The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-03-05
Prof. v" l. B. Du Bo Editor the Crisis New York City, Who One Of the Most Highly
Educated Men the United States the Old World for that Natter Spoke Wendell
Phillips High School Last Sunday Afternoon Before More than Three Thousand Men and
Who Listened nenty the Words Logic and Wisdom Which Fell from His Eloquent
Historical Lips Was Afternoon Never Dreamed Coming True by Mr. B

among other things. that he was
pleased to present to this appreciative
audience a man Of our race who was
not content to graduate from univer-
sites of the United States with great
| honors, but who had studied in the
great universities of Europe and his
admiration Of such a man was chal-
lenged by his nobility OF soul and
greatness Of character which made him
a slave to no principal and permitted
himself to call no man master. He was
as courageous and as eloquent as Wen
dell Phillips himself, a statesman Of
no mean ability, great champion of
human rights who realized that free
dom has brought great joys.
Mr.. Roberts said it had been his ex-
treme pleasure to have introduced on
occasions two presidents, William
Howard Taft, and the late Theodore
Roosevelt, but he considered it no less
an honor to present a man who. in the
light Of his handicaps, had risen to
such great heights as had the speaker
OF the afternoon, DR.. Dubois.
Grafton by Prof Dubois
When DR.. Dubois arose to begin
his address, the multitude sat in silence
to become acquainted with the author
OF the "Soul OF Black Folks" and "The
Quest Of the Silver Fleece dealing
with new subject which covered the
entire construction Of civilization. He
began at the formation Of trades and
told the story of hundreds Of wears
past when oxen were used as a trading
commodity. He traced carefully down
to the point when the intelligence OF
the world figured out a more feasible
exchange and in the various sections
Of the old world different species of
paper were introduced as a commercial
exchange, giving value to its price and
exchanged relations with other conn
tries. He carefully led along the lines
which brought more staple standard
to make secure the paper and copper
beng used, thus he related how gold
and silver were dug out of the earth
and these products were made into a
safe standard for the exchanging of
paper and copper as a background
Then he traced the greatest financiers
Of the world, the Rothschilds. and
showed how they had begun in -finan-
cial poverty but with constructive
minds TO build and put value on land
and purchasable products equalizing
the money value with the value of
products. He traced through the old
world every line which went to build
staple governments of the countries
and then anaIyzed the value Of labor
and the power Of the government to
pay the servant for his hire. He then
built carefully the history of European
financiers; he told the story Of the
dreams Of the Rothschilds, picturing
beautifully the way they paved out to
become the financial arteries of Eu-
rope He told Of their securing the
4 ~ survey OCl1Cdtll the
earth in order that gold and silver
might be dug out and he made the cor
ner stone of financial development that
today tells the story in the trading OF
stocks and bonds in the great Lombard
street in London and other produce
markets Of France, Italy, Belgium. He
pictured the equation OF payments Of
the value Of the money Of the various
countries which in turn would stabilize
the country upon a gold basis which
would make an absolute surety Of
redemption Of all moneys placed upon
trades and exchanges. He drew the
picture Of building American finance
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