The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1922-11-18

Il 49,
do not read the Tribune. We saw IN
the Defender where Mr.. R. S. Abbott
was trying to inform the public Of his
lopinion Of the same. and we read in
lanother column where Col. simmons
was hot in the collar. and yet fearing
10 hurt the feelings of sbS little white
race holding IN subjecdon all Of the
euss words IN his vocabulary. The
stencil did not come directly into our
nostrils.
Had Hannibal triumped over Seip-
10 the dark races today would be the
ruling people and English would not
now be the leading language by which
most of the civilized world m. kes its
wants known. There would have been
no Dutch trading vessel bringing
black slaves TO America. Americs. no
doubt. would still be the refuge for
the low brow element driven out OF
England and continental Europe.
Therefore The Chicago Tribune would
never have become known.
The Negro Is not crossing any line
except the Mason and Dixon line,
The line crossing is always done by
the white race. Who invented the
first muIlato? Let the Tribune an
swer that question Whoever did IL
was 1urturing a whirlwind from whose
reaping the White race cannot escape.
Which is better, marriage or adul-
lteryi Let the Tribune answer that
question Is IT always The Negro who
viii live in adultery with the white
womans Or is It always the white
man who will not marry the eolored
womani II the Negro marries the
white woman II IS not because he
went across the line to get her. II is
because she came herself across the
lime.
The conquering, money-making man
filed to the brim with commercial ac-
ltiYity becomes brusque, cold, and
morose, has no faneies, delights only
in the hard, stern rules of trade and
barter and forgets how to love, to be
affectionate, starves out the human ma
ture Of his soul, and to his women
folks is not -genteel, kind. and con-
siderzte with them, and Is neglectfui in
the exercises of those graees that gives
to woman her little world to inhabit
When he IS not sublime. be Is most
ridiculous. Take. for instance. the
bright lights, the great white way,
Broadway. the sporting night life, the
orgy and the grand debzuch, the dis
triets where yelled women maraud the
streets.
The Negro possesses kind, trActile,
doeiie nature, respectful, obIiging and
inoHeusive, friendly and cannot go
enough out Of his way TO help you II
he likes you He dresses well. makes
pleasant eoapsny. is yielding and can
sympathize with women of any race.
because the same brutal nature that
repels the kindly and affectionate heart
of women is also brutal in his over
lord spirit toward the Negro man.
Business, trade and commercial ae-
tivity. and wanting to know all things.
and prove all things. he has lost the
vital spark of life. and love. The am
munition of his animal forces he can
not retrieve by further making him
self cave man, or . football star.
There Is as much in being too mascu-
line as there is in being slightly ef-
Terminate.
~Love is to man thing apart, but
it is woman's whole existence" She
tires of the imperious overload. His
lack of prerequisite forces TO crafty,
satisfy, and make her happy in the
way she determines. sickens her soul.
makes him loathsome creature when
in her sight. and she finds the love of
her quest. womanIike. in strange and
unexpected quarters.
Having manners goes a long way,
NA-~A NnitC man lbs uCuC a. All /
what chance has he with women1 |
Wien a eolored man shows all OF
those excellent qualities OF both heart
and mind what woman is Il that could
not admire him? Differences in color
have but little bearing in the case.
Necessity. they say, becomes the
mother Of invention and so the care
worn, loyelorn. heart sick girl, disap-
pointed. seeing nothing before her but
4 butterfly existence. doll, or an un-
loved creature. kills herself. browns in
the lake, or crosses over into the color
line, mzrries. is happy in the freedom
Of her-spirit and her viii, the reward
Of her keroism. The Negro is virtual
" new man. Thousands of years of
asciviousness, harens, mormonism
md the rest Of it has indeed made the
white man stale almost without any IN
mite variety. The Negro may have
ZONE down out OF the tree since the
white man, bat ne Is down. and the
Tribune, while suffering a thousand Il
It's, lets loose some one Of its South ii
IN editors to write fussy nonsense z
lbout. what he thinks viii happen to Il