Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-10-01
STRONG Plea FOR
FAIR TREATMENT.
Up|ift Movements Should Not
Practice Race Prejudice.
UGLY SITUATION REVEALED.
New York Age Takes Up Fight Start.
cd by. Or. Robert e. Jones Of New
Orleans on Anti saloon League,
Which Hs Claims Draws the Color
Line In Its Work.

Orleans on Anti saloon League,
Which Hs Claims Draws the Color
Line In Its Work. sg
In a 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 IN 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-
torial 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:
"Those 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 it is q
matter Of comment, more or less com
mon among thoughtful men of the
race, that there is more race prejudice
in sthese SO called uplift movements
than among any other groups of peo-
pie. 1t is a strange thing that this
race prejudice in carrying forward
these movements never manifests It.
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 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!
sour attention has lately been called
! to the attitude and activities Of the
- called aaloon leaGle, one spf.
these uplift 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 DISTINGUISHING laws Of
that section, which exclude the Negro
from voting, the officers Of the Anti
saloon league, SO it 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 Il. 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 fragrant
was the prejudice shown by the repre-
sentatives Of the Anti-saloon league in
Louisiana that DR.. Jones was moved
to editorial protest against the dis
examinations 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
spurned when the Anti-saloon league
launched its movement in Louisiana. ~
mot 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 and business
men. In view of the prejudiced dis
position Of the SO called flying squad
ron,' DR.. Jones wrote in his paper q
full 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.'" .. .'
DR.. Jones' editorial says among other
things: 2-....s T.. 4.
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 Nero population
/ might be somew'9, Fsbused on the
temperance qurSirn % state super
intendent Of TIE =, n loon league
was written, the chairAia, Of the COM
! mittee III charge in New Orleans was
written and other efforts were made.
The Ministerial alliance, composed Of
all the colored ministers in the city,
appointed special committee to CO
operate. No response came e.es 4,
During the presence Of the flying
squadron in the state the Louisiana
s. 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 a To-
cal membership throughout the state
of $4,000 and an additional constitu-
! ency or at least 10000. At the time
this conference was in session men,
Der Of the flying squadron was invited
by Bishop Luccock and the conference
to address the body and agreed to fix
an hour that was convenient to the
speaker There was no effort to. yield
to this invitation. nor was there, a re-
(. sponse st5 @
I've reluctantly call attention to this
matter because If we could be forgot
A ten and absolutely eliminated and
4 thereby win the Temperance fight we
Il would be eilling. but this procedure
would not win, We will no lot be
told that this Isl a political fight md
Il that the Negroes hive bee,. disfran-
n cliseds Il s8sj 4
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