The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-12
NEXT CONFERENCE TO
 MEET IN WATERBURY
N r. EAST METHODIsTS WILL
 ASSEMBLE THERE IN 1905.


 Only sI5O,oOO Rsceived--Confsrsnc wnu Probably Complete Its LabOrs To-day.
 New York, April 1.-The New York East conference of the Methodist Epis- sooal church to-day decided to hold 1 he next conference at Waterbury, Bonn. The conference probably will eomplete it's labors tomorrow.
 It was also decided to establish a aome for superannuated ministers be- |pnging to the conference. The home IEill be called the "Summerfield house" End committee was appointed to take Yharge of it's affairs.
 4 President B. F. Raymond of Wesley sn university in his report to the con- iersnce said that only S15O,00O of the billion dollars he had asked for as an 3ndowment fund had been raised. l The conference discussed the subject df lynching. The prevalence of mob Inv was called to the attention of the delegates by the Rev. Dr. w. F. Ander- Ion of Assining. who read a statement 'lnd asked the delegates to give him a Importing vote. He said in part: \ We are filled with horror and alarm liver the increasing number of lynch fhgs in many parts of our great repub- He The practice Of mobbing men and gomen to death has come to be a na- I'ional disgrace. There was a time when
 was practised only in the south, and When it was inflicted only only the Esegro for his crime against the sacred less of womanhood. But to-day it is Not confined to the south. It is being Liberated and even embraced in the Forth. Nor is it limited to any crime aee or sex. During the past twenty Tears there have been in round numbers 800 cases Of lynching in this country, |DO whites and 1,2O0 negroes.
 Last year in this country 11S negroes were lynched, S7 per cent. of whom were |harged with crime against women. |Iany of the others were perpetrated pon slight provocation, the real cause Icing race hatred.
 Such an army of facts is enough to firing the blush to the faces of every
 merican citizen. The law of our coun-
 y guarantees the right of trial by Try to all, and we insist that the trong right arm of it's power should be ngaged to secure this inalienable ght to every citizen regardless of color condition, or of the crime of which nan may be suspected, We, there bre, call upon the federal government hd upon the executive heads of our everal great commonwealths to exer-
 SC all possible speed in bringing the bcitors of mobs for any cause what yer to swift impartial justice.
 The practice of lynching is not only
 crime against humanity, but it has bme to be a menace to the very foun- (Rtion of principles of our great repub-
 The sediments expressed by Dr. An < erson had the hearty support of the lhtire conference and all the ministers
 ood up when Bishop Andrews called x Er the vote.
 IA special order of business for to- kays session concerned the question of
 storing the pastoral time limit" The
 scussion was started last Saturday by
 e offering of a draft of a memorial
 hich may be sent to the general con-
 ence. The memorial has the endorse
 ent of t1irty-seven of the members
 the conference, but is being fought
 some 0 the laiding members of the
 lurch, led by Rev pr. James R. Day,
 lance1lor of Syracuse university.