The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1920-02-21

Occasion to call attention 70 the uh1au
and vicious fight that the PrOPerts
Owners Journal Of the Grand Boule-
ward district Of Kenwood and Hyde
Park property owners association Was
making against the eOlorod people re-
siding in that district. We quoted
from the Property Owners, Jsurnal to
show that its editor was in substance,
Encouraging violence by the language
he used. It seems that the Journal has
taken exception to our charge, and I'M
like a high class publication devoted
TO a high and noble ideal it has de-
seended to the lowest species Of jour
naHstie seurrility with which we have
met in IS yeaH Of newspaper expert
enee- The journal says THAT it has
ignored the Negro press in view Of the
fact that their editors are irrespOnsi
BILE and big Talk" against the whites
as an easier method Of securing their
daily ration or provender than should
ering q shovel as they would haze to,
do, were they not to continue to tickle
their readers palates by their rant
ing about social equality" Ridieule
is q poor answer to argument and
when resorted to is the strongest evil
denee Of a weak defense of distorted
brSin. This is not a fight for social
Equality, nor have We mentioned it
once in The Broad Ak We are in a
fight for our own rights as citizens and
as men We demand no more, and no
fair minded man should want US TO
receive less. We have no quarrel with
the members of the Property Owners
Association for having a well defined
Eotion as to who they want as neigh
borS Every man has right to such
preference. Just as every man has an
unquestiOned right to say or choose
the character Of man he desires to rep
resent him in public Office. This is a
natural and inherent right. AS long
as this right is exercised with a due re-
gard to the rights of others there
should be no quarrel between citizens
of any particular community. But
when the members of the Kenwood and
Hyde Park Association emphasizes their
choice by act and utteranees calculated
70 arouse race antipahty and hatred,
that association is infringing upon the
rights Of other citizens, and it is the
duty Of every fair minded man and
woman to register protest.
The Journal claims it is unalterably
opposed to violence and yet in the sdi-
ton Of January 1st, it seeks to have
the white man believe that every col
ored man who moves into Hyde Park is
sn avowed enemy of the white man.
It seeks in that edition to institute a
boycott against white persons who give
employment or rents or sells to colored
people. It seeks to have the employers
of colored people who live in Hyde
Park to discharge them. In. the edi-
ton of February 1st, it seeks to make
it appear that every eolored man who
lives or moves into Hyde Park or Ken
wood districts is the white mans en-
envy and to sustain this contention.
presents false defnitin of crime.
1t says ga crime is any wrong which
is deemed injurious to the public at
large which the government Furnishes
through a Judicial proceedings in its
own name. This Of course, is not =
correct definition Of crime and is Civ.
en- for the purpose Of enabling the edi-
tor Of the Journal to reach the eonelu.
sion that every cOlored person residing
in the district where the white man re.
sides, or next door, or in the same
block is not Hone guilty of a wrongful
act, but crime. 1t has been vario1sly
defined as an act committed or omitted
in violation Of q public law, either as
forbidding or commanding it, and yet,
the learned editor Of the Journal
reaches the conclusion that the Negro
is criminal, because he buys himself
a home in a block or neighborhoOd in
which white people are living. It is
indeed a stimulating consolation for us
that the editor Of the Journal is not
the dispenser Of justice for humanity in
this community or in any other. 1t
would he impossible for any Negro in
the city Of Chicago to extrieate him
self from he horrible odium of being
criminal when subjected to the de-
6nition Of the learned editor of the
Journal There is hardly a neighbor-
hood in which eOlOred people are Hy-
ing in which you win not find white
people also.
But why should we 60 on calling at
tention to the giaTing Inconsistency and
injustice appearing in the pages Of
this journals Let Us get down to rea-I
son, II it Is the aim-of the assOcia-
ton to keep tie eolOred people from
buying property or renting property in
Hyde Park or KenwoOd districts, why
is it necessary to abuse themi The
property IS owned by white men and
IL any group deserves to be abused or
Influenced, they are the white property
owners, and not the eOlOred renter or