The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1920-10-09

get up and protect human life and
property Is the time going to come
that when / get in Jail I viii remain
there until ordered out BY the court
OF some one in authority, and not by
a lawiess mobi These are some Of
the things which 1 want to be con
sidered today and acted upon tomOr-
row, and ! am. proud to say that Sen
ator Harding's heart is in the right
place and he has spoken well.
Now is the time for all good men
and women, who have any interest in
themselves any interest in their eoun-
try, and any interest in the future to
get up right now and decide to put
in the ballot box November 9, the
ticket which win bring into power real
men, and let our country one more
time get normal It is certainly in
heluva fix just now, and all because
there was a split in the Republican
party eight years ago and the Demo
Gratis took advantage Of that split and
slipped Woodrow Wilson, the great in
for President OF the United States,
and four years ago, President Wilson
started out with the slogan, "He
kept you out Of war;" and this year
he comes back with his League Of
Nations, which would make my eoun-
try proteet-we1 we have wiped out
forever slavery in America and we are
not going to help to put it in Europe
or to keep it there. This is the
Home Of the brave and the land Of
the Free" and may it ever be 50.
] have been moving some since I
wrote TO you the last time from
Georgia, and when got to Atlanta,
the first thing that greeted me Sun
day morning was a number Of re-
spectacle unknown gentlemen had
taken out a young Negro man and
shot him to death, because he is
alleged to have written a note to a
white woman. He was a belIbOy at q
hotel, but viii hear the bells ring no
more. Now this Is q messy somethin,
and 1 hope that the devil will soon get
hold Of every respectable hrst-elass
white gentleman, who took any part
in that lynehing. Must this country
of ours say TO the world that eve
cannot enforce the law" If writing
a note to any woman is to be death,
then legalize that and let him be put
to death, only let it come by law, and
not by criminal white men. Every
man who takes any part in lynehing
is criminal.
The thing we need in this country is
a governor for every state with a
and not a shoestring sus-
pended up and down his back. We
need more men like Governor Beckett
Of North Carolina, and Governor Nor
row of Kentucky, who win see to it
that any one charged with commit
ting a crime viii get a hearing, al
though it may cost some lives to do
so. Dear America, ! plead with thee
60 discontinue lawlessness of every
grade. YOu let a few more of these
who have TO report
to heaven OF hen for assignment, and
you win soon end lynehing. A eoun-
try without the enforcement of its
laws is not a safe place in which to
live. As we fought to get rid of
tyranny in Europe, now let us strive
to get rid of it right here at home
We must not ask for people abroad
what we do not enjoy in this our own
country. Look at the boys who died
in France for world wide democracy,
and now let us have it right here at
home.
had the pleasure of spending
part Of a day with DIR. Ernest Hall,
that bachelor preacher, and believe
me. he is some preacher He is a man
who knows how to preach the gospel
and he is loved by all of his people.
But, then, let us keep open eyes and
see what is going to happen in this
world. 1t is not long before we viii
have another President Of the United
states, and that man is going to be
Senator Warren G. Harding. We are
expecting many things from him. Our
men are at work. I have been in the
ofRee in Chicago and have witnessed
Hon. Henry Lincoln johnson, Hon.
chas. A. Cottrill, Hon. P. W. Howard,
col Phi Brown, and all them other
big men al work in the Chicago Of
Zee sharping things. Hon. P. W..
Howard is the secretary, and he is a
good one, because he is president Of
the National Bar Association, he is .
member Of the National Negro Bust
ness League, and then he is a lawyer
II some standing, one Of the best in
the country.
For the women, there were Mrs.
Haley and Ma Fleming, two strong
women, and they have TIER once force
It work and they arc Just pushing
things to the end. God help them 70
10 an they have TO do and even more.