The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1906-12-08
MEMORABLE PEACE MEETING
IN BETHEL CHURCH.
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Is an idea that never would have en-
tered his head IL he had been a sol
der Of the civil war that he is trying
to have fought over by our citizens.
ITO my mind the most shameful
part of the whole shameful affair was
the action of the women, whether pat
ronesses or promoters, who brought
among us this exponent Of the mis-
called gospel Of Tillman-profanity
vulgarity and ribaldry. The role play
ed by those women was ungracious,
unseemly and unpatriotic. They now
are looking for another sensation with
which to raise more money. | suggest
that they find out who is the best
prize fighter of the time, and with him
for a lecturer they can raise a good
fund without doing violence to the
sanctities and proprieties of our city
of peaceful homes and peace-loVing
citizens"
Walter NJ. Farmer spoke as follows:
1T has been a matter of much sur
prise to me that the people Of the
North, East and West have allowed
themselves to be deceived into believ-
ing that there is a Negro Problem.
Even some of our leaders have fallen
into the mistake of accepting for the
race the responsibility for the so
called Negro Problem. But there Is
no Negro Problem and certainly none
of the Negroes making. ."
The only serious problem confront
ing the race, is the universal problem
of mankind. How to become all thai
God has created us capable of becom-
ing. As American Citizens our great
est concern is>how to live up to the
highest possibilities of that citizen
ship.
The South indeed has a problem,
grave. serious and dangerous. 1t is
how to disfranchise four million Amer.
lean Citizens without coming in con-
flict with the Constitution of the
United States. And further, how To
deprive the Negro of his civil rights
and reduce him to a state of Serfdom
without offending the spirit and gen.
ious Of our republican institutions. .
Social equality has no part in the
consideration of this question. Out
OF a population of nearly eighty mil
lion people, there are about ten mil
lion Negroes. Just how 1t is possible
for ten million inferior Negroes" to
force social equality on eighty million
superior Whites" has never been
demonstrated.
This social equality cry is a mere
subterfuge, Fesorted to by the dema-
gogue to terrify the unthinking and to
arouse race hatred. 1t may worry the
White man of the South, but it claims
a very small part of the Negroes re-
Election. His position on the social
equality question is aptly illustrated
by the remark the goose made to the
horse; finding themselves together in
narrow stall, the goose said: "See
here old fellow I'll promise not to step
on your feet, IL you'll promise not to
step on mine"
In his speech at Orchestra Hall, Mr..
Tillman uttered a base SANDER on Ne
gro Womanhood. You no doubt know
to what I refer. I-wish here and now
to pronounce it as false as 1t is vi
clous. The Gentleman the cavalier
has his right hand ever ready to de-
fend a lady whether white or black
nor would he utter one word incon-
sistent with his acts. e
Hon. William Dillon spoke in
part as follows; Il did not ex-
pect to be called on to speak
when / came here this afternoon.
came at the request OF my
friend, Mr.. P. H. O'Donnell, with whom
1 have the honor to be associated in
professional relations and / came
mainly with the object of hearing Mr.
ODonnell speak. / shall therefore not
detain you more than two or three
minutes.
have watched this Tillman Incl
dent with very great interest from
the start / knew, as most other peo-
pie knew, that all the enemies Of tho
Colored race here and elsewhere were
extremely anxious that this matter
might lead to some outbrust of vio-
lence on their part, which would have
seriously prejudiced them and great
ly aided their enemies. In the re-
suit am happy to know that the Col
ored people of this city have exhibi-
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