Phoenix tribune., 1919-08-02
An Eye For An Eye
Is Doctrine Taught
By Radical Leader
ley Associated Negro pressl

i cnurch, ShaWmut avenue and Madison
street, delivered a fiery address yes.
terday afternoon from his pulpit on
the present and future status of his
Race in America. The gathering was
called as an "all fraternal" meeting,
delegations from Colored Masons. Odd
Fellows, E.ks, knights of Pythias and
the Love and Charity lodges being in
vited to attend
The recent lynching at Laurel, Miss,
gave point to the pastors discourse.
and he described the hanging, burning
and disemboweling of Mary Turner,
because he said, she had said that if
she knew the names of the lynchers of
! her husband, she would turn them
over to the police
I'VE have got, as a people, he said,
Ito insist that we be lynched no more
that acts attended with savagery that
would put to shame the most atrocious
acts by the Germans in time of war,
and practices by southern aristocrats
in time of peace, shall cease. The
Negro who hesitates to stop the whole
sale butchery of his race should him
self be lynched"
The time had come, he declared 10
make this understood in the State
House on Beacon Hill as we'll as in
Laurel, Miss, and asserted that no
Negro was safe anywhere in America
so long as mob law obtained and that
it existed on Boston Common no less
than in the Mississippi town.
The black men in America, he con-
tinued, like the serfs of Russia and the
oppressed of the Balkans and of Bel
gium, must stand up and die, if need
be, for their rights. He commented on
the statement of the Governor of Mis-
sissippi that he was powerless in the
case of that lynching-th any al
tempt on his part to stop it would
have occasioned more lynching. This,
the preacher said, was true; that the
way to stop lynching was for 10000
Negroes to die at once, instead of one
at time and to see to it that 10000
white men died too. That, he de-
clared, would end lynching once and
| for all time. "You die one by one on
the limbs of the pines of Mississippi,
in the sight of American aristocrats,
who come to witness the proceedings
and you die for fun; but let 10000
black Trojans die one death and their
children will be free forever"
The white people of the South, he
thought, must thank their stars that
the American Negro is as religious as
he is, and spends much of his time
on his knees in prayer instead of max
ing bombs. He predicted, however,
| that the men of his Race would not
always be dead to the doctrines that
the foreigners are teaching in this
country.
The slur on his Race that God had
put a curse upon it," he answered by
the declaration that the Almighty had
blessed the African Race above all
races on earth. Japan, on its barren
reef, had been left alone to fight out
it's own destinies, until it had devel-
oped into power with which all the
nations of the world reckon. Had the
Negroes been left alone in the won
derful land that was the spot of their
nativity-which he declared was far
richer than the United States they
would today be the greatest power on
earth.
The greatest calamity that ever ov
ertook the Race was when it made the
acquaintance of the white race. He
cautioned his hearers against self-de-
probation and wanted them to beware
of believing that a man had to be
white man in order to De great man.
The British empire he characterized
as 'the finest hypocrite in the world"
which had pulled the wool over the
eyes of every nation on earth, add
ing: She is going to get hers if God
stays on His throne"
Lloyd George, in the peace confer
ence, he said, in constructing the
League of Nations, took six votes for
Great Britain and gave the Republic of
Hayti and the United States one each,
telling America it was an honor for
her to be on a level with Hayti.
81 am a Negro from the heart" as
serted the preacher, "but want to see
justice done to America, whose citi-
zens burn my people. / only wish to
God that America had somebody there
to protect its rights. If Mr.. Wilson
didn't object to my going at the time
could have done more for America"
20, the war is only just beginning"
he continued. "This is Only an armis
tice. There is going TO be tremen-
dous war when it gets on its way"
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