The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1921-12-17

temple leXas.-People as just plan
ming to live, and that is as it should
be. This time one year ago there were
people looking into Christmas, saw it,
and then passed on to never. return
again, and there are others now look
ing forward to that day and will never
see 1t, and just who they are / do not
know. may be in that number my
self, but if / should will say that
l have tried to do the best / can and
whether that was little or much If
was the best l could do.
have tried to live close to the
throne, although at times things have
transacted which have brought into
my religious life cuss words, and if l
have thought them / have asked God
to forgive me and have tried to avoid
them the next time But who has
MT thought hades, damn and all them
other kindred words when they have
picked up newspaper and read where
men have been barbacued, but not
eaten, when men have been hanged
without a trial by judge or jury, been
executed by a lawless mob before
given a chance for life Law has been
tramped under feet by race claiming
to be superior race, a race that makes
he laws, who construes the laws, keeps
the jails and other places of conhne-
ment, yet they will batter down the
jail doors, take out a helpless man,
who has no chance to defend himself,
and riddle his body with bullets, and
then burn the lifeless form. What do
you call this? / would like for some
scholar of the first order to tell me.
A man who declares that he must
rule, because he is white, but believe
me with sin, with lawlessness practice,
he must some day go down, for justice
and injustice cannot rule on the same
thorne without a clash, and in that
clash, ] fear my white brother will find
his star going down. He must either
obey law or destroy his institutions
l should have said our institution, Tor
while l am at times helpless before
the bar of justice, while my rights as
a man are tarmpled under feet, yet
am unwilling to give up.
No prescription, no discrimination,
no segregation, shall wreck my man.
hood. 1t matters not where ! may
be, where l may ride on the prescribed
trains, what kind of box car they may
force me to ride, in a box car, but still
there will be a man in a box car. /
think the time is now that We should
step as much of this race foolishness
and get down to business. Merit alone
should win. But there are people who |
DO not care for merit, they are dwarf
in manhood, for they depend on their
color to carry them thru, and if they
all down on color, then there is moth
ng left. 81 should be the Lord of
creation because ! am a white man."
Il may go today and he may get by
With it, but tomorrow genuine merit
md manhood will demand the toll,
md he will be blank. The time is
coming when brains will rule America,
md the man with brains will not be
lsked about his color or his ancestors.
We are going to have in authority in
his country some day more men and
ess pigmies. You need not believe
ne unless you want to do so, but you
will find that / am about right.
The year is drawing to an end, and
-ou will find it out. have been look
ne around and here and there some
# my friends have dropped out, yet
am still here, but how much longer
do not know. / have been almost
o the crossing over place, but decided
o remain right here just little longer.
may have been wrong IN some OF
nv actions, and some Of the things
hat | said and done. am sure the
ord will forgive me. If you had
cen some OF the actions / have seen
think you would have been the most J