The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-10-28

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which might pave the way to future
advancement No, We are beset by the
same prejudice. why, if our children
come home from school and say that
Colored pupil has been given the ad-
joining desk there is usually a request
to the teacher to effect a change 1t
is the same story here as in the South
except that the great problem of blacks
there emphasizes conditions.
"The Negro will solve his own sal
walton as we aid him. We should
spend of our prosperity and plenty to
give them every possible facility for
| education and mental and moral ad-
vaneement. He needs a moral support
to develop his moral character-a de-
velopment which is as essential, even
more so, as that he should learn to read
and write and cipher.
"We need to extend a plenty of
charity to the black man. If this is
done he will work out his own problem.
When he has advanced until he
claims our support and assistance
through sheer ability and energy then
we will no longer have race problem
here so far as the black man is con-
cerned.
Statements of public men who af-
feet to see bloodshed and race wars in
the future are, to my mind, absurd
Such talk does not aid to solve this
pressing question. 1t retards and him
ders and is stirring up further obstacles
in the South. Passion, force and haste
will never make for a settlement of
this question. Above everything, keep
politics out of it,
A few months ago sheriff in one of
the southern counties of the state sent
out more than two thousand invita-
tions to his friends to witness the hang
ing of a Colored man convicted of
murder-Illinois was to be treated to
an old fashioned hanging bee. 1t diff
fered from the real Southern article
in one respect only. The prisoner was
not the object of mob violence. All
the other ear marks were to be pre-
sented. This sheriff must have been
educated in Texas, but he was not ac-
quainted with the mettle of Dunno.
The Governor told him to call in his
wholesale invitations, that he could not
disgrace Illinois by making a holiday
spectacle of this black mans execu-
ton. The sheriff refused and the con-
demned man was granted a reprieve
until such time as a promise was forth
coming that the barbarous methods of
the South would not obtain at an Hi
nois hanging. Somebody must back
down. 1t will not be Gov. Dunno.
Governor Dunno is nothing if not
consistent. Another ease worthy of
mention is that of "Chieken" Joe
Campbell, convicted at Joliet of the al
legged Staying of Warden Aliens wife.
There are thousands of people, black
and white, who do not believe Camp
bell guilty of that atrocious murder.
Governor Dunno may or may not be
one of these. but he is determined at
least that clamor shall not railroad
this Colored man to the gallows. He
has twice reprieved him until the Su-
preme Court can review his case.
The Governor has taken great pride in
helping the Eighth Regiment, the crack
Colored military organization of the
State. For years this regiment has
been without an armory. Every ad-
ministration has seen it begging at the
doors of the capital since its organiza-
tion. Their efforts bore fruit under
Governor Dunno and the splendid
building at 35th street and Forest ave.
stands as a mute fortress to his inter
est in this splendid body of fighting
men.
These are some of the known facts
in the attitude of Edward F. Dunno
toward the Colored people and they
have endeared him to them as a second
Lincoln.
The Negro voter of Illinois has q
grand opportunity in the coming cleo
ton. His forty-fve thousand votes
can name the next governor of the
state. If he cast his vote for Dunno
the credit Of the Governors reelection
will belong to the black man. There
will be no big majority for either Mr..
Dunno or his opponent. Ten thousand
votes cast either way may determine
the result.
Shall the opportunity be lost through
stupid, oI-like adherence to past polit-
zeal traditions; or shall the Negroes Of
Illinois, leaders in all things pertaining
to the Colored man in America, leave
the beaten track Of their daddies, and