The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-02
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LIGHT CRITICISM.
The State Convention VS.. the General
Convention Under the Guise of
the Reconstruction Period
and the Secret Fraterni-

eAANA ~
ties.
The editorial said relative to the
reconstruction: IF Reconstruction
means anything to us it should mean
that we are to make bigger and bet
ter places for u boys and girls, as
they finish the higher learning" The
learned gentleman is correct. He
further states: "They should walk
out of the school into a prepared po-
sition which they W Race has so
thoughtfully arranged" The learned
gentleman is against correct. Then
the thinker sights Us to the many
young men and women who, because
the fields are crowded, have to go to
some woman's kitchen, black some
white mans boots, etc. 1t is no dis
grace to serve. We cannot all be
editors, lawyers, doctors, preachers,
teachers, bankers and merchants
some must be hewers of wood and
drawers of water. The learned gen.
tleman said if GU rboys and girls
must work, why can they not work
at the trade and the profession we
have offered them? The learned
thinker gives as a solution: ga lack
of confidence" and nothing breaks
confidence faster and quicker than
a bare falsehood and this fair paper
known as the U. B. F. & S. NJ. T. or
the Searchlight, printed at Sedalia,
Mo-, a copy of July Is, 1919, has
blackened its pages with a falsehood
that will never be erased. A paper,
representing an order that stands for
veracity. The true drift of fraterni-
ty is truth.
From time immemorial men have
formed associations for political, So
cial or financial advancement in ev-
cry age wherever literature, art and
science were unfolded, where civiliza-
ton struggled up the rugged heights,
fraternal societies led the var and
placed a torch upon the hilltops to
guide pilgrim mankind to higher lev
els of existence. May this paper live
long enough to clear its pages of this
black mark and he who placed it on
for the purpose of misleading the
Baptist be forgotten.
Some one will ask to what is this
due. 1t is this: The general state
convention of Missouri. The lie has
gone, but the truth is on his trail and
will overtake him and trample him
beneath its feet. The disciples were
called ignorant and unlearned men,
but the learned Scribes, Pharisees,
Kings and Diplomats bowed at their
feet. The state convention may
stand for democracy in the state, but
not in the Nation, nor does it stand
for Negro enterprise and the en-
ployment of Negro boys and girls.
You ask them where they are get
ting their Sunday School and B. Y
P. U. literature. They will tell you
they have a Publishing Board II
Nashville, Tenn, and they have 6
board consisting of seven or nine
men ;then as kthem where their pub
fishing house is. If they will tell the
truth they will say the American
Baptist, which is white, that does not
employ as much as a Negro j%anitor
and they tell you they are for the
employment of Negro boys and girls
1t is not true, but they are going tc
shove it down your threats.
The general convention stands fol
the National Baptist Publishing
House, the largest of its kind in the
world, and employs nothing but Ne.
gro boys, girls, men and m The
learned gentleman said: "The out.
1 growth of this convention is the di.
vision of the National Baptist Con,
vention which convened in Chicago
!, three years ago, grant that, but thi'
distinguished man was either no
! there or has no regard for the truth
because the cause he gave is untrue
! that DIR. Boyd refused to make hi
report. The Convention split befor,
the program was adopted, because
resolution was offered to discuss tn
chartering of the convention by sew
en- men unauthorized by the conven
ton. No reports could be heard be
1 fore the program was adopted. W
did then, and do now, stand for de
Z mocracy and the right of the MAORI
ty to rule. We may be the thought
less, ~unthinking, refused and r~ejecte
l crowd, but the rejected Christ be
I came the head stone of the corner
! and l am Jul as you look back owe
! fthirty-fve years of toll, not progress.
it can only be with shame.
! S. ". TOLES,
Pastor New Hope Baptist Churc
and Secretary of the General Cor
: v%ention of the State of Missouri.
VINE ST. BAPTIST CHURCH.
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