The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-10-27
wAsHINGToN's GROWTH Is
CHECKED.
A Demand for the Return Of the Right
to Vote to Black and White Citizens
Of the District Of Columbia-
Wealthy Citizens Being
Driven Away.

Washington, d. C.-Washington, the
capital of the nation, still elamors for
the right of suffrage. Years ago the
franchise was taken away from White
citizens so as to deprive Colored citizens
of the right to vote, but like all such
injustices this discrimination against
Colored citizens has reacted, and it is
now White Washington which is clam
oring loudest for a return to the days of
suffrage. The Washington Cd. c.
Times is most vehement in seeking to
have this injustice undone. 1t COM
pares conditions in Washington with
Paris, capital of the French nation, and
says:
The city of Paris-although some
gentlemen from the Middle West don't
know it's a temperate city, far more
temperate, for instance, than the aver
age prohibition city of the United
States. In Paris they have temperance
and NOT prohibition. And they have
visitors from all over the world that
spend tens of millions annually, and
contribute to the vast wealth of Paris.
If Paris were like Washington, a vote
less city, and a group of Congressman,
Indifferent to the rights and the inter
ests of hundreds of thousands of citi-
zens, should make of Paris a prohibition
city, as Congress is about to make a
prohibition city of Washington, what
do you think would happen to Parisi
What would become of the prosperity
of that city, of its throng of visitors
from all over the worldf Prohibition
would affect Paris as the war affects
her now-putting a damper on gayety,
on travel, and on prosperity.
Prohibition will affect Washington as
it would affect Paris-if the Parisians
were unfortunate enough to live in a
city where they had no vote. Washing
ton will be checked in its growth by
prohibition, which will make of the
nations capital a Middle West dreary
prohibition example, ruled by we'll
meaning and ignorant prohibitionists.
Washington with a sane government,
free from fanatieism, would inevitably
become the great center of wealth and
social life in the United States. More
and more well-to-do people would come
here to live, bringing with them the
spending of wealth and creation of PROS
perity. More and more would increase
the value of the land in this city, the
building of magnificent houses, the pos
sibility of just and reasonable taxation,
revenues constantly increasing without
hardship, because of the ever-growing
influx of wealthy eitizens-and all to
Washington's advantage.
But wealth is NOT prohibitionist.
lee water is not the beverage of the i
successful man-prohibition "faets"
to the contrary notwithstanding. 1t is
not ice water that gave his fortune to
J. Pierpont Morgan, although, as the
doctors pointed out, it was TOO MUCH
ice water that killed E. H. Hartman
before his time. There may be, there
evidently are, American citizens that
cannot trust themselves far from the
ice water cities. But these are not the
men of America or of
the world.
They are not those that, if permitted,
would, and WILL make Washington the
city Of wealth and prosperity that it
ought to be.