus excite tEC mob iW ais' r"rd h.. 'rhat criminolopists fre litr'inuol ot 9 repetition of tn, very r"i1.c oGaiust which they are in- veiNhlra When tho mob Is comnoseo If th' Ec'p,c of one race and the man lvnchcd 'e of another race, the men who In their sneenhes and writing, either veto ar justify the action tend, of cog's' 'u excite a bitter race feel inr and r., r2uso the people of the op- noSj," r"oo .o lose sight of the abom niahlc aNt a' ho nrin'iOal himself; ant in 1l1'ti'a. h'' the prominence they give tu ,be tideaus deed they uudOubt- 'l]v toud 10 excite in other brutal anC dcnrlvcd natures thoughts of commit t'H@ ' Swift relentless and orderl, ounislu rut under the law is the only way hv w.leh criminality of this typo can permanently he suppressed.
 Cnritnl and Labor.
 In l,Iins with both labor and cap ital with tho questions affecting both cory 1ratioDs and trades unions, there l. or" aauor important to remembe 1 thPU alSht else. and that is the tnfin , itn harm done by preachers of merG di5contcut These are the men who seek to excite a violent class hatred against all men of wealth. They seel to turn wise and proper movements for the better control of corporations