The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1911-08-25
GOV. GEO. w. DoNAeHEY.
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will have your hearty cooperation.
I'm closing, let me assure you of
the good will and sympathy of our
people. While here and there a white
man may wrong the colored man, yet
you may be assured that all honest
and meritorious movements by the
colored man are greatly appreciated
by the people of Arkansas"
The closing scenes of the National
Negro Business League were crowded
with interesting events. DR.. Booker
I. Washington was reelected, as a
matter of course, and, in fact, all of
the old officers with few exceptions
were reelected.
The following resolutions wers
adopted:
THE National Negro Business
League, in twelfth annual session as
sembled, finds many things for which
the race and the country may well
rejoice The movement among the
Negroes of this country to buy land,
establish commercial institutions,
schools and other organizations,
which are growing stronger each
year The race has recognized the
truth that the standard by which it
is to be measured in it's permanent
place is that which has been applied
to all other elements which enter
into our common citizenship
Having by reason of past condi-
lions been deprived of capital train
ing and opportunity to enter the
field of manufacture, transportation
and commerce, we necessarily turn
our attention almost exclusively to
agriculture. But now under the sti-
mulus of this organization we are
starting upon the more expanded eco
nomic stage so necessary to our full
development.
1--WE find that since our last ses-
sion more banks have been started,
more commercial enterprises and
stores opened, and more manufacto-
ries begun than in any other single
year of our history. We believe that the
ownership of land, the acquisition of
an education, particularly the COM
mon school and vocational education,
the Improvement of the home, both
as to its appearance and the inner
| life and loyalty to the teachings of
Christ are the foundations upon
which civilization is to be built.
1--WE urge with all the emphasis at
our command that our people buy
land Buy it now get ready for even
sooner than we may expect this door
of opportunity may be closed.
"On every moral issue we urge our
race at the ballot box to align itself
with the forces of law and order and
| civic righteousness. No man can be
permanently kept out of the place
which belongs to him by reason of
his usefulness as a factor in the in
dustrial life of the community His
character as a man and his ability to
look upon matters of general public
! and general concern, with a vision
wide enough to protect the interests
of ALL
I'VE are profoundly grateful for the
interest shown in our progress by
the best element of the white people,
| both North and South. Their spoken
words of cheer and their deeds OIL
kindness speak in louder tones than
words and have done much to inspire
us.
"In all the history of this move
ment nowhere has this feeling of SYM
pathy, friendship and real Christian
helpfulness found more pronounced
expression than here in Little Rock
the city where any Negro should be
glad to be counted citizen We can
hardly find words strong enough to
express our gratitude to Governor Do
naghey for his mastery address to
us, which not only evinces the type
of Christian sympathy, but to our
minds the highest type of statesman.
ship.
1--WE feel it due to the colored citi-
zens of Little Rock concerning our
entertainment to say in the language
of the Bible, Thou excellest them
ALL
1--WE congratulate cur race upon the
remarkable showing made by those
communities composed entirely Of
members of our race Their record
for ability to initiate and maintain
enterprises, to establish and enforce
law and order and to win the respect
and even the admiration Of the peo-
pie of their State and the country
Is not only source of encourage
ment to our own race, but is the finest
possible concrete argument that the
Negro is worthy of citizenship.
1--WE hope that the great fraternal