The new age. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1902-190?, 1902-08-02
The INDUSTRIAL SLAVE s
APOLOGY TO The
CHATTEL SLAVE
(By Nora E. Huldings Siegell

journal remarked in a back issue that /
Mrs. Siegel is undoubtedly a friend
of the colored race" to which | reply
with emphasis that | most sincerely
am. and have been since the advent
o. my ability to reason upon the sub
ject. Noting the almost impenetrable
prejudice existing among the middle
white classes in these United States
toward the negro. This has been 4
subject of deep moment to me and ]
early decided to do my little toward
alleviating the injustice.
Just here it is well to put in an
apology to the colored race for the
gross mistreatment aimed at them by
the white industrial slave. AS you
no doubt realize, il is all due to ig-
norance, lack Of spirituality and mis-
taken apprehension on their part.
They desire redress upon the prob
lem polotic, alleviation of their grind
ing poverty and have not enough un-
derstanding and mental expansion to
solve ii. They who must work! work!
work! from morning until night. year
in and year out. have left it to more
wary persons to do their thinking
and these paid thinkers have whiting
ly engineered politics and religion
(the two are in cahoots) into grooves
not too exceedingly beneficial to the
working classes as the present i'm
perial political system in the United
States proves. AS you know, you re-
ceive very few indelicacies at the
hands of the better portion of the
white race. Those of us who have
neglected neither education nor soul
culture are the ones who you may
rely upon for justice. We are glad
to note such encouraging reports
from the south as articles like
Southern Industrial Developments" !"
published July 10, in the New Age, in
dicate.
| have longsince felt that the col
ored people of the south would step
ahead of his white brother in all the
attainments that the present age al
fords, which the afore mentioned ar
ticle proves.
The negro has not the spirited,
fighting. unforgiving. cruel propensi-
ties in his nature that the white work
ing class are usually burdened with,
consequently he can not hold resent
ment which is a great boon in his
favor. While the white man is vast
ing time. belittling his Godhood warn
ing with each other, both at home and
abroad the colored man is educating
building up home interests. This is
noticeable especially in the SOUTH
"As We SOW. so shall ye reap" is as
true in this day and age as 1t was
when the words we're first written
Slavery is simply being transmitted
from the shoulders of the black chat
tie slave to those of the white indus
trial ones; as natural consequence
emitting from the enslavement O
women through the ages, and the eN
change is CALLING. We can not won
der at it. The chattle slave did no
suffer anything like the torture th'
white ones are being called upon u
endure. He did not invite the III
identities that were heaped upon MN
any more than children invite the SUI
, forirg thev inherit. Both are sac
> rifices of the innocent. Their suiei
ing therefore has an end, while re'ri
butive Justice for those who create
Il neither easily borne nor quick
ended Only omnipotent love throus
J time may Elevate it.
While the white slave is "as'lh
/. time and opportunity for good 'ahih
mart in lynchings, hangings' etc" Il
occulating deadly poisonous hatre
into his brain and blood he Wouiu De
,er occupy the valuable time educatin
+ that he may be better prepared 10 u
II his own thinking. In as much as u
h docs the latter. he rises aooFe -
: onvironmepts of the masses Join'n
tho mental plane OF the classes 'neF'
" w. adding another willing hindran"
# - tho perpetuation Of ignorance an
lr nr,rding labor. This is the ON
le method BY which any problem ma
n. be properly solved. Do the solVln |
> ,o,rself Make your head save you
= sonds Is an old aphraism and an a
u.atio one With what measure
u. mete and so on
he | clasp hands wiz Brother I,
"a washington in his successful rende
ing Of his rsce problem 'out VI
- - - -4cessary for him to car
!, u.oot a burdenl2 He Is doing
~ - 81 - taIIoug what George Washingu
~ ,,S ,,s tor NJ all. The age and neeess'
ie, u,O aonrse -, being the ruling motive
" u the masses of humanity ~ Noe
:, orly y stop and think If they wo. ,
~ ~ o on,y reason! but they wont, 'hey
ga - 40 .pv thing. suffer any ,hihg Ue',