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EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH Wr THURSDAY I>ECEMB NUMBER FORTY.SIX VOLUME FORTY-THREE SOME PLAIN SPEAKING" On the loth of June 19-09 I wi’ote the following article and filed it away among my papers. It is now published for the first time. . It is time to do some plain speak: ing concerning the Negro ahd the at. titude of a part of the white races toward him. The time is now and I am going to speak piainly. The negro is just now the victim of the insensate hatred of a class of white people wlio are to be found not only in the South, but in a great many northerly states, where the vi rus of race prejudice has taken a deeper hold than many of us realize, and this is largely due to the fact that Negroes are pushing forward in these northern communities and en deavoring to improve their condition materially, educationally and indus trially. The large foreign element in the North and West, see in the Negro a formidable rival in the in dustries and much of the mob vio. lenoe of which we hear in these sec tions greeted against Negroes fts directly , traceable to this elemeht, which forms a quite considerable part of the trade-and labor unions of the North. To this scum of the fac et Europe we and West. The apathy of the administration in regards to these disorders the cowardly silence of the press; the public and the pulpit has spurred the mob both in the North and in the South to acts of violence and sav agery hitherto unheard of. It ap. parently assumes that since the Pres, ident and Congress do not deem it necessary to take any action to pro. tect tae Negro in tne enjoyment, of ms limned liguts or cicme*ifeiiip, it may do as it pieases warn iuni: Aim so Negroes mo no>»'_ ftuiug rynciiou mid burned at trie stane in tno Isoitn (Uiiiiost as ire-quenoiy a'js in tiiO oOcihii, \v iibi. o lxsj to uioj i of his labor and ms vote ana de nied every privilege ' winch. tne white man ueuiund and receive for them selves. As a balm for these wrongs and injustices norinern philanthrop ists pour their dollars into the cof fers of negro schools, and northern business men and manufactureres absolutely refuse to give employmeni to the products of these schools foi' whom, their money is given to edu. cate, no mazier how well educated or how efficient they may be. Mean, while our spineless race leaders are temporizing with wrong, and hoping against hope for the coming of the morning, when “men to men shall brothers be, for a’ that and a’ that.” They forget th'ajt rights are more than filthy gold, that manhood counts lor more than cringing servil. ity, even though the latter pays temporarily, that gold does ^)t make men out of jelly and that je^y fish and apoiegetic Leaders cannot lead manly men anywhere by cow, ardly submitting to wrong or tem. porizing with injustices which tend to (brutalize and dehumanize any race. The questions which relate to the civic and political rights of. the Negro cannot be much longer apu# off or adjourned. Thwre is bound to be a day of reckoning, of retribu tion, settlement, for God punishes national sins with the same certain ty and vigor with which he punish, es individual sins. For ail the wrongs for which the Negro race has suffered and is now suffering the white man will sooner or later have to pay a terrible penalty; for what am Anti the angel said unto them, Fear not; for .behold I 'bring you good tidings c<f great joy, which shall be to all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the. Lord Luke 2:10.11. goes up must come down. I believe ] in the justice of Almighty God ana that the law of action and reaction still applies and will apply to this na. tion, and to ail nations who use Jieir power arbitrarily and to op. press the weak and helpless. Noth ing is more cieany wiiuen in -me book of fate than that this nation is on the verge of a great upheaval and there is nothing more certain than that the negro who is* the vic irn, the under dog in this civiliza- ; tion will in that grim revel, become as he always has in every great cri sis in this nation, one of the hul. warkg of the Republic. In less than ten years the nations will be at each others throats and blood will flow, andr thrones wiSl totter. “The pestilence that walketh at nooday’ ’ will overshadow this iand and want and famine will be the portion of many peoples here md in foreign lands. Great as was imperial Rome it is now only a mem. ory because it worked unrighteous, ness and boasted of its strength.'God suffered it to foe cut down. Its great strength was its chief weakness. In. dustrial education is not the true solvent for the wrongs of the No* gro. He ha- a grieivance which can only be righted foy poetic justice. IfJ he white man of the North wht> has recently resorted to the lyncn. ing habit and mob violence in imi tation of their white Southern breth ren imagine that they can repress in the Negro the desire ior justice and determination to possess it, i loji tnem that they are mistaken. It cannot be repressed, it cannot be shot out of them, or frightened on', of them. The mightiest question be. io¥6 the American people today is what shall we do with the Negro V Many white Americans mistakenly suppose that the endowment of cof. leges and schools for negro educa tion is the only proper way to dis pose of it. This only aggravates it. Education without' rights is as tbad if not worse than chattel slavery, it creates more restlessness and re, bellion in the breasts of negroes w'ho like myself are heartily tired of the cowardly evasions and silence of those who ought to speak out, but da,re| not against the deep damna tions of the Negroe’s wrongs. Had George Washington looked to Geo. the III for advice as to how to con duct the war against England there would have been no declaration of Independence, and no United States The American Negro is gtoling to get his. rights either from the Amer ican people, or from the Almighty God and he will get them much sooner than some of his enemies im.. agine# There are now indications on the world’s checker board whicn poult to national and international upneavais lor the world, is now in travail, and at almost any moment the unexpected and the unusual may happen. . Europe is helpless and America is ominously silent. History is about to repeat itself. We are sitting on the edge of a volcano wiuen in its pent up fury will some day burst forth and set the whole vVorid m tears. AS HISTORIC EVENT Special to The Star: The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge tPrince Hall Constitution) F. A. and A, M., of the State of New York gave a banquet in honor of Presi. dent C. D. B. King and wife, of Li beria* West Gold Coast Africa on the evening of Sept. 22, in Ander. son’ Assembly Rooms 16th and Ir ving Place, New York State. The af fair is declared by those conversant with such functions to( have been the largest and most successful so. cial event ever given by the race in the greater city. Tickets of admis. sion including dinner were ?5 a cou. pie and ?3 single and many appli cations for places at the table had to be denied for want of space. It yas ah epoch making event anf many distinguished Africans sat around the festitve board, among tliem Bishop A. P. Campner, of Li. oeriai; Dr. H. B. Ca3»eii, Prof. P.~ William Miegar and Messrs. VVolo. and Poweii of Liberia Among the. noted ladies present were Mrs. Le ila Walters, wife or the late Bishop Ai Waiters, Misg Grandolyn James, of Kingston Jamaica; Mfs." J. Cock' burn, wife of Captain Cockburn of Lagos, West Coast, Mrs. David Par. ner, wee of the mast : -worshipful Grand Master. Prince Hall G. L. President- elect King, was escorted from the Hotel, The Astor, to the Banquet Hall by R. W7,, II. A. Wil liamson, Treasure? of the Banquet Committee, and four mounted police officers detailed by the mayor, and he was received at the entrance of the Hall by Ihe Knight Templar with arched swords under which he pass, sd with the committee to the truest tables, to the strains of the Liberi an National Anthem, “All Hail Li_ qeria, Hail,’’ by the Orchestra, the diners rising and cheering _as he passed to his seat hesidt G. II, Par ker.- Tke speeches ot welcome and responses to toasts were enlivening SjHHmiring. Letters of regret ffjSBHHeived ami v|>ad b.\} Bruce i^t ;il|y3o^rncr Smith, S*fcjror ; ian, l>™Lh'Harvey Anderson of Honor, Mr. J. fcgflijk. Supreme Court ot laces? charge' of the *affairs was compose! of R- W. G. S. G. L. of New York, A. A.- Schemburg, chairman; R. W H. A. Williamson, Treasurer; John E. Bruce Grit, K. O. A. R. M. L. P, Secretary of the Banquet Commit tee. The dinner for service and com * pleteness left nothing to' be desired. The Grand Lodge has demonstrated its ability as a.n entertainer of dis tinguished masons from foreign lands, and its guests are unstinted in praise of its hospitality This is the second banquet tendered by the New York Grand Lodge to Masonq from abroad, the first having occur red more than fifty years ago 'when delegates from Haiti were ban queted by it. John E. Bruce,_ “Grit.” * Yonkers, N. Y. June 10, 1909. THE NORTH ALABAMA CONFER ENCE By Rev. C.. J. Stevenson, A. E., I>_ D. The old North Alabama Confer ence has again passed into’ history. On the 19th of November this his. tcric Conference opened its -25th annual session in Clinton Chapel, Tuscaloosa, Ala. Rev.. S. H. Brown is the pastor. Rt. Rev. J. W, Alstork is the presiding Bishop. The con. fernece opened with a large delega. tion of ministers and laymen on hand. Dr. C. C. Alle^ne, editor of the Quarterly Review; was the only General officer on hand at the op ening. The conference was inter, esting from beginning to end. The Bishop w^hose health was almost perfect was at his best in his usu&i way of giving advice on the leading topics of the day. The strike situa tion; the lynching problem and th<* Mexican -situation and all of our present day ills were topics for sane advice. After the usual introduction of visitors and some preliminaries, the Conference settled down to bus iness. The first day’s session closed ■with splendid results. Dr J. C. Thompson, Presiding Elder of the (Continued on page f)
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