The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1899-01-07
PETER PURITY.
&c turtles about the AfIasfa Peace
jubilee. a cord about Black
Heroes.

jubilee. 4 cord 6bosf Blacl
Heroes.
Who won the battle Tor Uncle SAINT
lt was the sable sons Of Ham.
For they, with rifia, shot and shell,
Fought the Speniards just like h..
To Santiago they did 80.
And there they Clicked the Spaninh foe.
While others ran Rough Riders tell;
The negro fought just ike h.
Who claims the glory Of the ieht
And think they're simply -out Of sight9-
With peace jubiiees they shout and yell,
And raise fuss and kick up h..
No negroes were in the jubilee,
The black heroes we did not see.
Despite the way they fought 20 wen,
They kept them out the line like hell.
Take warning. now, my simple friends.
Your dirty deed viii sometimes end,
And then well laugh and shout ana yell
While we watch you catch someh-.
How are you all today? / die
not write last week because my
wife was just crazy about the white
folks' jubilee, besides my STEP
mother took advantage of the cheap
railroad rates and came mp from
Simpleville, Ga, and one of the
children we're sick, and this pre-
vented my writing. Since oul
last letter President Mckinley has
been with us. No, / will not say
us, but with the white people. He
was here to attend the white jubi-
lee. A few months ago the Georgia
Legislature passed resolutions con-
demning in the most forceful Ian
guage the administration of Nc
Kinley for appointing negroes to
Office. Those of you who read
newspapers viii remember the in
cident, and still, few weeks later
that same legislature adjourned in
his honor and tries to eat him up.
During his stay they would not
even let Mr.. Negro drive his car
riage, when nobody in Atlanta
drives carriages but Mr.. and Mrs.
Hams relatives.
Not colored soldier was in the
jubilee parade, when the world
knows that the excellent fighting
of the gallant Ninth and Tenth
cavalrymen really won the battle
at San Juan Hill. These black
heroes are right now at Admission,
Ala, about 100 miles from AZ
lanta, and no effort was made to
have them in line at the white
folks jubilee, but instead, lot of
soldiers from New York and New
Jersey were here who had never
seen Cuba. As ] stood and watched
them receiving the honors of others
l could not refrain thinking of old
Isaac Who let Jacob steal his bless
ing from Esau, for these soldiers
were doing the same thing. While
all this jubilee was going on, two
white soldiers &C Annison, Ala,
were engaged in trying to "puffer.
ate" the neck of q negro hero of
the Tenth cavary, for the daily
papers tell Us they shot the colored
soldier and left him to die.
Not even q negro band Was In
the parade, and Atlanta has as good
a band Is you can find In most any
place. On the other hand one or
two country bands we're In line and
on one occasion q part of the band
wassPlaying "fankee Doodle" and
the other part something else.
All of the local white militia
companies were In the parade, bnt
not one of the four colored COM
panies were even allowed to stand
on top of the old car shed and fire
q salute when the President came
In. One of the big colored Repub.
licans got frightened and left on .
midnight freight for Washington
TO have protest against jubilees
issued, but he failed in his under
taking. Many newspaper men
from New York, Philadelphia
and Washington accompanied the
President and party, but 7. Tom
Fortune, who has been In all the
political parties of this country, was
not with them, because he is col
ored.
We did not see the picture of
Lieut.. White, that gallant negro
officer who died lighting for the
stars and stripes, but the likeness
of Gen. Shafter, who, with his
large self, stayed ak miles from
the battle and ate enough for IL
men, was conspicuous in many
places.
When Mckinley went to the
state capitol they say all the col.