The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1902-12-27

the natives of the earth. WHY Sim
ply because the almost numberIess
ages Of its servitude and oppression
have given it all the staying Qualities
the fiexibility, patience and cunning
essential to maintenance.
And now, when we review all mast
history ask what has become of all
Ihese all conquering semi-savage races
that have swept over the earth as
lords and masters, that GeIoni race of
traders and navigators mentioned nv
Herodotus, speaking a mixed Greek
AID Scythian language. moving up in
to the Baltic and to Sweden whence
later il poured over Europe as Goths
and NOrmans. reforming the language
everywhere by its literature Scythic
Greek, strewing Greek words
through every tongue, giving names to
streams. titles to persons as Mister
end Don. from the Master and Tan Of
the Greek, finally drifting over into
Spain and there lost. All have passed
Ct like the untamed Poles and South
irish and others are fast passing away
leaving the descendant of former serfs
to hold to the soil. The Anglo-Saxon.
the German and Russian sons of form
er serps remain and are spreading
over the earth and the Jew. most op-
pressed and despised of all remains as
master of finances and of the policies
# states.
And it Is crrcnOuS reflection that
il was through slavery that Christian
~ got its hold upon the thrones of the
'arth The Roman world swarmed
With slaves. All work was done by
,laves. In the palaces none but the
-!aves nursed and educated children.
How very absurd mus; the raNingS -
hat crucifed criminal who preached
up equality and said. the lowest and
east shall he put in his heavenly
,ingdom." have seemed to aristocratic
ars. Onl- the poor contermned slave
istened They held out some faint
'ope for him. rs it possible" So he
istened and believed and taught his
.urslings in the palaces and finally.
- the result. such mothers as EN-
PRESS Helena became jealous Chris
ians and inspired such sons as he
vas who later became Constantine.
he Great. But for slavery such a
,izarre and repulsive doctrine as
7hristianity seemed to that savage
and beastly materialistic world could
never have obtained the least hold.
And now. to-day. the central doc
trine of Christ; of humanity and
quality and fraternity for all man
kind. incorporated in our Declartion CT
independence forms the very keystone
4 that everlasting arch on which rests
Ill modern civilization. And the wick
,dest. proudest Oppressers will bow
Eumbly before the authority of that
doctrine. On looking back over hui
man history we see how very slowly,
under difficulty. man has been work
ing out the beast, Ito let the ape
and tiger of his nature die" and that
the great means of his progress were
war. slavery. tyranny. DrIestcraft.
poIygamy. and inequality. 1t required
all these TO develope the swarming
ferocious cannibals into the mild pol
ished gentleman and lady, types Of
what all human beings must become.
The highest are forever as object los
sons to the lower. AS the wise poet
Thompson said:
by means that errors seem to narrow
men,"
"Supernal beings work their mystic
will"
Humanity is the round to sOvergn-
ity: who keeps to that upon the scale
mounts fast.
The third point is the deterioration
Of the descendants generally of the
freedmen. The friends of the race
have been much disappointed in this.
But let us bear in mind that this IS
the old complaint 1t was remarked
by the Romans and Greeks that the
children Of their freedmen were dis
apDointment and of the children of the
lately freed slaves of Russia. the COM
plant is the same.
There are exceptions and those eN-
ceptions have ever been the salt of all
the races. They are the type to
which. by the law of development. all
must tend. So when you have this
charge against your race you know
the defense.
I would like to inspire in the hearts
of all the rising generation of Afro