The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1918-05-10
DR.. ROBINSON TELLS OF HIS
CONFERENCE WITH THE PRES
IDENT.


Tenn, presiding elder OF
he Knoxville district of the African
Methodist Church, delivered an ad-
lress Sunday evening at o'clock at
st. John A. M. E. Church, to a large
audience of Negroes. His subject
was, president Wilson, the War, and
the Negro after the War" DR.. Rob-
Inson was secretary and spokesman
Of a committee that was sent to Wash
ington recently by the A. NJ. Z.
Bishops Council to lay before the |
President the grievances of the Ne
gro. They had an audience with the |
President on March a. and accord |
ing to the statements of DR.. Robinson, |
the President gave the committee |
great encouragement.
In his address DR.. Robinson was
patriotic and urged the Negro people
to be patriotic and do everything to
help win the war.
He said, in part: "As a part of
Americas citizenship the Negro has
answered the call of President Will
son and gladly gone forth to help
fight for the cause of democracy. AS
a committee we went to Washington
and reminded the President of the
Negroes loyalty in all of the wars
that the country has ever engaged in.
We told him of the unjust and in
human treatment melted out to us in
various sections of the country We
asked him to lift his voice in our de-
tense. The President sent us away
from the White House filed with
hope an encouragement for the
future. His words to us were words
Of cheer and were like music to a
suffering and helpless people.
Nov let us do our part in help
ing to win the war. Let us be proud
to give our sons to die, if need be, on
the battlefront for the establishment
Of democracy (such as defined by
President Wilson, in the world.
Let us buy Liberty Bonds and
purchase Thrift stamps to the limit
of cur ability. Let us help in the
conservation of food and other sup
plies, so that the American soldier
and the Allied armies may be sup
piled while fighting the battles of
| liberty.
But while doing these things, let
us Of the South remind the white man
of the South that the Negro is anX-
ious to show to the world that right
here in the South is where we are
looking to receive help and friend
ship. We have given our toll and
we have shown our white friends of
the South that we are patient and
that we trust them, now when thous-
ands of our sons must go and fight
side by side with their sons, we want
Bankhead, Of Alabama, and not
Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts
to take the stand at the bar of public
defense for our cause. We want
Governor Henderson, and not Frank
10. Lowden, to speak for us. We wan
Helfin, and not LOngworth, to see
some good in the Negro. We wan
Rev George r. Stewart, the South
greatest preacher, to thunder on
against the wrongs done us, and no
Gunsaulus. of Chicago. We wan
Woodrow Wilson, of the South, to SCI
in us the value of citizenship as wei
as Theodore Roosevelt. When tina
is done the Negro will prove to tn
South, and to the whole country tina
we are the most grateful people OF
tho gIobe If tho Southern whit
man will ioin in the foht TO win
from tho stains hooks the laws tina
are nlacpd thereon to degrade us. an
viii rive ne iustice before the courts
and decent and equal accommoda
tious on the railroads and stop lvncb
inc tbe members of orr race for ever
frivolous offerse we will show on
natriotism in this struggle by linin
. tho hanks of the Atlantic and if shin
, arc moi AT hand we will attempt I
ev,im to Germany to get the kaiser
> "Tbe white man has heen foo 200
=, IN tbe Gorm3ns and everybody els
\ Who came 70 mis- countrv. and he hs
- done en- much tn keen the Negr
down until we at times become
g IJfttln eusnicious If fine white ma
- wishae 10 know fine heart Of II
~ Nooro he emit find that ont bv sty
= inc one Nero \ leader without ~
consent of the Neoroes He has tric
that They made ore great Neg,
10 the leader of the Negro race, ar
- nire-tentbe Of the Negro race new
% ala rocoyni2e him os their leade
~ LOT the white man know that Il
W Wogro will follow men like Oscar \
I'll Adams BON I Davis and others Ii,
tho great Rishon Connor. who spo
Of tba SociolopicaI Congress. and n
mon cot mn for the nurnose Of bossil
VI HIM NV mother used TO tell me III
al the slayerv-time Negro would alwa
love tbe big white man. hut a hir