The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-10
Joseph Cooks Lecture.

Rev" Joseph Cook, of Boston, who
has about as much conception of the
condition of affairs in Utah as a Hot
tentot, whose eyes are blinded by
bigotry to the progress that has been
made and the changes wrought since
last he descended upon us. after dis
gushing an intelligent audience at the
Congregational church on Sunday even
ing with a TRADE on Mormonism held
forth again at the Presbyterian church
last night. The reverend Joseph is al
ways picturesque in everything, and
his originality is of the order which
overleaps the boundaries of truth
The reverend gentleman was intro
duced by w. F. Cotton in a few ap-
propriate remarks.
He spoke of his unexpected detention
of two days in this city and said the
inspiration furnished him by his listen
ers was sufficient compensation. To
those who had expected a discussion
of what he chose to call the Latter
Day Swindle' he would say that ne
thought all that was necessary had
been said the evening before.
The topic of the evening was "The
Political Signs of the Tines and he
| proposed to consider what seemed to
him the dangerous tendencies of the
age.
A danger that threatens the country
| is cast prejudice. The war is overt
But have the evils it was supposed to
| eradicate entirely disappeared? Is
| there no notification? Someone has
| said southern representative has
| three times the weight in Congress that
| a northern member has. He is strongly
opposed to this prodigious sectional
swindle. 1t may be a bad thing to
wave the bloody shirt hut it is a worse
thing to wear it. There is too much
| lasSitude in the attitude of statesmen
toward this question. They want tc
leave time to work out the pre- blem
Time will not change climatic condi.
TONS 1t is possible 10 build a new
Atlanta and Birmingham but he
doubted the possibility OF a reconstruc
ton of those sections bordering the
gulf. The system Of caste naturally
grows up in tropical regions. The
ability of negroes to labor in tropic
heats, which his white brother hardly
survives, is proverbial. Caste and thu
crocodile thrive together. The canoes
! of caste is found at the Tropic of Can
GER 1T was thought that thu
colored people would scatter Throughout
this country but in twenty-five year
, of opportunity for dispersion there ha,
been small migration from the semi
tropical regions of the United States
There the great majority of them wi
! remain. There are 100000 colore
people now resident in this country
5 There would soon be 100000 and a
no very distant date, $4,000, 000 Her
, the lecturer gave some amusing storie
relative to the multiplication of tn
f African race.) Sir Charles Dixie, who's
: name is, and justly so, a stencil in tn
nostr;ls of English society, has pub
lished a volume of travels in Australia
:. in which he speaks of the labor {
! the native as the only profitable an
. enduring labor A native can Wor
/ all day in Queensland in seeming con
Y fort when five minutes work woul
exhaust white man. A souther
capitalist had said to the speaker. "W
I labor in the SOUTH" a, doctrine whiC
:, the speaker pronounced medieval TT
: old theory that the colored man cannt
s be educated was exploded long ago.
9 few days ago a colored man was chose
class orator at Harvard because he VIZ
n the best speaker of his class. Dwellir
upon the keenness and oratorical abb
n ity of the Africans, he spoke of {
v opening sentence in an address by
colored man, than which sentence
e thought Wendell Phillips could n
K construct better. 1t was 81 have see
:, a hand saw, a cross saw, and MAJ
other saws, but [ never saw a sa
n that saws the negroes like Arkansas
We hear that the negroes cannot
n educated. 1t is not true, but he dout
;. ed whether some poor whites could
educated.
If He had no objection to the coloniz
ton plan for such negroes as wish
to return to Africa, but a better W;
to solve the race problem is by rec
lie forcement of church and school a.
to by securing fair elections. His drea
is was that on white anvils and color
.. anvils Providence is evolving a fl
I'd government
ie If we do our duties the amendmer
- - to the constitution will be so enforc
IN that it will open the doors where
IN both white and coiored races will pa
ct to a better future. So vital is Il
1s question of race prejudice that it ;
sumes international as well as I
tional Importance. The politician
:. the present should remember the f.
10 that inspired their forefathers to tn
grand efforts, they were laboring
mankind. Keeping this in view, |
politics of this country can be ma
he a model to the English speaking p
pies of the world. [Applause.l