The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-08-25
COL. CHARLES E. STUMP, THE
REGULAR TRAVELLING CORRES-
PONDENT FOR THE BROAD AK.
ATTENDED THE oath ANNUAL
MEETING OF THE NATIONAL.
NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE WHICH
HELD FORTH AT HOT SPRINGS,
ARK, THE PAST WEEK, WHERE
HE MET MANY OF THE BIG COL
ORED FOLKS OF THIS COUNTRY.

Hot Springs, Arkansas he devil
must have been on his annual vaca-
ton while we were SO near to his
home attending the National Negro
Business League, for while he has
kept the water hot, yet nc has kept
down and i about to permit d to
get away from the jumping off place
without having to jump off. You re-
cal that have told you when I get
to Hot Springs. the place SO near
hades that the water comes out of
the mountains hot, l can scarcely keep
my mouth from jumping out Of my
heart.
But dear readers. am here attend
ing the Business League and ! should
have said the National Negro Bust
ness League, and | have been made
to shout all over this town and then
some. / have heard SEINE things that
would almost make the devil rejoice.
have heard DR.. Robert R. Motion,
the principal of Tuskegee Institute.
the man about whom so much has
been said through the papers, through
the public press and every other way
since the hospital question has been
up.
DR.. Motion has been cussed about,
has been talked about has been called
everything but a child Of God, but he
has gone right on doing his duty, and
when he spoke out Wednesday night,
August IS, | thought OF the blessed
Master, who said on one occasion,
mine hour has not yet come" /
knew all the time that DR.. Motion
was doing the right thing, and he was
speaking where speaking meant some
thing. and did not have the running
of at the mouth. He knew when to
speak and where to speak, and ! wish
that many Of Is could learn that par
ticular thing but we have not learned
ii yet.
Now, do not abuse Motion, for the
man on the inside can see better than
the fellow on the outside and leave it
to him. The hospital question will be
settled and settled in a way that all
of US will be pleased with it. He
said that it was not good to tell every
thing you know. and then some one
added that il was not good TO talk to
Tom, Dick and Harry. ] would like
to know them three fellows thar ]
might stay clear Of them myself
Do you know that the great Ma
tional Negro Business League has met
and when you read this it will have
gone into history, and while you may
never see my name, will have been
in this history making, for have been
here, and have been counted with the
number who made up the Path annual
session and / wish that there could be
some way Of letting those who follow
me know that furnished part Of
this historic session
Well am here, and during the week
have been the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. H. Faleoner. Do you know w.
H. FaIconer? He came into this
world over ID Mississippi got his edu-
cation at Alcorn A. & NJ. college, and
is a real hrst-class carpenter He has
worked at the business. but now he is
supreme agent for the Woodmen Of
Union, which requires him to get
around all over the country. A won
derful man, and a man Of wonderful
ability His wife is stenographef,
but then am not going to talk about
that this time. for have before me
the session which will close when |
close this letter, and the men who
came from afar viii have to be leaving
for home will leave here for New
York, and perhaps before you can get
through reading this letter I will Be
on my way to California ! fear, for
am only going to be ia New York
until the last Of the week and then
of, going through Cincinnati, Frank
fort Louisville, Nashville, Birming-
ham, Montgomery, Mobile. and then
to New Orleans. Will you decide that
] am some goer7
Now let US consider the League.
The Arkansas State Negro Business
League held things down the first two