The Colorado statesman., 1923-09-01
South Being Aroused
Against Hl-Treat-
ment of Negro Says
MOOrfield Storey.
American Bar Associations
Ex-President Sends Greet
ing to N. A. A. c. P. !
Kansas City Con-
ference

Kansas City, Kan.-Moorfield Storey
of Boston. eX-president of the Ameri-
can Bar Association, and now presi-
dent of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People,
has sent Il message of greeting to the
Advancement Association in its Four
teenth Annual Conference here, which
was publicly read at the opening Mass
Meeting, Wednesday night August 30.
In his message, Mr.. Storey said the
inter-racial committees throughout the
South showed that the consciences of
white people We're being reused against
the ill-treatment of Negroes. The de-
feat of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill in
the last Congress by the filibuster of
Southern senator's, was an admission,
said Mr.. Storey, that the crime of
lynching was Southern one. Mr..
Storey's message in full is as follows:
81 am sorry that cannot meet you
face to face and in person offer you
my congratulations on the successful
year that has passed since our last
meeting, and the prospects of assured
and complete success that awaits us.
sit is true that the Anti-Lynching
Bill was defeated in the Senate by the
refusal of Southern senator's to allow
ii even to be considered. This was an
admission that lynching was South
ern crime which they could not de
fend, and would not even discuss, but
the vote in the House of Representa-
tives, the strong backing from power
full influences all over the country, the
signatures of Governors and leading
citizens, and the vote of conventions
and legislatures We're in themselves
success, for they showed what our
agitation had accomplished in creating
public opinion.
"The results of the election in
Northern States showed what our
votes can accomplish, and made us Il
recognized power which can not be
trifled with. Our success in the last
election points the way for our future
action.
"The inter-racial organizations in the
Southern States show that the con-
sciences of people, who have probably
long felt that the cOlored people in
their various neighborhoods were i'll
treated but have been silent, are at
last aroused to action, and this isl
most important for till the peoples
is aroused, nothing is |
really accomplished.
"The Ku KluX Klan, calling itself a
purely American society and organized
to use lawless methods for accom-
plishing its ends is on the defensive,
and in the nature of things cannot en-
dure
"Our various branches have accom-
plished brilliant results in various
cases which they have undertaken and
the association as whole is recog-
nized and respected as a force which
is working for good.
1.-The road before us is long and diff
ficult, but look backward for moment
and see how much longer and harder
is the road which has been travelled
in the last sixty years. Then look for
ward again with fresh courage and
pledge yourselves never to admit de-
feat but to press on till every vestige
Of race discrimination has disappeared !
and the Negro citizens of this great
are in fact, as they are now
in law, the unquestioned equals of
every other American citizen"