The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1922-05-27

had some other use for him, and just
what service he is rendering now ]
am not prepared to say, but the man
he abused is still here serving the
Lord, saying that Il am going to be
something after while if l live and
nothing happens"
The world has been moving and so
have l with it, but then l have not
been able to keep up with the world
and the world has not been able to
keep up with me, so there If is. We
are seeing men come and men go, but
there are some who just hold on a
little while longer. We are still call
ing for manly men in the Congress OF
the United States, those who have
courage enough to make our country
at least able to say that we are capa-
bic of enforcing law and maintaining
order. This is to be accomplished
only by the wiping out of lynching.
As long as you permit men to lynch
other men without arrest, then and
it is then that our government is in
danger, for when white men get tired
of lynching black men then they will
lynch their own.
1t is becoming a pastime sport to
barbecue a black man in our country,
and just the other day in Texas they
prepared a royal meal by cooking
three at one time, and what became
of all that human flesh cannot say,
but / wonder if it went to waste.
This was not a case where the name
less crime was committed, but just
an old time barbecue. 1t is becoming
a heluva disgrace on civilization when
you burn human beings before the
public and permit women and chill
dren to witness it. 1t is enough to
turn any heart into stone or iron. l
long to see the time come when the
devil will reach out and get few
of his own.
This is what l found in the Sun
day morning paper of this place:
"Conroe, Texas.-Joe Winters, Ne
gro, Is years of age, was burned at
the stake in the court house yard
here this afternoon. Thousands OF
persons, including women and chill
dren witnessed the burning" just
submit this from a daily paper with
out comment for / believe that the
time will come when Congress will
pass the anti-lynching bill and there
will come the relief. l do not know
who will be the next
When 1 wrote to you last week, !
was in Danville, Va, but you will see
that / am far from there now, and It
is hard to tell just where will be
when you read this letter. / am some
going baby, and the good work OF
going must go right along until nm
ished. was there looking at them
Baptists raise some money, and you
may put it down that they did raise
some money. They are doing real
and not destructive work.
! wanted so much to comment on the
speech of Watt Terry, from Brock
ton, Mass, but that was not possible
Tor me to do this time, but will keep |
I before me and let you have some
IF his thoughts later. He is a young
nan and a man of real worth and
lbility-a man of his race and for his
ace.
From Danville, I made it over to
Richmond, and had the pleasure OF go
ng into the Office of Hon. John
Jr, editor of the Richmond
Planet, and one of the leading men
If our country. He is a man who
las worked to reach the unreached
md has been willing to give up his
lie in a righteous cause. He is true
o his church, and he is a good Bap-
list, a member of the Fifth Street
Baptist church, and his brother, Ros-
,oe C. Mitchell, is a worker in the
sunday school and one of the finest
Toung men it has been my lot to
now in this world. These two men
re doing things.
Of from Richmond to Washington,
where ] spent several days with DR..
". H. Jernagin looking into matters
# Racial Nature. He is at the head
f the National Race Congress and
nan who is willing to give his all for
rs people. His worth to humanity
nd the race viii not be known until
fter his death. That is the way il is
Nth our men, and they do not live
ong, because Of the hard work they
ave to do and the knocks they get
fter they do the work. Trust God
nd keep on keeping on
Then off for Philadelphia, where
found men doing things. Men of
al worth, men who stand for higher
and men who are really I
irving God The first place, I went :
} the home of Mr.. and Mrs. billiard !