The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1906-12-29
Clarence =. DarTOW'S Great Ora.
ton In Bethel Church Sunday
Afternoon, December 16.
THE SPEAKER CLAIMS THAT LIBERTY AND JUSTICE
IS RAPIDLY DYING OUT IN THE HEARTS OF THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE IN THEIR MAD RUSH TO ACCU
MULATE WEALTH.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AND HIS FALSE THEORIES
PERTAINING TO THE CIVIL AND THE POLITICAL
STATUS OF THE NEGRO TOSSED IN THE AIR.
Reported by Charles F. Webb.

his was the unpopular cause and
know something of the sentiments
that swept through this city and this
state and throughout the North and
elected him president of the United
States which was the beginning of the
end of that species of chattel slav
cry, although not the end by any
means. In this city where he was
terminated political enthusiasm reach.
ed its highest tide and then for years
! thereafter there was a great uprising
in favor of human rights when il ap.
piled 10 black men, or the man who
! has one drop of Negro blood in his
veins, of course one drop is just as
bad as all the drops
But | have seen in the last thirty
days in this same city-in this same
city where Lincoln was nominated
where the people rose enmasse.
have seen lawyer whom know and
whom | regard highly, nominated for
judge-a man who stood higher. both
as lawyer and as a man, in charac.
ter and ability than three-fourths of
all the men on his ticket (ApplauseD
| don't owe Mr. Barnett anything eth
er. I'm just telling you what think
about it. Not one-fourth of the men
on that ticket are his equals in abil-
ity, in courtesy. in learning and yet
from one end of Chicago to the 9th
er he was abused and voted against
and deprived Of an Office just De-
cause the Lord happened to make his
skin a little darker than that of some
other people. And this in Chicago. a
Northern city and once the home of
aholitionists; and when it was SUD-
posed he was elected-whether he
was or not | do not know or care. II
makes no difference so far as the case
is concerned. When he was elected II
was said that it was a disgrace. an
insult, an outrage. Think of a white
man being tried by a Colored Judge,
That is pretty bad; but it isn't any
worse for a Colored man to be tried
by a white judge. (Applause). It's
bad enough to be tried by any Judge
(Applause.)
But the life and the history the suf-
fering and the adversely of the Col
ored race ought to teach them to be
more kind and merciful at least two
qualities which should become a
Judge. l have seen in this city in the
last few weeks hundreds of people
flock to hear the coarsest brutality by
United States Senator, uttered
against the weak defenceless black
not Southerners.-Dot than any more
than Northerners, for there may be
here and there some little difference
between the attitude of the white man
in the South and the white man in
the North, but they are getting fear
lulIy Close JOgether.
Let us not deceive ourselves about
any of those questions; IL there's any,
thing to do we want to do it; IL there's
any way to help We want to helm Il:
but the first thing is to know the act
ual facts. Mr.. Barnett was defeated
when his republican ticket received ,
some thirty thousand majority there
were whole lot Of Northern men who
were descendants of that party which
once stood for human liberty who vot-
ed against him; and / know there
were some democrats who voted for
him into the bargain. The race
might once have been a Sou
thern question but 1t is not SO any /
longer. 1t is a national question.
And Mr.. Tillman may say to you and
10 the people who like to hear that
sort OF talk land he would rather
abuse the weak than the strong for !
is always easier). He may say they
propose to protect their homes
against the black man. who does all
he work down South and whom they
would be satisfied with IL he were will
ng to keep on working. But the real
state agent in Chicago will tell you
hat he won't rent his fats to Colored
'eople and the owner Of a house along
indiana av. will stay up nights worry
ng IL a decent, well-behaved, indus
rious, intelligent black man, although
lie may not be any blacker than the
'ther fellow, should happen to rent a
louse across the street from him or
block away; and it does hurt the
'alue Of the property as all of you
now. Is there any difference in the
me sentiment and in the other? Is