The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-06-19
A BRILLIANT WRITER.

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A BRILLIANT WRITER.
That the largest and most widely
circulated religious journal in the
United States, published by Negroes.
and mailed out from Nashville each
week, is jest beginning to be known by
the Nashville people This paper is
known as The National Baptist Union
1t is a siXteen-page weekly, and is the
official organ OF two million, three hun
dred thousand Negro Baptists, the
largest body of Protestant religious
workers in the world. Although this
paper is not generally read in the city
OF Nashville, not more than one-half
of the Baptist preachers, it is learned
read it weekly Outside of Nashville
it has a tremendous circulation, and
all on account of its official connec-
ton, the reliable news-matter and its
high-class editorials, The editor of
this paper, Rev. E. W. D. Isaac, D. D.,
is rated among the best. Sometimes
he is forced, and especially of late, to
be absent from his desks attending
conventions, and is not able to get in
his regular editorial contributions. In
such cases some one is always dele
gated from the Baptist Publishing
House to fill his place 1t was during
last month when DR.. Isaac was absent,
that a literary light was assigned to
the editorial work on the Union. 1t
was none other than Prof. j. d. Cren-
shaw, of this city, who has furnished
the paper With such able editorial mat
ter that it has attracted comment from
such high class journal as The Liter
airy Digest. More than one of Prof.
CrenshaW's editorials have been com
mented upon. The last from che Liter.
airy Digest was as follows
"a NEGRO PAPERS PROTEST
The ninety-and-nine righteous per.
sons over whom there is less Joy in
heaven than over the one repentant
sinner, or the unerrant elder son for
whom no fatted calf was killed, might
be imagined reading with sympathy
and understanding the protest recently
voiced by The National Baptist Union,
an Afro-American paper of Nashville
NAiA', bcoNlilOJ a lCCCnL WIllGI ) ulGu
praise OF the Indian because he has
turned out to be a good day-laborer.
There is a tendency, says the Negro
writer, to forget completely the Ameri-
can Indians past activities with scalp
lng-knife and tomahawk, and to eXtol
him for the fact that he is at last sub
hitting to discipline and routine, and
proving his economic value in the
fields and with the road gangs. But
while the Indian thus basks in the pub.
lies approval, not a line is penned,
complains The Union, in praise of the
toiling and patriotic Negro who has
contributed his share of labor toward
the development of the country from
the beginning. The immediate occa-
sion of this protest is an article by Mr..
Forbes-Lindsay in The Craftsman.
from which excerpts were printed in
The Literary Digest of May g. under
the heading The Indian Sharing the
White Mans Burden
"Over against Mr.. Forbes-Lindsay's
account of the unexpected industrial
virtues which have developed in the
latter-day Indian the Negro paper sets
a feelingly drawn picture of the In
dian of an earlier day, whose relations
with the white man were more spec
tacular, if less profitable. We trans
fer this picture to our pages, with the
moral attached:
His wild and barbaric glee was new.
er more intense than when he had MUIR
dered the frontiersman and every
member of his family. This he con-
tinued to do until his race was nearly
annihilated and his happy hunting
grounds, which he refused to TILL were
appropriated by the white man, who
despite the fact that Indian Territory
was given to him and his heirs and as
signs forever, gobbled it up, too.
"'And now that the once bepainted
and befeathered braves, the wild and
merciless Arabs of the Western plains
and mountain Businesses, have been
practically destroyed and utterly dis
inherited, there are those who are
ready to say that the remnants of those
former tribes are wonders in the Way
OF absorbing the white mans civiliza-
ton These same writer's of pane
gyric on the docility and tractableness
of the few remaining Ishmaels of the
many thousands that infested, over
ran, and terrorized the western part of
the country a few decades ago. would
not say one word, nor pen one line, in
praise of the peaceable, patient, toll
ing and patriotic Negro who has con-