The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1914-01-23
IMPORTANT
National Negro Press
Association To Be in
Nashville in Feb
ruary
ADDRESS ISSUED TO NATION
Declaring Loyalty 10 Flag and To
The Constitution, the Great
Meeting to Be Very I'm
portant One.

Nashville. Tenn. Jan l6- D,>.laring
their loyalty to the Flax and the Con-ii
tutiOn of the 4. : and sitting forth pian-
ior the moral nplilt of their people. th.
National Negro Press A~~sciation has e. -
kee plans for the moral upliit of their
Negroes throughout the United STATES.
which will h. iurther,-i at tl,s. mid inter
nIssting whi.h has ls~n rall,~i to meet
at Nashville. Friday AMI saturday F,.h
ruary ~ and ~
Through tins movement they have lra,i,
aDle L. nagnratr many reforms AMI &.
help thau-snsi~ of their rao- Ia H. vli-it
plan to grt at the true cogsstion of th.
Negroes of tie I'nitsi Sta.&, and to ~
port and expose all crime To assist IN
this they have Aoke,. all city. county and
state officials to cooperate with them H.,
,cognizing their oflieial cilrd and their
METAL badges wlen shown tn oflirials
long steps t,~ari the alrsiati"n oi ma
~ embarrassing conditions arr alrrad,
make. In m"king this call f"r mid
~inter session they have i--ne-l an AL
ir,s- 10 the country. The aldr,--. brisi
'nt explicit. ~a- authorized 10y their ma
tional body, whirh convened in I'hila,l.l-
pllla last lazf August. IL says.
81 In this fiftieth year since I.incnln'r
lannon's Emancipation Pr,~.'amation. tls.
National Negro Press A--oriation rnun-
'iatss the following platform OF principl-
Tor the guilance of tiIs. Negro l'oI,ulTtiun
and the gooi of the American nation
I. We bciIeve with the founders at
this government that there ar. certain
INALIENABLE RIGHTS which ar,
the natural diver Of every human l-.inp
horn into the wOrld-tlat the permanent
~cliare of the nation and of civilization
Is lest advanced 10y tlis--e rights remain
Ing the property of the legitlmat.. owner-
Civilization makes every man hir
brothers keeper tprOtetorD hut no man
his brothers owner. Whcne,~r the as.-
-ident of rare. nationality, Irs-ition, paw
er, color. or other physical condition rn-
stle one Individual raer "r nation t. ~
more or usnrP the inalienalde right oi
another individual. rare or nation. th,
equilibrium Of civilization H. di-turla-i
and the progress Of humanity int .rrugt.-l
JUSTICE ran only come " man when
man II Just LIBERTY l. FOR ALL
,sR FOR NONE.
,. The fate Of America and tli,. Ne
gro are extricabIy bound together. Tie
Negro las nowhere else to ~.
We call upon our yeople u n-e all
their I'ower- To neet tlle ideals oi civil
ization AMI obligation Il American citi-
zen-liP'
3. 'Rare cannot he substituted for
.itnsa-s as a qualification Tor citinTi-iiip
Il tlie land j. 70 remain Bright With fr,---
'ion's holy light.
We irlieye not only IN the SEPARATION
II Church and state but that u-n p
inalierable right D. earn hi- brad hi.
bread should l,e coufu-el With the g,rise-
~ of his neighivpr's raile
Men may H. patriDtic fellow citilen-
~itlIOut I,rr~-ial fellowship.
"finBally. we. AK for our people onl,
tsIuare deal mans chan~e o. u,,-t
civilizations demands of MANHOOD.
We think the American T--orls should b.
~illing o. grant a. minimum - ju-tic,
shat Abraham a-ke.l Tor tn Nrxro
"All a-k Tor the Negro - that II you
b. not like bin. 1T him alons. u GDl
gave him l'ut little, that little let him
'njoy."