The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1920-02-28
The ever popular and painstaking Recorder of Cod
County, who viii be renomnated and reelected to his U
ent responsible position this fall.

be condemned because through econ
omy and thrift and intellectual Gull
ture, he seeks to buy himself home
move into more wholesome quarters.
rent larger and better apartments
and seek to become a more useful
and valuable citizen to this COM
munity. 1t is strange that such eff
forts on his part, commended in all
other persons, is condemned by a
coterie of white persons who claim
to be looking after the best interests
of the city. The principle is wrong
and the spirit actuating it unfair. II
is no credit to those who are encour-
aging it and is working harm to our
great city. No community can reach |
its desires in development, either in
population or industry that is in
tested by sheet such as the Prop
erty Owners Journal that seeks to
array races against each other and
to bring about a clash between the
whites and blacks. This is what the
Journal attempts to do, or at least
the tendency of all its attacks are in
that direction. No great business in
terest desires to locate in a CON-
mnnity where such attempts at
race conflicts are continually encour-
aged by newspaper or news sheets.
Very few people wish to move into
a city or community where property
is insecure and where life is in dan
ger from lawless outbreaks encour-
aged by such sheets as the journal
If Chicago does not reach the 5000
900 mark in population in 1920. it
can attribute its failure so to do in
a large measure to the influence Of
the Journal and other papers that
have encouraged race hatred and
frictions. There is a certain class of
people in this country whose ambi-
ton does not reach any higher than
an unholy effort to create race pro-
JUDGE and to make white people
iespise colored. people. We know
the sources of such propaganda. As
4 race we are fighting against it. 1t
S our earnest effort, to prove our
selves worthy of better treatment.
But there is danger in assuming an
lir Of supine indifference to such
propaganda and every fair minded
progressive white person and col
bred person owes it to himself and ]
he community to do all in his I
power to put an end to such fragrant i
eachings.
This journal is using the United a
States mail for the purpose of arous- I
ng hatred against the colored citi- I
zen. The paper is published in the
:ity of Chicago. It has been point
d out heretofore that it advocates !
he establishment Of boycott; that IT
.dvocates discrimination against col
red people who desire to purchase
and in so doing, it is en-
ouraging commission of criminal $
'fense; and IS violating the laws of b
be state Of Illinois passed by the {
legislature Of 1919. 1t openly ad- u
coates boycott and in the issue Of a
anuary, 1870. The Lawyer" is Try Z
ng to advise how to establish a boy b
oft without violating the law. v
Now. then, in the face Of these
Iaring violations Of the Federal and ]
tate laws; in the face Of these un- 5 !.
ust attacks upon an unofending and
Nv abiding eitizenry Of this com
nunity. Is it not time for the wen
isposed men and women Of both
aces 10 get together and see what B
an be done to correct these abuses $
I'd night these wrongs7 q
We again insist that we are for law :,
nd osderi-that we eontend for 4
citing more dan our rights as cit E
ems. and We insist VITA Incoming G