The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1913-04-25
The Struggle For Land and Property.

me struggle For Land and Property.
An afternoon and evening session
occupied the attention Of the delegates
on Thursday. April "a. Both sessions
were held in the Friends meeting
house. Fifteenth and Race streets.
members Of which society showed
keen interest in the progress of the
conference, not only while 1t was In
session. but for weeks before. while
preparations were being made and as
members Of the honorary committee
At the afternoon session the subject
Of discussion was the struggle For
Land and Property" Henry Wilbur.
millionaire manufacturer and philan-
thropist and a member Of the Society
of Friends. opened the discussion with
a personal narrative Of land conditions
In the south. He was followed by John
Mitchell. the colored president Of the
Mechanics bank Of Richmond. Va.
the strongest financial institution In
that city; John Hope. president Of the
Atlanta Baptist college. who talked Of
| the recent crisis in Georgia. and w.
Ashbie Hawkins. an attorney Of Balti-
more
The last three speakers made pro-
found impression on the conference.
not only by their clear and careful ex-
positions of problems among the south
ern Negroes. but by their suggestions
for improved conditions. which they
proved were the result of deep and ma
| ture study of a subject which had been
| brought home to them by actual ex-
perience throughout their lives and in
spite of their more elevated positions
over the bulk of those who are the suf-
ferers from oppression by southern
| whites and to aid whom the national
association was primarily founded.
Du Bois and Haynes on Wages.
'The Problem Of Work and Wages"
was the subject Of the evening session.
Bishop L. J. Coppin presided. DR.. W.
q. Du Bois, the able editor Of the
Crisis. a publication devoted to the
advancement Of the colored race. and
DR. Haynes Of Fisk university were
the speakers. Dr. Du Bois spoke OF
the aims Of the organization and Of the
beneficial effects of its work up to the
present time.
He made an earnest plea for q
change in those social and economic
conditions which have made criminals
/ Of many members Of his race. assert
ing that just as soon as these condi-
lions were improved there would be a
general improvement throughout the
land.
The final day of the conference was
taken up with three sessions. The
morning session was taken up with
hearing reports Of the various
branches of the organization and with
planning work for the ensuing year.
At the afternoon session. over which
Moorefeld Storey presided. the New
Southern Attitude" was the topic Of
discussion. The speakers were Mrs
Beverly Munford. DR.. James Fl Dill
lard. F. D. Weatherford. Joseph G.
Manning and DR.. M. G. B. Mason.
Closing Session In Witherspoon Hall.
The closing session Of the confer
ence and by far the most enthusiastic
was held in Witherspoon hall. Juniper
and Chestnut streets. More than 1000
people attended to hear addresses by
United States Senator Moses e ClaDp
Of Minnesota and Justice Wendell
Phillips Stafford Of the supreme court
Of the District of Columbia.
The honorary committee in charge
of arrangements for the conference
was composed Of the following:
Mayor Rudolph Blankenburg. Miss
Ida Stokes Adams Miss Frances
Bartholomew. Rev. Samuel z. Batten.
Rabbi Henry Berkowitz. Mrs. Edward
W. Biddle. Mr. and Mrs. Jasper
Yeates Brinton. George Burnham. Jr.:
,, Henry L. Davis. Paschall Goggins.
ESQ.,; Rev. Sydney Herbert Cox. DR..
Edwin HeyI Delk. Rev. K. e. Evans.
Judge James Gay Gordon. DR.. How
ard r.. Hansell. Rev. T. W. Illman.
Miss Mary Fl. Ingham, Alba B. John
son. DR.. w. w. Keen. Rabbi Joseph
Krauskopf. Rabbi Isaac Landman.
Right Rev. Joseph May. Rabbi Ell
Mayer, q. B. Morris. Rev. George
Chalmers Richmond. J. g. Rosengar
| ten, Miss Florence L. Sanville. Repre-
| sentative and Mrs Samuel B. Scott.
Judge Mayer Sulzberger, Right Rev.
Floyd W. Tomkins. DR.. James Tyson.
Samuel 8. Fels. W. B. Patterson. Roy
Wallace Smith. Herbert Welsh. 8.
Burns Weston. Henry Wilbur and Rev.
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