Franklin's paper the statesman., 1911-08-19
National Negro Educ rational
Congress Holds Second
Annual Meeting
Representatives Assemble from Many States and Debe
ate. Monster Mass Meeting at the Auditorium.
Constitution Adopted. Election of Officers.

Smith OF Cheyenne: Miss Bessie Tay
lor of Kansas City. with Mrs. Lille
Lewis: Mrs. ]. b. Johnson of Kansas
7, City; Rev. p. II. Hughes. Mrs. Cults.
Mrs. c. w. Maloney. Mrs. ]. II. Hark-
less. Mrs. S. Johnson. Editor Brooks.
| Miss Gaunt. the Misses Marshbanks
of Pueblo. Mrs. Allie Whitaker. Ars.
I Pennington, Mrs. George Robinson
! w F. Briley. Mrs. Ollie Johnson, A
l.. Miller. and Porter Simpson of Col
orado Springs.
The National Negro Educational
Congress. If IL served no other pur-
pose than to be the occasion of the
monster gathering of colored people
at the Auditorium last Sunday. has
served great purpose. Only those
who were present can guess-and
they only in part-the tremendous
moral effect of the outpouring of one
third Denver's colored population.
The realization of numerical strength.
the demonstration of good conduct,
of pleasing and fashionable dress. of
proper appreciation of Negro brain
and eminence, will count throughout
the lives of those who were present
The meeting was of such character
sons of health brought by Prof. Dud-
ley. the call to higher life by Prof
Page. the artistic musical renditions
by Mrs. Lillian Jones and the quartet
composed of Mesdames Dishman,
Fife. Jones and Miss Eva Carter, ac-
companied by Mrs. Nettie Herndon.
the dramatic work of Mrs. Motion.
found in this vast assembly of 5000
people fit setting.
The National Negro Educational
Congress assembled at the Audito-
rum in great mass meeting. Sunday
at p. m.
The audience joined in singing
America and Rev. DR.. Goode of Dan
vile, Wa, offered prayer. Miss Lii
lian Jones charmed the audience with
her perfect and sweet rendition of
Toreadoo Love Song.
Madame Fannie F. Motin, A. b., OF
Lincoln Institute. Kansas. gave n
reading from Shakespeare. Her man
ner of rendering showed genius and
training. She was greatly applauded
and gave Hagar as an encore.
Mrs. Helen Wilson. superintendent
of public instruction for Colorado,
WAS introduced by the president, Hon.
j. Silas Harris, and in a very pleasing
manner welcomed the Congress and
said education had brought four great
L's-Light, Liberty, Life and Love.
The president then introduced Prof,
Tnman E. Page, president of Lang
ston university of Oklahoma.
He spoke in part as follows:
We have been asked what is our
aim, our purpose and 1t should be our
pleasure as well as our duty to an
swer. We have assembled for the
purpose OF joining in the uplift of
the Negro race.
we mean to do this by exerting our
every effort to raise the standard In
our homes. The forces set in oper
alton around the firesides are the
ones that will bring the uplift or
downfall of a race.
UNLESS the fathers and mothers set
up the highest standard of father.
hood and motherhood in the home
the condition Of any race Is hopeless.
In the hands OF Negro mothers, is
the destiny Of the Negro race.
Te greatest political convention are
held around the fireside.
The mother Is the maker of the
minister Of the gospel. of the col
lege president, OF the lawyer. OF the
doctor and of him who rules in the