The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-05
PREDICTS NEGROES
SOON IN CONGRESS
Dean Kelly Miller of Howard
University Forecasts Result
of Influx North.
XII KLUX UNDER ATTACK
Ray Stannard Baker Pleads for
Mutual Understanding as
Against Force.
KU KLUX UNDER ATTACK

The problems arising from new COM
plexities of race contact can be solved
better by cooperation and mutual under
standing than by reliance upon the force
underlying the Ku Klux Khan. accord
ing to Ray Stannard Baker, who spoke
last night to mixed audience of about
1900 in the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The meeting was held under the auspices
of the Brooklyn Urban League and the
Lincoln Settlement Association.
Never before have such numbers of
colored people been brought together in
the new and artificial life Of Cities" said
Mr.. Baker. Never before has there
been such variety of contacts in cities
as now We don't know what the results
will be.
I'm the last half century the world
has been rapidly filling up. as it were
All races of the earth are beginning to
elbow each other in a crowded world.
There seem to be just two attitudes in
which to approach the problem.
"One has for its central idea that the
problem can be settled by force. That
is the military idea, the idea Of the Ku
Klux Khan. 1t is an attitude of mind
which exists among white, black and
yellow peoples alike. The acts of the
Ku Klux Klan may be confined to a
group. but the spirit is without class or
nationality. The other attitude is taken
by those who frankly admit that there
are new conditions which necessitate
new remedies
In illustrating the latter he pointed
out the Improvement he has observed
in North Carolina since an earlier visit
fourteen years ago, largely due, he said,
to the growth of the cooperative move
ment among the small farmers, both
black and white.
Dean Kelly Miller Of the Junior Col
lege of Howard University. Washington.
d c., predicted that within six years
there will be negro Representatives from
New York city, Philadelphia and Chi
cago in Congress. This will be one of
the political results Of the migration of
some 100000 negroes from the South
to the cities of the North during the
last decade. He read census statistics
showing the negro population in New
York city to be $4,000. in Philadelphia
1874 1000 in Washington and Chicago
1896 each.
From these concentrations there will
develop a political self consciousness,
he added. you will find that these
communities will be sending representa-
tives to City Councils and State Legisla-
lures. After a while they will send
representatives to the Congress of the
United States. It Is safe to predict that
within four or six years there will be a
negro Congressman from New York city.
one from Philadelphia and one from Chi
cago. The population is sufficiently large
to come within the requirements of Con-
gress districts"
DR.. S. Parkes Cadman, pastor OF Cen
trail Congregational Church. declared
that the history of Ku Klux Khan is
nothing of which TO be proud. The
negro only needs a square DEAL" he said.
ANY evil visited upon the blacks will
come back tenfold upon the whites
Resolutions in memory of the late
Alfred #. White as 1.-THE foremost citizen
OF Brooklyn" and supporting member
of the National Urban League were
unanimously adopted. Three subscrip-
| lions of $500 each for the work of the
league and the Lincoln Settlement were
announced, and enough was pledged in
smaller amounts at the conclusion OF the
meeting to raise the total above $4,000.