The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-09-01
THE NEGRO RACE LIVES,
HARDING is DEAD
BY DR.. M. A. Majors

Although the race did not come into
its own after helping to elect Mr..
Harding to the presidency, we still live
with hearts full Of hope for better days
than those Of the Harding administra-
ton. Numerically we are about one
seventh 81 the population, and repre-
senting much of the education, cultiva-
ton and refinement, with more than
billion and half Of this worlds
goods in the land of the free, yet we
have been denied voice in govern
ment, and Inundated by the appoin-
tive power Of the president by the EN-
phasized denial Of our God given
rights as citizens. we still can exclaira
that men may come and men may 60,
but the Negro race goes on forever.
That the race has been SO UNANIMOUSLY
neglected, by the administration Of the
president so recently laid to rest,
smacks Of some ugly conspiracy, or
concert of action that seems to be well
understood by men in power.
Fifteen million Of earnest industri-
GUS citizens suffering the ugly imputa-
tons Of political audacity is enough to
make the angels Of heaven weep. "A
bastard color distinction fostered for
the love Of human hatred would snatch
the gold out Of the golden rule, and
embroidered demagogues ioyously to
fiaunt in the face of our present civ
ilization perjury, and perhdy, torch
and treachery the fitting symbols of
degraded age. An age run riot in the
damning lusts of human greed.
Everywhere one turns he is haunted
by the thought that Ben Tillman ut
tered happy thought of the period
when he said This is a white mans
country" To all intents and purposes
it seems to be true as long as the
white race shouts to the skies its ne
farious color distinctions. OF course,
as long as we own billion and half
of dollars in property in America we
may take comfort and pardonable pride
in the fact that some Of it belongs to
us, and more and more of it will be-
long to US while less of it will belong
to the white race as the years 60 BY.
Temporarily we are politically shelved
in National politics, but are we to re-
main so?
Experience has taught the race to
live by toll; to study the arts Of fru-
gality, to save and to enter the COM
mercial activities, to study efficiency;
become versed in economics; to launch
race enterprises and to depend less
upon politics and the promises of che
politician and more upon the God
given strength which is his to exer-
else without being "let" or being hin
dered. Fortunately we have thousands
of we'll equipped men and women who
are responding to this tardy call Of the
race. And yet we have political inter
ests that belong to US in common with
the rest Of the races.
We make applications, offer pro-
tests, and rightfully contend for every
principle written in our national Con-
stitution and the bill of rights. Per
adventure a sober, sane and honest
spirit will some day animate our body
polite, and give while it is our need
to take by the strong arm Of nobler
manhood that is actuating the right
eous.
Presidents may come and presidents
may go but the Negro race will live
and 60 forward and onward forever.
President Harding failed where Lin
coin, Grant. Garfield, Mckinley and
Roosevelt did not fail. They had the
courage Of real men and brothers,
and gave to the Negro race at least
some of the crumbs from the political
table, yet Harding could not>rise to
high place of human recognition Of
the Negro by feeling that the black
brother was entitled to anyg consider
alton whatsoever