The broad ax., 1926-03-20
!. Anglo-Saxon Democracy.
! The Words Of Two Senators.
!. Amending the Constitution.
!. German ~Kulture" Kicks.
J. Colorgrams.
/. Anglo-Saxon Democracy

purlst publication, the Dearborn In
dependent, that the greatest differentia-
tons in the world, in tastes and prac-
tees, exist as between racial groups.
The Utopian pages of the Dearborn
Independents admonish the world to
understand that a thing may be true
of one race and untrue of another"
which is entirely true when there are
taken into consideration all the direct
and indirect causes and influences
which repeatedly assert themselves for
or against a race However, the
gem Of thought in the Dearborn
sheets latest explosion is found in the
following terse sentence: Democracy
is not congenial to every race; it
democracy will probably fail all
along southern Europe and among the
Slaves; it is not their instructive
method. 1T WILL NOT FAIL
among Anglo-Saxons; for it is their
natural and instructive method"
When one becomes attentive to
reason long enough to refresh ones
historical recollection of the Norman
Conquest, and Of the pre-period when
certain immigrant tribes moved into
southern and eastern England from
Schleswig- Holstein Germany who,
with other human tiers coalesced with
the Frisians, the Dutch, the Danes, and
the Saxons so as to form later the
"Anglo-Saxons," it can be easily seen
that talking of the natural and in
stinctive" methods Of the Anglo
Saxon race calls for a super-elastic
imagination and a deal Of charity. Be
that as it may, however, we beg to
point out to the Dearborn Independent
that modern democracy is what the
world is interested in most. And in the
claim that Democracy is not con-
genial to every race" there should be
an addenda to the effect that "Democ-
racy, AS DEFINED BY THE An
GLO-SAXONS, is not congenial to
every race; which is to say that the
Anglo Tristan Dutch Dane-Saxon de-
scendants of today, have set up a
double standard by which they
measure Democracy and mete it out to
contemporary racial groups. In this
practice the Anglo-Saxons, in all their
purity" revert to the natural and
instructive impulses of the days of the
Norman Conquest, when group ami
hilation was their objective. Indeed,
they rivalled the Romans in their lust
for mastery.
Today, however, Democracy must, if
it would live, meet the standards of
world measurement; and Education
and Christianity must define it, far in
preference to natural and instructive
mthods." Along this trend the Anglo
Saxons can perform a great world
service by at once doing away with
their double standards of Democracy
one for them, the stronger, and another
for all the weaker groups.
2. The Words of Two Senators
Senator J. Thomas Helm, Of Ala
bama:
There is no better way Of serving
the community and no better way of
serving the Negro everywhere than
being entirely frank with him and tell
ing him the truth and the whole truth
regarding an evil and crime that lies
at the bottom Of nearly every race riot
that has occurred in our country, and
that is the crime of rape. When that
crime is committed in the South the
Negro who commits it dies; but we
never harm or permit anyone to harm
an INNOCENT Negro"
Senator William B. Mckinley, Of
Illinois:
Those who are in the habit Of JUST
flying or apologizing for lynching de-
fend the practice on the ground that it
is a fit punishment for rape. The
figures available entirely REFUTE.
this contention. OF the whites lynched
the largest per cent, 46, were accused
Of murder, while 8.4 per cent were ac-
cused of rape and attacks upon
women Of the Negroes 35.8 per cent
were accused of murder and 28.4 per
cent Of rape and attacks upon women
It is thus to be seen that of the whole
number of lynchings not more than 10
per cent Of the victims were accused Of
rape, while the remaining 81 per cent
were accused Of other crimes or INSIDE
meanors, or even of NO CRIME at
all, the newspaper accounts being that
some of these victims had been guilty
of no other offense than that of being
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