Phoenix tribune., 1918-09-07
.CRUMP DELIVERS
. AN INTERESTING
DISCOURSE
Phoenix CoIored Man Addresses Lo.
cal Audience on Part the Negro
Race Is Taking in the
World War

Especial to The Phoenix Tribune)
PRESCOTT, Ariz., Sept, 8.-William
P. Crump, the colored orator from
Phoenix, who was here last Sunday
evening to address a gathering on the
plaza, delivered a talk which WAS
pleasing to all of his hearers. The
speaker took for his topic the subject,
"The Negro and the War;" and spoke
along lines of patriotism, detailing the
part which the colored race in Amer
lea was taking IN helping to bring
about the downfall of the Hun.
Asserting his belief that the ma
jority of the Americanized Germans
were loyal to the United States, he
recognized, he said, the fact that there
was a certain per cent of them that
was disloyal. His suggestion as to a
good disposition of this disloyal min
ority seemed to find many supporters
in the audience. He said that he
would not send them to detention
camps to be fed and clothed at the
expense of the American people, nor
would he send them to penitentiaries
with balls and chains around their
legs, but that he would gather them
together at some Atlantic sea port,
load them on ships and start them
back to the land of their birth. These
ships should go through the subma-
rine danger zone, too, said the speak.
er, SO that if the devil-divers made a
mistake and sunk a ship which they
believed to be carrying citizens of the
Allied nations, no great harm would
be resultant and only few more
Huns would be shunted down into
hell.
Mr.. Crump said that the negro pop
ulation of the United States comprised
about one-tenth of the total inhabit.
ants, and that this race had taken
upon itself the burden of carrying one
tenth of the nations burden in win.
ming the war. The best manner to
use in inoculating the whole popula-
ton with patriotism and love of coun.
try. he said, was to educate the
masses, both white and colored. He
cited the disrupted and chaotic CON
ditions which are now prevailing in
Russia and Mexico and attributed such
conditions almost wholly to the lack
of education of the majority of the in.
habitants.
The facilities for educating the col.
ored children of Arizona were woe.
fully lacking, Mr.. Crump said, and to
illustrate his point he told of the un.
happy conditions which prevail at
Phoenix in this regard. The colored
children are compelled to get what
little tutoring they receive in a dark
basement and many of them are in
charge OF teacher who is an alien
enemy and whose knowledge of the
English language is remarkably. scant.
Such conditions as these, he said. had
tendency 10 drive the colored boys
and girls from school before they had
acquired even the rudiments of an
education. His plea was that the
white citizens oper their eyes to the
great. advantage which will follow the
complete education of the colored chill
dren of this state and every other
Estate, and instead of having a
population which is lacking in educa-
ton and love of country, produce in.
stead a race which has been taught to
love and respect the government un.
der which it is living. The Negroes
do not seek social equality, but they
do ask to be treated more like other
I-citizens. legally and civilly.