Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-26
The Scourge of Lynchings
Arousing Prominent Ne
groes Over the Country
TIME FOR ACTION HAS COME
colored Justice of the Peace Makes
Declaration That First Uprising Will
Be in the North-Situation Becoming
More intoIerable Every Day-The
Colored Mans Defense.

Milwaukee, Wis., June 26.-The pos
sbility Of war between The white and
black races in the United States was
the chief subject of discussion of the
Chicago and ST. Paul conference of
the African Methodist Sunday School
Association. In spite of the announce
ment at the opening of the conference
Wednesday, that the gathering would
not discuss politics, but religion, the
negroes, infiamed by the series of
lynchinss in the south and elsewhere,
broke away from the restraint and be-
fore the end of yesterdays session,
against the murder of negroes without
semblance of trial. The resolutions
referred particularly TO the recent
lynching of negro at Wilmington,
Delaware.
The resolution was as follows:
When 100000 obedient. patient,
law abiding and peaceful citizens come
10 realization of the woeful fact that
they must eat bread, drink water, and
pour out their life's blood for the quell-
ing OF internal inSurrection and the re-
pelling of outside foes with the bloody
flag of mob violence, Lynch law, and the
court injustice Haunted in their faces
from the rising of the sun to the GO
ing down of the same. is 1t TO be
thought strange when they rise up to
cry 1t is time for action 2
During the session, in the heat of de-
bate. there were frequent references to
the possibility of bloodshed if the whites
did not take steps for the protection of
the colored race.
Newspapers of this country that
have published accounts of lynchings
of the south, have done more to give
lessons to the youth of the land to pref
udice him on the race question IMAM
can be eradicated in years" declared
Bishop b. +. Lee. ex-presdent of VIII
berforce university.
THE spirit of the dread curse of
lynching is as damnable threat TO
American civilization as to the negro,
said Rev DR.. d. e. Butler, st. James
church, and editor II the Northwest
Vine, in his address. "l'he negro. it
must not be forgotten, is human. ana
can stand only so much. The time Is
fast approaching the tine Is almost
here. for action. The negro Will soon
be driven to deeds of violence, and II
he must act will strike fast and for
himself. If il comes TO the conclusion.
or rather If the conclusion IS forced
upon him. that the majesty OF the law
is not to be unheld. he viii. and ought
TO. at the first sound of alarm, shoot,
burn and destroy, the force that beats
him back from the parks of privilege,
promise and peace.
The Rev DIR. 4. j. Star, OF chicago,
pastor of the largest negro church in
the country, said:
THE matter of lynchias has assumed
such proportions that !. is now no
longer question for tie south alone,
aut for the nation. The recent occur
rences that have disgtaced BeiieNille,
H.. and Wilmington, De-. have demon
s;rated that in those localities the IN
habitants are lapsing into barbarism.
Il is hardly possible TO conceive of a
vast throng of 5000 or 5000 enlightened
Americans leaping and laughing IN
iiendish glee while human creature Is
tortured and burned, against whom no
crime has been proven. and VINO, III
light of law, must be regarded innocent.
This spirit OF lawlessness will not stop
with the lynching of tie negro, on
whose life the American nation places
rot the slightest value, altho he has
shed his blood on every battlefield.
The negro has never been known as
a seeker for trouble. He has borne his
burden for nearly $50 yeas in patience.
He has wi;hstood in MS experience
scenes of horror and blaclsness of
night that no human tongue has pow
er to depict. They We're brave and pa
triotic soldiers and now must they be-
lieve that their destiny IS not wrapped
up in the stars and stripes? The time
that now is come should not be con-
strued to mean less than an opportunity
for action. When the pulpit of Gods
house is converted into z block for the
slave trader and execuaoner, like the
one from which the Rev. r. j. Camp
bell. pastor of the City Temple, London,
who dipped his tongue in a pot of in
fernal vitriol and scattered the follow
ing: If l had been near Wilmington,
Del, / would have taken hand myself
in the lynching of the negro we feel
like looking up TO heaven and asking
ia the baarf -