The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-29
AGITATION, THE SOURCE OF THE
GREATEST HARM.
(By Associated Negro Pressl

Atlanta, Ca, Nov. 27.-While de-
ploring certain forms of injustice
to which it maintains, the members
of the Negro race are subject the
nation over, the committee on the
state of the country of the Atlanta
conference of African Methodist
Episcopal church, in annual session
at Social Circle, Ca, submits an in
teresting report as follows:
This evil, which occurs in every
part of the country, exploited through
the public press and agitated by our
own people, and more largely charged
to them, is calculated to do our race
and the southern section of the coun-
try a greater injustice than anything
which has occurred since the days OF
slavery. A grade and class of two
big political parties, and a certain
element of our own race never ceases
to keep the fires burning. The in
telligent, Christian, law-abiding
home-making element of our race
are buying farms, building little
towns, establishing schools, adjusting
themselves to the communities where
they live and making homes for their
families. The press says little or
noting of this phase of Negro life
and progress which is going on in
the southern states. Lnchings and
mob violence injured the white peo-
pie of the south far more than nj
could ever do harm to the Negro
1t has sent from the south in the
last three or four years more than
million from the cotton and corn
fields, rice swamps and labor cir.
cles, and they continue to do so
Such elimination and recriminatioI
does not help the white or ColoreC
people and should be charged by the
thoughtful people of this section
The Negro of the south must be wise
and tactful to the extent of not al.
lowing himself to be exploited fol
those things which are not for his
moral intellectual and economic de
velopment for these are the thing!
that count in the end. Justice anC
right come to those who improve
themselves sanely and sensibly anC
wait upon the Lord.
"The educational propaganda o
the Negro from any angle is oul
greatest need today. This system anC
method of training must be alonl
proper and sane lines and must b.
done by persons who themselves
must understand and are in grea
sympathy with those they are train
ing.
"The south is taking on new lif,
and If wisely managed will be thu
place for those who must have /;
happy future. For justice and moder
alton will abound and right will b,
granted to all according to theil
good conduct"
Concerning this Report, the Atlant;
| Constitution one of the most influ
entail dailies of the South says, edi
torially:
when a Negro commits crime
resulting, it may be, in a riot-tha
crime is widely exploited and re
ports of it go abroad cast over thu
country.
The better element of the race
vastly in the majority may builC
churches, schools, establish thrifty
peaceful, law-abiding, decency-re
speeding farm communities and il
many ways move upward on the
ladder of good citizenship, as they
are doing in all parts of the South
and little is said about it. But Il
one Negro brute commits a crime
even in those very communities where
the race as whole is making splen.
did progress, thel world is put or
notice. and the ninety-nine who are
law-respecting citizens, and who are
trying to improve the status Of the
race. are made to suffer
This form of injustice is beine
gradually. remedied. Meanwhile, the
advice Of this conference committee
to, the race is well worth its care.
full consideration. The sentiment ex.
pressed in this report merits the ap-
proval not only of the Negroes, tc
whom it is specially addressed, but
the spirit of the document deserves
and will receive the commentator
of the white race.