Broad Ax, The (Newspaper) - April 3, 1897, Salt Lake City, Utah is ALONE HEEDS THE CAN I STAND BT rr S BY THE ETERNAL WE SHALL SEE WHO 18 GOING TO THE MONET POWER OR THE HEW TO THE VOL. SALT LAKE 3, 1897. No. 32. TOUSSAINT OVERTURE AND THE REPUBLIC OF AT THE middle of the chain of islands composing the West lies one of large which was discovered by Columbus on the 6th of and called by in honor of his adopted or Little This was afterwards and the island was called St. from the name of its principal Latterly this second appellation has likewise dropped out of and the island 10 ff bears the name of a word signifying by name it was called by its original inhabitants before the visit of We are told by A. the eminent lish that St. Domingo or is not only one of the but that it is also one of the most beautiful and tive islands in the West It is about 390 miles in length and vanes in breadth from 60 to 150 It presents groat diversity of deep valleys and extensive pla ns or clothed with the luxuriant vegetation of tropical The aii on the plains is warm and laden the perfume 01 and tie sadden changes from drouth to trying to European con- is favorable to the growth of the rich products of the In the latter part of 1629 the western portion of this island became a French and to use the words of a great French it bloomed and blossomed like a rose m June from 1776 to 1789. It contained many magnificent s ons and of pretty but simple Along the borders of the while public fountains and baths rendered life agreeable all the com- forts of the Old World had been transported into the In 1789 the population of the colony was Negro slavery prevailed in St. Domingo as well as in all the other colonies of the New and to supply the demand for labor the blacks were imported from Africa into the colony at the rate of per And thus at the time at which we are now writing there was a black population between and and about white and still there was a third class of persons known as the people of There were thing hke of these people of color m the This third class arose from an intermixture of the white and negro In the year 1685 Louis published a code or black which con- a number of regulations for the humane treatment of the groes in the there were miseries inseparable from the system which could not be and slavery was only in St. Domingo by the elties of the whip and the branding Civil war in St ing of on the 20th day of 1793. British troops under the command of Colonel landed at And this event so alarmed fhe two French and that immediately issued a decree ing negro M the same inviting the blacks to join About six thousand did but the great majority fled to the swelling the army of the two negro Francois and and luxuriating in the new found erty which they had so suddenly It was at this moment of utter confusion and when mulattoes and blacks were all mixed up and intermingled in a bewildering i which was not a foreign nor a civil neither was it a war of but it was a composition of all will repeat was at this very moment that Toussaint LJ Overture appeared upon the Toussaint LJ Overture was undoubtedly the greatest that has ever appeared above the This extraordinary genius was born in St. on the plantation of the Count de a few miles distant from Cape in the year 1743. His father and mother were African slaves on the Count's His it is was the second son of king of a powerful African but he being taken prisoner by a hostile was sold as a slave to some white who carried him to St. where he was purchased by the Count de In the course of time the king's son ried a young who also be- longed to the and by her he bad eight five sons and three Toussaint was the eldest of all the He grew upon the plantation with the rest of the slave The Count also had a slave by the name of Pierre who had acquired a great deal of information from coming in contact with the and we are told that Pierre Baptiste gave Toussaint instruction in a little Latin and an idea of qualifications soon gained him He was made the coachman of M. the overseer of Count de a situation as high as a negro could hope to In and in other still higher situations to which he was subsequently his conduct was always so that while he gained the dence of his every negro on the plantation held him in It is said that Toussaint was sessed with a very patient and that he was always kind to brute And it is further said that he was greatly attached to one whom he had chosen for his In person he was above the middle with a king and a robust con- which was capable of en- during a great amount of His head was large and well and he could work for many hours without requiring but a very little be tions and nevertheless we wish that it could be read by every white person and by every member of our race throughout our In the near future we shall reproduce it in the Broad and after doing so we will set forth our reflections upon the THE DINGLEY IN looking over the pet can known as the ley it shows that heavy in- creases of taxation have fallen upon wool and ton and other spirits and According to Mr. there will be an increase in all the schedules of a These figures are of upon the importations for last The above amount represents an increase of on wool and woolens and an increase of on sugar This levy upon woolens is a specific duty laid without regard to thus com- pelling the consumer to pay at least two dollars for every dollar that goes into rhe treasury for The increase upon intoxicants and tobacco is one million and two lion While the staple articles of consumption are with we can get along without the and but woolens and sugar are prime necessities for the humble says the philanthropic foreigner pays the and hence what have you got to kick You enjoy his money and therefore have no cause for That sort of talk may go with but it's too thin for a Democrat to He that hath a heart to understand can see that these protective tariffs ars the children of and they follow out the spirit and teachings of their and exact justice to is a total stranger to these protective D. W. a colored physician of in 'The past and future of the can makes a serious and well-considered attempt to provide a solution of the race problem of the Dr. Gulp m a tone and spirit worthy of all com- and paper should the earnest of all who are interested in question with which it The We hate read Dr. article past and the of the American while we tin performance of this Senator I Turpie in speaking of the influence of trusts in politics uses the ing language oligarchy of the thirty trusts professes intense position to free Iree i free tree but it ab- hors with most perfect hate the free With the free ballot this syndicate of trusts would be sent back to their original of furnishing shoes or calico or transportation for freight and purveyors of goods and common carriers of the All very useful and honorable if honestly but not to be compared in their estimation with that which they today so arrogantly the control of the tion and of the government of the United There is an economical side to the The time now wasted by Legislatures in the selection of could be employed in needful The people could better handle the It investigated it directs it is the best auxiliary to the courts of Wrongdoers stand more in fear of the newspaper than of all the anathemas of the New ZANE Al 1 National Bank Bldg. ELLIS Rooms 512 to 515 HA Y VAN and County Building DID you hear President ley say anything in his message to Congress upon the question of economy in Not one FERGUSON Constitution W. Attorney and Private legal advisor Rooms 303 and 306 McCormck Salt 1 FRANK R. JUSTICE OF THE 228 Atlas Bl H Salt Lake L Mining Litigation a 81 and 82 COMMERCIAL Bu Commercial National NAT WARD Land Mining Patents O'Meara Salt STRAUP AND Attorneys and EAGLE SALT LAKE CITY SENATOR TURPIE OF IN- ON the 23rd inst. Senator Turpie ot Indiana addressed the Senate of the United States upon a resolution introduced by Mm providing for a constitutional amendment to vide for the election of United States Senators by popular we is a needed Every election strates the fact that there is a great evil connected with the present mode of election of Senators to the National Why do that which could be better done The Legislatures are elected by the and they in turn choose If there ever was a good and sufficient reason for this it has outlasted its Ours is a republican form of and the election of the officers of that government should be by the The nearer the government can be brought to the die more secure will be the rights of the No system should exist that removes the people even one step from those who may be elected to serve The Democratic the pion of the of the sovereign the evil ences that the Legist nf Sf R N. E. O. BASKIN 140 SOUTH Law A the Peace 41-42 Salt Lake City SAMUEL A. First National Bank ir TOU HAVE AN IDU PATENT IT. But on the contrary he lent I 81 j Commercial National Hunt encouragement to the extravagance that has caused the deficiency and which furnished him an excuse for calling the extra In the outset he makes the claim that are presenting the able spectacle of increasing our public debt by borrowing money to meet the ordinary outlays incident upon even an economical and dent administration of the Men may differ as to what is an and prudent ad- ministration of the But no one is so lost to common sense and reason as to say that a succession of billion-dollar Congresses and an increase in the national expenditures of a year in ten years are in any degree evidences of such a as above The President could not refrain from playing soldier a wherein he revenues must be not only for the ordinary expenses of the but For the prompt payment of liberal Some figures will assist us at this During the past ten years the cost of pensions has increased That sum is the total deficiency for the current Had Congress done as President Grant suggested put a able limit upon the son tariff law would have supplied ample notwithstanding the nullification of the income tax The United States pension list of is greater than the aggregate military pension lists of We denounce the cost of large standing armies yet our sions cost more than that of the largest armies of We believe most sincerely in honest and just pensions to those who have suffered in our country's But it is in poor taste for President McKinley to talk liberal pensions in the face of a ing Write for free book on I with Prize and list of inventions to ASSOCIATION AMERICAN THI HARRIS NO. 15 WEST SECOND SOUTH ST. 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