The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-18
Is LYNCHINGS IN 80 DAYS
BO0KER HASHINGTON PLEADS
FOR TINE OUTRAGED NEGRO.
Not One Victim In Ten Accused of Crime
Against Woman negro Business
League Finds the Race o. Climbing
NcAneny speaks fer Mayor Gaynor.

against woman negro business
League Finds the Race u Climbing
McAnen, speaks Ter Mayor Gaynor
Booker 7. Washington said last nigh,
AT the eleventh annual session Of the
National Negro Business League in the
Palm Garden. $50 Fast Fifty ghth street
I call attention 20 the numbering 81
colored people at this time because the
habit has 50 grown upon the nation that
n murder or lynching % this kind attracts
little attention BE II remembered. too.
in connection with these recent murders.
that not one in ten has any connection
with alleged assaults upon women.
i speak with sorrow and with a sense
of shame and humiliation when I call
attention To the fact that within a period
Of thirty DAYS during the present summer
no lees than twenty-six colored men were
wantonly murdered by mobs-sh shot down
or hanged as II they had been so many
Wild beasts. Let this truth never he
forgotten. that whatsoever a man o.
nation sows. that It shall n lso reap The
white man who murders a negro to-
day and goes unpublished Is likely to
murder a white man tomorrow and go
unpublished.
4 plead everywhere for equal and
exact enforcement of the laws not only
in the interest of the colored race hut in
the interest Of all races. for without law
our civilization will dis
appear and We shall as n nation become
an object OF ridicule at the hands Of other
Dr Washington said Of the industrial
Of his people:
Practically an IA" fundamental con-
dition- for industrial and busin sue
es~ are before The negro in America and
here speak Of prevailing conditions.
not Of tn" exceptions The negro has q
greater opportunity ~ get Ownership in
~" sol IN this country. especially in the
states, than any ten millions Of
I"opir IN the WORLD who are IN the same
relative stage OF civilization
To the negro IN business. especially in
n" southland. ia the matter Of freedom
u trade Their" IL a golden opportunity. While
Ia other directions there are rest rictions
m the business world there IL a freedom and
an oppoTtunItv that has rarely come to
,nv race so recently OIL; ~ slavery
Prom the recorded progress that - being
made IA Georgia. North Carolina and vir-
,Iula. Wher" records are kept Of negro
'f"i"rt owning. u IL 'on~ervattvely
that the negroes Of the United
states ar" adding from o.: .ooo noo to u.s.
-'.'-- 'u their wealth each year. and that
h"'r total wealth Is nov not far from |
IUun O.s, ,0O
Resides using n very conservative figure |
think u i safe to say that the colored |
'eOpl" IA New ! ork and Brooklyn own real !
'-ta," valued AZ more than o. 900. go and |
n addition 70 this have over 81 .O0O 90 /
deposited IN The banking Institutions OF |
ireat-r New York
pr Washing who ~ permanent !
hartman II the three DAYS convention. |
vas declared AT the afternoon session |
% h" the real head and spunsor ~ the |
movement which the league represents
b" movement upward Of the negro race |
n ia" United States. DELEGATES are |
o ATTENDANCE" from all over ~" south /
md IRON a. Tar away as California !
t""keT MashinRtons friend. Theodore |
roosevelt. II scheduled To address the
eagu" tomorrow
Mayor Gaynor had been invited 10 |
lddrrss IN" afternoon gathering and |
n ms plaC" Borough President McAneny |
made a speech He was introduced nv I
Iuhn VI Royal. president ~ the New York |
1u-ln"Ss Men Negro League. Temporary |
hartman. Nr MCAneuy felt his inahh- |
" wholly 20 hll the Mayors place. he |
aid. adding that Mayor Gaynur is a /
nan w. love and admire. whose works
AVE ,een all for our good, both whites
i"ht"d - the Colored race for help and
NJ. have tried TO do our duty toward the
'olorpd race
/ J Jackson of Admission. Ala took
.ir. Washington tip. His talk was
'hout Try goods ard MOTORS and he told /
low h" hal male his business success
I" arn'l-"' hi. owh people Ivy telling them
4 the sympathy Of some Of the brethren
or Oh" a"other. He told Of a colorei
Minister Who greeted him in the morning
.own home with al inquiry a. TO Whether I
'usii "-- was good and an assurance Of
IN his undertakings Then the
nlr lsiers wifi" passed two regro stores
- buy collar buttons at "a white mans
tore
~ he gets the business and we get the
said Mr. jackson. good HUI
nur.ily, ard everybody gave him more
accompanied 10y good humorej
iugftsr
Oh we've learned much bv expert
noe. Brother jackson continued. We've
'art 81 for instance that our white hreth-
81 sometimes have fire and har kruptcy
al''s which attract our negro customers:
% row occasion ally We rngroes have fire
nd ha" kruIicy sales too
On resolution offered hy Scipio Jones
le convention voted it's sanSe 81 sorrow
nd regret AT he at'a1 on Maypr Gaynor