Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-12
BIDS NEGRORACE
EMULATE LINCOLN
DIR. Grammer Urges Arm.
strong Association to Use
Methods of Emancipator
NOT FAIRLY TREATED
Resolutions Proclaim Service
in Civil War and During
Conflict in Europe

The Rev Dr. Carl l.. Grammer. rector
Of st Stephens Episcopal Church. last
night exhorted the negro race TO use
the method OF Lincoln In accomplishing
their emancipation in contrast TO the
force method OF John Brown.
The occasion was Lincoln Celeba-
tion. held In the Academy OF Music,
under the auspices OF the Armstrong
Association. of which Doctor Grammer
rector OF st. Stephens Episcopal Church
is president.
Lincoln was kind and patient. took
what he could get and gradually got the
whole the speaker said. "He wanted
slavery prevented from going into new
territory first and declared that then
1t would die out in the old States
Take an interest In politics. Come
out strongly in favor OF charter revision.
Why vote with system whereby the
police are used as an instrument for
bullying the poor? why support a
system wherein our street contracts
would be monopolized by one man?' he
said
II can never condone combina tions OF
white men to prevent colored men from
getting jobs Colored men we're not
fairly treated at Hog Island. They
should have been given jobs after grad
uating from the training school there.
MY heart burns when the renting of
a house In certain sections of Phila-
delphia will cause a riot and n colored
man Is accidentally shot on his way
to the police station.
II voted for Roosevelt because I felt
that the colored people would never get
fair show under q President from the
South. And when segregation in the
national department began / felt con-
hrmed in my position.
I'm the long run the world cannot
keep down an efficient people. The
negro race is highly gifted in tenderness
and loyalty"
Other speakers were Hollingsworth
Wood. of the National League of Urban
Conditions; J. c. Asbury and j. r p.
Brock.
Resolutions Quote Lincoln
These resolutions were adopted at
the meeting:
WHEREAS TIT. being soo;n.. the sye Of t,r,S the
puhcy espress eSo' our ui' deep Srs,isude Tor the
noSe and hsnefes,t sS, which which BY Proc. sSc
tember 90 isss. set our people free from
'ORdsss REsoVEb VthsfsfeFs be T. recall tina, when
Visited New Orleans where he saw hy;
upoh sse suctcn Block snS o,ser
that then and there he inwardly resolved
that II the opportunity should ever be
given him to deal a blow at the Save
system he would strike IL down. The OBJ
portunity came in the throes OF Civil W-r
RESOLVED. That IL was through the
decision of Abraham Lincoln that colored
army and nav ~ the Union who were
. thus enabled TO fgh. for their own freedom
and the freedom Of the race: further
RESOLVED. That We recall how few
peopie of this gen alton realize what an
important part the colored race took In
bripginE victory to the Union arms. As
to this we have the direct testimony of
Abraham Lincoln. who. in a letter to Mr.
Conkiing. written in the summer Of 1883.
said: "why should negroes give their
lives for us II We betray them? Drive
back 10 the support OF the rebellion the
physical force which the cOlored people
now give us. neither the present nor any
future administrat ton can save the Union.
Take from us and give to the enemy the