The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-11-11
BOOKER WASHINGTON
ON NEGRO ADVANCEMENT
Closing of National SOciC-
logical Society.
RACE PREJUDICE SWAPS MOB
Stirring Addresses on the Conditions
Surrounding the Colored People in
the Southern States.

The Washington conference Of the Ma
tional Sociological Society held its last
executive session this afternoon al the
Lincoln Temple Congregational Church
At tbs session a report was made by
the committee on resolutions. and a fur
Their eiicussion Of the race problem was
had
Tonight at o'clock a public meeting
VIII be held at the Nineteenth Street
Baptist Church. corner Nineteenth and I
Streets northwest. The Rev. Algernon
S. Cropsev, D. D., rector of St. An
drew's p T. Church, Rochester, y. Y.
viii delivsa- an address on the subject.
The Duty of the White Man Of the
North Toward the Black Man of the
South, and Dr, J. R. Wilder, Of Wash
ington. on the subject. ''Deterioratine
1nfiuences-Physical and Vital"
Bishop L. II. Holsey, of Atlanta. Ca
and the Rev. S. L. Corrothers. of Wash
ington, viii make brief addresses.
Booker Washington Speaks.
Booker T. Washington. in his address
before the sociological conference yes
terday. told the delegates that the pres
ent condition OF the race demands
something constructive rather than
mere condemnation.
we project that will bring US reHef?"
Il hope, he further said, that YOU
VIII bear in mind that the great body
or your people live in the South. There
are Se00.O0J in the South. and they will
remain there for years. II you viii
help US. you will keep in touch with us
who arc striving TO better the condi-
items there There are those of US who
expect 10 remain right in the South, and
II our people suffer. 10 suffer with
them
After Prof. Washington's address the
delegates discussed the solution of the
race problem. ]. W. Lyons. Register
of the Treasury. warned the confer
ence not 20 make the social crime of
the white nan an eztenuating factor for
the negro.
Prejudice Sways Mob.
The Rev. Dean Richmond Rabbit. o.
the Epiphany Protestant Episcopal
Church. Brooklyn, n. Y, addressed ar
audience that numbered nearly ESQ per
sons at the evening meeting of the con
ference in the Metropolitan NJ F
Church. he received an ovation at tn,
conclusion OF his address. The Psy
.chology OF Race Prejudice was his sub
ject
~ ne Speaker ILLUSTRATED the power o.
suggestion that racial prejudice exists
over the mob mind This mob monster
he saie. the American public must dea
with IN q decisive way. 1T has but ont
medicine-bullets from guns in tie law.
hands. Lynching Is murder, and lynch
ers mrrderers. 10 whom the law Should
give NJ quarter
Protect Black Women.
DR.. Rabbit said mat woman's virtu
does not have to be supported in Amer
lea by murder There Is one kind o
American womanhood. he continued
whose honor be had rot heard champion
7. ed-the black womanhood Of the South
J There are 100000 negroes in this coun
: ~. 1900, COO of whom are mulattoes
VINO turned the black man and woma
+. uow?' asked the speaker. He sal
at he Believed the black man had in
. directly wrought this wrong IN their at
tacks upon white Womanhood, and tina
one way 70 diminish lynchinBs in tn
South Is 10 protect black WOmanhOO
from outrage by low whites.