The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1926-04-24
COLORFUL NEWS MOVIES
By THE CAMERAMAN

of democracy, despite those who would
tear it down, is the one Star of Hope
for all Americans. Group domination,
religious or otherwise, cannot muzzle
the hopes and aims of all the people
all the time.
The midnight overture Of the XXX.
is consequently the grossest fraud
which any group has tried to practice
upon the Negro race since the days of
slavery It's so apparent upon its face
that no Negro in America will be
fooled by its clumsy articles. AS a
wolf in sleeps clothing it is a
grotesque joker, the history of which
was wiped out when the last printers
galley which bore the proffer of the
klan's friendship came off the press.
In the Senate
Now and then it may not be amiss
to look in upon our representatives in
the u. S. Senate and House Of Repre-
sentatives, and note the trend of their
minds in their legislative guardianship
of American citizens. Here follows
some excerpts from the u. S. Senate
record Of Wednesday, April IA, 1926,
at which time some notable statesmen
were debating the Prohibition Law.
Said Mr.. Borah: "We are now, Mr..
President, engaged in great campaign
to find a way by which to evade the
Constitution of the United States
without apparently doing so; to find
a method or means by which we can
counterfeit or modify its terms and
conditions without specifically repeal
ing this part Of the Constitution or
without modifying it directly. So
long as the Constitution stands, one
thing is more fundamental than pro-
hibition, and that is the enforcement
and upholding of the Constitution"
Senator Caraway: eff we should
carry out the theory that the states
should be interpreters Of the Constitu-
ton, you could repeal or modify the
peonage law and re-establish slavery,
could you notf"
Senator Borah: "I suppose you
could"
Senator. Bruce: did not the South
after the Civil War determine for itself,
without regard to the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments to the Consti-
tuition whether it would or would not
have ignorant Negro suffrage riveted
upon its neck? Did not every south
ern man of every station in life exer-
else every power that lay in him to
stay the consequences of that frightful
curse?"
Senator Borah: "Mr. President, so
far as ] know, every law passed by the
southern states and now in force with
reference to Negro Acknowledgement, or
the right of the Negro to vote, has
been sustained by the Supreme Court
Of the United States, as Constitu-
tional."
Senator Bruce: Another illustration
were those amendments of the utter
vanity of passing laws that violate the
primal interests Of human nature. What
good did they do, so far as any prac-
teal consequences were concerned?
Outraged human nature claimed its
rights and there is nothing which I
regard with more satisfaction than the
fact that when I was boy, living in
remote countryside, all the white
citizens of that community were
bonded together like brothers for the
purpose of multiplying those amend
ments to the Federal Constitution, and
defeating the will of Congress, when
it endeavored to enforce them; and 1
thank God, they defeated it"
Senator Borah: 'Mr. President, the
senator is preaching the doctrine of
Communism"
Senator Bruce: ooh, no"
Senator Borah: Eyes. the senator is;
he is preaching anarchy"
Senator Bruce: at is not the Sena-
tor from Maryland, but the Senator
from Idaho who wishes us to recog-
nize the Soviet Government. -
Senator Borah: Il do. - ;"
Senator Borah: IT have said here on
the floor Of the Senate / thought IL
was mistake to take race which
had been in slavery for 800 years and
overnight put upon them the burdens
and the obligations Of discharging po-
Iitical duties in great representative
Republic, an almost impossible prop
osition. 1t required something Of the
Negro that no race in history could
been better off to have worked ON
have aden,ta4etv met He uuos.Id have