The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1918-01-11

AT MOBILE, ALA.
BIG PARADE-F0UR THOUSAND
IN LNE-EXERCISES IN LEAD
ING THEATRE-EMMETT ].
SCOTT ORATOR OF DAY.

patton Association, Dr. T. T. Belsaw,
Chairman, and including such i'm
lortant colored business and profes-
Sional men as Clarence w. Allen, un-
dertaker; James r. Peterson, DR. c.
First Johnson, Charles W. Peters and
others had charge of the exercises.
The paarde, beginning al two O'Clock
in the afternoon, led by the officers
OF the Emancipation Association, pa
raded the main streets Of the city.
Four brass bands from Moss Point,
Miss; Pensacola, Fla; New Orleans,
Id, and Mobile, Ala. furnished mu-
sic Tor the parade. \ careful esti-
mate was made to the erect that
1000 men were in line, including
nearly every secret society, every
benevolent association, AMI the varl-
ous industrial organizations Of one
kind ami another. The paarde final
ly wound up at the Lyric Theatre
which was placed al the disposal o.
the committee for the first time in
the history Ol the COlured people OF
Mobile. after il was announced that
the principal address OF the occasion
would be delivered by Hon. Emmett
J. Scot, Secretary OF the TuSkCgee
Institute but now serving in the War
department at washington as Special
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Iect, ana a4tGr P'HiHs d 'ou. plllilel
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'Tne golorei people and the white
people of Mobile are proving that
they are different in color. with his
tories and ira itions also widely dill
ferent; tnev are We, able to live side
bv side. in a spirit of anlty and good
Will, in peace and harmony, each con
,,ibutina in his own vay toward the
prosperity not only of this great city,
blt q, mis- great state as well.
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cal changes are OeHiS "IousnO' ,'l ali u
III every P'l' Vi I,'lo .ou'''' n,
Vi i"lFloliS"i are "ui nus IA ~
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nave never O"Ihe" "''''e'
We are seeking through the Presi
dent of the United States, ant
through the great arms OF the nation
nj government. in every way posi-
bic. 10 preserve the ideals of the
founders of this republic; and who
arc those in all the world better en-
titled to help fight the battles o
freedom than we, the cClored people
who have come through the very
fires of adversely and have struggled
up to the noontlme or new DAY.
"But we are not here to rehearst
the trials of the long period OF slav
ery. nor the dark days OF reconstruc
ton during which period injustice
alike was done TO white and blacl
men of the South, not to discuss an,
of the problems of a half century ago
We are facing a new day, with neq
determinations, with new vision an
with new ideals.
L. t,lN hnI
engulfed our fair country along witt
of -er nations of the world is nov
mobolizing every resource of men AM
materials and money to the end tha
autocracy shall be dethrOned, so tha
this thing we call democracy, libel
, tv. freedom, shall reign Throughout
the world. We are facing the wa
with lips set. We know that ou
, countrv is right, and thrice armed i
| he who hath his quarrel just
, .,rnere are fem millions and NOR
of nc in tbie country and we const
tnte an asset of overwnelming yalu
10 onr country II can have no COZ
corn that is NOT orr concern. II ca
A shave no disaster that we do nc
, sLare. If can have no triumph o. rigf
+. ond iustice in which we should nc
y Lave a mart and sharine in the gres
: nrivi,epes of this country we al
|, roadv and willing to ioin our countr
$ rIen in the Great struggle which
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