The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1921-11-05
THE PRESIDENT HAS SPOKEN
By Dr. N. A. Majors.

In the higR up circles among ou
Negro politicians the word had gOn
the rounds that Mr. Harding was a
silept as the grave on the MUG
talked race problem That because o
campaign slurs and insinuations re
garding his blood relations nc wouli
not dare to show TO the public lif
of the nation any bold strokes effect
ing the Negro race, when low and be
hold his Birmingham speech break
all presidential preeedents ana show
him to be perhaps the broadest states
man in public life today.
The great speech shows that he i.
alive to the conditions confronting
the American people, and stresses the
wholesomeness of a true democracy
instead of a pretended democracy
frosted over with q camouhage. In
deed the spirit of Abraham Lincoln
is not dead President Harding has
given the Negro the world over cause
to feel that there are friends of the
great American commonwealth who
are courageous and will speak the
very life giving words to a long suf-
fering people. We are proud of every
word he uttered IN the eloquent
speech he made at Birmingham that
October day surrounded By the great
men of the South. We cannot mag
inc any source from which so much
good IN our behalf could emznate as
the JOY words to the race from the
president himself Nothing like that
speech has ever before come from the
lips OF . man occupying such high
place Of power and authority.
The South did not like It. II has
never favored the kindly spirit of the
Yankee toward the Negro race The
South was struck dumb. 1t did NOT
expect the kind and quality of the
presidents logic hurled at with so
much power and from so great a
height But times have changed, and
with its changes the Negro has come
into race consciousness that makes
him realize that color distinctions
should have nothing to Go with
individual deserts, and individual
achievements. The South knows as
well as any other section Of the ma
ton how we'll qualified the manhood
Of the Negro is to cope with the
changes wrought 1t is not on the
square, and incapable Of dealing fair
with US as a race. We are Of the
opinion that the buldozing spirit long
displayed has gotten a setback which
{ has never received before from a
great man Of power. Cruelty, and
ienia1 of rights has been a bluff alas
90 long. Friendish outrages in the
orms of lynchings and other cutie
ish deviltry by Southern scallawaRs
ave become a stencil in the nostriIs
# decent Americans; so much so has
that even our President had to 90
Iown into the very heart of that he'll
nd reprimand them for such scull-
Iuggey
Certainly we must agree with all but
ne of the Presidents propositions |
nd am quite certain any man of any |
ace would stigmatize that social
quality of the night variety. when
ne immoral pervert would socis1ize
ne eolored women with showers oil
IS soeializing agents. and yet have
ie deviltry in his heart the effrontervl
f a jaelcal to tell the Negro to stavl
has place, often when he would
seome overwhelmed with the bland
hments Of women Of his own race. 3
EDITION to what the president said
his speech let rs apply the Golden
ules by suggesting that the ~Inescap- /
lie differences" shall breed no more Il i
uliattoes to be terrihgd by the white {
ans beastial iasciviousness So wells
ust insist that the white mans deal
que shall be as void Of ofense a. d
believes the white woman Of thela
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