The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1907-12-28
THE ONE PHASE OF PHASES

! Dy d lS" peISOLSB anu nO" int h'N"'
question has come to be the LABOR
question. And strange TO say that
here as elsewhere. and now as before.
labor stands far down. despised and
condemned The lowest. hardest,
most dangerous and unpleasant, but
most necessary labor. without which
society must perish. is the most des-
pissed and least paid of all. And the
men who do it the world over are
looked upon as despicable serIs.
Strange contradiction and totally at
war with our pretences as Christians.
as followers of that God-like charaC-
ter i'm whose honor all the grandest
temples of civilization are built, and
before whose name even Jews and
infidels ADORE" and who ordered that !
1.-The last shall be hOnored as the first |
and the first shall be put down INFO !
the place of the last"
And now the labor question. after /
ages of misrule. is looming up darker /
more menacing and threatening than I
before. And behold the black man Is /
the very foundation representative or .
the labor question. In past years .
and even yet pirates and robbers
have caught his ruled ancestors III
Africa, the blacks. just as they might
have caught our white or red or yeI-
low ancestors in Asia and sold them
into slavery. To free them TO do the
labor that had to be done. and which
they could not or would not do for
themselves. And the descendants of
these black captives grew up here
and multiplied and throvc until at
the outbreak of the war of IS
they had become the most Spfen-
didly disciplined body of people vor
the race of life ever before known
To use the language Of Southern
gentleman and scholar who had y.
grown up among them and observed
and written of them valuable treat
Use IN
History repeats itself The Puritans
who settled New England were a race
of people whom long years of persc-
cution and oppression had disciplined -
as by fire. As We are guided wiser
than we know. so these people were
appointed. elected To he the founders
of mighty race on the newly discov- :"
L.
the ten millions of the black race -
have developed from a few thousand -
stolen out OF Africa and dOmesticated -
here for two hundred years so as 10
receive all the enlightenment of the :,
age, and stand at last free, the highest
representatives of their race and the
equal of any race on the globe. unless
the divine intelligences have some -,
grand object in view? II were to be "
so ignorant of the lessons of history
as TO amount TO faturity. robustness.
Look over the landscape map of seas
and continents. The earth is not pop
ulated by One-twentieth of its capac-
lily. Onefourth at least OF its surfacl
is of tropic climate Besides vast por-
tions of each continent there are tens
of thousands of isles and peninsulas
In the burning zones enjoying the
climate of paradise. and il is notorious
that the pale faces degenerate anG
waste away physically and morally
In nearly all these regions. while the
very contrary is true of the dark
faced peoples. As TO the blacks they
thrive in all climes. Now. where this
Is being written, the black people here
are enduring and withstanding the
terrible billiards that sweep down
over the Dakota plains on sixty-miIe
per hour blasts with seeming indiffer
ence. although their dwellings are
open and fuel scant. under conditions
lntolerable to the whites. but there
are so many crimes committed by the
blacks" Inevitably among ten mil.
lion people several are bad. But in
proportion the whites are about the
same while in one respect the num-
OeT Vi hulatto criminals. the proper
ton is altogether against the whites.
and yet this is laid unjustly to the
blacks. The whites must bear it. And
as the American now boasts OF his
descent from the once despised out
cast Puritan. and proudly vaunts it
as the very highest title to honor, so
IN the future the citizens of the great
black empires now rising in the torrid
zones shall. with equal pride, glorify
themselves as descended from the
FORMER slaves held by the slave oil
sarchy Of the United States.
The AfroAmericans of these United
states and Canada will ever be the On
fountain whence shall run the vast d.,