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A Loss To Us All
The-City Council of New York adopted by a 2<tto 1 vote this week, the infamous Sharkey-Brown-Isaacs bill. Under this bill an owner of an apartment house in New’ York City becomes aoriminal if he reuses to rent his privately owned apartments to any one because of race or religion.
Consider for a moment the low estate of an owner of private property in New York City. He holds title to a building and pays taxes on it. He even thinks the building is his. But if he refuses to rent a portion of his building to the first man that comes along, he is open to a “complaint” that he refused to rent it because of the man’s race or religion. He must, to alliextents and purposes, prove himself innocent o(f thi.4 “chime.” ,
We are old fashioned enough to believe that the owmer of a piece of real estate may rent it to whomsoever He pleased, or not, and in so doing, is answ'erable only to himself. To deny this is to deny a man the righft to control his own property, one of the chief incidents of ownership. This Jaw amounts to an open and notorious taking of private property, in a blatant and unconstitutional fashion.
New' York City, with a population of some seven million people, is quite a distance from Piedmont, Virginia. What happens there seems far removed from us. But is it?
Back in the old days of the plague in London, the bells tolled daily for the victims of that dread disease. John Donne, who felt that a loss of one of us, was a loss to all of us, wrote,
“Never send to know for whom the bell tolls.
It tolls for thee.”
Is it a far fetched comparison to say, do not ask whose constitutional rights have been violated, they are yours.
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