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The committee of seven is composed of leading Helena business men. It had been authorized to carry on the investigation both by the municipal and county authorities and by Governor Brough of Arkansas.
The Harebrained Scheme.
Mr. Allen's statement follows:
"The present trouble with the negroes in Phillips county is not a race riot. It is a deliberately planned insurrection of the negroes against the whites, directed by an organization known as the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America, established for the sole purpose of banding negroes together for the killing of white people.
"This union was started by Robert L. Hill, a negro, twenty-six years of age, of Winchester, Ark., who saw in it an opportunity of easy money. He had been a farmer all his life, but lately had been posing as a 'private detective doing work in this and all foreign countries.'
"He started his first union in April. He organized the 'Ratio lodge' in May. He chose Ratio because his mother happened to be living there." 