The new age. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1902-190?, 1903-02-07

Du are in a far worse state than
ourselves, does not make your case
hss important and direful. Though
hey be Judases does not tighten the
lecessity for your learning the grand
bsson that is i'm store for you, and
prophecy that tnat lesson will come
% teach you self-establishment. You
as a race are not self-centered; you
ack stability, backbone, as the Yam
keys term it. who are today the great
est lot of people on the face of the
eartn.
| tell you again, and | shall keep
on telling you that you are a grand
race; one pregnant of more good than
is at the present dreamed of, and you
must educate! educatel!!
If you go to the Philippines, go not
n ignorance, but in wisdom Watch
What | tell you-cultured negroes will
rot go over there.
That is not the object! The object
S, to tranfer Drawn not brain; trans
plant servants, not masters.
There is naught to hinder negroes
colonizing right where they are and
become separate in society, if the OBJ
ject is separation.
Wisdom will not be needed over
there until the wealth of the country
has been thoroughly and satisfactorily
manipulated for a few.
Were the Beers allowed to remain
in peace? Mo- money ousted them.
What was the wisdom that they failed
to attain and use that they must be
taught to serve a lessosn? and have
they learned it yet? | fear not.
Progress must travel onward. Prog
ress may not be retarded by a rope,
like as with such the Indians were
known to try to stop a western-bound
train few years ago.
Natural laws may not be set aside.
If you trim a tree in one place it
shoots out in another more abundant
ly. Cut off it's top and it springs up
from the root in many places, thus
multiplying its forces against future
assault. Just SO with the human tree
and in addition to the physical body
the human tree must use his mental
faculties and after that his spiritual
mind. In order to develope onything
it must be put to it's best use. You
better use all three faculties in civili-
cation than in desert. But you must
hurry up! You are not developing
fast enough. These are quick times.
Omnipitence will allow your removal
to a place and and state where you
will be compelled to bring forth more
abundantly; not after the white mans
model, however, but after the black
mans. Your own original forces
must be developed. You are grandly
Wynrthy; yr ond If you do not do it here
Angels and ministers of grace, de-
fend us" from our own unworthy opin-
ion of ourselves and from our BELT
tleing opinion of the great and good
God whose work must be done in and
through us, his children.
All this reasoning, my dears, in be-
hall of yourselves does not, and Lhe
good thaC may come to you after many
years of suffering will. not excuse nor
forgive the manipulators of the cause
of it. Their intention remains the
same, that is, for our own benefit. OF
course, in time good will come out of
it as it came out of your enslavement.
Truth crushed to earth will rise
again" But greater good should come
of your remaining here where you be-
long.
If the present government was by
and for the whole people, as the found
ers of it intended it should be, the in
stigators of these colonization fraud
business would be punished severely,
instead of allowing any person who
has a tract of barren land to dispose
of to sell it to dupes, and the fraud
so general and lawful that no one
thinks of exposing it. 'Tis another
proof that ignorance must suffeffr the
penalty of it's own enslavement.
You have more right to the south
than the white people living there to-
day; for by your Drawn has the coun-
try been cultivated during the ceneu-
ry since its settlement. The white
people there grew shiftless and help
less through your caring for them, and
if right instead of might ruled they
would recognize this fact If they
imagine they can dispense with your
aid now they are vastly mistaken, for
they need you far worse than you do
them
Turn your attention now toward
cultivation of your intellect and soul
forces and before many years have
elapsed the white people of the south
will extend to you the glad hand
They are the ones at fault and not
you, and they need a severe lesson IN
another direction.
Education and culture is your only
way out of the dilemma and is of
more benefit to you than this imagin-
ary Philippine. wealth.
If you emmigrate to the Philippine
islands then good-by 20 the intellec-
tual development for many years TO
come. Stay where you are and edu-
cate. Become intelligent masters of
your own destiny, not pigmies. Re
fuse to be buffeted by every perverse
wind that blows.
Father, forgive them, they know
not what they do"
| wish all a happy and prosperous
new year. NODIE.