The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-09
woRsHlPFuL GRAND MASTER.
NELSON c.. CREWS, SPEAKS.

Honorable Nelson c. Crews of Kan.
sas City, Mo-, Most Worshipful Grand
Master of Missouri and Jurisdiction
and the Worshipful Grand Secretary,
Geo. K. Love, were the guests of Eu.
cid Lodge of Masons this week, with
headquarters at the Golden West Ho-
tel. Mr.. Crews is also editor of the
Kansas City Sun, one of the leading
Afro-American journals of the coun-
try. He and the secretary were on
official visits to the various lodges
in his jurisdiction and incidentally
took in the Exposition at San Fran.
cisco. While here, Mr.. Crews deliv-
cred two addresses. On Monday night
he spoke to the Masons of the city in
joint session. On Tuesday evening
he spoke at the Mt. Olvet Baptist
Church to an audience that taxed the
seating capacity of the church to it's
fullest extent. So pleased was the
audience with his mastery address
that when he had spoken for an hour
and a half, and began to make excuse
for speaking for so long a time. that
it yelled, go on, go on"
Mr.. Crews is a finished orator, the
kind that possesses the %eloquence
coupled with an equal flow of Ian
guage, punctured with such faultless
enunciation that the audience is held
spell bound; only to be converted
into a |convulsion of laughter by
some witty sally. Mr.. Crews sub
J ject was Fifty Years of Freedom, -
and the manner in which he deliv.
Eered it, showed him to be a close
student of the progress and achieve.
ment of his people since the time
that they were landed in this
try. He gave an interesting account
of the part played by the Colored
man in all the wars of this country
and of his loyalty to the flag and the
constitution. Rising to the heighth
of his %eloquence, he said, 81 real
ize the fact that after my ace had
shed their blood on many battlefields,
in the defense of Old Glory, the gov.
erning power of this Nation, has
never accorded them the full rights
of citizenship, which is guaranteed
them under the Constitution, never.
theless, my friends, l advise you to
stand by the flag, and if necessary
shoulder your gun and go to war
and above all, trust in God and he
will make all things right. The young
Colored mar of today" said he, "whC
has made a failure in life, and Their
stands around whining, saying he
never had a chance ought to be in
/, h or Heaven The speaker mex
: gave a startling array of figures ant
statistics of the marvellous progress
which the race has made in the fit!
| years of freedom. He brought screams
of applause from the women of tht
audience when he declared that HI
was in favor of woman suffrage, bu
had not always been so. But nov
r that he has been fully convinced tina
the women of his race, by being en-
f%ranchised, will save the day for tn,
men of their race, by causing disfran
chisement and intimidation, at the pol
to cease, he is in favor of it.
Mr.. Crews closed his address will
a personal appeal to the Masonic
brothers, regardless of the Jurisdic
ton under which they labored, t.
hold up the banner of Masonry. Il
. addition to the address by Mr.. Crews
Mrs. Victoria Clay-Haley, Crane
Matron, o. E. s., of Missouri ant
!, Jurisdiction, gave a splendid reading
of one of Paul Lawrence DunbaT''
selections, Off which she received
continued applause. Mrs. J. L. Crav
read the Emancipation Proclamation
and Rev. Craw offered the invoca
ton; Mrs. H. NJ. Gray presided a
the piano and DR.. ]. A. Merriman wa
the Master of Ceremonies.
Mr.. Crews and Mr.. Love lief
| Wednesday morning for Seattle
l Wash,
Grand Matron, Mrs. Haley, re
NAMED in the city for a few days tt
, wind up the affairs of the Chapter
Portland, Ore, Advocate.