Eureka Reporter | 1908-08-21 | Page 4 | Advises Negroes to Arm

ADVISES NEGROES TO ARM colored pastor fears hace race war irb it chicago chicago five hundred members of the congregation of quinn chapel one of the leading negro churches in aa this city were told by their pastor rev D P roberts on bunday to ann ilni themselves and be prepared to defend their homes in the event of in qu outbreak here similar to that at springfield arm yourselves and be men he said it if a raging mob surrounds your home protect your household and when the man who would ruin your family and destroy your property steps across the threshold let I 1 mm im step across the body of a dead man he ile declared that america Is a cowardly nation which with power to defy the world refuses to grant pro lection to innocent and defenseless people forty years removed from froni bavery because of their color talks N ith the congregation indicate that t the h e negroes ne groes fear an outbreak in ill chi c cago a go a and nd are preparing for it the tha hiet chief of police however dec declared lared hat that the chance of a race war here he re Is emote remote