The broad ax., 1919-09-06

4 The first part CT 1918, one of the
other Colored commissioners who Is
interested some way or other in the
real estate business had a long inter
view in the Chicago Tribune, wherein
he went on to state that the Colored
people would rather reside in restrict
ed districts to themselves; that they
never desired to come in close contact
with the whites.
When many Colored people remons-
trated with this distinguished Race
Commissioner for giving expression to
such monstrous views he claimed that
the Chicago Tribune had misquOted
him which was all tommy rot for he
never demanded nor commanded the
Tribune to retract the statements
which it had published in reference
to his views on segregation or on the
separation of the White and COlored
races, if a little Colored newspaper
would have published the same state
ments about this Colored Race Com
missioner and would have refused to
retract them he would have sent the
ColOred editor to Jail for one year for
criminal libel
1t is very funny now some things
happen to turn out the way they do,
but after all there must be some truth
in that good old saying that God
moves in a mysterious way His Won
ders to perform, that He plants His
foOtstepa on the sea and rides upon
the storm: for 1t will be recalled that
one of the real Colored Race commits
siOnerS who has worked overtime for
years to set the Colored people against
the white people in this city and in
other parts Of this country and who
has made more money out Of his
preachment of race hatred than any
other human being in the wide world
was unwilling to trust his money-mad
God, for when race riots swamped
down upon this city he tore out for his
home at break-neck speed and re-
manned mid away in it until it was all
over, not sticking his great intellectual
head outside Of his door once to see
how it was getting on.
There is no question in our mind
but what Hon. Edward Osgood Brown
Hon. Julius Rosenwald, whose race of
people have always been treated al
most as bad as the Colored people; Col.
Edward H Morris, DR.. George c. Hall
and Hon. A. H. Roberts will stand I'D
for everything that is fair and square
for the COlored people. as Mr.. Roberts
has stated more than a thousand times
that mo power on earth nor in heaven
could or would force himPto turn his
back on his people, that he firmly be-
heves in social equality, and so on"
even though IL is claimed that he had
the naming Of all the other Colored
men for the Race Commission. and in .
our humble opinion he used very poor
or short-sighted judgment, for there
is no logical reason on earth why any
one who has resided in this city less
than two years, and who halls from
away down South behind the sun
should be selected and permitted to
sit in judgment on the progressive
Colored people in this city and state.
and that one act on the part Of Mr..
Roberts in connection with his Race
Commission will greatly tend to
lower him in the estimation Of the
best thinking COlored people for many
years 10 come.
II may not be true. but it has been
intimated to US that zone hundred
thousand dollars will be expended
some way or other to induce three or
four members Of the Race Commits
sion to hatch up a strong minority
report of the findings Of the Race
Commission in time for the meeting
Of delegates Of the constitutional con-
vention, in which it would be recon- .
mended that the Colored race should .
be stripped Of its manhood rights in .
this state, that segregation or "Jim .
Crowism" in some form or other must
prevail
In conclusion. II anyone Of the /
ColOred commissioners joins in such
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