The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-09-07

sential duty to his new environment.
He had flowers in the yard Of his little
home in the South. He should not lose
sight Of this very noble attribute.
For many years the tenement and
the home problems has engaged the in
vestigative minds Of industry in the
manufacturing eenters Of the North. 1t
is gradually growing into a problem in
the Negro life in the cities. Real estate
agents like the grocer, butcher and
baker have, it seems, by magic and
presto, grown into landed barons. Pros
perity is enticing, and easy living con-
duces to happier living, so the Negro
real estate agent has been answering
the alluring bride of the goddess Of
wealth and the consequence shows upon
the market more than a dozen Negroes
in Chicago who handle hundreds Of
thousands of dollars annually in trades,
commissions and rentals.
These are glorious achievements. Pol
itics, religion and education are essen
tial and must not lag behind, but we
must think of the White race. He builds
stores larger than his churches and his
schools. Beneath the surface all is not
calm, in spite of the fact that our
center tinsel and veneer make things
appear in a gorgeous hue. Ours is to
live; and be, and have, and know. Ours
is to do, and to do for the period that
will require a sensible awakening to the
noblest principles Of well ordered life.
Ignorance has frightened with its ap-
palling imagery the crude children of
a backward race, and forced upon them
q marauding terror-like hurricane of
fire from which they must fee, and
forced them to shield themselves be-
hind a religion they cannot understand
in a cowardly self-defense, or preserva-
ton as il nothing was to be done but
to die and 60 somewhere, scattered and
running, before the tyranny Of Satan,
and to heaven, too, in spite of hypoe-
raey reeking with the scum Of filthy
habits, laseivious to a degree Of q devil
superlatiye, any of whom could teach
Milton the first principles of hell that
exists only in the ignorant mind, and mo-
where else.
Happily the modern spirit is taking
firm hold on many of rs who love to see
God and His holy angels in q beatiac
vision with minds and hearts 90 at.
tuned to good and righteousness that
the devil himself must suffer fiery con-
demnation for lack Of any serious con-
Much church and, alas, too much
church where ignorance is allowed TO
squeal. Too much where the leather
lunged, hoarse throated preacher adds
bedlam to the late hours intended for
sleep and rest to tired bodies
exhausted from the toll Of hay making |
day. By far too much Of useless noise
intended to alarm the seeming una
Harmed. Too grotesque and silly to ar
rest the serious attention Of thinking
people, and only to astonish and be-
wilder them with pity for 20 much igno-
rance.
Fifty-two years have worked charm
md we see stupendOss changes here
md there; all is not dark and chaotic
gentle sunshine warns into
lie . phantssnagoria Of splsndor
which win in time dissipate this awful
,eething multitude Of ugly, uneanny
ranting about God and bis angels
Civilization is the bomb which the
Of every sect must unesas-
ngly hurl at this holocaust Of supersti-
ION and frstfulnsss-
The Negro must be saved Yes, he
must save hinsslf by the changes that
vim eondnes to q noblsr comprehension
Il . lovabls spirit abiding among IA
30 nust be Taught to see holmes In
,lssn, healthy mind and body. He must