The evening times., 1898-12-03
Views of Bishop Turner, of the
African Church.
EXIST BY sUFFERANoE
Must Appeal to Congress for Aid
to Emigrate.
Fears DISCRIMINATION of the Race
Rather Than Its Re-euslayement.
Presents a Gloomy Picture.

NJ Turner, the best-known colored church.
man in the Southern States, who is at
present presiding over the{ conference of
the African Methodist Church, in session
here, says of the condition of the negro
that as race he has no manhood future
in this country.
''Re-enslavement, emigration or exter-
nina tion," he says, confront him. No
man who has any knowledge of the de-
grading surroundings of the negro doubts
these assertions.
THE negro can no more hold up under
the brutalizing decisions of the United
States Supreme Court and all the degrad
ing laws of the several State legislatures
than he can carry the Rocky Mountains
upon his head.
The class and prejudicial laws enacted
by the legislatures of the several States
and the cruel decisions by thousand
courts TO blight the future of the negro
will ill a massive volume.
Where is the negro who can get cup
of tea or coffee on any railroad between
the Potomac River and the Rio Grande,
much less decent meal of victuals? Nor
are negroes allowed to keep an eating
stand for the accommodation of their own
race. while the admission of a negro by
to any machine shop North would make
hundreds of employees lay down, their
tools and walk out.
Gould the barbarous ages surpass such
conditions of affairs? | am not so ap-
prehensive of reinstatement as | am of
determination. The white paupers COM
,po, nd
here by millions, will do the scullion "a
Dor that was conceded TO the negro and
may prevent reinstatement, for they
are monopoliZing that kind of labor.
The Jews are the only people 10 re-
orded history (the greatest race on earth
who ever made any progress undsr Gp-
preston. and they made but little com
paratively Yet the color of the skin
was not badge of degradation, as in the
case of the negro here.
Exists by the White Mans whim.
"The negroes in the United States are
practically without law, existing upon
the mere whim of the white man. If they
fall into humane hands. they have some
show, but if into cruel or whisky besot-
ted hands they are lynched, burned or
shot, and horrible allegations are
ildoHth pNti llit III
many instances without foundations in
truth.
And the negro cannot send a correc-
ton over the same wires. The greater
number of newspapers manufacture hurt
full sentiment against the negro. If the
negro could stand up and hold out under
this slander, abuse and nisrepresenta-
ton, he would be the mightiest race on
earth today. Hs
>har.. &c hut artIri
the negro must appeal To the. National
Congress for one hundred million dollars,
and let those who have any manhood
leave this country and go to Africa. and
do what God intended when he allowed
him to be brought here; go to Africa and
begin the work of ciyiliZing his kin. We
will thus show ourselves men and vindi-
cate the wisdom of the Almighty in our
creation.
There are some fool negroes, void of
scholarship and wide reading. believing
that they were born to be scullions who
will object to this, the only plan offered
by God and nature.
Gods Aid Their Only Refuge.
Three millions of us are now ready to
leave and be warmly received by millions
on millions of our brtehren rising up In
grandeur, 10000 of whom j received into
the African Methodist Church when 1
was in the Transvaal six months ago.
Unless this nation helps us God will
overthrow 1t as he did the Roman Empire
and all other nations who oppressed the
weak; for the blood of thousands OF ne
gro men, women and children are crying
TO heaven daily for retribution, and mil
lions of prayers are ringing in the ears
of the Almighty every minute. and wnen
God moves men and nations must give
way.
The white lynchers, politicians and
lawmakers may turn deaf ear and re-
fuse to hear our groans, our walls and
our cries, but God Will not refuse, though
he bear with them long.
These tens of thousands of churches
and hundreds of thousands of prayer
meetings which are being held in them,
and in private retreats, will revolutionize
this nation sooner or later. A hundred
million dollars for emigration may, how
ever, avert the vengeance of heaven, do
Justice to an oppressed people and save
this nation from further crime, bloodshed
and ultimate ruin.