The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-01-17

not desire. These countries nave
drawn the line against the japanese,
and now that the United States has
drawn the line against further inn
migration OF japanese and Chinese,
it IS quite evident that the same feel
ing among the white race here exists
as everywhere. The Union Of South
Africa with but one hundred sixty
thousand 100000 Indians was forced
to draw the color line against them
because, as General SHUTS says, IF
these Indians were given political
equality, the native blacks would have
an equal right to it, and the white
mans regime probably would Be de-
stroyed."
The white people Of the United
States feel the same way about the
Chinese and japanese in this coun-
try. Our action is justihable for the
same reasons that the action Of the
japanese in their attitude towards
foreigners. The idea that the negro
in the United States has political
equality with the white man is not
justified by the facts, because the
southern states have been multiplying
two amendments to the Constitution
Of the United States for years, and
yet, although there are more than ten
million (10,O00OO0) American negroes
in the United States, the great bulk Of
the whites Of the north Of both poll
teal parties seem to justify the atti-
tude Of their white brethren in the
south. No color line in social affairs
is drawn by France, but it does so in
political affairs, as it only allows its
African and Asiatic population, run
ming into many millions, but ten (10)
deputies, whereas for each seventy-hve
thousand (75,O00) white native French
men, there is one CD deputy.
The race consciousness of the
French have marked the Germans as
a race apart, and both races are white.
The more one studies these intricate
situations and conditions, it seems al
most too deep to understand or ana
lyze, but we must realize and accept
the fact that the dominance Of the
white races of this earth has been
acquired because of their superior
condition. The superiority of
the white race has been acquired by
brute force and it will be retained
only by brute force unless it admits
the brotherhood Of man. Many Of our
great thinkers seem to think, that
there impends in the future, great race
wars between nations Of different
colored people, but I do not believe
50. AS all the races acquire intelIi-
gence, their consciousness will subside
and as they become economically
higher in the scale of civilization the
prejudices between the races will dis
appear. For FIVE thousand years there
has been as much prejudices between
branches of the white races as there
have been between races of different
colors. This is best illustrated by the
present day prejudice throughout the
world and among all races against the
Jew, and yet the Jew is acquiring an
enviable position in all Of the nations
wherein they reside, and such position
financially and economically and cultu-
rally, has fast overcome it.
The future of the negro in the
United States is so interviewer with
the future Of the white man in the
United States, their interests in every
way being identical, that it is hard to
iook into the future and see any in
crease in prejudices and hatreds be-
tween these races, because the con
iuct Of the American Negro since his
enfranchisement has been SO exem-
plary as to win the esteem of his
fellow citizens of all races. / do not
believe that the friction between whites
and blacks will increase because we
have seen a constant indication of its
decrease. The future Of the negro in
he United States depends more upon
the negro than upon the white man,
and / am very glad to say the negro
knows it, as is evidenced by his aspira-
lions for property, education, and all
hat goes to make up that which COM
nands respect and position.
The last meeting of the American
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