The broad ax., 1922-06-10

San Antonio, .Texas.-When you
are through praying for yourself and
you have any prayers left, l wish you
would let me have a few words, for
you see that it is not you but me that
is standing in the need of prayer. Oh
course | have a few brothers and sis
tiers down here with me. l am right
in Texas. IL is better to be right
here than wrong here.
They have been having lots of fun
in this state, killing. cooking and hav-
ing barbecues, until am afraid al
times they may mistake me for some
thing to be boiled or cooked or barbe-
cued, and ! consider that am en-
tirely too much flesh to 60 to waste.
l am sorry that mob violence and
lynchings are permitted to go in Our
country, for it gives us a bad name
and says to the world we are not capa-
bic of enforcing law. We can make
laws, put them on the big books to
be studied by those who desire to be
lawyers, but there are lawless men
who tramp them under feet, and bring
disgrace upon Old Glory.
think about the editors of our
papers who are every week putting
their brain on paper pleading for law
and order, and the preachers who are
preaching it, and holding in check
here and there the men who would be
lswless. They tell them to look to
Jesus" declaring that Jesus can dc
more than shotguns. Throw away
your guns and bludgeons, and get on
your knees" has been the advice for
years, and / shall continue to give it.
/ do this because ! believe in Jesus
and / believe that God is not dead
But here and there / find that some
mischievous fellow has put a question
mark behind my statements and make
all of my sentences interrogative.
But none of these things move me.
! saw some fellow saying that the
Negro was being driven to the con-
dition of heartless, and there are thou
sands of them who have declared that
southern jail was only the place to
make it possible for the lynchers to
get hold of a Negro, and many OF
them had decided to select death
rather than be arrested, to be made
an easy prey. hope that this is a
mistake, that while others may disre-
gard law, let US submit. The men
who take part in lynchings are the
men who are degraded and they are
way beneath the helpless victim they
lynch. Some fellows are saying that
there is but one way now to check
lynchings and that is to resort to the
Old Moses law or something like that.
l never heard of that law, hence l
don't know whether to recommend it
to our young men or not. But they
say it is law. Moses gave to us the
Ten Rules of Law, and they are good
and if that is what they represent it
is all right, but some man was telling
me that it has something to do with
eyes for teeth and teeth for eyes, or
something like that.
Now there is no need in me talk
ing about what / don't know, but if
that is the law against lynch
ing, l will ask Congress of the United
States to borrow it from Mr.. Moses.
and let us have It since they have said
that the bill proposed, by Congress
man Dyer, and passed by the House
Of Representatives is not in harmony
with the Federal Constitution.
At times when / would become dis
l am led to some college or
high school, and see the struggling
young people, the men and women
who are taking in thought, ] am then
md there caused to think with this
,rmy of thinkers coming out of
schools and taking their places, some
hing is going to De stopped. Con-
inue to trust God.
Last week, was in Kittrell col
eye. Allen University, Morris Brown
Morehouse college; Clark
University; and ended the week at the
state Normal School, Montgomery.
Ma, with that noble man, and prince
# scholars, Prof. G. w. Trenholm,