The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1922-08-12

LAST IL LOUIS MO.-I nave Deer
ont of the reach of the world so &c
speak all of this week getting ready
to go to the National Negro Bushes.
League next week, for / am told 4
is going to be the greatest meeting
since DR.. Booker T. Washington left
us. 1t will be meeting with which
he would be pleased. He laid the
foundation for an organization that is
going to place the race on the map Of
the business world
The people are beginning at this late
date to realize what Booker T. Wash
ington meant to the race. and they are
now wishing that he had lived just a
few years longer. He has been here,
he may not be here in person, yet he
lives and will ever live. He made his
way to the heart of America, and
Americans will ever cherish his men,
DRY, and to go to Tuskegee you will
see his monument. You will see the
work of a great man. He will inspire
any boy or girl to want to be some
thing in life.
/ can close my eyes at any time and
take look at the chapel at Tuskegee
and see the place that indicates his
lifting that veil of ignorance. To see
the man, the book, the pillow, and that
stalwart figure, Booker T. Washing
ton. Then on the other side of the
chapel is his last resting place. He
has returned to the God who gave
him to US.
But ! am here to remind you that
you should be at the National Negro
Business League in Norfolk. L. w.
Bright has put in apple pie order the
Hotel Mt. Vernon, and there are quar-
tiers there for you if you will only step
IN and see them. It is one of the best
hotels erected by my people and for
my people.
DR.. Robert R. Motion, and the Off
Gals of the Business League are plan
ming for great program, and some of
the best men in the race will take
part. Every phase of racial life will
be represented, and you will hear some
interesting things. There will be more
tangible work done this time, for the
organization must do something con-
structive in the future. 1t must take
on something more definite for the
uplift of the race Il must be more
than a social organization, but they
are going to get right down to real
business.
From the Business League / am 60
ing direct to New York for a few
hours, and then beat It to California
for that great meeting of the National
Baptist convention. I have letters
from friends in every direction telling
me that they are going to be at the
National Baptist convention, the
largest religious organization in the
country, and one that is doing so
much for our people. Special trains |
will go out over the Santa Fe, from |
Kansas City, Mo, and over the South
ern Pacific from New Orleans. am
going to be on one of them, and I |
am going to be with the people who |
are doing so many good things for US.
The Baptists are doing some practical
work these days and you will learn
about it at the meeting of the con-
vention in Los Angeles. You could |
step down to Nashville and see the
great building being erected by the
Sunday School Publishing Board of
the National Baptist convention with
DIR. A. NJ. Townsend as secretary. He
is a wonderful business genius, and |
is putting things over, you will kindly
believe me. There is to be erected
right in the heart of the business sec
ton of Nashville a building costing
100000, and of course, when they get
their hxings in and other things there
will be a million dollar concern owned
anu OPSAoACu " biC NdhOhaA odpIloN
1t shows what we can do
when we get our heads together.
Did you ever hear of human bug
zard? Well, l am told that there is
one in this country, and one who could
be called traitor. 1 am trying to To-
late his name and to see what he has
lone. heard some fellows talking
lbout him the other day and one fell
ow said that while he passed for a
tightly educated man, yet he was a
lamphule- 1t seems that he is a big
.ditor, and his brains got in a storm
md he made an attack on the Great
Abraham Lincoln. I am
rying to get the magazine and see /;
What was said, in order that I may
ave my say. Lincoln lived, he made {
possible for me to live, for me to
e a man, for that damphule to write,