New-York tribune., 1912-04-22
PLEAD CAUSE OF NEGRO
Former Southern Governor and
Booker T. Washington Speak.
SINGING ASSISTS SPEAKERS
Richmond P. Hobson and Others
Also Address Men and Re-
ligion Meetings.


Conservation Congress OF the Men and Re
ligion Forward Movement were held yes
terday afternoon and evening in Carnegie
Hall. The singing OF the great chorus OF
three hundred men and women under the
leadership of Tall Esen Morgan and the
international male quartet was frequently
applauded and assisted materially in keep
ing up the enthusiasm created by the vart-
Gus speakers.
A striking feature OF the afternoon ses-
| sion, at which the Rev. j. 5. Wardwell
Stafford. of the British Wesleyan Church
presided, was the appearance on the same
platform of Booker r. Washington and
former Governor w. J. Norhen, q
Georgia pleading the cause of the negro
| race.
The Ex-Governor declared that the negro
| question was mot sectional problem, and
that IT is moving North and fast" Speak
| ing as one who had had thirty years Of
experience with domestic slavery and who
! for twenty-five years had been doing all in
| his power to redeem his state from crime
and violence" he denounced lynchlng in
! scathlng terms and white completely in
negro immortality in terms just as severe.
| He then went on TO enter a plea for the
killing Of sectional prejudice and for
| charity on the part of the nation for the
South, which is dealing with problem
never faced by any nation before IN the
history of the world lie added:
The problem of the negro home is the
! problem OF good morals. Living as many
! of them do they cannot be kept morally
clean. This makes the woman OF the
| negro home an easy prey to immoral and
! degenerate white men.
loo ftrF NHaT
! done up TO this good day in any Of these
| states 10 remedy this dreadful sin? Every
mulattO mingling In our social system ls
| living evidence OF the meanness Of some
degenerate white man. who has helped 10
destroy the home of some defenceless and
| ignorant negro. Count them az they meet
| you In the streets or serve YOU IN your
! homes and see the enormity Of this dread
| ful sin
make no kind Of defence of the crimi-
| nal lawlessness of mobs. Let me say ~
! this presence as | have repeatedly said all
| over the South, every member Of mon
| that does violence to human life by lynch-
! ing or burning the body Of human being
Is murderer and should he punished 10
the fun extent Of the law And every
beast In human form that criminally ont
RACES the purity NJ our womanhood de
serves the EXTREMIST penalty Of the law, as
administered by the courts and never by
the criminal lawlessness OF mobs. There
can be no place anywhere for mobs In our
Christian civilization.
Coming n the solution of the nations
negro problem the speaker said:
Tho negro problem is the American ad-
| justment Of the relations which should CA
ist between the white people and the negro
people OF a common soil, whose welfare, IN
! tho last analysis. ls the common veal
In all the history Of the worlds civiliza-
| ton no nation on earth has had 10 settle
anything Ike this American problem. we
must give the negro tho Gospel just as We
give II TO the backward peoples Of all the
earth.
istent. VIII never be solved by legislative
enactment. either state or national. and II
ever solved II must be hv the organized
forces OF constructive Christianity, as all
other human problems are solved.
Booker T, Washington said in part:
erable extent the problem OF rural life
everywhere. So long. too, as the negro In
the rural districts In fed upon the old.
wornout theological dogmas. instead Of get
ting from the pulpit Inspiration and direc-
tion in practical work Of community build
ing. connecting religion with every prac-
| tical and progressive movement for the
! Improvement Of the home and community
| life. long Will he forsake the land and
fee 20 the city. II We would save the
negro, 50 per cent OF whom live I'm
the country, he must be taught that
when the Bible says. The earth Is fun oi
thy riches" il means that the earth is full
Of corn. potatoes, peas. cotton chickens
and COWS and that these riches should .,,i,S ne
| into beautiful church buildings and
| righteous. useful living.
Representative Richmond +. IIohson.
speaking on THE Church I'm Relation to
ITempcrance." referred To the Titanic DIS
aster lie said
II proves that the average man Is made
| in the image of his Maker. The sclf-sac-
| rlhce OF those men who willingly went TO
death that others might live proves, not
| that great men. but that the average man,
is made I'm the image OF his Maker. II
| there were a titanic disaster every day OF
| the 35j days in the year, the dead IN one
| wears time would lack 200Ool OF what alco-
| hol slaughters every year Wars Of all the
nations OF all the world. so FAR as we can
get the figures, have killed and manned
| ; sOO 600 since the world began. Alcohol, In
| America alone, kills more In one year tnah
ali tho wars OF all the nations since the
world began.
| Frederick B. Smith. campaign leader OF
| the Men and Religion Movement, presided
! AT the evening session. The Rev a. l..
| PhulIps. general secretary OF the brother
hood I'm Richmond, Va. brought greetings
| from the Southern Presbyterian Church IN
these words:
We looked 10 the Men and Religion For
| ward Movement with expectancy not un-
| mingled with doubt and hesitation. Win
| glad hearts we acknowledge the cHOIHlous
debt TO this movement Tor DIingihg W. ,oros i%
| 10 face with the very serious problems
| that stand before the Church. Tor new Nla-
| ions OF the possibilities OF Bible study ior
| strengthening our convictions OF lIit nut'
! of eyangclizing all men Of whatever ma
| lion or race on the face OF the earth, ihe
! deepening our concern for the halVatlon
! OF men through personal perSuasIo,,, .oi @ @
| tr.mendous awakening to the Transforming
| youer of the gospel when released upon
! nur complex social conditions ana hhally
! for tho deposit OF an efficient proEraniile
! of Christian service for men ana poIs -
! men and boys
"The Church" was the subject of Bishop
William f. Anderson's address. lie Is OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church ana said
! In part:
| Every church ought to he a growing In.
| stitution and an engine oi progress, anu anu
| i'm a very special sense the champion OF thS
| riehts of all men. Love OF COD ana Sooq
! church music are means toward an emu
| You cannot divide n man INTO compart-
| ,ncnts and then minister To his religious
! comnartment alone. You must minister 10
| Tho Tchole man Save the lives Of men, not
| their souls The force that keeps apace
with the great political ana h,. oon,,'itac,I, -, m
problems OF to-day must be READY TO DO
things.
Chancellor Frank Strong, Of the Uni
yersity OF Kansas. spoke on "The Relation
OF the Church TO University and College
Students" lie said
The college men long for unity in the
! Christian Church. The whole tendency OF
our education is 10 throw together In ono
| great bodv the Christian young men ana
/ women in our universities. They are neces-
sarlIy trained in a high degree OF co-opera-
| tion. unity and tolerance In very arse
| sense there are, with few exceptions no
| denominational colleges left in our country
! The college man has also a far view. He
| is accustomed TO speaking and thinking OK