The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-02-17

lieve that he would say to the Ameri-
can people, "I ask not favors or in
diligence for my brothers, neither aims
or charity, but only those privileges of
economies and life that you so freely
open to every foreigner that seeks
your shores, and to which every man
is rightfully entitled, namely the right
to work and live peacefully and unmo-
Tested, they seek not social equality
but equality of opportunity. If you
have the white mans burden, in SYM
pathy's name consider what must be
the black mans burden. If they seek
representation in the body polite it is
because they heartily believe in that
motto adopted by you as principle
for which you fought, namely that tax
alton without representation is tyran-
nv, if you admonish them ito have ra-
cial self-respect and pride, do not dis
courage them by misconstruing it as
impudence and teaching all other of
YOUR citizens to look down on a dark
skin, if you will only give them the
barest chance, they will demonstrate
to you that it is entirely possible for a
human problem to aid in its own solu-
ton.
And in the summary of these quail
ties we shall not omit that of the true
patriotism that rendered him devoted
to his country, even before she ac-
knowledged him as her son, a patriot
ism that never wavered, and burned
as an unquenchable fame to his dying
day, a patriotism that would have us;
in spite of the injustice and difficulties
under which we labor, answer our
country's call in the hour of need, raj
lying to her flag at the bugle call, and
perhaps by laying our all on the altar
of sacrifice, bring her attention to the
alienation of our wrongs and granting
us, belated justice.
These qualities of patience, deter
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patriotism, combined with experience,
made him a statesman of the highest
type and of such standing that even
the renowned Senator Hoke Smith,
who was at that time an unknown,
Young aspirant, did not omit to request
the use of his influence to enter GER
tain political circles at Washington.
And the life of Douglass was not in
vain, "Though a man die, yet shall
he live" and he lives today in every
thing of value that we accomplish. He
lives in the property we purchase, in
the banks that we establish, in the
homes that we build, in the self-re-
spect and character that we may have,
and in everything that We do to con-
tribute to racial uplift and decent citi-
zenship.
And in conclusion, 1 like to believe
that during the time of stress and
doubt as to the future of a nation and
race, the great Lincoln sometimes
leaned for support and comfort on
the opinion of the untiring Douglass,
and though separated by the gulf of
race, yet was that chasm bridged by
their united hands pledged in liberty s
cause, dedicated to the extension of eco
nomical opportunity even to the weak
est and most unfortunate of humanity,
firm in the belief that for the rich and
the poor, for the high and the low, for
the white and the black, there should
be one law, one flag, and one country.
Even in the uttermost parts of the
earth, wherever freedom is an estab-
lished fact for which men will bleed
and die, synonymous with it, inter
| twined in indisSoluble union and assO-
citation with all that means liberty,
hope and opportunity, are the names of
Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Doug
lass.
In another column of this paper will
be found a short interesting account of
the Douglass-Lineoln celebration which
was held at the Appomattox Club, BAL
South Wabash ave. last Sunday after
noon. On that same Sunday afternoon,
Lincoln-Douglass Day was held at
Bethel Church and the Hon. Charles S.
Deneen and Prof. Richard T. Greener
were the principal speakers.
This coming Sunday afternoon at
clock the one hundredth anniversary
of Frederick Douglass will be eele-
brated at Quinn Chapel, Rev. ]. C. An
derson, Pastor. The following program
will be rendered on that occasion:
Address by U. S. Senator, William E.
Mason. Subject: Let the Nation
Now Stand for the Principles for
Which Douglass Stood.