The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-06-20
CHARLES E. STUMP, THE RECTT AR
TRAVELLING CORRESPONDENT
FOR THE BROAD AK, HAS WITHIN
THE PAST TWO WEEKS VTSTTEnI
ALL THE LEADING TOWNS m THE
LONE STAR STATE.


ing the streets Of Houston with nv
hat in my hand ever since I have been
here, and shall continue to do 50
until / leave town. I have been on
the business streets and have lett nv
hat at my stopping place. because I
don't want to come in contact with
the business end Of a police billy.
Tits all I can do to keep my mouth
from jumping out of my heart and
III am sure you do not blame me when
/ tell you that poor Charles Norvell
Love, editor Of the Houston Times. z
was arrested one day, toted off to
the police station without cause and
when he entered the holy Of hottest.
police said Niger take off your
hat in the presence Of white men, and
he did not act fast enough and the
Lord God Of creation, 50 to speak,
knocked the editor down, and they
Beat him Up, and then toted him Be-
lore the judge, charging him with US
ing abusive language and on one
charge he was fined 500 and on the
other charge he was fined SIS. Now
that is particular hash-esquare-1ull.
Now you want to know what the
trouble was?
Love had the misfortune to be born
a Negro, and then he had the misfor-
tunate to live in Houston, where law
i made for white men and to punish
a Negro, right or wrong, if charged
by a white man I am not going to
Say all the things l have on my mind
and heart to say this time and you
will excuse me, but just look in my
heart and read what is therein and you
would almost be disguised at me, a
Baptist minister thinking such hellish
things, but you will not blame me
when you know what is going on.
I thank God that my mother at her
feet taught me how to pray, commenc-
ing with Now I lay me down to
sleep" and going on to "Our Father
which art in heaven" and then the
last prayer was for those who would
prosecute me unjustly, Father for
give them for they know not what
they do"
am glad that I belong to a Chris
tan race, and not a vindietive race
A race that can truly portray the life
Of Jesus Christ on earth, and a people
who can carry their mistreatments to
Jesus will some day triumph.
was in New Orleans when I wrote
the last letter, there I was mingling
with big men and educated women.
The Rev, Dr. B. G. Dawson toted me
around in his automobile car carriage,
and was entertained BY Mrs. Porche
and her daughter, Miss Enola E.
Porche, a teacher in the public school
system, and Mrs Myrtle Marshall, the
married daughter, who is frst-class
dressmaker, and the other daughter
Miss P. Grace Porche, was sick in bed
and she was having hard time. ]
am informed that she is much better
She finished at New Orleans college,
one year ago, and at once got a posi-
ton in the public school system. while
her sister finished the college course
there a long time ago and taught first
III Hope, Ark, and later was employed
in the system in New Orleans. She
has been teaching now three years,
and this is the year she gets the per-
manent appointment I Congratulate
her. They tell me she is a good
teacher, and weighs about 90 pounds,
and 80 pounds are supposed to be
brains. She is indeed smart young
woman
Mrs B. G. Dawson IS sick, and let
Us all pray that she viii soon Be fully
restored to health, also Miss Grace
Porche. Mrs. Dawson has helped to
make her husband all that he is and
I want to have her live to see him
made bishop in the African Metho-
dist Episcopal Church. He deserves
the promotion, and win do we'll
In my letter I told you about the
death Of a great woman Of our race,
Mrs. Booker T. Washington. She
was laid to rest in Tuskegee Institute
just few days ago, there to await
the resurrection day. She has gone
to join her sainted husband, the wiz
ard, the man who helped his race so
much and just in the prime Of life
he was called to his eternal rest
It is just one more gone into the
Great Beyond to welcome us when
we shall cross over to join her and
other friends who have gone ahead
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