New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-07-30
SHE PLEADS FOR HER RACE.
MISS IDA d. WELLS TALKS ABOUT HER
ANTI-LYNCHING CRUSADE.
SHE HOPES TO GET JUSTICE FOR THE NEGRO
THROUGH THE MORAL SUPPORT OF

THE NORTH AND WEST.
MISC Ida b. Wells spoke TO an audience Of about !
800 colored people last evening the Bethel Metho-
ist Episcopal Church In Suvan-st, lear Bleecker- !
81 She is the young coored woman who has been
speaking In Great Britain against Southern lynch
law T. Thomas Fortune scheduled TO speak
on the work done In England by Miss Wells. but
Miss Wells returned Unexpectedly, and she was IN
vted 10 speak for herself. Mr. Fortune, however
made n speech before the evening Miss
Wells's enuncaton and gestures last evening were
those Of a refined speaker. She is apparently about
four years old, OF medium height. and has
light complexion.
The Rev John ~ Henderson, pastor OF the church.
introduced Miss We"s r. Thomas Fortune said
that the white men OF the South were not CIVILIZED
race He said that in the South "a black man had
no rights that white man bound TO respect,
and an evidence Of this the general dsirah-
chsemcnt the miscegenation laws. and other UNI
written Jaws which kept the back man down
MISS WELLS BEGINS HER SPEECH
Miss Wells spoke on The English Crusade Against
Mob ana Lynch Law in the United States "he
said In part
"Our work is only begun: our race-hereditary
Northumberland strike the blow II they would De
free The negro is not free in spite OF the h''ai-
cipaton Proclamation that noble document mas
been a dead-letter in the South for the last thirty
years Protest after protest has been maze 10
Congress and to the PrcSident, OUT IL mas -" ~
no use We now ask the American people Tor
Justice The negro vote in the South Is as co'h-
pletely nulIified as II there none. and every
Southerner knows that one white vote eauai ~
three negro votes. The North and west nave
tolerated the barbarous conditions in the oou'n
because they are afraid to hurt the Souths 'eei-
ings We have tried to get a hearing from the
American press and people. without avail. Inc
white people Of the North and West have believed
the Southern reports OF crimes alleged 10 nave
been committed by our people Tor the last wv"
v.ars | have been endea voring TO tell the whole
truth I have been banished from my nome Tor
this alone An English lady who had seen Tor
herself the condition OF our people In the SOUTH
and seeing the hopcessness of our ever aroushs
hubble opinion in the North. asked me few Gays
after a coored man was burned awe at a'''
Texas in February. 1899, TO come 10 hhg'"h'
TO arouse a moral sentiment In England against
those revolving crielties practised by barbarous
whites The British people took with incredu"V
| nv statements that colored men were roasted OF
| lvnched in broad daylight, very frequently with
the sanction Of the officers of the law ana looked
| askahce at statements that half-grown boys sho,
bullets into hanging bodies. and. after cutting OH
,o.s and fingers Of the dead or dying carried them
about rs trophies. They could easily nave De-
| ueved such atrocities OF cannibas or heathens'
! hut not Of the American people, and In the 1and
NJ tho free and the home OF the brave But "hen
I showed ihom photographs OF such scenes the
newspaper reports. and the reports OF searching
Investigations on the subject. they accepted the
evidence Of their senses against their Wits
! As soon as they were positively convinced resolu-
tlous were passed asking the American people 10
ru, away from them such shame and degrade
ton
HER WORK IN ENGLAND.
Mis- Wells spoke of her work In Liverpool. Bris-
| fol Manchester ana In other places. making on an
| average ten addresses week. and while IN LONDON
| speaking once every day and twice on sunday
THE resolutions" continued Miss Wells. were
not passed In the spirit Of 'liolier than thou We
told the british press that our reason for comma
4nr miles was to win the moral force Of Grea
al', - u,sre enough Americans In England
no d.f~nded their country and flag, some love
IN. Gag 40 well that they felt In duty bonnd %
SUPPORT Ne s%sd FOR the lowest OF n
same protection by law TINT the highs, b ," a.
r,vllized nation could refuse such request W
showed that The negro w%s or ho' no Similarity 70
rrlminals but for common Justice.
AN ANTI-LYNCHING COMMITTEE
Miss Wells spoke of the unsuccessful eifort
% the southern newspapers 10 break down her 'eS'
uonv hy publishing what the British press terine
'.cowardly obscene and scurrilous attacS Is.- -
a. ,gdon 'pa,lv News and The ContemDorar
Kcvew were members was formed a. nc rVs"'' m
Miss Weiss work. she slii NolI'us - a hoi
davs Of I'nce Toms Cabin had taken sucn a '' ~
I'm England rs the Anti-Lyncning OruShI'i wa ~
comment Of the Rev Dr Clifford. OF lonuoh. ~
scene Of the conflict ITO put down lh',r-uH! Ia,
| had been transferred - America Dynamic uas
gers ami the torch were not necessary 20 L, 10 cor
p.ish the work In spite ot the centuries OF ga" ~
and oppression the colored people never had pee
ami never would be Anarchists. The c)orru ma
yyoulI appeal 10 the moral forces OF the country
| Ivnchinx would cease when the clements Tor goo
| comhiucI Miss Wells strongly urged al her "a.
| 10 unte all over the country. The charges q, ~ ~
human crime - frequently made ag4ins' yI''' :
men was mere cloak Miss Wells snd'
| ride tho real motive for ynchlns rae
| prejudice. 60, . .,,,,- .,
'"k,ack women" she sail. have had - suffer -
NOR, AZ he hanls OF white men than wnlte "onIv
a, the hands u black men. Every s.nsie rePSSa
which Is published should be investigator pN -,
,ectlyes ami let the negro witness ASK ma, ~
statement be published side by side win tha' Oh L"
In closing Miss We.,S asked all 20 c9mon1s 10 vi,
Jicate the name OF the race ana sill NnoH
nnt hereditary hondsmen that they VINO "ou'u
srea themselves mus; strike he blow 49,.
Nexi SUNDAY evening the Woman i'0ya L,, W.,
Mics Weiss society. VIII meet IN betn'l N"uIC"
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