The broad ax., 1922-12-23
THE CHRISTMAS TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY
BROAD AK
STILL LOOKING BACKWARD AND FORWARD
CHAPTER IL

and bitter fight which was made on
Senator Cannon, which finally termi-
mated in hurting him headlong into his
political grave.
1t is still fresh in the minds of the
people in this city and throughout the
United States or throughout all parts
of the world, for that matter, how The
Broad AK in November, 1906 began
its terrific, memorable, or nation or
world wide fight or onslaught on
United States Senator Benjamin r.
Tilman and for two weeks before he
attempted to speak at Orchestra Hall,
Tuesday evening, November p, 1906.
the whole country was in an uproar
over II, for the Associated Press had
flashed it to the farthest ends of the
earth, and before it ended all the great
daily newspapers, the weekly newspa-
pers and even the monthly publications
took a hand in it. So great and so
bitter was the feeling against permit
ting him to come to this city to pour
out his vile spleen against the Colored
people and the sentiment against him
had been famed into fever heat by the
writer through the columns of The
Broad AK and by no one else, for
many OF the so-called prominent Col
ored leaders OF the race at that time
severely condemned us for firing into
him; they claiming that he promised
them and one OF their White lady
friends that he would not touch on the
Negro Question" while delivering his
so-called lecture on the Annexation
of Cuba" for the benefit of the Union
Hospital
On the day of his arrival in this city
he was met at the North Western sta
ton by more than twenty policemen,
who escorted him to the Great North
ern Hotel, where they stood guard
over him until he appeared at Orches-
ira Hall, where more than two hun
dred policemen had been stationed to
protect him and as he had been dashed
into fury by our writings, for we had
dipped our pen in NORWOOD and Bit
ter gall, while stripping the bloody
mask from his anarchistic face.
Still smarting under our merciless
lashing which had been kept up in
these columns for two weeks that he
had not been speaking more than
few moments before he exclaimed to
H with the law" when it comes
to dealing with the Colored people,
and like a cowardly midnight assassin
he was glad to cover behind six or
seven Colored policemen while he was
engaged in branding all Colored men
as APES, balloons and ravishers of
White women"
The morning after his last lecture in
this city its whole press turned against
him and on the same morning the Wis
consin Chautauqua Association can
celed a forty-eight thousand dollar
contract with him for his lecture sea-
son OF 1907, and our memorable fight |
on him, almost single-handed and |
alone, finally drove him from the lee
ture platform.
1t has assisted to shape the legisla-
ton of this mighty nation-this can be
verified by reading Senate document
No. lS2, 54th Congress, second session,
page IL, which contains an editorial
from The Broad AK, Feb. l9, 1897, in
favor of the present National Bank
ruptcy Law. Later on in this review
letters and a telegram will be pro-
duced to support our contention in this
respect.
1t has been stated many times in the
past by thousands of short-sighted,
thoughtlesS people-those who are I'M
familiar with the history of this pub
LEGATION and its owner-that the paper
is so small or Insignificant that it alb
solutely fails to exert the slightest in
fuence over the minds of men-such
statements are as far from the truth
as the bright shining sun is from the
earth.
The following letters and kilograms
shed much light on the important part
played by this paper in connection
with the passage of the present Ma
tional Bankruptcy Law:
The Shoreham Hotel,
Washington, d. c., Jan. Is, 1897.
Julius F. Taylor, Editor of The Broad
AK,
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dear Sir
There will be sent to you by this
mail copy of a Senate document con-
tanning much valuable information
upon the subject of bankruptcy legis-
lation.
The Senate has made the bank
ruptcy bill a special order and no
doubt will pass a bill before adjourn
ment
Will you kindly consider editorially
the subject of bankruptcy legislation
and kindly send me a marked copy of
your paper1
Please observe from the printed