The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1906-12-29

| iugs invited to all the social func
tions; they were the fad. They were
black. But the badge Of slavery did
NOT seem to be so recently upon them;
that's all. They had not been born in
a condition where they had been the
slaves of the whites and there was
nothing degrading to shake the hand
! of the man who handn't been in the
habit OF waiting on you when you gave
him the commands. (Applause).
That's all there is to this question.
You people have been sold like cattle
and horses and lands. You have been
set to work and received nothing for
IL excepting what you could steal
Ctaking something that you earned
yourselves and that was stealing);
your business has been to wait upon
white men and white women; and
when suddenly the world has said
that you are just like the rest and
just as good as the rest and 1t was
not your business to wait on white
people but just as much the business
OF white people to wait on you. They
hate you for it and they say. Go bach
and take your place. And all OF tins
hatred and all of the contempt and
the insult and abuse that is poured
out on the COlOred people of America
day is because of this badge of
slavery from which you have so rs.
Gently come.
Why is it different in England? Be
cause England has long since abol-
ished African slavery. That is the
diffe renee on the continent of Europe,
African clavery mas been so long abol-
ished. You might think at first glance
that if my statements were true, that
Sc long as slavery had been abolished /.
for almost forty years there would not /
be the same feeling to-day and that .
the cruel feeling against the Negro /.
would be growing less strong in /
stead of, as / say, much stronger /
than it was. Now. why is it? Forty /
years ago there was a great wave of |
enthusiasm for liberty. especially .
for the freedom of the black; it swept 1
over America and carried everything
before it; it was a waive of genuine .
enthusiasm for liberty, and it was /
c-ystalized around this contest for
freedom for the blacks; it had been
growing steadily in America by the
work of great men and great women
and the inherent cause of Justice; but
when it came and when the people
who had been their chattels were now
in law and politically their equals then
the revolution spread over the lana.
Of course IL must have been true that
many OF those men and those wOmeI
rose to that condition almost in a day
were i'll prepared for their new duties:
many of them are i'll prepared for
them to-day, and the South de-
termined that whatever the law or
whatever the sentiment they would
never see the Negro any different
from the times of slavery And you
know the long struggle. You know
the struggle for political rights. You
know how men suffered and died. The
Negroes Of the South practically gave
up the contest and didn't care
they voted or not; then after
that laws were made throughout the
Southern states which practically dis
the Negro. The North and E
the South have been coming together
The whites are united in bonds of COM
merce and the feeling to-day in the
North is practically the same You
ran scarcely get a lorg story in one
Of our own newspapers about a lynch
ng any more; you can scarcely get an ]
EDITORIAL condemning it. You find q {
Tery few gatherings protesting G
against the injustice to the Negro: '
he sentiment is gone and it is for the I
Colored race to find a way to meet
he new condition. (Applause). 7
let me tell you of another movement I
hat has been going on besides this v
hat l am speaking Of: The working v
men Of the United States have been L
osing ground. There was a time il
when the hired man and the hireo h
1rl was considered the equal or the D
'wner OF the farm or the house, To ii
Jay they have been placed in an in Il
erior class. We have been dividing n
nen up into classes; and the working D
nan is going the same road that the Ia
'egro has been going for the last 25 Ii
ears. The girl who does the work v
the house is a servant; she doesn't 81
at with the family. she Doesn't asso a,