The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-10-12
A FRENCH TRIBUTE TO TIE
AMERICAN ooLoRED PEOPLE.
written exclusively for The BROAD
.AX.)

One of the finest tributes ever 40
corded to the Colored people of Amer
lea was printed in French journal
"L Illustration" recently. To make
that tribute doubly good one thing is
necessary:
The Colored people of the United
States must buy, Buy, BUY Liberty
bonds.
It is 9 fact that they have bought
literally. Considering the hardships of
the race for ten generations in Amer
ica, it is amazing that they are able to
do what they have done. But the "or-
der changeth." Patient struggling up
ward and untiring efforts to gain dis
cipline and education have brought
their reward. When the War brought
the oOlored man Is opportunity he was
ready and able to grasp it.
The race has its wealthy men, its
gifted artists, authors, lawyers and
scientists. The mass of the race is earn
ing more pay than ever before.
Take your savings and lend the
money to the Government on Liberty
bonds. In ten years you win be able
to sen your investment at a premium
probably as high as 20 per cent over
what You subscribed. Meantime you
are getting interest at q rate twice as
high as the bankers used to take on |
their government 2's.
This is your chance. Take 1t. Put
yourself into the Bond-owning, Coupon
cutting class for all time to come. This
is the minute when you can take
longer stride toward economic indie
pendence and social equality than you
have been able to cover in all previous
history. Buy Liberty bonds to assure
your future weIlbeing and to save the
nation.
The French tribute referred to says
In part:
"on the first registration for the new
army 757 ,62s Colored men were drawn,
Or about 8 per cent of the males capa-
BILE Of bearing arms. Numerous volun-
teers attested the desire Of the Colored
people to enlist and fight for liberty. 1t
vas observed the demands for exemp-
ion were relatively very few among the
colored men drafted. As a matter of
lact, from 1917 to August, 1913, 277, 900
1clored men were incorporated into the
rational army, constituting several
'egiments. Some of them are already
ighting side by side with our troopa ,
rhey form many units of the various q
ranches of the service, and are avail c
bile for the duties required by a great
modern army. Their employment tends
o be more and more extended thanks
o recent measures which have aug
aentsd the technical proficiency of l
heir officers, making it possible to util >
70 thsir force more effectively. Thus 3
re may look forward to the judicious
Employment Of the man-power re. !,
Durees of 1900 600 individuals. u
This participation of the ColOred
itizsns Of America in the government, g q
Iilitary affairs has been encouraged by '
's administration, BY the press, and !
the orators Of the oolorsd race. Il D
y appeared under various guises, the il
oct important Of which is in great o
70 the Liberty Bonds, very Z
'evy purchases Of. the War Savings ;,
'amps and general eontribations to the I,
ID Gross and z. II. q. A. funds. Ger.
IN insurance companies, such Is the
nth Carolina Mutual, Durham, N. C,
d the Mosaic Tsuplars Of Little q
'ek, have invested their snrplus funds !.
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