The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1906-12-29
JOHN T. CAMPBELL SETS FORTH,
IN A VERY CONVINCING MAN
NER. HIS VIEWS ON THE RACE
PROBLEM IN AMERICA.

Man-when savage is the most
savage of all the animal crea-
ton. His most savage actions
are against his own kind. He
gratifies his hate where he has power
His most vindictive hate is provoked
AT beholding the rise of his once in
fcriors to his level, or above him. Few
men are able to rise entirely above
this low, but natural spirit Napoleon
BCnaparte murdered Toussaint l.
Overture because the latter was
called the black Bonaparte. The
more ignorant, the more savage man
becomes. Also, the more ignoran:
the more easily he is defeated and
conquered. Ignorant followers of wise
leaders have achieved MIRACLES as it
were, but ignorant followers of ig-
nofant leaders have rushed to their
own obstruction. Wise followers of
wise leaders often outrun their
leaders. Such was the case of the
Federal soldiers at Missionary Ridge
They were ordered forward to a GER
There they found themselves under
a hot fire. With one impulse the whole
line rushed up the ridge and charged
over the rebel breast works This in
defiance of an added order to stand at
the designated place. Grant, when he
came to the place saw that the men
were right.
In the past, white men have hated
white men quite as much as some of
them now hate the Negro, and have
vented their hatred with as much
savagery as they ever have against
have the least race prejudice. In the
United States the poor white were en-
couraged to hate the Negroes because
they could then be used to help hold
the Negroes in slavery. The Negroes
were taught to show contempt for the
poor whites because this would in
crease the hatred between them and
each side could be used by the master
TO control the other. The real interest
OF the poor whites and the Negroes
were the same. that of resisting the
oppression of the master class. But
in . hn
hatred was at first used to perpetuate
slavery. 1t is now used to perpetuate
white supremacy in politics in the
South. The poor whites are almost
as much injured by it as are the
Negroes. Senator Tillman is a dis
tinguished poor white. Governor
Vardaman is another.
The Negroes are acquiring knowl-
edge more rapidly than the poor
whites in the South and are fully up
with the poor whites in the North.
If a race war can be averted a few
years longer the Negroes will not
want to associate with the poor
whites in the South. The Jim Crow"
car will be the aristocratic car of the
future. Poor whites will then wan:
to ride in it, and will be refused.
AS the Negroes grow in knowledge.
they organize into societies and move
solidly for or against men and meas
ures which may be working for or
against their interests. The Negro
vote in Pennsylvania is so strong and
so persistent in demanding the just
rights of their race, that Senator Pen
rose of that state introduced a resolu-
ton of inquiry into the Senate de-
handing an investigation into the
csnse for discharging the Negro SOL
diers at Fort Reno. Senator Foraker
OF Ohio did the same thing in defer
ence to the Negro vote of his state.
The solid Negro vote can turn the
:tinn in several Northern states. At
first they were merely voting cattle
Anything labeled Republican got their
solid vote the first few years of their
enfranchisment The Republican party
in many states grew careless Of the