The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-19
Or. BRoUGHToN IN THE METROPOLIS.

TO New York to deliver a series of lee
lures. The Brooklyn Times prints hrs
nicture and says he made an impression.
Of course he did. DIR. Broughton is
man of dynamic force. When he talks,
he says something. He deals in no
use of words that conceal meaning.
You may not agree with him but ne
will make men hear him and talk about
what he says.
In a sermon or lecture, whatever ne
called it-Dr. Broughton said many
things that are being widely copied and
commented upon, and many things that
his metropolitan audience needed to hear.
Most of them never read Southern
paper and if they ever get true con-
ception of the conditions in the South
II must be from men who command their
attention in the pulpit or on the plat
form Among his pithy sayings we make
room for few extracts:
but. brethren, those Philippine ma
tives have the joke on us. 1hey can
point to recent history in this country
and say: why try to ciyilize us! we am t
going to lynch any colored people, or
blow up elevated railroads or street-cafs
with dynamite, as you have done lately
in Georgia, New York and Ohio
1--WE are sending missionaries TO the
Congo, but we also send whiskey, that
does more damage in a year than we
can repair in lifetime.
"Clean UP your city politically! The
world little notes or cares what we, or
the churches believe; it does not care
about what you do; it asks us. What
is your life2 What are you doing!
.sThis race problems with its lynching
and feud, must be solved by religion
The men who advocate, participate III
or look upon lynchings, are murderers IN
the sight of God. | have so denounced
them in my pulpit. We can stop lynch
ing. hut it is very difficult TO wipe oni
the crime which gives rise to iynchifg
1hree-fourths of the crime III the SCUM
is committed by darkies. Most oil
them have no conscience. Perhaps
they are not to blame,
.SThc respectable c0lored people are
all against law breaking. The trouble
IS that we allow the dirty, low down,
deyilish element in our fair Southland
To 60 ON with these lynchings. When
we get the right sort of men III Once,
from governor down to constable, theh
we'll stop them. They can be stop
ped.
Ion the other hand YOU In the North
do NOT begin to understand how grossly
immoral and ignorant the colored masses
Of fine South are. More than % per
cent of the crime in the South is COM
mitted by negroes. There are many good
peo1ae among them, but the great mass
L devoid of morality and conscience.
You would feel hard If you should
come home some night and hnd the
sanctity of your home DESTROYED Tor
ever. The question that confronts US,
however, is what is the right thing TO
do?
.1Ihe one great enemy of the colored
man in the South today IS politics lie
has absolutely no political conscience.
He is absolutely for sale. Ihe man
with the most money can go ana Duy
him at viii. Don't You see how dlthcnlt
If is to get moral issues considered when
the conditions are like these! The
time has not come and | say it with
out bitterness, never will come, when
the white man Of the South will allow
the colored man to dominate him poll
tically. | need not say that be-
Iieye it was a great mistake on the part
of the government to give the uneduca-
ted black the full right of suffrage 10
begin with We are Tast that. lhe
one thing needed today IS the elimina-
ton of the eolored man an as a political
factor. When that is done the race
problem will be solved
"Conscienceless Southern politicians
invariably resort to colored men in the
campaign. They array white men
against the colored men, stirring up
race wars, felids and the bloody battles
that stir the South Unfortunately, we
cannot make the colored people under
stand that they are being used for 20
IiticaI purposes. Mostly all of the
Southern race troubles are due to pei
itics. In South Carolina the col
ored men are prosperous and happy
colored men are constantly leaving the
various Southern States and locating
there They are prospecting, and why!
Because they do not vote. They are
not allowed to vote, being practically
DISTINGUISHED. = = There are no
feuds, no race wars, no lynchings IN
South Carolina.
Getting back to the remedy, / de-
clare it my belief that the complete
and absolute elimination of cosored
men from politics is essential to the
peace of the South and the welfare of
the colored race. | believe that they
should be educated and trained, and
then, when they come to understand
the ballot and realize it's meaning and
significance / would give them the
election franchise. But what has this
to do with Christian citizenship, it may
be asked. Everything | answer. We
must put religion and morality into civic
life. We must follow the teachings
of Christ Ii we fail as Christians TO
keep our civic life in touch with re-
ligion, Christianity and morals then we
fail in our Christian duty, and our re-
ligious professions are pretense."
When asked, if during his trip abroad
4 kI. Al, ~.