The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-11-01
WILL THE NEGRO TURN THE
OTHER CHEEK?
By D. N. Majors.

In these very infRmmatory times,
when chaos seems to have a poisonous
touch like some infectious disease, it
is well for us as Negroes to hold our
peace the best We can rather than be
going about with a "ehip on the
shoulder"
1t never is a good idea to give too
much vent to fragrant expressions, to
borrow trouble by sggravating eondi-
tons through a spirit of bravado. Of
course nobody IS afraid of anybody,
and everybody knows now, or ought to
know what will happen if we have an
other race riot.
The civil authorities and the civic
organizations among the white race,
know the disgruntled element are all
Democrats in the Third Ward who IN
der the leadership of few politicians
have been put out of power by a pre-
pondersnee of Negro votes who help
to elect Mr.. Passmore and defeated
Mr.. Schwartz who cannot forgive us
for voting against him.
Well, we must have peace, strife is
alas! too costly, both in money and
life.
We are a free people, we love free
dom, we love life and all that living
means. we will not start anything,
and We propose to keep the law, and to
do nothing that might be construed as
Logging on" or looking for trouble.
But We are not saying anything
about running. Negroes never run.
We have had our second or third les
son of dying on the battle field, and
We have come to look upon death as
sweet when it is in defence of our
home, honor, women and life itself.
God grant that our riots are all over,
and that a sane spirit may take deep
hold on the people who claim to be
superior because they have a white
skin to brag about.
Let US see if this vaulted and much
heralded superiority is a mere ehimera,
theory not proven or fact sustained
by everything noble and gracious.
The future for us in the north is most
favorable. Necessarily some kind of
an adjustment consequent of the war
and its thousands of fearful horrors.
But the Negro was brought here to
I'LL important inches in the network of
"a complex commercial organization,
and he has done his duty whether here
or over there.
The obligations that the nation owes
to the Negro will not very soon be dis
charged because of the present diserim-
inatiOn Of the Democratic administra-
ton that has done more to SOW the
seeds Of diseord among the races than
all the other infamy of the white
South. The uprising of the Bolshe-
vikis in the Third Ward is merely the
echo Of a dying failure at Wash
ington. The mutterings of discarded
Democrats thrown out of Office by Ne
gro voters They see now that we as
force of enlightened people cannot
only fight on battle fields, but at the
ballot box.
No, as people we must live in
peace with all if we are allowed to
do 50. Now this does not mean that
any man or woman, white or black
shall suffer inhuman brutslities, and
insults, and wounds without cause.
We would not curb the spirit of the
New Negro, but rather soften it. We
would not protest his sincerity, nor
contend that he was over jealous when
like a real man he protests for every
principle Of a noble manhood should
be maintained.
There are no towards among Us, and
the enthusiasm of stalwart raeehoOd is
Pent up in our veins, ard when il
comes to US back tracking, or moving
out The Hyde Park Improving So
eiety is "seing things.'