Gilpin observer., 1906-12-06

lnJunctiVe process TENDS TO threaten 1tS
very existence. for If the American peo-
pie ever become convinced that this
process is habitually abused. whether In
fecting corporations. It 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
is free from faults, and that no section
has occasion to jeer at the shortcomings
Of any other section, he turns to the sub
1ect OF lynchings. and especially as ap-
the greatest existing cause for mob law
Is the perpetration by the blacks of the
even worse than murder He quotes the
admonitions to the white people spoken
by Gov Gambler. Of Georgia. some years
Gently. and then says:
Every colored man should realize
negro criminal. and above all the ne
gro criminal who commits the dread
full crime of rape; and it should be felt
against the whole country, and against
the colored race in particular. for
c9i9red man to fail to help the officers
possible earnestness and zeal every
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 a
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 onense; 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
every Iynching represents by just so
much a looscning of the bands of civ
ilization: that the spirit of 1ynching
fHtA -, H.,
the community all fhe foul and evil
creatures who dwell therein. No man
Gan taxi hsinp part in 5oat the torture Of nu,
NOR ' nature '"pr Pernanently n"Hns owepsd s 9@h
Every lynching means just so much
moral deterioration in all the children
who have any knowledge of 1t, and
therefore Just so much additional
trouble for the next generation of
Let justice be both sure and swift:
but let 1t be justice under the law.
of a mob.
Need for Negro Education.
There is another matter which has
n direct bearing upon this matter of
lynching and of the brutal crime which
sometimes calls it forth and at other
It's existence. 1t is out of the question
for our people as a whole permanently
to rise by treading down any of their
selves for the moment profit by such
maltreatment of their fellows will in
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 situ-
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 as true of one portion of our
country of another. 1t is as true
for the negro as for the white man
The white man, IL he is wise. will de-
cline to allow the negroes in mass to
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
puts money by out of his earnings
like the man who acquires educa ton
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 ,h trained netn industrially as wen
branches. The graduates of these
schools turn out well in the great ma
become criminals, while what little
criminality there is never takes the
form of that brutal violence which in
vites lynch law. Every graduate OF
these schools-and for the matter of
that every oher colored man or wo-
man-who leads a life useful and
honorable as to win the good will and
respect of those whites whose neigh
Dor he or she is thereby helps the
w hnln cd nr - l.
in no other way; for next TO the negro
himself. the man who can do most to
Who lives near him; and ',e our n;naIr GnD9r
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 II may well be questioned whether
the benefit has not been at least
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 the rich man, 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
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
crs 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 IL to
themselves to remember that the most
damaging blow that can be given pop
ular government is TO elect an un-
worthy and sinister agitator on II
platform OF violence and hypocrisy.
Whenever such an issue is raised In
this country nothing can be gained by
ilnching from II, for in such case dem
ocracy is itself on trial popular self
government under republican forms is
Itself on trial. The triumph OF the
mob Is just evil thing ns the tri-
escaped one danger aYnils nothing