The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-20
Negro Preachers Say it Ira
duces Their Race.
NEGRO MOSES" SPEAKS
Rev Dr.. Rabbit Wants 10 Transplant Thou
sands of Negroes From the Black Belt Of
the South 10 The North and
(By the Associated Press.)
West.

Philadelphia, Sept 1S.-At today's SEES
sion of the National Negro Baptist Con
vention, J. Thomas Turner, of Texas, in
troduced the following resolution:
Whereas the unwarranted destruction
of human life and the breaking down OF
constitutional government have been per
Ipetrated through mob violence, which Of
tens put an innocent man to death for an
alleged crime against womanhood; be it
| Resolved That we implore our people
to refrain from any act that gives the mob
an occasion CT preteXt for it's unholy and
unwarranted destruction of such lives and
the breaking down OF constituted and
God-given government"
| The resolution was referred to a com
mittee.
The book "Leopard's Spots,'' by Thomas
Dixon, was denounced in resolution of
fered by Rev. j. M. Codwell, and Rev.
A. Barbour, of Texas, as traducing the
colored race.
Over ten thousand persons attended to-
nights session of the convention at the
national exposition building and listened
to addresses by Booker r. Washington
and Rev. DR.. Dean Richmond Rabbit, OF
New York
Mr. Washington addressed himself to
the church delegates, and in the course OF
his speech said:
"In large degree the negro minister,
during the last twenty-five or thirty
years, has been the preserver of peace and
harmony between the races; but for the
Iforbearance and patience and the gentle
tact of the negro minister many race riots
would have occurred in our country.
In 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 increasing degree is that kind
of leadership in the pulpit that is willing
to stand adverse criticism to be misunder-
stood and even abused, for the sake OF
the right. Our people do not need fat
terry so much as they need faith
"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 employment for our peo-
pie, especially in Northern cities.
we can only uOlU Jul OWN III Tue WOllu
of labor and industry by teaching our
people to do thing as well as anybody
else, by teaching them to perform com
mon labor in an uncommon manner.
1--WE cannot hold our own in the labor
world unless we are constantly taking adj
vantage of our every opportunity to i'm
prove ourselves.
In his further remarks, Mr.. Washington
said: 80.
Bishop Chandler, 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 correct the evils among
its own people and that the white race
should cease abusing the negro at long
range, and that the negro at the same
time should cease his cross-fire at the
white man. 1t will be to our interest in
every manly, straightforward manner to
cultivate the friendship of the people
among whom we live"
Rev. DR.. Rabbit delivered lecture on
"The Negro and The Nation" He con-
tended that the real negro question before
America is to give the negro the highest
possible development of American man
hood. He said voluntary, economic, indus
trial, persuasive Transportation from the
congested and illiterate black belts of the
South to the regions of the North and
West should be Immediately attempted
and slowly and Systematically carried on
Some of the practical and speedy bene-
fits to the illiterate, superstitous and NOR
ally inadequate negroes of the congested
black belts of Mississippi, Alabama, Geor-
gia, Florida and Louisiana, he said would
be their rearing, moral and intellectual ex
pansion, and general uplift, in the differ.
ent and better industrial and educational
conditions of the North. The North ought
not to object, for this, he said, is truly a
national problem and not sectional omen.