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1R5(i-'rv jf yytT -nr M. HWV i si 1 I THE BROAD AX. PUBLISHED WEEKIT. V1U promulgate and at all timet apbold tb tnu net. Iofiil.

Single Taxsra, Bepnbll-ein. Kolehto of Labor, or an on eUe can bare cbrlr my. lonr tbcir tangnac la proper ana la fixed. a newpaper vhoae platform ia Ored eoonph for all, erer rlilnlng the editorial light to peak 1U own Bind. Local rommtmleatloni vtll reoelre attention.

Writs only on one aide of the paper. Sabterlptiona mast be paid in adranco. Oc Tear 13.00 etiMonUu 1.00 Adrertldnerates made known on application. Aadreca all communications to THE BROAD AX HMO Armour ATenne, Chicago. JULIUS T.

TAYLOB, Editor ad Publisher. Entered the Pod Office at ChJag flu Secosd-claa Matter. i PERSONAL MENTION. Walter M. Farmer, for 16 years an honored member of the bar In St.

Louis, Is now engaged In the general practice of law. Suite 708, 171 Washington street. Phone Main 4153. Residence 4856 Langley avenue. Phone Drexel 6302.

Mr. L. M. Lawrence 3407 State is confined to his home sick. Mrs.

Eliza Dishman left for her home in Denver, Tuesday. Mrs. Joseph Crum aud daughter are visiting mother and grand-mother in St. Louis, Mo. Mr.

and Mrs. S. A. T. Watkins 3632 Calumet entertained a few triends at whist Thursday evening.

What grew my hair where it was not and covered up a bad bald spot, Farmer's Hair Tonic and Cream. Mr. S. W. Thompson who has been visiting his wife and children in Los Angeles.

since Xnias, returned to the city Thursday. Mr. Wm. Wharton entertained a small party of friends at an eight coursed dinner at the New Columbia restaurant, Wednesday evening. Carter H.

Harrison, will return home from Pasadena, within the next ten days, to take a hand in the contest for Mayor of Chicago. Mr. Chas. W. Fillmore of Washington, D.

who has been spending the past week in Chicago on business returned to his home Wednesday night. Mrs. Alexander Lane 1939 Archer avenue who is a prominent member of Quinn Chapel, says that The Broad ax is getting better and better each week. The members of the Appomattox Club, will give their Third Annual Masque party, at their club rooms, 3144 Wabash Thursday evening, Feb. 7th.

Alderman Henry L. Fick, has another year to run yet before the head guys, of the Municipal Voters League will deem it their duty to either tap him or punch him up a little. James A. Quinn, formerly the energetic city sealer of Chicago, has removed his handsome mustache, in order to have a little more time to boom Carter H. Harrison for Mayor of Chicago.

Before the war. in the old slavery days Colored men were bought and sold for from one thousand to three thousand dollars, but Prof. W. Kemper Harreld has sold his honesty and everything to us for the small sum of five dollars. On the account of a great improvement in her health.

Mrs. James E. Thompson with her daughters Mrs. J. K.

Smiley and Mrs. Arthur Woodard have decided to postpone their trip to Southern California where they Intended to spend Lue rest of the winter. Every race loving man, woman and chlid should read that excellent article published by The Broad Ax, Chicago, of last week, on The Crimes of the White Man in the South, and thereby help solve the great race question. The Intelligence, Tampa, JFla. All the big politicians aside, from John P.

Hopkins, Roger C. Sullivan, James J. Gray, Thomas Carey and Col. William Loeffler, have been smoked out on the mayoralty contest, and they are now engaged In putting In their time, in shouting for Carter Harrison and Edward F. Dunne.

The Jurors Association of Cook County will meet Monday. Feb. 4th, 8 m.f in the Methodist Church Block, 'cor. Clark and Washington Streets.) Lecture Room. Bishop Fallows and Judge Albert C.

Barnes wil speak on the Indertermln- ate Sentence Law. Dr. Harry Minton of Philadelphia spent last week in Chicago the guest of JaY. John Auter of Evanston, while here Dr. Minton was entertained at the Avendorph subscription dance, on Tuesday- evening and on Friday evening a theatre box party was given in his honor by a number of young men at the Pekln.

TflVman's AaTemaa nt thfi Colored soldiers Teminds ot devil defending heaven. and condemning hell. Better a thousand times over for the Negrt that he he wrongfully punished by Theodore Roosevelt than be commended by Ben. Tillman. "Deliver us.

Oh Lord, from our friends," may 4he Negro pray, with Tillman pretending- to protect bis rights. The Republican, Seattle, Wash. Mrs wr a Ruckner. 3532 Wabash ave "I want to express my greatest admiration for The Broad Ax, and the great work It Is doing In fighting the cause of the race, and what we need are plenty of manly men like you, who are not afraid to express themselves on any subject that Is for the upbuilding of the Afro-American race." Tillman may be right in his contention that "the white man is made from superior clay to tne black man, but if so it took a great many centuries for that superiority to develop itself for the world's greatest ancient characters were of the black race. The worlds greatest geniuses were Solomon and Hannibal both of the black rce rue nejmblican, Seattle, Wash.

Thn viftppnth annual nrize masquer ade Ball given by the Manasseh Society No. 1 at the Coliseum Annex, Monday evening last was attended by about twelve hundred persons all of whom seemed to enjoy themselves to the fullest extent. A large number of our Society folks attended the ball out of curiosity "just to see how Colored men with white wives would act." That they acted just like any other self respecting element no one will deny. The Triangle and Inner Circle clubs met at Mr. F.

L. Cuffees' 3942 Dearborn st on Monday evening, enjoyed their annual dinner and elected the following officers for the ensuing year, Capt. R. Ratcliffe, J. Lacey.

V. Geo. M. Turner, Sec; J. W.

Ward, J. It McAlister, Stewart, Wm. H. Jackson ticket agent. They will give two entertainments a vear for charity and the public will "be advised of their accomplishments through these columns.

Jennie E. Watts an old time resident of Chicago, but now of New York City arrived here last Sunday morning, to visit her parents, Mr. aud Mrs. George Smith, 448 37th Place. Mrs.

Watts who is one of our wannest ladv friends is the very picture of health and she is looking much better than she ever did before. Wednesday evening, her two sisters Misses Lillian Leona Smith gave her a birthday party, which was largely attended by her old friends. Her husband H. M. Watts who for a long time was one of the musicians at Wing's 22nd and State street, has bought a nice home on Cruger near Morris Park.

In New York City, and she will return home Wednesday. One afternoon last week two South Side Society women were accosted on the street by a white man who persisted in questioning them' concerning their address and when he could see them. The only reason the ladies did not order the scoundrels arrest is because there was not an officer In sight neither was there a Colored man about to whom they could report the man's conduct. In speaking of the incident one of the ladles said "this is the second time I have been accosted on the street by a white man the first insisting upon my leaving the street car and joining him at supper." The chances are a hundred to one that these cowards who Insult women on the street pick their chances when there is not another man In sight who might come to the assistance of the person or persons insulted and give them the thrashing they deserve. They are the same low-bred rascals who have a fit when they discover a Colored man seated beside them at a lunch counter or in a street car.

Most of them are Southern born, and the sight of a Colored man talking to a white woman suffices to make their blood boll and wish they were "down home where a crowd of us could get together and lynch that "Nigger" to the first tree." We do not advocate lynching the hybirds as the case would be If conditions were reversed and the South the place of action, but we do hope that some good man will be near at hand the next time our ladles are approached, and take charge of the culprit in the manner best suiting the case. T. CROWD HISSES STAGE "MICK." Last week in New York city, while Russell Brothers were playing In Hammersteln's Victoria Theater, and assuming the roles of Irish servant girls, more than two hundred people hissed and greeted them with, catcalls, and such a noiso was kept up until the curtain was rung down, and that part of the Irish play was eliminated from the program. On that same evening It was also announced that the United Irish Societies will pursue the same course. In every local theater where, in thel ci Inlcn.

actors are holding the Irish rao tin to ridicule and scorn. This rlalnly indicates that the Irish 'ple will not stand for having their race vilified or slandered, but we re-met to say that there are some so-called liberty loving Irish-Americans 'n this city, who entertain the idea 'hat Colored Americans have no mor-' right to protest against Ben Tillman bcldly advocating mob and Iynoli law and the shot-gun policy for all Colored men. women and children, and branding all Negroes as wild beasts, savages and baboons. Miss Grace after spending several months with friends In Now. York City and Cleveland, Ohio, returned to the city Wednesday morning and is stopping, with ber sister Mrs.

A. F. Tervalon, 5032 Dearborn street. SIDE LIGHTS ON THE RACE PROBLEM IN THE SOUTH. (Concluded from page 1.

instances, the Xegro is tlelibci-atcly kept in debt that the landlord and merchant, between them, make it impossible for him to get out of debt, the same as prostitutes arc exploited in northern cities, the injustice of it all is strikingly brought out. it becomes apparent how little chance the Xegro has to advance, so long as he is held back bv bonds which never can be broken without using force to free himself from the voke, and the whites will not abandon the system until thev are forced to do so. Under the present system the merchants make a tremendous profit, it being1 "a bad year" that he does not make ioo per cent on the investment. Part of the profit i-turned over to the landlord. Thr Xegro is "between the Devil and the deep," no matter which way he turns.

A white man can go to la. and claim exemptions, and keep the little he has. perhaps a feu hog, a broken down mule, a decrepit pony, or an outcast cow. The Xegro has no exemptions, or if he has. he is ignorant of the fact, and would not daxc to take advantage of the law even if he unuderstood his rights as a citizen Within the past three years Xegroes have been whipped the South.

In Louisiana two years ago thev till were 'alking agitatedly about a terrible whipping which had been admini MRS. KATE KINSEY BROOK. The Second Harriet Beecher Stow who has the courage to shed some light on the true condition of affairs in the South! tcr-ed to a Xcrro in a town about four miles from my home. It used to be that the Xegroes, when they became so in debt to a landlord that they could not see their way out, would run away over the Arkansas line and there start a new life. Up to a short time ago.

it was the custom to gather a posse of white men in the neighborhood, ride ovci into Arkansas and whip these Xegroes back; to Louisiana, if tlvcy could be located, and force them to go on working the land from which they had run away. These Xegroes were actually whipped with blacksnakes. Since the "Peonage" cases have stirred up so much agitation the whites have been afraid to whip the Negroes, and have been rather more careful about forcing them to remain on the land than they used to be. However, Arkansas has set her foot down on the whole procedure of whipping Negroes out of her territory, so this matter has been somewhat straightened out. Another force which has made it advisable for the whites to lay down the whip is the fact that today, most of the Negroes carry revolvers, and they do not hesitate to affirm that they will shoot a white man who attempts to whip them, even though they know they will lie or Ivnche-' the next niinitc for doing it.

They prefer death to whipping, at least, so hey have told me. At any rat" whipping has rather gone out of style in Louisiana in two years. The right of the Xegro to vote is the merest farce, but he is not so much intimidated in the exercising of his franchise right as he used to be, and an intelligent Xegro can vote without danger of personal assault, but the blacks have become so accustomed to fearing to vote, that they have quite gotten out of the habit. For this reason the Negro vote amounts to nothing at all as a factor in politics, unless the white people wish to vote down prohibition, when the Negro vote is made use pf. If there should be evinced the slightest sign of a general Negfq vote, the white population would rise up and intimidate them into staying at home on election day.

The Negro is wanted in the South as a beast qf burden, and as nothing else. So long as he is willing to remain snJch, to hold himself as a sen-ant, and to ask no questions about his rights as a citizen, the South wants him. Just the moment he begins to open his eyes to his possibilities the South throws off all pretense of friendship and recognizes in him a menace to her civilization, which it is her duty to muzzle. If the Negro is lacking in the quality of virtue, the white man is to blame for it. The difficulty started far back in slavery days.

'It was the duty of the slaves to increase and multiply and replenish the purses of their ownci, hence he encouraeed the pro-cre- I ativc act. When the Xegroes did not breed fast enough to suit him the white man took a hand in the matteriiimself, and helped along the process of evolution and incidentially added to the value of his personal property, by bringing into the world as many half-breeds as he was able to produce. I.ufhow the white man complains bitterly because the tendency of the Xegro of today is to reproduce his specie irrespective of the law. The tendencv was inherited from his ancestors, and originallv was fostered and encouraged by the white owners themselves. As a matter of fact, immorality is still emburaged in the Xe- groes.

and when not absolutes encouraged, is winked at. The law of Louisiana, at least, has been made very clastic, in ordei that a Xegro may mam- as often a he pleases, and secure a di-rrce without difficulty. It is strange that there should be one dhorce law for the white man. and another for the Xegro. Perhaps the erudite law makers anil interpreters can explain it.

'I lie fact remains that without going into court, without pending more than, perhaps, firteen utes of his time, without the expenditure of more than $15. the Xegro can secure a divorcv. which entitle him to marry again. I have wondered, alway-just where the "graft" comes in. "graft" there is in this for some- 1 one.

In many cases Xegroes ar married by a preacher. AM 1 preachers will not perforin tne ceremony under the circum- stances, but there are many who do. In such cases the marriage does not "bear the Eagle brand." as one Xegro woman expressed it. Hut no one interferes with the relation thus established. It is told that one woman went to town to secure a license to marry, who had been married and divorced so many times the Recorder would not help her out any longer, and would not give her a license.

She went right on, serenely, and married the man. who was not divorced from his own wife and they have never been molested in any way. It is readily seen that there must be unwritten law, as the State does not sanction it except in that it does not put a stop to it. Incidentally who gets the money paid for Negro divorces secured in this loose way? Does it go into the public treasury oi does the lawyer split up the $15 with the official? Why don't you turn that woman out an get anothei wife? She is no good to you. You ought to have a wife "that could get out into the field and work," was the advice of one landlord.

Outside of other tendencies toward immorality, the crowding of large families into one or two small rooms, to put it mildly, ca-not but lead to broad views on tb? subject of virtue. Entire families, as many as ten persons often sleep in one room, in which thev also cook, sit, live, move and have their being. Morality is much like cleanliness. It depends a great deal upon the environment. Perhaps we would ret be so ultra-clean if, in order to take a bath, we were to carry water up three or four flights or stairs from a basement, as so many of the poor in the cities must do, and then bathe in ice-cold water in a cold room because too poor to buy coal.

In judging the moral standard of the Negro, put yourself in his place, realize if possible, all the conditions that surround him, take everything- into consideration, including the bad example of his teachers, the slave-holders, and judge. Summarized, thfconditions as I found them in Louisiana are somewhat as follows: 1. Negroes are lynched in the South for reasons other than rape. They have been lynched for no other reason than that they were "biggitty." 2. The crime of rape for which the Negro is so often lynchbd is seldom rape, in fact.

The actual act committed is distorted into that crime. 3. The white women of the South, by giving way to hysteria, and expecting to be raped by cvciy Xegro who comes to their door keep themselves constantly in a frame of mind to distort facts. At the slightest move tljey will go off into hysteria and before the real facts come out the Xegro is dead. 4.

White men of the South through lack of thought, deliberate prejudic. absence of self control and giving way to th emotion which craves excitement, are. in many instances, the cause of the murder of innocent Xegroes. 5. Xegro girls and women arc constantly being assaulted bv white men.

They are considered legitimate prey. o. The Xegro. as a matter of fact, has no property rights in the South which he dares to claim. 7.

While under certain conditions the Xegro can vote, through fear he does not exercise that right. 8. The immortality of the Xegro is due. mainly, to conditions provided by the whites originally instituted by the former owner of slaves. 9.

The education afforded the Xegro of the South is a mockery ami a farce. 10. Through collusi n. be tween the merchant and the landlord, the Xegro is' kept constantly in debt and through the workings of the unwritten laws if the South he remains a slave to the landlord a Lug as the debt is unpaid. Von cannot persuade the white people of the South that the Xegro is not worthlessly lazy.

You will be told that it is impossible to get a Xegro to wori. 1 lie cause of this is easy to locate. The Southern people expect to pay a Xegro "two bits" for a day's work and require that he -hall give them a dollar" w. rth work. The Xejrr figuring the matter out.

quietly takes the difficulty in hand and straightens it out to his own satisfaction by giving "two bits wortli 01 wor for "two bits." When he is paid a dollar for a day's work, and put on his honor, he gives a dollar's worth of labor, and even more, in return. I was utterly unable to impress Southern employ ei a that their labor was purely and simple because they paid "scrub" prices, and that they would have better quality of work, if they paid living wage. They thought I was crazy because I paid a black man a dollai a day for ordinary labor. The black man has a stomach which craves food, just as the white man's stomach demands attention. It costs the black man even more than it does me white man to buy food.

No one would dream of expecting the white man to work for less than a dol mm EXTRA! A BEHT In Aid of the Phyllis Wheatley Club will be given at the PEKIN THEATRE WEDNESDAY FEB. 6TH, 1907, WHEN THE MAN FROM BAM Entirely rewritten and re-staged, will be the attraction. The Phyllis Wheatley Club Is -endeavoring to raise funds to purchase a home for working girlsitd fc6-Iocated at 3523 Forest Chicago. This Is a particularly worthy' charity and every one should take advantage of this opportunity, to not only assist In alaudable undertaking but also spend an enjoyable evening at The First and Only Colored Theatre in America! NOTE Tbe will be unckr the direction of fir. J.

Fd. MRS. ELIZABETA LINDSAY-DAVIS, Pres. MRS. THOS.

PEARSON, Chairman. lar a day. At least one reason why the Negro is lazy is because he is underpaid. It is the way li has figured out whereby he can balance the ledger. On one hand you have tli-whites, tyrannical in their attitude toward the Negro.

inconsistent in their relations with him, now treating him almost as an equal, speaking him intimately taking him hit their confidence in regard thtir family affairs; on the otln-r. the whites standing on their and denouncing him fW a-suming the same attitude tow an! them. The whites have the ii firmly fixed in their niiiujs the Xegro was born fr the pres purpose of bearing 1 1 -burdens, serving them, unkiiv. living for them, while thev life easy and tile attitude v' be assumed toward everv 1 eigner coining to our lnr- these people could get the enforce it. Meanwhile '-Xegro is gradually becomin quaintcd with hi realzing where thv trouble n.

understanding the remedx would change ku that he will never be 1 chance to rie in the worth claim his rights unless force to throw back oppr -m. 17. The fact i. the Xegroe- are vancing faster than the whiu Unless the white people South awaken to the i'en conditions have changed, tii slavery has ceased to ei-; the black man is a human In endowed like them with iti.i! i liable right to life, libertx nrr the pursuit of happiness, a -Kano will burst forth that will everything before it. The are now sowing the wind.

n. will reaj) the whirlwind an! irtv million northern whites will the time comes stand rea.h help sec that justice i don. our guests our brothers African blood. The end. "THE NAMELESS CRIME." SAM SWANSON (WHITE) RAPES A LITTLE COLORED GIRL.

(Concluded from Page 1 1 enough to make strong Ton much less angels weep. The question has been asked. long will the officers of the and the guardians of the -acre sanctity of homes count nam-e these shameful crime tin-part of brutes in the gin-- men. A man has been mini loose who dares to step to far. There are some scoundriN w'i are not satisfied with the of our women, but are vw turning their attention the cradle they will take "iir babes to satisfy their lu-t Cod of justice, how long will the authorities wink at ttol' n-tar-ious crime bv allowing uch villains out on bond and bond that signifies nothing? Mr.

George Wheeler, tk father of the child, and hi fri -iiN. will see if there is justice to In-had and if crime will be puni-hcl. when committed by one who chances to be of the proud ng-Io-Saxon race. It is a noticeable fact that when a white man assault a Negro woman, or when he een t-charged with taking the babe from the cradle, he seems g't SPECIAL! 11:1: 1 Ollt! I hi:.