The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-05-21
MEETING AGAINST LYCHTNG
HELD IN N. Y.
Remarks Of Speaker Censur-
ed by Legislators Present.
LynChing Statistice Given.

New York. N. Y, May 19.-Negroes
should never again put on the uni
| form of the United States to fight
abroad unless they have some certain
assurance that they vii! not be killed
by white people at home before they
have even time to take the uniform
OFF again, as was the case in a num-
Der Of instances after the recent
world war. said Mrs. Irene MOOreman
lilackstonc. speaking at a mass meet
ing at the Palace Casino, 135th street
and Madison avenue.
The meeting was called by the Ne
gro Organi1at ton known as the Equity
Congress Of Greater New York to urge
/ that lynching be made a Federal Of
fonse. and, TO arouse public opinion
ti-lynchng bill. now before Congress,
which will effect this.
The white speakers who took part
in the demonstration went to some
pains to diSaVow the sentiments eX-
pressed by Mrs. Blackstone and de-
clared that they were sorry to have
to appear upon the same platform
which such a statement had been
Mrs. blackstone, who perhaps arous-
ed greater enthusiasm than any other
speaker, declared that the Negroes
did not need further Legislation to
proect them from muder by the
white people. but required action on
their own part to force the officials
Of the land to make use of the laws
state Senator William Duggan was
the first white speaker to follow Mrs.
Blackstone. He declared that he was
from which -uCh a speech. had been
made and declared that all America n
citizens white and black alike must
answer the call to defend the coun-
try at time of peril and settle all
internal disputes afterward.
Congressman Hamilton Fish, who
commanded the 18th infantry. a New
York Negro regiment, rebuied the
audience for having applauded Mrs
Blacllstone's advice.
Fish sail that such talk was wrong
ing the memory Of the brave ColOred
men who died in the war"
This speaker also warned the audi
cnce against listening to anyone who
told them that the Negroes of the
with the white people. He distinctly
gave his hearers TO understand that
the Negroes in this section had no
lack Of liberty and of opportunity
both as regards their politics and
their economic conditions.
Congressman Dwyer of St Louis
who was the principal speaker of the
afternoon, also disassociated himself
from the outspollen utteranCe of Mrs
Blackstone, but on the other hand
praised the spirit of the Negro women
and their energetic efforts on behalf
Mrs. blackstone said that If the
North did not. believe in the things
that the South did to the Negroes
country today. She laid stress on the
fact that the Negroes must use their
own efforts to gain their own eman-
cipation. Mrs. Blackstone described
n lynching of n Negro woman In the
South who, though pregnant was
dragged from her bed and taken to
the stake and burned. While tied TO
the stake her captors cut her body
nnhnrn
child fell from her into the fire and
was burned. too, amid thg cheers of
the lynChers.
litical leader of the Negroes In Har-
lem. made a speech dealing with the
realities of political government which
present feel distinctly .uncomffGrtabl
Royal said the majority of the Ne.
gro population of Harlem was lined
UP soldly with the Republican party.
lenses that the Negroes were not in
the pparty for their own benefit.
While the black man assumed the
ordinary obligations Of cit citizenship,
emoiumcnts" which attached to rarty
politics.
Royal also said that no special leg
islation was needed to prevent lynch
ing. He claimed that life was uncer-
tain for both white and black as
long as lynching was permitted and
the laws already in force should be
brought into action to meet the situ-
alton.
:. 900 Lynchings Since 1850.
Louis Leaville. a Negro, who pre-
sided, said he estimated the, number
Of lynchings in the United states at
2 400 since 1889 Congressman Dwyer
put the figure at 1000 and the num- num-
at 50 in that time. These figures, Con-
gressman Dryer, pointed out were
ing as they did largely from southern
officials, made it certain that they
were much too small
Answering the objections that there
was no need of special legislation to
deal with lynchlng in the South, which
had been made by previous speakers,
Congressman .Dwyer. said that the
bulk of the go 100000 of Negroes in
the United States were in the South
and that for the most part had been
kept in ignorance for so long as to
be politically helpless.
The anti-lynching bill was written
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