Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-06-21
NEGROES DEPL0RE
RECENT LYNCHING
Delegates to Negro Baptist
Convention Make Plea
for Womanhood.
LOAFING. THE CAUSE
Officers We're Elected ut Fridays
SGssiOn-Many Address
Convention.

i thank GOD that | am negro, and
live in Arkansas" declared the Rev.
S. A. Mosely, vcie president of the Ma
tional Baptist convention, in address
ing the 800 negro Sunday school
workers in the second days session
OF the Arkansas Baptist Sunday school
convention, yesterday afternoon in the
Eighth Street Baptist church.
This state is full Of opportunities
for our people, continued Dr. Nose
ly land if the negro fails to make it
he will have only himself to blame. |
know that there are disturbances here
and there, and occasionally you read
OF lynching in the south, and even
In Arkansas, but | am glad to say
that there are thousands of negroes
who are not lynohed; negroes who
are purchasing homes. buying farms,
educating their children, transacting
business Of all kind, filling the profess
Slons, and i'll every way showing that
they a"e worthy of citizenship. We
| have negro doctors, lawyers, dentists,
| druggists, stenographers, editors, re-
porters. preachers OF every grade pos
sible. In this convention you will find
the preacher who filled the pulpits in
the days of slavery, and then you will
find the preacher who is fresh from
college. and theological seminary
These men are all mingling together
for the uplift of our race
The convention opened yesterday
morning with an impressive song and
prayer service by Rev. S. L. Voolfolk
of Altheimer. and the reading of the
journal by Rev. w. O. Davis, of Argen-
ia. 'Must Jesus Bear the Cross
Alone was the opening hymn.
! Rev 7. S. Sandefur deplored the fact
that h uman life was too cheap in this
country, and said that there should be
an appeal sent to the good white peo
pie OF the country who made, execut-
ed and construed all the laws to see tC
! it that human life was made safe, anC
that every violator Of the law was
punished by the law he violated. He
thought that such action would brins
| about better results, and in addition
+! that the negroes in the cities an(
towns should organize a sub-counci
to work with the city council in sup
! pressing crime, and in getting rid OF
loafers, criminals, crap shooters ant
those who disgraced communities
He made a strong appeal for thu
protection of womanhood. He urget
that all worthy women should be
protected regardless to race or color
and called upon every negro to joir
in crusade against the outrages per
petrated upon woamlhood. 'The brute
who insults woman, | care not wha
the color of his skin is, should bt
punished, but mete out the punishment,
by law If burning is the penalty
then legalize burning and let him &c
in such way
Il could not help but hang my heae
in shame, when | READ the morning
paper today. My friends, we must act
We must reach the young negro.
because they do not come into oul
churches, our Sunday schools. Oul
black arms are too short to reach
them. They are found in the dives
the dens of hell and there they are de-
humanized, brutalized until they com.
nit some heinous crime. and the
whole world is called upon to join in
a hunt Stop them before it is toe
late. Lynchings hurt our country.
appeal to the young men of our race tC
tie themselves to industry honesty an6
reliability, but the greatest of these is
reliability. Let the cheap excursions
picnics, baseball games and the like
alone and attend to work"
i Or, Richard A. Williams, supreme
president of the Royal Circle OF
WINS, uCSI lIdtGIudl OISdulZd-
ton, was introduced to the conven.
ton and delivered short talk to the
delegates, saying that he extended
greetings from $4,000 friends from all
parts of the south, who stood ready te
joint with the Sunday school workers
in making the young negro better.
II. w. Holloway, Helena; f. d. Nor
ris, Helena, representing a negro ole
line insurance company and John II
liibbler, A. NJ, of the Arkansas Bap
fist College, Little Rock, were anon,
those presented to the convention
who made short talks.
Rev. ]. w. McCrary, D. d., who ha.
recently been called to the First Bap
fist church of Pine Bluff. and who i.
one of the old workers in the cause