The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-08-25

| and the two peoples can not live hap
PLY together where one has lost its
confidence in the other. No govern
ment can be strong that is not just
We cannot hope to have the confidence
and respect of the. Negro unless we are
just in the enactment, in the interpre-
tation, and in the execution of the law
The future of the Negro in America
portends for his advancement in all the
walks of human effort. In politics, art,
science, religion and in all forms of cul-
tural advancement he is as sure to rise,
as is the sun to set. His past efforts
indicate his future accomplishments.
He has the capacity-it has been shown.
It is up to the individual effort of each
to commend his place in society. Some
will fall by the wayside overtaken by
sloth and incidence, but as a race of
people, they must not be judged by
individuals.
At the outset the history of the
American Negro discloses a wonderful
picture of the transportation of race
of men out of the jungles into a new
world, there to do the work and drudg-
cry of race assuming superiority and
commanding obedience by the law of
the land. They had had no opportun-
ity of suitable training of either
thought or hand-they were not even
schooled in the old world civilization.
They were thwarted in every aspira-
ton in the new home to which they
were unwillingly brought puzzled,
even daunted by their new environ
ment. The history of the progress of
the Negro must date from Lincoln g
Emancipation. We must not forget
that much of the progress Of the Ne
gro is spiritual as well rs material, a
thing not of institutions, but of the
heart and the imagination. The Amer
lean historian must not overlook the
fact, that while men out of every Eu-
ropean race, men out of Asia, men out
of Africa have crowded into the United
States, and an infinite crossing of
strains is fast forming a new race
that the slow but gradual eommingling
of the Whites and Blacks, must result
ultimately in the black strain becoming
the dominant one in the mixture of the
bloods, as far as any individual race is
considered, in its relation to the White
strain. No White man has yet advo-
Gated publicly the assimilation of the
Black. All discerning ones know it is
inevitable. Perhaps one-fourth of all
the Colored people of America are in
oculated with the blood of the eau
easian and this, only after a few cent
uries of contact. Foreign White stock
fast loses its identity amongst US, and
this is more perceptible among the
Blacks than the White will admit, but
they too, are destined to lose much of
their physical heredity and race eharac-
teristies, in the future composite Amer
lean.
The races of this nation can not |
long live separate and apart. Nations
grow by spirit not by blood, and no.
where is this significant principle to
be seen more clearly than here. The |
future of the Negro in America is
fixed by the memorable laws of en-
contagion, contact and as
ISOLATION and nothing can be said |
of his race that will not apply equally
to all other races here, either White,
Black or Yellow. 1t is different
with the American Indian. He will
not be assimilated. He is fast disap-
pearing but the Negro does not object
to assimilation-he courts it and is
proud to commingle his blood with the
White. History has proven that where
the two meet, one disappears and that
one, the Black. Witness the mulatto.
So, we must not get excited when we
know that the Negro is to be assim-
Hated. It will not retard but hasten
the progress of all the races of mankind
into one race, which will speak one
language, live under one Flag and wor-
ship one God.