Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-02-20
PREACHING REBELLION,

Carrie Nation Is not the only lady II
the land who believes in cold steel as
a factor in reform movements, Miss
Carrie 10. Busby Is another But she
thinks the negro race In this country
should so on the warpath and strike a
blow for liberty,
This is the story told In special dis
patch to the Chicago Times-icrald
from ST. Joseph, Mich. She is said to
have delivered a speech, IN which she
expressed herself In the following man
ner
Let the c0lored regiments that
fought al Santiago 10 free Cuba now
turn about and fight to free them
Selves
we believe too much in faith with
out work. Never win our fellow men
in the South be wholly free from op-
preston and innocent men wholly re-
lleved from the fear of lynching until
they fight
And this colored Joan Of Arc does not
conhne herself to the public platform.
She Is said to have issued an open let
ter, too. to her people. In which she
says in part:
zone man is no better than another.
II they were, all white men would be
pure, honest and upright without flaw,
while the black man would be all
blemishes. Are they not both born OF
woman and will they not die and go to
hell II they are not born again? The
negro helped to rescue Cuba from
bondage. Next will be to help rescue
his fellow men from oppression, May
the day come when all men will be free
and equal without regard to color"
Il is claimed that such appeals are
causing great stir among the colored
population. Miss Busby seems to be
q bright woman, widely known, and
she Is contemplating a lecturlng tour
for the purpose OF agitating an uprls-
ing. Rumor has It that funds are al
ready being gathered, to be forwarded
to the Southern States.
The idea is denounced as preposter-
GUS by colored preachers, and in all
probability, It is much exaggerated, but
that kind of incendlary talk is certainly
dangerous. Even II It does not rlpen
into q revolution. II may lead to indi-
vidual riots and the destruction Of life
and property. But we are living in a
time in which violence seems more
natural than reason. Even to the
gentler instincts Of women, the Ratchet
and the revolver have a peculiar
charm Whittier are we drifting? Are
men and women losing faith in courts
and laws? Is the election of law
makers and officers about TO be regard
ed as meaningless farce? On no other
supposition can the fact be explained
that so many are turning away dis
couraged from the paths Of phIlan-
thropy and patriotism. and invoking
brutal force as a remedy against social
and political ills,
Let us remember that once before in
the history of mankind. It is written
that violence filed the earth. Then the
cataclysm came without which the hui
man race in all probability would have
ripened for total destruction. II Is also
written that the end Of the present dis
pensation will come under ciroum-
stances similar to those in the days Of
Noah. II this is true, nothing else can
be expected than the gradual increase
Of violence, injustice and unrghteous-
ness until Divine justice can be silent
no longer, but interfere as in the days
of old. Who can correctly interpret
the many signs Of the time?