The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1921-12-31


.h,os when some of you read this
-, 1921 will have passed into his
- with all Of happiness, gladness
~ sadness and some people who
-. here to see it in did not get to
:. !, out, and some of US who well
=. 1922 may not be here to tell it
good bye.
lam always interested in the watch
-..tings when people aim to be on
a.r knees to say good bye to the
M Year and welcome the New Year.
Then they can all sing what a
u,oov New Year" 1t is nice to open
4, wear in the House of the Lord. I
.,y, gathered the following lines,
,,5 # you do not mind will give
s,n to you. They are worth keep
g
I wish that there were some won
derful place
r,Hsd the Land of Beginning Again,
Where all our mistakes and all our
bsartaches,
And Al Of our selfish grief,
CouH be dropped like a shabby old
coat at the door,
And never put on again.
4 wish we could come on it all IN
aware,
Like hunter who finds a lost trail;
wish that the one whom our blind
ness had done
The greatest injustice of all
Could be at the gates like an old
friend that waits
For the comrades he's gladdest to
hail
we could find all the things we in
tended to do
But forgot and remembered-too
late;
Like praises unspoken, little promises
broken,
And all Of the thousands and one
Little duties neglected that might
have been perfected
The day for one less fortunate
1T couldn't be possible not to be kind
In the Land Of Beginning Again,
And the ones we misjudged and the
ones whom we grudged
Their moments of victory here
Would find in the grasp of our loving
clasp
More than penitent lips could explain.
For what has been hardest we'd
know has been best,
And what has seemed loss would be
gain;
For there isn't a sting that will not
take wing
When we've freed it and laughed il
away;
And think that the laughter is most
what we've after,
In the Land of Beginning Again.
So wish that here were some won
derful place
Called the Land of Beginning Again,
Where all our mistakes and all our
heartsches, q.
And all of our poor selfish grief
Gould be dropped like a shabby old
coat at the door
And never be put on again"
But We are in this world, and we
must make good. l think l will turn
over my new leaf in my next letter.
nut you will have to listen to me for
Just few minutes, and let US join
m singing praises to our God, even
N strange land, a land where men
nave been cooked, where they have
Oeen killed by lawless men who call
themselves the highest civilized men
the world has ever known, who
BOAST of their superiority because OF
the color of their skin, and the text
ure of their hair, but. poor ignor-
amuses don't know that color or skin
cont constitute manhood They just
place themselves among the many
american damphules, and it seems
nat we have many TO look mp IN
America, and the devil will have him
some fun when he gets his hand on
them, and / would just like to be the
fireman in hades Just long enough to
start some of them to burning, and
then / would like to let the world
know that ] am one more happy man.
But / want to bury all Of the ills
of 1921 in an unknown grave and
must say to ali the men who took
part in the lynchings. that Il forgive
FOu and command your souls to God
or consignment to the bottomless pit
u.1.,-. Thiet~lv no1uiated