New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-14


been the race question and expressed the opinion
that as soon as this problem was on the road TO
settlement the white vote would be equally divided
between the two great parties.
Dr. Broughtons text was Whether, therefore
ye or drink or whatsoever ye do, do all 10 the
glory Of Cod
Speaking Of practical religion, he said that when
Christ had fully entered into lives it would be
just wrong for the society woman TO play pro-
gressve euchre for prize as It is now for two
colored men in Atlanta 10 go into back alleyway
and shoot craps for money. He said:
Some time ago down in Atlanta We woke up TO the
fact that the city was in dangerous condition.
The Sa bbath slipping away from US ana pc
YORK Dens OF inlquity sprang up all over the city.
We Investigated and found that the main trouole
leagued with the promoters OF vice and when we
found this to be trus began 70 understand what
OF ike priest like people We tried TO get our CITY
officials 10 act You might as well Try TO eat sop
with a knitting needle 10 try 10 get the average
ward politician 10 bring charge against supsr, S
one day visited the Common Council ana deo
M4yor' ont ne and confessed ike man and
4romised reyer TO do il again. week ago
" ,ort n The Council and the Mayor was jerked
M so suddenly that il made him sick He Is now
una una br rhecked and We are doing better down
tSere Why cannot you do the same thing here?
You've got many people and so much n near res,
here that you'll have a hard time OF IT, out YOU
' tn World is wiser now It doesEt care are what What
ken lie feel the throb Of your pretences? If
not then away With the nonsense Oi W m1 So,ao
bUt We also send whisky that does more damage
in a year than we can repair in lifetime
OF the Philippines DR. Broughton said:
We are going TO hold on to those islands The
man or the party tnaf NJ aag viii come out
OF il the helpless imbecile this country mas
produced. don't know about the "lsuotu " ~
ING them from Spain but we've got them. and the
thing 10 do now is 10 govern them wisely. We've
we nave to turn Georgia or Mississippi loose But,
brethren those Philippine natives nave the JoKe
us They The ss s2n PqW9 6y 10 try recon- to- cze u.s. We
amt going 10 lynch any colored people or glGs
up elevated railroads streetcars with dynamite
as you have done lately in Georgia, New-fork ana
We've got these things to face in TIE last az.
alvsls and they will never be solved by the poll
ticians The solving OF them Is the task OF ChrSuah
citizens Of our great not on.
Speaking OF the Georgia lynchers DIT Broughton
said:
hands streaked with human blood TO the gaze OF
our people. and I believe that before the par OF
God they will be charged win their crimes no
respectable people Of Georgia are all against ypcn
law. The respectable colored people are al against
dirty low down devilish element in our fair south.
land 10 90 on with tqese !yncn!hgS IT1 49, ~
20 constables. then well stop 10 n Ihey can, De
SITpP9a in the Governors chair and I'll guarantee
-
TO stop lyuchiuGs In Georgia In three weeks Time
Dom YOU talk to about not being able 10
stop g. -, =, -.
on the other hand you in the North do not
begin 70 understand how grossly immoral ana lg-
noTant he colored masses Of the South are More
than - per cent Of the crime in the South Is COM
Tiited bv negroes There are many good people
among them but the great mass is devoid OF NOR
atty and conscience. You would feel hard II you
should come home some night and find the sanctity
OF YOUR home destroyed forever. The question that
confrouts us, however. is what IS the right tnlns
The one great enemy OF the colored man in the
South to-day is politics He has absolutely no
noiiticaI conscience He Is absolutely for sale
The man with the most money can go and ouy
him al will Don't you see how difficult IL IS 10
5et moral issues considered when the conditions
are like these The time has not come. and |
saw il without bitterness. never VIII come when
tba white man OF the South viii allow the colored
man to dominate him politically. ! need not say
that I believe IL great mistake on the pSIt
~ The Government 10 give the uneducated black
the full right Of suffrage 10 begin with. We are
mas, that The one thing needed to-day Is the
Elimination OF the colOred man as political factor
When that is done the race problem VIII De solved