Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-15
JIM CROW CRUELTY.
Increasing Under Present Conditions in Southern South-Rev. D. J. Mountain Speaks of Negro Prob lem From St. Patrick's Pulpit.

Rev. David J. Mountain, who is to be the St. Patrick's orator at St Patrick's church, Wednesday even- ing, addressed the congregation there Sunday on the work which the Cath ollie Board for Mission Work Among the Colored People is ding in the South. This board, which has head quarters at No. 1 Madison avenue New York, was organized in 1897 by the 07s, that the needs of the col orc IS may be brought more fully lore earnestly to the mo- tive Of the Catholic people through out the country. The director-gen- eral of the board is Rt. Rev. Mgr. John B. Burke and Rev. Father Mountain Is one of his two assistants. There is an influential executive board, head ed by Cardinal Farley.
 In coming to this diocese to explain the needs of his colored charges, Father Mountain had warm endorse ment from Bishop Milan; in which the bishop heartily recommended him and his co-workers to the courtesy and CO., operation of both the clergy and the people.
 Directing attention othe fact that the colored people of the South rep resent the race brought here against it's will to be sold into slavery, Fath- CT Mountain stated that there are about ten million of that race in what he designated as the Southern South, and of this number only about 200, ,0O0 are Catholics. They are a deeply re- ligious people and he spoke of the joy of knowing so many among them with the whitest souls God ever made
 In addition to their other hardships, they have to bear the deeply rooted hatred of their white neighbors, which shows no evidence of growing less. In the South there are Jim Crow steam and street cars. Jim Crow railroad stations, Jim Crow schools and chuFches, in everything, in fact, the difference in color is cruelty em- phasized.
 He related a number of touching incidents showing how this race hatred operated, even in the church and after death.
 In spite of all obstacles, the color ed people are advancing, so that over 57 per cent. of those in the South can read and write, others have attain ed standing in the professions, busi- ness life, etc. Parents are keenly am- bilious for the advancement through education of tbeir boys and girls and faith
 The mission board has erected forty schools in different localities and it was of their needs the preached spoke There are four colored priests and two orders of colored Sisters helping to carry on the work of the board Many other missionaries are needed Father Mountain said that this was a respon- sibility which Catholics could not evade. The leaf1et of the board says: We do not love our foreign missions less but our home missions more. There is room for both in our hearts. While father and mother in the negro fami- ly are working, the children are left largely to the street training. unless gathered into schools where the ten commandments rule. There is inn perative need for both schools and churches; and this fact he illustrated by most convincing examples.
 Already there is in the North a Priests league, Sisters league, and the league of the laity, pledged to