The Denver star., 1915-10-02
STRONG PLEA FOR
FAIR TREATMENT
Uphft Movements Should Not
Practice Race Prejudice.
UGLY SITUATION REVEALED.

| Orleans on Anti saloon League.
Which He Claims Draws the Color
Line In Its Work.
In recent issue of the New York
Age Editor Fred r. Moore calls the at
tention of the public and our race In
particular to the attitude Of some so
! called uplift movements In which pref
udice against the colored people is
! practiced to an alarming degree. The
Age points to the acts Of one of these
SO called uplift movements and backs
its opinion by quoting from an edi-
toriai written by DR.. Robert e. Jones.
editor Of the Southwestern Christian
Advocate at New Orleans.
The statement of the Age Is in part
as follows:
'"rhose who take leadership In the
SO called uplift movements would prob
ably be the first to deny that they en-
tertain feelings of racial prejudice
against the Negro people, yet 1t Is a
matter of comment, more or less COM
mon among thoughtful men Of the
race. that there Is more race prejudice
in these so called uplift movements
than among any other groups OF peo
pie. 1t is strange thing that this
race prejudice in carrying forward
these movements never manifests IL
self against the Germans as Germans.
against Italians as Italians, against
Poles as Poles or against any other
group of our alien population. But
wherever the Negro. who Is a native
born citizen, Is concerned Immediately
race prejudice rears Its ugly head. and
the leaders in these uplift movements
find themselves helpless-that is, too
weak to undertake straight out, stand
up position in opposition to such racial
prejudice!
Our attention has lately been called
to the attitude and activities OF the
so called Anti-saloon league, one of
these upiift movements, and its officers.
1t seems that most Of their activities
during the past six or eight years have
been devoted to the south. Taking ad-
vantage OF the disfranchising laws Of
that section, which exclude the Negro
from voting, the officers OF the Anti
saloon league, so 1t Is alleged. have
gone to the southern white voters with
the cunning plea that their fight for
prohibition in the south Is not aimed
so much at the whites as at the Negroes
! OF the south
"Dr. Robert T.. Jones. editor OF the
| Southwestern Christian Advocate at
| New Orleans. Is one OF the best known
and one Of the most unselfish lead
ers OF the Negro people. So tiagrant
was the prejudice shown by the repre-
| sentatives Of the Anti-salOon league In
Louisiana that DIR. Jones WAS moved
to editorial protest against the dis
ordinations shown by the SO called
flying squadron of the league. The
| Negro people OF Louisiana constitute
nearly one-half Of the population Of the
state. They were entirely ignored and
| spurued when the Antisaloon league
| launched its movement In Louisiana.
Not only Is the Negro generally ex
| cluded from all meetings held in the
interest of and by whites, but nothing
| was done to tie to the movement the
influence Of the colored people as repre-
sented by their ministers md business
| men, In view of the Drejudiced dis
position of the 50 called flying squad
ron,' DR.. Jones wrote In his paper
fun statement, which is called to the
attention OF the Negro people that they
may know what they have to expect
when they are dealing with such up
lifters.'"
DIR. Jones' editorial says among other
| things: '-r-
| "Moreover. recognizing the situation
We face in this city and In the south.
the colored citizens OF this city (New
| Orleans, made an effort to secure the
| services of at least one of these speak
ers in order that the Negro population
might be somewhat aroused on the
temperance question. The state super
| intendent Of the Ant-saloOn league
| was written. the chairman OF the com
rhittee in charge in New Orleans was
| written and other efforts were made.
| The Ministerial alliance. composed Of
all the colored ministers in the city.
appointed a special committee to CO.
operate. No response came.
"During the presence of the flying
| squadron in the state the Louisiana
annual conference Of the Methodist
Episcopal church was In session In
Alexandria, Bishop Napthali Luccock
presiding. This conference had upward
| Of 200 ministers attending, with To-
cal membership throughout the state
| Of $4,000 and an additional constitu-
| ency Of at least 10000. At the time
| this conference was In session mem
ber of the Tying squadron was invited
by, Bishop Luccock and the conference
to address the body and agreed to fx
an hour that was convenient to the
speaker There was no effort to yield
to this invitation. nor was there q re-
| sponse. ..as4 s~ts..
I'VE reluctantly call attention to this
matter because II we could be forgot
ten and absolutely eliminated and
thereby win the Temperance fight We