The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-04-01

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Kansas City, Kans., to New Orleans,
La, and then to this point, but you
will see that have been doing some
riding since I left you, and 1 am still
riding, and will be I don't know where
when you even look at this letter, but
those who desire to reach me may send
me letter to the Florida Baptist col
lege, Jacksonville, Fla.
1t strikes me that 1 was somewhere
in the world when 1 wrote the other
letter, and now Lam way down here
in Georgia. 1 had been to Baton
Rouge, La, and visited Southern Uni
versity, and talked with them southern
people. 1 was very much impressed
with President Clark and his teachers,
and then 1 impressed myself to New
Orleans, La, where they were looking
for Lawyer S. A. T. Watkins to try
an important case, but I have not
heard from the case yet, but am sure
that will in few days.
1t has been a question in my mind of
late years whether or not a white
president in a school for myself or my
people is not. a misftf 1 am not pre-
pared altogether to say, but 1 believe
some of them are, because of the heavy
race prejudice in the south, and so
many other things that are coming up
these days. They must teach the
Negro race prejudice, race hatred, and
to large extent race inferiority. God
never did make a superior race nor has
he ever made an inferior race, but out
of one blood he made all the nations
to dwell upon all the face of the earth,
some man said back in the days when
they were forming material for the
guide book of man, the Holy Bible.
believe this because it is in the Bible
and the Bible is a book of truth.
Two teachers go down town on the
same car, they must be legally sep
arated, and the white teacher can
hardly notice the teacher of myself,
although they are two teachers from
the same school. In the eating places,
they must be separated in many cases,
and one of the meanest places in this
country is that little school in Ed
wards, Miss, where a secretary of the
Y. NJ. c. A, had to leave few days
ago, because of the treatment accorded
him by the president and his white
teachers, yet they are down here in the
south making their eatings off of our
ignorance, by teaching us. Teaching
us WHAT
1 have in my mind to say a few
words about New Orleans University
and the president there and think 1
may do so just little later. 1 do not
want to misrepresent any one, hence I
want to go into it just little deeper,
because 1 dip my pen in vitrol and let
her fly all over the country. "Be sure
you are right, then go ahead"
From New Orleans, 1 found my way
to Ocean Springs, Miss, and this is a
place 1 have never been before, but 1
have been there, and hope to 60 back
some day when the world is moving
around. 1t may stop me right there in
that place. I am going to be on the
lookout for the world and see which
way it is going and where it is going
to stop.
Then into Mobile, was my next stop,
and 1 stopped there and Miss Daisy E.
Jackson, who can write as fast as you
can talk, wrote my letter for me. I
don't see to save my life how one can
write so fast, and then read them little
marks. 1t looked as if a chicken had
put her feet in ink and walked all over
the paper, but she understood it and I
could not say anything.
I went there to meet the people and
had the pleasure of meeting them. I
had the pleasure of meeting Rev. ]. W.
Sexton, pastor of Bethel A. NJ. E.
church, who is one of the strongest
men in the country. DR.. Sexton comes
from Missouri, but is down in Mobile
doing a great big work. He lives in
the hearts of the people and they are
pushing him to the front. I hope some
day to see him Bishop Sexton
From Mobile, went to Montgomery,
Ala, and there is where I make some
real shine, because had the pleasure
ofvisiting the State Normal School
there. For a long time this school had
as its president a white man, Prof.
Patterson. He started the school I
think and served it well. He treated