The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-19
PLEA TO THEIR RACE
MADE BY NEGRO BAPTIsTs GATH
Erred IN PHILADELPHIA.
WANT MOB LAW STOPPED
AND IMPLORE NEGROES NOT TO
GIVE PRETEXT FOR ITS USE.

"LeOpards Spots" Denounced ms Ira
ducinE the COIOred Race-BOOker
Washington and DIR. Dean Rich
mOnd Rabbit Among Speakers.
Washington Told of the Duties of
the Negro Minister - Must often
Take Unpopular Side as Their
People Do Not Need FIattery SO
Much Facts.
Philadelphia. Sept. 1S.-At to-days
session of the National Negro Baptists
Convention, j. Thomas Turner, of
Texas, introduced the following reso-
luton:
Whereas, the unwarranted destruc-
ton of human life and the breaking
down of constitutional government
have been perpetrated through mob
violence, which often put an innocent
man to death for an alleged crime
against womanhood Be it
Resolved, That we implore our peo-
pie to refrain from any act that gives
the mob on occasion or pretext for
it's unholy and unwarranted destruc-
ton of such lives and the breaking
down of constituted and God-given
government"
The resolution was referred TO a COM
mittee.
The book "Leopards Spots" by
Thomas Dixon, was denounced in
resolution offered by Rev. j. NJ. Cod
well and Rev. 3. A Barbour of Texas
as traducing the colored race
Over 10000 persons attended to-
nights session of the convention at
the national exposition building and
listened to addresses by Booker 7.
Washington and Rev. DR.. Dean Rich
mond Rabbit of New York. Wash
lngton addressed himself to the church
delegates and in the course of his
speech said.
In large degree the negro min
lister during the last twenty-five or
thirty years has been the preserver
of peace and harmony between the
races. but for the forbearance and pa
thence and the gentle tact of the ne
gro minister many race riots would
have occurred in our country.
In a peculiar sense you will find
more and more that it will become
the duty of the negro minister to take
the unpopular side Of many public
questions. What we need in an in
creasing degree is that kind of lead
ership in the pulpit that is willing to
stand adverse criticism, to be misun-
derstood and even abused for the sake
OF right. Our people do not need fiat.
terry so much as they need facts
You Will find one of the problems
that is going to press more seriously
on you for solution in the near future
than in the past is the one of employ
ment for our people, especially in
northern cities.
1--WE can only hold our own in the
world of labor and industry by teach
ing our people to do a thing as well as
anybody else, by teaching them to per.
form common labor in an uncommon
manner.
I'VE cannot hold our own in the labor
world unless we are constantly taking
advantage of every opportunity to inn
prove ourselves"
In his further remarks, Washington
said: Bishop Gambler Of Georgia
struck, in my opinion, the heart of the
race question a few days ago, when he
said that each race should try to cor.
rect the evils among its own people
and that the white race should cease
abusing the negro at long range, ane
that the negro at the same time should
cease his cross-hre at the white man
1t will be to our interest In any manly
SlfdlBnI-IOrWdTQ mariner 10 cultivate
the friendship Of the people among
whom we live"
Rev. DR.. Rabbit delivered a lecture
on THE Negro and the Nation" He
contended that the real negro question
before America is to give the negro
the highest possible development OF
American manhood. He said that vol
untary, economic, industrial persuasive
transportation from the congested
and illiterate black belts of the South
to the regions of the North and West
should be Immediately attempted ano
slowly, Systematically carried on.
Some of the practical and speedy
benefits to the iliterate, 'superstitious
and morally inadequate negroes of the
congested black belts of Mississippi
Alabama, Georgia. Florida and Lou
isiana he said would be their rearing
moral and intellectual expansion and
general uplift. in the different and bet.
ter industrial and educational condi-
tions of the North. The North ought
not to object for this. he said. is truly
a national problem and not a sectional