Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-16
MAKES STRONG FLEA FOR
 ANTI-LYNCHINti IEGIsGATIaN

pdTlf ip FedseW its campaign pledges and enact this bill which will prevent fu- ture lynchiugs in our country said Miss Alice Dunbar Nelson, manager of tine South Wilmington and Philadelphia Ad- vocate. speaking Wednesday evening at an open meeting in the town hall under the auspices of the Norwich .Anti-Lynch- ing Crusaders. and in the interest of the Dyer bill. An audience of I5o was present
 'To Connecticut falls the honor of be- ing the first state in the union to get back of the crusader movement and your state has kept things hunHning," she con tinued ''The anti-lynchiBg crusaders have banded themselves together for the purpose of creating sentiment all over this country against lyncAing people, not only of colored blood. but people of any race. The question today as it stands IS no longer a racial one, 1t affects every red-blooded American. who believes in his country and is determined that the honor of America shall not go down
 because of the barbarious acts.
 The crusaders began their prayers on the first Sunday in October ard wfE continue through this year ending Decem-
 Der S1st with a sunset prayer. Many in this part of our country may feel that the lynching question does not touch them. Because your children have a l chance for education, there is no lynch ing and you are happy and content
 do rot forget the thousands in other sec
 tions of the country who cry out to you l in their misery and need
 1 Within the last 30 years there have l been '4,00o lynchings in our country, and | 700 of these lynched were white people l During the same time S3 yomen were
 iynched. and r were white women. l Of all the lynchfngs only IT per cent.
 were found to be due to rape, most of 1 them came from no cause at all only that ! the mob wanted a lynching and reasons l sucn as too much money, not enough ! money, working too little or too much,
 getting in white mans way, talking to a white woman, and being relative of
 an accused person, were often sufficient l cause to send man to the quickly con- I structed galows and in the official re-
 cords are told the story of the horrible | tortures these unfortunate people stood before death mercifully claimed them ] Now the lynchers don't want a hanging they must burn or torture or the fun fs not complete.
 America is the only civilized nation I that burns people today. Our country
 goes into International affairs and the
 Japanese French or Germans point tu Georgia, Tennessee or Louisiana and
 laugh because of the lynching, and VIC claim to be a Christian nation. 1 "We as colored race are proud oi our country and $50 years ago we
 were such good citizens that speciaI transports were sent to bring our fore fathers to America. Our race cultivated the soil, built houses, and made tht l southern people wealthy, but wher
 emancipation came our people did no think of reprisals. they set to work ann
 amassed a wealth greater than that oi
 any other nation here.
 Il ''Tife first blood lost in any battle q
 this country was colored blood. In thu
 Indian wars we were there, in the Civi I war our race fought to preserve tn
 Union, and Roosevelt built up his repu
 tation in CulH with out boys. America
 is our home and we have come to stay
 'Lynching is not alone confined to
 few states, the records show lynchfngs il
 AZ of our 4S states, New Hampshire, Yer
 mont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con
 necticut and Utah being the only state with clean record We aren't going t
 stand for other states to fight 1t ou: this country settled the question e years ago and the south must abide b, that victory
 'NThe Dyer bill is our objective and
 was passed and drawn up by the bes legal minds of our country and endors led by such men as Chief Justice 'Taft
 Attorney General Daugherty and other! z After six weeks debate it went to tn } house and was passed by vote of g \ to 119, and it is to come before the sen ate when it again convenes. The bill 1 2 the most talked of bill that has com } before the country in 40 years and a
 races are united to see that it become Q c law.
 Our race asks but for one thing feoI the Harding administration and that | the passage of the Dyer bill Twely n l million people demand that the republ can party keep it's campaign pledz s Some of the so called republicans vote = against the Dyer bill and they are a i at home, finding out what fine place is. Out in Michigan, Mir. Kellogg, vote ; against the bin, he's home now, retire 7 Alice Robertson of Oklahoma vote against it and she's not going back
 congress, in New Jersey a man runnin ? flor office was showed under and vi ]. stay at home, and fin my own state, { z Delaware, Caleb Layton voted to COT s tinue lynching and he ran so far betfn l. his ticket they forgot to count his votl t and he's now blaming 1t onto the crt e saders and those who believe in the Dye {. bill to stop 1ynching.
 Dlll 'SUdL0S IndI IyuClll lis against the law, and every official wi Q be held criminally responsible for th y lynching Of any prisoner in his chzrgl Another clause reads that the county
 (which a lynching occurs shah be fine . $10,000, and that if the 1ynching,
 across the border in another county, bot counties win be fined s 0B0. This !, T certain to stop lynching for when peopi - realize they have got to pay for lynci I ings they will stop.
 pI Some years ago in Louisiana eleve n Italians were iynehed and 1t cost ou > government SSo, 900 900 for their lives, th d Italian government demanding it. or {, ,00 .- lynchings only II Italians were victim .ti It costs money to lynch italians. r Jew, Leo Frank, was ly'nched at Atlantl D and when the Jewish people closed dow n on the business houses of that cir ,e money was scarce and Atlanta wei o begging for money. There have been . more JewsN l5nched. it's too expensive ,tj People should know -ef these lyncl
 ings, and we want money to advertise ol
 cause in the country and get people { = back us in the movement. We will fig z it in the highest courts in a test ca D and when the law is eSta63ished aI
 1these people find the 3Ew is to be zphe a 1ynchings and burnings will stop" B., The meeting was opened by Preside y Mrs. Charles Hall, of the Norwich CT 1: saders and music was furnished ]
 iwheeler's band. Mayor Milo R wate 'e spoke briefly, welcoming the speaker al 4 stating that every law abiding citizen 2 Norwich WIS back of the movement aa that every effort would be made 10 stl flaw breaking of this kind, no mask
 band no matter what 1t calls itself c, 3 break our laws, lynch human beings al 8 escape the punishment that thefr erin g calls for.
 .5i Mrs. Frank A. AEitchsu szas fntroduc