The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-07-09
THE BLACK HAND
BISHOP GALLOWAY DISCUSSES
TWO PROBLEMS.
We MUST CHRISTIANIzE
The Immigrant Population and the Ne
gro OF Else Close Our Ports to Their
Immigrant Ships-Says South Has
Treated the Negro Altogether Wrong

| Treated the Negro Altogether Wrong
| In discourse delivered in the Rankin
street Methodist church. in Jackson
| Miss. last Sunday. Bishop Gallowa,
discussed two problems connected with
The crying need for Outstanding for
eigners and the negro. OF the Blac,
Hand he said.
| This New Orleans Society of the
| Black Hand and the atrocious crimes
recently committed. compel the Chris
tan churches Of the Southwest to con
slider afrcsh our obligation to these peo-
pie. We must meet these incoming tides
with all the forces and resources of a
pure gospel. or else we must rise ND and
prevent their coming We must make
them Christian Americans. or else close
our ports TO their immigrant ships One
of two things will surely take place We
must make them Americans or they will
unmake America
Some of lis have vivid memories of
| that secret organization in New Orleans
a few years ago that assassinated Chief
Hennessey and others. and also did the
| murderous work in North Louisiana
with fire and stiletto A people whose
| favorite weapon of revenge is the knife
| ~ t,l1 e1t, =
gloat over the sight of blood. whether
1t flows III a bull fight. cockpit or from
the veins of a human victim.
My purpose is not to paint. picture
but 10 draw lesson. enforce All obliga-
| ton and voice an appeal.
II. The evangelical churches Of Amer
lea must adopt larger missionary plans
and provide more adequate means for
Christianizing our immigrant popula
lions Many of these people are densely
ignorant and practically pagan. We must
assimilate them into the spiritual and
social life of the nation. or else they will
paganize our fair land.
-. While planning greater enter
pfises for the evangelization of the i'm
migrant forces from other countries. we
had better show larger Christian states
nanship in dealing with the laboring
population we already have. If a 1.-THE
Of the energy displayed in bemeaning
the negro was exerted in his improve
ment and elevation, we. could make of
him far more Useful FACTOR in the in
dustrial and civil life of Our country.
Instead of calling into cooperation the
best of the race to assist in the improve
inent of all. the policy of some is to
deny that any are capable of good. and
to denounee all as equally guilty of ev-
cry possible crime. The splendid fidel-
ity of the loyal and faithful ones who
wrote some of the most beautiful and
pathetic chapters in the history of the
South-defending and providing for our
mothers when our fathers were at the
front of battle-eount for nothing in an
indiscriminate and unreasonng denun-
citation of an entire race.
In closing his discourse Bishop Gal
loway said: "As one of the most dstin-
guished of the South has recently said
What we should concern ourselves
ibout is the Negroes moral and spiritual
welfare If by our treatment of him we
can make him moral, upright, God
fearing man, the race problem will be
solved There would be no race prob
lem now If there were not whole lot of
mean negroes scattered about in the
same community with whole lot of
mean white folks. The question before
good negroes and good white people
now is, how to get rid of what is bad
and wrong in both races The only rem
sdy is not new one It is the old and
ever modern religion of our Lord Jesus
Christ. This consists in loving God
with all ones heart and ones neighbor
as ones self -
All Of which is very true, but is it
possible to Christianize the mean ne
groes and the mean white folks who
dwell together in defiance Of all NOR
atty and decency3 Is it possible to
Chrstianize the Black Hand with the
persuasion of brotherly lover Practi-
cally the undesirable immigrant should
not be permitted to come into the United
States, aud there should law so rigid