Show BLACK PATTI WE were highly delighted when it was announced that black patti and her troupe of troubadours dours would make their appearance at the salt lake theatre and we gave her and the troupe several commendatory mend atory notices but bat we were greatly astonished when both the sunday papers of march announced to the world that there would be a cake walk buck back dances and c n songs we then and there resolved that under no consideration auld w uld we permit ourselves oui selves to witness such degrading and demoralizing performances and the tickets which we had secured we gave away and sincerely regretted that we gave black bla patti any publicity through throng h the columns of the broad ax we are unalterably opposed to minstrel shows and cake walks and we have never witnessed a minstrel performance nor a cake walk and as long as we retain our senses we never shall because use they are both degenerating and therun they unmistakably tend to lower every negro in the estimation of the opposite race they serve as a means of amusement to the vicious and immoral of other races who are rather inclined to encourage negroes to make monkeys of themselves we have never experienced any difficulty in coming in contact with both black and white monkeys everyday every day of our life without attending a theater or public place of amusement to observe them we hate with all the intensity of our being all negroes who will for the sake of acquiring money permit themselves selves to be exhibited by their white managers for the special chih purpose of furnishing famishing ludicrous amusement for the gaping and to the debasement of the race they seem to lose sight of the fact that they are placing a club in the hands of the vile and vicious whites and their newspaper editors to beat all seh respecting negroes over the head the neg negro g ro race can never expect to progress or raise themselves in in the estimation of the anglo saxon race as long as they participate or lend their presence or countenance these performances per forman ces which are worse than barbarous we heard black patti when she made her debut in chicago in 1891 1894 1 at that time see was the prima donna ofa of a first class white troupe and the performances were absolutely free of all objectionable features and all the great daily newspapers of chicago lauded her to the skies and sounded her praises from ocean to ocean and unlike the papers of our city they did not use the word darky or ore cu cn or spell n negro with a double g whenever they had any occa occasion iou to reto black the salt lake tribune herald and all al other lother nigra negro hating sheets please co cony tiit greatest great and the most patri otic c American 0 rw ii 34 upon apon this continent the A oil W miam jen jennigs bryan bran lias thundered forth in be haltof cu cuba ba andle ah the cubans that tha great 16 ider tl common ee raim peo people pe says hasam rived ved for this aa nation ti 36 intervene yin ch cuba I 1 A aad mari we M bayan ry waa jr id jhc the thc catH aM yz go laie Willie L 57 |