Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1927-05-07
BISHOP CAREY
GIVES ADDRESS
in OMAHA
He Tells of His Refusal to Organize
Colored Branch

ColOred Branch
Omaha, Neb., May 4.-Bishop Archi-
bald James Carey of Chicago, mighty
man of the African Methodist Episco-
pal church in the United States,
launched the first of a series of at
tacks against the Ku Klux Khan at
the st. John A. M. E. church, Twenty
second street and Willis avenue,
Thursday night. He lauded the
Square Seven" for their opposition to
the khan.
Bishop Carey was appointed civil
service commissioner of Chicago,
three weeks ago, the first person of
his race to serve in that capacity. His
appointment was the first made by
Mayor Thompson, following his spec
tacular election. AS civil service COM
missioner Bishop Carey directs 1000
police, 2,700 iremen, and 5000 civil
service employees. In his 20 years in
Chicago, he has been pastor of three
of the largest Negro churches, has
been a member of the state consti-
tutional convention, and has been
chief examiner of claims. In his home
town he is regarded as the political
ace of his race.
Met by Committee
When he reached Omaha at P. NJ,
he was greeted by an enthusiastic ova-.
ton. A, reception committee of $50,
headed by Rev. John H. Grant, pastor
of St. John A. M. E. church; Rev. John
Adam, presiding elder of the Omaha
district A. M. E. church, and Rev. T.
W. Jidd, pastor of the Bethel A NJ E.
church, paraded with him from the
union station to the home of Mrs.
Martha Smith, 2211 Ohio street, where
he is being entertained during his
stay in Omaha.
He will speak Friday night at La
Dor temple, Twenty-ffth and NJ
streets; and on Saturday night at
Jewell hall, Twenty-fourth and Grant
streets.
Sees End of Khan
Digniied and imposing, the gray
haired, white-mustached bishop caught
the attention of his audience with the
opening sentence and held it through
out his address, "The Relation of the
Khan to the Future of the American
People"
"In 10 years, the Ku Klux Khan
will be dead" he predicted. at can
not live because in principle it is I'M
American, un-C Christian and unpatriot-
ic. Anyone who studies the situation
knows that the khan is losing.
"Their present insidious power is
due to their system of canvassing. It's
a follow-up system, often done under
the g;uise of social calls.
"When l speak of the khan know
my subject. l knew the man who
fathered it, Hiram Wesley Evans,
when he lived in a little house in At
lanta, Ga. Now he has millionaire's
palace on Peach Tree road. He was a
man without capital, without enter
prise, without anything to build an
enterprise. But he was anxious to be-
come rich. Looking about, he saw
that American prejudice, racial and
religious, would be good thing to
capitalize.
Refuses to Organize
"He divided prejudice into shares,
sold it at $40 share, under the name
membership Enough so-called Amer
leans were foolish enough to invest
to build that millionaire's palace.
''To my office came a delegation of
high klansmen. They offered me any
weekly salary would name TO organ
ize Negro branch of that order. l
pretended to consider it, let them come
back But when they returned, all
they said was taken down by hidden
stenographers. have their terms on
that proposition. l even have their
ritual. And when they had finished
told them, Not for $1,000,000 a
week would I affiliate with your or
ganization.'