Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-12-06

an& therefore such cAf44ose - q the
very sssste,ee .e fsr i tse ...4s.. ,e IS
preesss is zsSaEsai,g 500. w2s1asr IN
seos s'.f :; T !. - Isis %n ad
imPssssate to prevent It's ahslEAsa.''
The Negro Prcb2eN,. IS
=, The rs"ro problem is siveu osnsddera,
The fast hat no section s. The ceSntr 70
IS free from faults, ard that ne section
has occasion to jeer at the shortcomings
:: ' 3nsh Esson and b sss Z the sab
Piled to the negro Of the south. He says
the greatest existing cause for mob law
is is; tho preparation by the blacks Of the
oven worse than murder. He quotes the
ADM eAitions to the white people spoken
by Gov. Gambler, Of Georgia, some years
Gently and then says:
:, EVERY colcred man should realize
mat the worst enemy of his race is the
gro s crininel who commits the dread
ful crime Of rape; and it should be felt
as IN the highest degree an ofense
az the Whole country, and against
colored man to fail to help the officers
of the law in hunting down with ali
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
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
so conducted that the victim need not
be wantenly sharned while giving tes-
timony: and that the least possible
publicity shall be given to tho details.
the other hand should understand that
every lynching represents by just so
much loosening Of the bands of civ
inevitably throws into prominence in
the community all the foul and evil
creatures who dwell therein. No man
man, man being without having his own
moral moral nature permanently lowered.
livery iynching means just SO much
Go have any w s the ne
therefore Just SO much additional
trouble for the next generation of
Americans.
let justice be both sure and swift;
Dut let it be justice under the law.
md not the wild and crooked savagery
Of mob.
Need for Negro Education.
''There is another matter which has
= direct bearing upon this matter Of
Snching and of the brutal crime which
%oinetimes calls it forth and at other
its existence It is out of the question
for our people as whole permanently
TO rise by treading down any Of their
Tclves for the moment profit by such
.naltreatment of their fellows will in
the Ions run also suffer. No more
1 8 policy can be imagined
tan, 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
foundation of our whole political stu
GtiOn. In every community the poor
est citizens, those who need the schools
most, would be deprived of them if
Droportionately to the taxes they paid.
This is as true of one portion of our
country as of another. 1t is as true
The white, man, if he is wise. will de-
Cline to allow the negroes in mass to
Grow to manhood and wonaanhood
without education. PROFESSIONALLY ed
Tic schools does not do everything to-
wards making a man a good citizen;
hut it does much. The lowest and most
who commit the crime of rape, are in
the great majorit. 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 education
is is; u, usually lifted above mere brutal
of for the eelo ted ess an t{ t
ken as whole, is such education as
is conferred in schools like Hampton
and Tuskegee; where the boys and
lnen: are trained industrially as well
as in the ordinary. public school
branches. The graduates of these
schools turn out well in the great ma
iOritV of q of
become criminals, while what little
criminality there is mover takes the
form of that brutal violence which in
4 Xites lynch Eon a. law: Every graduate Of
that every cher colored man or wo-
man-who leads 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
in no other way; for next to the negro
help the negro is his white neighbor
who lives near him; and our steady
effort should be to better the relation
between the two. Great tho the bene-
colored pupils and to the colored PEG
ple it may well be questioned whether
the benefit has not been at least as
great to the white people among whom
graduate"
CaplCaI ana LABOR.
On the subject of capital and la,
the president takes the agitators Of ella
hatred to task and says Ito preac!.
hatred to the rich man, as SUCH
to seek to mislead and inflame 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 tho 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:
1.-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 it to
themselves to remember that the most
damaging blow tA.H can be given p.o-
ular government is to elect an un-
worthy and sinister agitator on
platform of violence and hypocrisy.
Whenever such an issue is raised in
this country nothing can be gained by
finching from it, fo. in such case dem
ocracy is itself on trial. popular self
government under republican forms is
mob is just as evil thing as the tri-
unph of the plutocracy. and to have
escaped one danger avails nothing
whatever if we sueuumb to the other
In the end the honest man, whether rich
or poor. who earns his own living and
tries to deal justly by his fellows, has
as much to fear fNoln the insincere
and unworthy dumagog. PROMISING:
much and performing nothing. or else