The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-18
ADVICE TO NEGROES
T. T. ALLAN DELIVERS SENSIBLE
 ADDRESS TO BLACKS.
He DecIares That They Must Fina Better Helntfons With Whafe People of South Their
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~The only salvation for the negro is the cultivation of friendship with Ane white people of the South a~nt nv the negro ex-State Senator of Louiss.ana' M q. T. Allain. now resident or SnscaSo S the nSrass stsses ef sspsss cnurc for negroes last. evening". =
 AIlain spoke for nearly an hour on the best methods for the enmlainaSlic nrninaica against the negro througnout shs Sn.- s,.. ted States. His Is remarkapie soiu- tion of the negro problem m to oe aro he is to r,a have sa e's home at ail, aud he n must ,,s live here as tie the gGma'ns ,1ve race white people to get together and have
 better gssrstansns sonsr isIS ndSk.4 Allan TRs moTk his school is doing s of the type which the nesrS S,n nesds dor But r; trs. rs. me hatred for the negro becomes more and more marked each day. There has been an inordinate increase of in- negro especially in the North. West and East but also in the South. It's up to you to remedy this.
 There is much similarity between the history of the negro and the his- dence of God we have been brought snces @ p's of Amerioan @ eivilzsaion f aRas as the children of Israel were brought into contact with the civilization of ancient. course of a plague in the shape of 2 great war thousands of negroes Stayed at the homes where they had been, of hs their anu masters s who we're on on the - bas- tiefield secured claim upon the grat- itude of the best that is in the South.
 But with all this intolerance is on greater in proportion, however, in the North, East and West than in the south. And yet 1t was the North East Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments In the Constitution Of the United States. time has come when the ne- must blot out this intolerance Lynch ing and burning must stop. You can not. however. stop these evils by pol- itics. If so it would surely be stopped by the present overwhelmingly Re- publican administration. Congress leEislated during the last session op' everything but this question.
 eYon can't depend on the white Re- publicans of the South You can only depend on God and the white people of the South. We are displeasing God, We are not doing right and we are not doing our best to control the young nan and young women e,n. Of ths .s race. groes are ashamed.
 'Tt Is in the common people of tho negro race In whom we must place our hope The so-called best element of the negroes you can't bet on; they are too busy making money. Negro politicians in the employ of the Fed~ eraI government are helpless
 we are not a poor people and We are not an ignorant people. There are fewer beggars In proportion among the negroes than among any other nation Rlity. We hacve as no one will dis- pute. made great strides in education. But with All this prejudice is on the the North in which negroes have not for the Cancasion except In the most extrene cases. but If an oficer asresta R negro for serious offenso, a mol tAaSss charge or the lec,sl situas,9S, sdnaS,.v Ali we want Is to live in peace We have a plan whereby we will try to solve fhe ststan oysr wnsfn for ws few axs onths convention of negroes will be called Co meet in the capital of some Southern state,.iin the black pslt us amHon,g Hn,sgrstsr 1ar from every church which win send yi srgsH,lss sp ar ss sgsss lIss sss has sc many, and this order will have , Iset q this order sasll s, be to adySc1i,e rocn,e and tn black people. II we need mon ev we can get more for a cause Ike this than any or our cducatlonal insti~ futfous ever dreamed of.
 "When we have done this we will Be in d position to so to the way ward members of our race and demand that they quit their foolishness.
 s'We will regulate these members of oiir race before the white people regu- lat them with rope around their neck
 .s'Then we will be in. position to de- rnand that the lyncbinE practice be Suppressed. The white men who lynch are the kind who may be found any night. in company with the degraded times, they are not the best people reported by the newspapers.
 isThis is not political movement, but movement to place the negro ID a better position to be able to live and work in peace"
 AIlain will speak this evening at St, Johns African Methodist Churcn on Madison Avenue.