The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-07

est. Industrious. ~law-ahiding and VIII
therefore make coed and safe neighbor
and citizens.
Reward or punish the Individual on hi
merits as an individual. EVA will surel,
come in The e-a e aotii races II we sub
sutute for this Just rule the habit o
treating all the member of the race. goo,
and bad, alik There is 10 question o
social equality or negro domination
involved; only the question of relentlessl.
punsshing bad men, and of securing to thu
good man the right to his life. his liberty
and the pursuit of his happiness as hi
own qualities of heart, head and hand eli
able him to achieve it.
Every colored man should realize tha-
the worst enemy of his race is the negro
criminal, and above all the negro crimina
who commits the dreadful crime of rape
n 1T should be felt as in the highest de-
gre an offense against the whole country
and against the colored race in particular
Tor a colored man to fail to help the Off
GERS of the law in hunting down with al
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 intent to commit rape hould be made
a capital crime, at least in the discretion
OF the court; and provision should be made
by Which the punishment may follow inn
mediately upon the heels of the offense;
while the trial should be so conducted that
the victim need not be wantonly shamed
while giving testimony, and that the least
tails. ~
The members of the white race on the
other hand should understand that every
lynching represents by just so much a
~loosening of the bands of civilization that
the spirit of lynching inevitably throws
INTO prominence m the community all the
foul and evil creatures who dwell therein.
No man can take part in the torture of a
human being without having his own
moral nature permanently lowered. Every
lNnchlng means just so much moral de-
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am knowledge of it. and therefore just so
much additional trouble for the next gen.
GRAFTON 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.
As to the Schools.
h free public school,, the chance for
each boy or girl to get a good elementary
education, lies at the foundation of our
munity the poorest citizens, those who
need the schools most, would be deprived
OF them If they only received school ia
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, if he is wise, will de-
cline to allow the negroes in a mass to
grow to manhood and womanhood with
out education. Unquestionably cduca-
schools does not do everything towards
making a man a good citizen; but it does
mueh. The lowest and most brutal GRIM
crime OF rape, are in the great majority
Who have had either no education
or very little: just as they are almost
for the man who puts money by out of
his earnings, like the man who acquires
education. is usually lifted above mere
criminality.
Tor the colored man, taken as a whole,
IS sueh education as is conferred in
Sc 90 like Hampton and Tuskegee;
and young women, are trained indus
,trially as well as in the ordinary pub
nc i school branches. The graduates of
them become criminals, while What little
c~rlminality there is never takes the form
of that brutal violence which invites
law.
Capital and Labor.
In dealing with both labor and capital.
the questions affecting both corpo.
r maf3nr m and m rades unions, there is one
aught else, and that is the infinite harm
4ane by preachers of mere discomfort.
4 hgae are the men Who seek to excite a
class hatred against all men of
They seek TO turn wise and
proper movements for the better control
Of corporations and for doing awsy with
the abuses connected with wealth INFO = a
.a1npaign of hysterical excitement and
in which the aim is to infa1ne
o madness the brutal passions of man
The sinister d-emagogues and foolish vis-
onaries who are always eager to UNI
tertake such a campaign of destruction
those working for a genuine reform,
n governmental ard social methods. ard
sometimes masquerade as such reform
In reality they are the worst enemies
the csuse they profess to advocate,
ust as the pnrveyors of sensational
II a az n y ~ nur n. rNH,. ~, ~
he worst enemies of ali men who are
siiisaged in an honest effort to better
Hhat Is bad in our social and govern
~ preach hatred of The rich man as
'uch. to carry on a campaign Of SANDER
in,vectiye against him. to seek TO
men whose lives are hard and who nave
lot the kind of mental training which
VII permit them TO appreciate the dam
.ef IN the dostrines pr~eaehed-all this
,olitic and to be false to every worthy
and tradition of American ma
Moreover. while such preaching and
UGH agitation may give a livelihood and
certain notoriety to some of those who
amn, Part r., IN MI i; and may result in the
ne long run every such movement will
ither fail or else will provoke a violent
stion; which will itself result not
Y the demasogue and the agitator, but
lso in undoing the good that tie honest
the true upholder of porllar
lghts, has painfully and laboriously
.chieved.
Corruption is never so rife as in COM
nunities where the ~demagogue and the
agitator bear fun sway, because in such
communities all moral bands become
oosened, and hysteria and s-ensationalism
eplace the spirit of sound judgment and
air dealing as between man and man.
The plain people who thi,k the me
hanics, farmers, merchants. workers
With head or hand, the men to whom
traditions are dear, who love
heir country and try to act decently by
heir neighbors, owe it to themselves to
emember that the most damaging blow
nat can be given popular government is
o eject an unworthy and sinister agitator
n a platform Of violence and Hypocrisy.
whenever such an issue is raised in
his country nothing can be gained by
inching. from 1T. for in such case denoc-
a &c, J, Is itself on trial, popular self gov
n trial. The triumph OF the mob is
ust as evil a thing as the triumph of
ne plutocracy. and to have ESCAPED one
anger avails nothing whatever if we
uccumb to the other.
Railroad Employees.
I call your attention to the need of
the bill limiting the numbe, of
ours of employment of railroad en-
ioyes. TIL measure is a very moderate
ne and | can conceive of no serious OH
ection to it. Indeed. so far as ii is in
nv. EOuer If aSho,yl5 no ~, IL.