The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1920-01-17

my pages for It would do your SOU
lgoOd to see inst As am thinking FOR
l199o and IN III I have on my book
lare carried ont, yoa viii see a great
Ibig mother man IN me, and you win
hardly know me when 1 come walking
down the street with my crimson blue
eyes and lily black face. but Just CUES
snd 60 on about your business
Do not think that 1 have been tax.
ling vacation, but I have been get
ting my ducks in the row and some in
line to meet the many things that are
to come before us this year as a race
and make US better or worser, or
weaker or wiser,>or any other big word
you want to use about it.
1 have no objection to my Tsee o.
to myself, and am going to stick
just little closer TO the eolored folk
this year, and soon you VIII see me
walking around the streets in Balti-
more, and then at some other point,
but am going to Baltimore next
month 10 see and hear them old bishops
and then to look over the new timber.
have been going some since January
I, when 1 left Chicago:
Ny first stop was in St. Louis, Mo-.
and I looked around in that city until
got tired and then started for
Helena, where was cheated out of q
half years growth, and believe me
that 1 viii never get il back again.
have been telling yQp about Phillips
County, about Elaine, and Helena, aad
about the bad white folks and bad
our folks and the good white folks and
the good orr folks. I have prayed
every time I have been down this way,
and I believe the Lord answered my
prayer, for I have been able to get
sway alive. There were many people
who stepped into eternity from that
place.
It WA Sunday night just after
church, and after lunch time, that J
heard Mrs. Miller cone tramping down
stairs, and / asked her the trouble,
and her reply was that she thought
them was a sre, and I jumped up from
the chair followed her to the back
porch and discovered that the school
building was on ere. TIE alarm was
turned IN but the ars aehters got therS
too lAte to do anything thai meant
saving TIE building. I discovered that
the baiidihs occupied BY Mrs. Blisa
A. Hllef, was On Gre and I sas stop
ping there, and I &ish you could have
seen me packing uFsly dpds II . ban
dana. and pulling cut. Yea eoald really
see me blesA, for tuned red in the
face. The fighters turned in and saved
cur building, and had to move all
my belongings back.
found that things were getting
Bormal IN and around there and the
people are trying TO remain together
The building which was destroyed viii
be suPplanted by new one, AID at
once the insurance people sent men
up to help to repair the damage Of the
Miller home. 1 have told you about
Mrs- Eliza Miller before today. She
is one Of the most remarkable women
Of this race of ours and a woman of
wealth. She has nothing to do but
TO collect her rents, collect interest on
the money she has advanced TO people
needing money, and she is the back
bone Of the Arkansas Baptist college,
having advanced the institution $4,000.
walked around the streets Of He
lena, touched elbows with Dr.. E. c.
Morris, Nine. r. C. Douglas, of yira
college, and many others and left for
this place or for cIarksdaIe, and you
know when crossed the river it put
me in the land Of Senator John Sharp
Williams. and ex-senator James K.
vardaman, the hater Of a class Of peo-
pie who were born on the dark Of the
moon and got some Of the dark goods
mixed in them. The man who made
himself 50 Objectionable in the Senate
that President wilson asked the people
to let him remain at home, for he was
a disgrace to the cause and to his peO-
pie. Mississippi people obeyed.
senotor vardaman told the people Of
Mississippi that II they would elect
aim to the Senate be would stop al of
orr people from voting, and made them
all bat befeve that they would have
slaves BE made it 20 the Senate, and
you did not hear much Of his roaring
nor win YOU 6nd any CREST measure in
trOdueed by him that went through.
He is great man. great 10 tax about
filings be could not do. I thought that
he could get through bin BY which
all menbers Of Congress would be adj
mitte5 to the bar without ezanination,
beesnss they made the laws, but he
did not.
made several stops IN the state
and must tel yOu about them from
time 70 time. cIarksaaIe was the FIRST
one. and they have more merchants
selling Questionable goods to the square
inch than any city Of its sine in the
United States Bnf then am not here
IN -. =. = - = 4.