Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-09-13

Understanding as 90 the excessive bit
terness of many English people towards
the south, I watched with considerable in
terest for the first discussions at the
Ecumenical council attended by the fol-
lowers of John Wesley from all over the
civilized world. This Ecumenical council
is now in session in the city of London.
The meetings are held in a building which
is intimately associated with the active
work of Rev. John Wesley during his
noted career.
To this spot the hundreds of delegates
were attracted and a program had been
arranged covering every hour Of the entire
session of ten days or two weeks.
Some Georgians are supposed to be pres
emit and Bishop Galloway preached the
opening sermon by invitation of the COM
mittee on program. He is southern
Methodist bishop.
So far good. Bishop Galloway preach
ed his sermon and a few hours later ne
gro bishop from the state of New Jersey
took occasion to denounce the southern
states as favoring lynchers and persecut-
ing negroes. This negro bishop from New
Jersey declared that ninety negroes were
lynched in the southern states during the
year 1900, and only eleven were found
guilty of assault on the persons Of white
women.
The Britons cheered the negro bishop to
the echo and it is reported that good
many southern delegates left the building
in disgust.
With the lights before me respectfully
assume that the southern men found them
selves in the wrong pew, and unless there
is courage enough uncovered in the south
ern delegation to tell in detail Of the
Leavenworth affair, the Akron massacre,
and the hostility of dozens of other To-
calities in the north and west to negroes,
1 here declare that our southern delega-
ton would do well to shake OF the dust
of London and leave the negro bishop and
British negropholists to close communion
and racial sympathy without uttering an
other word in that presence.
Those who enjoy being kicked about by
British fanatics led by negro bishops,
may of course endure the kicking exer-
else, but I protest they have ceased to
be representative men from the Southern
Methodist church IL they fail to reply in
strong words to the New Jersey negro,
who poses as a bishop, before the Ecu
menical conference.
The story told by the negro bishop as
to the number of rapists as before sta
ted, is a palpable mistake; to speak re-
specially of his utterances. Such speak
ers as this negro bishop are among the
informers who have padded" the reports
of the Howard association of London with
falsehoods of vicious magnitude in re-
gard to the excessive brutality OF the
southern white men Of our country to-
wards the southern negroes.
And It Is such cunning, crafty prevari-
Gators who withhold all mention of the
burning alive of negro rapists in northern
and western states.
The same crime brings the same punish
ment wherever white men are brave
enough to protect their own women from
violence and rapine. And I measure my
words in the sight of heaven. and in hear
ing of the Ecumenical council, IL need be;
when / say 1t is a sorry white man, I'M
worthy of the name, that win refuse to
punish the black fiend with quick and
commensurate punishment that has thus
destroyed his innocent daughter or wife
on the public highway or in her own
home.
1t makes every drop Of blood in my
anatomy tingle with Indignation to hear
of these apologists for rape fiends, on this
or on the other side of the Atlantic ocean.
1t passes understanding that the raplst's
victim finds no sympathy among such
so-called religionists as cheered the negro
bishop over yonder in the city OF London.
Woman. as / arr, I'D tell that crowd OF
pietists a few wholesome truths in the
presence of the entire body of delegates,
or I'd was my hands Of the concern, and
secede from the organization quicker than
you could say '.Tack Robinson"
I'd tell the story of the Georgia wo-
man, we'll educated, the happy wife and
mother of four children, in her own home,