The broad ax., 1917-04-14

and all solicitations for votes by pri-
vate parties or committees should be
absolutely prohibited on registration
and election day.
Next the question of industrial equal
ity. The measure of compensation that
a person should receive for any useful
and necessary work, if employed by the
public or by individual persons or as
sociations of persons, should be meas
ured by the time actually put into the
useful and well-directed effort, and not
by an arbitrary rule making difference
in productive capacity. Inasmuch as
all work of any considerable i'm
portance is dependent for its success
full accomplishment upon joint efforts
of all those engaged on the work, the
compensation received by each for the
actual time put in on the work should
be the same. The difference in the
working conditions of different classes
of workers, as for instance in the con-
struction of building, in that of the
head architect and the trench digger,
should be sufficient incentive for the
former to qualify himself for the more
intricate duties of his calling, and not
the additional material gains. And
why should any class of citizens on ac-
count of race, be barred from any kind
of useful and necessary employment
Isn't this prejudice one of the most
potent reasons for the gross economic
inequalities today7 Take for instance
the traction question that we had up
ten years ago. The fact that in case
the city owned and operated the street
car system would require the city
authorities to employ carmen without
regard to the race question, under the
civil service law, was a potent factor
in defeating the public ownership and
operation proposition, leaving the in
dustry in the hands of private profit
interests, at liberty to discriminate to
their hearts content in the way of Sc
curing operatives.
Then again we have the absurd
spectacle of a number of unfortunates
receiving the bounties of charity from
the generous citizenship of Chicago in
the tuberculosis hospital, making a
Joint threat that in case the civil serv-
ice law were upheld and the man on
top of the eligible list for medical at
tendant appointed, who happened to be
Colored man, they would refuse to
be attended, and as a result the ap-
pointive official of the institution con-
sidered it policy to refuse to be guided
by the provisions of the law. Shall
we stand for this much longerf
And lastly the social equality ques-
ton. This is of less Importance, but is
also extremely annoying. How can we
love our neighbors as ourselves and
deny them social rightsf Now the
stereotyped argument by the believers
in social inequality and ostracism on
account of racial differences, is gen
orally the propounding of this question
elbow would you like to have your son
or daughter marry into the family of
another and dark-skinned racef"
This is a decidedly unfair manner
of arguing the question as no one is re-
quired to form intimate social relations
with people in order to honestly believe
in equality and freedom to form social
or family relations.
But, even if this question is being
insisted upon being met, then it is only
necessary TO quote the holy scriptures,
the authenticity of which is quite gen.
orally admitted by most of those deny
ing social racial equality, and We leave
them to eight the question out with
the Bible"