Cayton's Weekly

Cayton's Weekly PRICE FIVE CENTS CAYTON'S WEEKLY CAYTON'S WEEKLY Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington. U. S. A. In the interest of equal rights and equal justice to all men and for "all men up." A publication of general information, but in the main voicing the sentiments of the Colored Citizens. Subscription $2 per year in advance. Special rates made to clubs and societies. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON..Editor and Publisher Entred as second class matter, August 18, 1916, at the post office at Seattle, Vash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. THE PHONE: BEACON 1910 Office 303 22nd Ave. South EDITORIAL COMMENT An amusing incident in connection with the late sympathetic strike in Seattle was related to us one day this week. It will be remembered that almost every union in the city ordered its members to quit work, and that too, without grievance, in sympathy for the shipyard workers and they religiously did so. To be sure, that was a Damon and Pythias stunt alright, but in this instance Damon did not come back and Pythias got his "block" cut off. Among the many unions that struck was the waterfront union, which, after being out a day or so, got sick of the job and wanted to go back to work, but the Government said nay, nay. Pauline; you return to work, but it will be an open shop. While the regulars were at their hall deliberating on the situation large numbers of shipyard workers, so goes the story, flocked down and took the jobs. Can you beat it? Aliens, who come to this country and become dangerous labor agitators will be deported to the country from whence they came and not be permitted to return to the United States, if a bill that has been introduced in the legislature becomes a law and such would be right and proper. The high valedictory of the electrical workers union in Seattle is an alien and had he have had his way in the late general strike, the streets of Seattle would have actually run human blood. We look upon such men as already guilty of murder though no one has been actually killed. It being unconstitutional to try them for murder they should be tried and convicted of disloyalty and driven from our country. Any member of the legislature voting against the measure is himself a Bolshevik at heart. "Does the Negro Suffer from the Curse of Noah" was the subject of a splendid paper read by Rev. D. A. Graham at the Lincoln-Douglas meeting last Wednesday. Since we have been old enough to understand, it has been pumped into us that the Almighty had cursed the sons of Ham and condemned them to everlasting servitude for the sons of Shem or in other words the black man was to serve the white man without pay or recompense, but from the Bible Rev. Graham made it clear that that was a false impression. The subject was well handled and those who heard it felt amply repaid for coming out. Poor old Louie Toomer: his day of activity seems to have gone to never return. He is now a patient at the county hospital and has not been able to lie down for weeks. Tooner was a character and some one styled him the sage of Puget Sound, owing to his political progostications. For a number of sessions he presided over the boot black stand at the legislature and in the good old days it is estimated that he picked up from fifteen to twenty-five dollars per day. He has known the most of the prominent politicians of the state from the time of Gov. Ferry to Gov. Lister and while in Olympia the other day, many of them inquired of him. According to custom the Seattle Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held commemorative exercises for Lincoln and Douglas last Wednesday evening and the meeting was addressed by three splendid speakers. These meetings do not seem to be attended by as many persons as are expected owing to the nature of them, but they will be continued to be held, which was the prevailling sentiment of those present. The suggestion of the chairman of the evening that next year a banquet instead of the ordinary meeting be held, met a warm approval. This Branch, under President Stone's guiding hand, is ever on the alert for the advancement of the cause and the community should be more liberal in assisting him. The name of Frederick Douglas will ever be an inspiration for favorable comment and eloquent eulogy and one seems to never tire of hearing the very many acts of his useful life recounted. At the Lincoln-Douglas meeting last Wednesday evening. H. J. Henry eloquently and interestingly retold the story of Douglas, the man, who believed in the motto, "who would be free himself strike the first blow." It was Mr. Henry's first effort before the public in Seattle, but he acquitted himself so well that it will hardly be the last. The community is much in need of active young men, who can and will make good when called upon as did Mr. Henry and we trust that others will follow in his wake. Yes, I am home again, having been recently demobolized and, believe me, I am glad to again be in Seattle among those I have every reason to believe are my warm personal friends. I left the service with rank of first lieutenant," said Dr. F. B. Cooper one day this week. He is home to immediately reopen his dental offices and take care of those desiring his services. Dr. Cooper desires through Cayton's Weekly, to thank his former patrons for their loyal support and to also inform them that within the next few days he will be located at 362 and 363 in the Empire Bldg., where he will be pleased to meet old and new acquaintances. With Dr. Cardwell, Dr. Cooper and the Messrs. Frazier and Anderson, all young and active, at the head of affair in Seattle, it seems to us a brighter day ought to be dawning for the colored citizens of this community. All of these young men are important personages in the body politic and having the confidence of the entire community they are in positions to forge ahead and get many good things for their fellowmen that others are unable to get. This community has always been lacking in active leadership, but the above quartet should fill the long-felt want. "What labor union do you belong to," inquired Councilman T. H. Bolton, after he had read an editorial in that issue of Cayton's Weekly prior to the general sympa- Vol. 111 No. 37 thetic walkout under the caption of "As We View The Strike." "I belong to Cayton's union, the chief corner stone of which is a square deal for all men," was our reply. "Well, whatever union you belong to I want to commend that editorial and say to you in my opinion it is 100 per cent American." Mr. Bolton is a member of the Baker's union and was three years ago warmly suported for councilman, but in office he was for a square deal for all men and that evidently was not what organized labor was looking for as the Central Council has not this year endorsed his candidacy, which should be the signal for every unbiased citizen giving him their undivided support. Permit the editor of Cayton's Weekly to issue a word of warning to the young colored men, who are and who have quit high school because they can temporarily go to work for some company for wages, which in comparison to what their older friends and relatives received, is simply fabulous, you are making a fatal mistake and blighting the balance of your life. When the United States gets back to normal conditions during the natural life of any one now living it will be the exception and by no means the rule for colored men to get any kind of employment save of the most menial nature. In large cities you will porter in barbershops if the Italians do not return. Big wages such as you are now getting will be a thing of the past. The colored man that succeeds in the coming years will be the highly educated colored man, for the well educated there will be many opportunities, but for the poorly educated there will be few, if any. Go back to school, young man, and work as if the very devil was after you. Republican gubernatorial candidates are humming about Olympia just now like flies about a molasses barrel and each one will take you into his confidence and show you beyond a question of doubt that he has the inside track for the nomination, but unless you too are looking for an opportunity to feed from the public crib and the candidate has promised you an opportunity to get in on the ground floor, you will consider all he says as so much hot air. "Let me shake the hand of the next governor of the state of Washington," grinned a want-something partisan as he met an avowed gubernatorial candidate in the lobby of the State House, which caused Mr. Candidate to swell all up and look as important as a hotel clerk holding a political job. Seattle with Ole Hanson as her mayor and Joel T. Warren her chief of police, did herself proud in handling the strike situation and as a result those officials are being congratulated and commended by loyal citizens all over the country. Had the same precaution been used in the street car strike and the water front strike the toll of human life and the destruction of valuable property would not have followed as they did. Who thinks a majority of our citizens are Russian Reds in sentiment reckons without his host and has a think coming and the officials of our city, county, state and nation will find the people with them when they take a firm stand against strike violence. As has Hanson and Warren done, let others do. ```markdown ``` --- Mr. George Maney, Seattle, Wash. Mr. William W. Seymour, Tacoma, Wash. Mr. Krank S. Baker, Tacoma, Wash. Mr. C. H. Graves, Tacoma, Wash. Mr. James H. Davis, Tacoma, Wash. Mrs. Estella Manderson, Seattle, Wash. Trustees. ABRAHAM LINCOLN America is an empire of beauty and wealth. Within its borders there are some of the grandest, ablest and bravest men and women of this century. But greater still it is the land of equal opportunity. That this is so is because by the stroke of a pen Abraham Lincoln gave freedom to the wronged millions of my race. When Lincoln was 16 he assisted a neighbor to build a flat boat, which conveyed them to the city of New Orleans. This was the first time Lincoln ever saw paved streets, hundreds of houses, lights, and real civilization. In his wanderings for the first time he saw an auction sale of slaves. The victim was a young mulatto girl not over 20, and when he saw a big, strong man pat her arm, pinch her legs, and make her run like a frightened deer to ascertain whether the property was sufficiently sound in body and limb to pay a price for, the very iron entered the soul of the Lincoln boy, and turning to a companion he said: "If I ever get a chance, I am going to whack slavery on the head." Twenty-five years later he kept his word in the White House at Washington by signing the emancipation proclamation which dealt the death blow to human slavery for all time and eternity. Lincoln, a man of Southern birth, did not hesitate to appeal to the sword when he became satisfied that in no other way could the Union be saved. The people of today in dealing with white or black, North or South, should strive to show just the qualities that Lincoln showed. "The great Civil War in which Lincoln towered, as the loftiest figure left us, not only a re-united country, but a country which has the proud right to claim as its own the glory won alike by those who wore the blue and by those who wore the gray, by those who followed Grant and by those who followed Lee," for both fought with equal bravery and with equal sincerity of conviction. There was born to this country in the year of 1809 a son whom the world recognized as one of the bravest men of his time. He rose from that of a rail splitter in the State of Illinois to that of Chief Executive of the greatest nation upon the globe. The man who suffered death at the hand of the assassin was the most beloved, most honored, and most in the hearts of his countrymen, was that of Abraham Lincoln; the man who died fifty years ago, who made such an impression upon the world, that nearly half a century is not sufficient to wipe out of minds the desire to know and to learn of the character of this man who sacrificed his life that those bonded people might be free. In history there are many famous men, but it is safe to say that the fame of no one of them is more sacred in the minds of the American people than that of Lincoln. Many of the greatest historical writers have agreed that Lincoln was right when he denounced slavery, which made him one of the foremost men of all the world. When Lincoln fell by the hand of the assassin Booth, a well-meaning, but ignorant and fanatical conspirator, he was still physically strong and his wonderful mind had hardly reached its prime. Great as Lincoln was in the roll of war, he was infinitely greater as a statesman, and it is mainly the fact of his magnificent statesmanship that the world's final estimation of Lincoln's greatness will be based. Great, extraordinarily great, in every way was Lincoln. Was greatest of all as an organizer; the orderly arrangement was the idea that dominated Lincoln's entire being, and dominated it unceasingly from his earliest manhood and splendid vision was ever in his mind's eyes. That vision was ever within, that of reconstructing this country and government and making it a country cleansed of its impurities, free from its weaknesses, strong in its equity, imperial in its scope and in its influence. That Lincoln was ambitious is granted, but there is much to show that his ambition was of the large, personal stamp, indicated above, and that if he wished to become the foremost man of all the world, it was solely to the end that he might organize society in a way to make the world better and every man regardless of color or previous condition of servitude an equal show and equal rights before the world; such was Lincoln's dream. Lincoln's desire was to be supreme for the purpose of using his almost God-like power for the completion of his plans, which he well knew would result in much good to our race. He knew that he (Lincoln) was the one man, who could arrest the downward career of the human race for which he shed his blood to protect, but in the midst of his work, while the greatest organizer that the planet has ever know, was lovingly engaged in a task, which was to him a joy, the fatal blow was struck, and the only man who had proven himself a Saviour to this country through the dark Ages, was dead. The day on which it was decreed that Lincoln should die, was perhaps the most calamitous, that ever overtook the human race; for when it was decreed that Lincoln should die, it was at the same time decreed that the hand on the dial of civilization should be set back at least a round hundred years. This day is a sacred day—a day of gratitude and love. Today we commemorate more than the birth of a nation, more than independence, more than the fruits of the revolution, more than the accumulation of wealth, more than national prestige and power, we commemorate the great and blessed victory over ourselves, the triumph of civilization, the reformation of a People, the establishment consecrated to the Preservation of Liberty and the equal rights of man. Nations can win success, can be rich, and powerful, can cover the Earth with their armies, the seas with their fleets, and yet be small, selfish, and mean. There is something above land and palaces, above raiment and gold, it is the love of might, the desire to do justice, the inextinguishable love of human liberty. This was Lincoln's motto. On this day we honor the heroes who fought to make our nation just and free, e who broke the shackle of the slaves, who freed the masters of the south and allies of the north, who made America the hope and the beacon of the human race, the foremost nation of all the world. They did away with that ignorance and cruel prejudice that human rights depend on race or color. The past seems like a hideous dream; the present is full of pride, gratitude and love. When Beauregard fired upon Fort Sumpter he inaugurated the cruelest and bloodiest war in human history. When John Wilkes Booth fired upon President Lincoln he perpetrated the cruelest and bloodiest crime this side of Calvary. Between these two shots, Fort Sumpter and Ford's Theater, what awful pages of American history are recorded written in her richest and reddest blood. Fifty years is not long in the life of a nation, but fifty years is long in the life of an indivdiual. Fifty years, and the youth all aflame with patriotism marching miles and miles with heavy muskets and knapsacks, now find a needed support in cane and crutch. Fifty years and the drummer boy has been transformed into a gray-haired veteran. Fifty years and the most cruel, wrong and misunderstood man of his day has become the model of American manhood. And so it is in perfect harmony with this hour and place, we pause long enough in our devotion to lay a few flowers upon the grave of our greatest American living or dead. Sitting in his law office and preparing a speech he wrote: "If slavery is right and a just God ruling in Heaven somebody will be punished for upholding it." This he read to his law partner who said: "I would not say that." Lincoln asked: "Is it true?" "Oh, yes," was the reply, "it is true, but it is not good policy to say it just now." And honest old Abe answered: "If it is true I will say it and stand by it." In this office scene you have the measure of the man, the secret of his life. He held with unflinching hand the helm that guided the tempest-tossed ship of state safely through the seething surf of civil war into the smooth waters of peace and union. He was as patient as destiny. He was willing to await the verdict of future generations. He never raised a hand but to bless—never spoke a word to incite or inflame. With the Union preserved, the country united he rode on the crest of a people's love. Nothing but a martyr's crown could add anything to the laurels he had already worn. And when he said: "Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower when I thought a flower would grow." This statement is equalled if not excelled by the peerless sentiment contained in this noted paragraph: "With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, let us finish the work we are in. To bind up the nation's wounds, that irrespressible between union and disunion, between freedom and slavery has been happily ended. The echo of the shot and shell fired at Fort Sumpter has died away." The bell that once called the congregation of slaves to their scanty meals after their day's toil was over, has ceased to ring. The fields that once reeked with the red blood of the slain and slaughtered is now fragrant with the blossoms of the cotton plant. And now is it not further true that that magnanimous sentiment, "With malice towards none, with charity for all" uttered by him who was the most abused man of his age, one word hastily spoken frequently is productive of a feeling of bitterness between man and man, between sister and brother, between partner and partner, that finds its balm of conciliation only in the sad, silent grave. FEBRUARY 12. 1809 On the frontier men either fail or win mastery of the life they lead and know. Lincoln was on the frontier practically all his days. In the toil of getting a living out of that rude Ohio River country he became able to see and deal with realities; to see his fellow men, not only as they were and must be met daily, but also as what they might be under better inspiration; to see the conditions of human existence, not merely as cramping the present, but also, which is more important, as promising the future. Alone in his grief and weariness, Lincoln learned to value justly the worth of the individual in relation to that common fate which has been ordained for us all. Ris- You Are Welcome To Spend Your Leisure Moments at the GREAT NORTHERN POOL AND BILLIARD HALL Cigars, Tobacco and Soft Drinks. Courteous Treatment BOYD & WILLIAMS, Props. 1032 Jackson St. ```markdown ``` ing in his own person to heights of strength and power which have been reached only by few, he was made aware how little the attainments of authority can amount to in comparison with the freely exerted force of many when high purpose has made their hearts one. We hear far too much of Lincoln the kindly comrade, Lincoln the martyr, and far too little of Lincoln the leader of men. Pitiful and human and humble he surely was by the proof of nearly half a century, and yet he could hold to a great resolve through months of failure and despair as sternly as earth's granite endures the evil passing of storm and fire. He was murdered by one fanatic, yet he subdued capable men of anger and intense prejudices and mastered them into true service of the cause whose needs he saw clearly while they were guessing. Humility and entire disregard of self can be the marks of a great leader, and Lincoln's rule could forego all garmiture of pomp. His qualities were heightened as his life drew to its end. It was not given to him to settle the outcome of our Civil War; for a while his plans were set aside by narrower men fiercely bent on smaller aims. But in the long run his spirit triumphed, however slowly and at whatever greater cost, and our country became one again in fulfillment of the work for which he lived and died. Our world to-day is racked by hatred and torn by selfishness. Men have conquered almost every circumstance of life save themselves. After more than four years of war many hold that cannon are still the only argument, that cities must be bombarded into belonging to this new state or that. False leaders profess the most beautiful ideals and proceed to attain them by murder, theft, and terror. In a world of need and suffering workers find time to quarrel over their own little privileges. It is this rude frontier of the better time that now challenges our very souls, and there is no escape in the barren hostilities of yesterday. When the past has served its purpose we must master and forget it or repeat the bitter experience of lessons unlearned. It is beyond our scope to say what policy Lincoln would follow in this present crisis if he were here to lead in meeting it—he frankly acknowledged that events controlled him—but mankind needs his spirit now as never before. (One likes to think of that spirit as manifest in the call of the Allies for a conference of the men of imperiled Russia.) The way of action will be clear enough if only hatred and selfishness can be sunk in the set resolve that those who died for a better world shall not have died in vain. If we pass from this confusion to a nobler order, it will be because the rule of our statecraft has become as the rule of Lincoln: Slow to smite and swift to spare. Gentle and merciful and just. TOPICS IN BRIEF At the peace table there will be German waiters.—Baltimore American. Raw deals make raw spots and are raw material for future wars.—Greenville Piedmont. The German elections show that Bolshevism's weakest spot is the ballot-box.—Washington Post. The Kaiser is growing a beard. Evidently he has had enough close shaves.—Baltimore American. One sure way to break up that Irish Republic would be for the British Government to approve it.—Nashville Banner. William Hohenzollern, we are told, has recovered from his recent illness, but he is not out of danger.—Boston Globe. Phone 2647 1034 Jackson GOLDEN WEST Tailors and Cleaners. Clothes called for and delivered. Hats retrimmed and blocked. H. S. Frazier C. W. Curtest The former Kaiser is reported to have a severe cold in the head. The cold evidently extended from his feet.—Long Island City Star. The German revolt leaders, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, advocated violence and that's what they got.—Boston Transcript. Men are beginning to talk about Colonel Roosevelt's probable successors, but the number required to take his place is not mentioned.—Toledo Blade. Hines announces he's going to carry out the policies of McAdo. Fine. Carry 'em out, and for goodness sake don't bring 'em back.—Knoxville Journal and Tribune. If ever we have moments of doubt it is when men like Theodore Roosevelt have to die and Bill Hohenzollern still lives.—Detroit Free Press. As winter begins to be a little restive on the lap of spring, some people are getting more interested in the National Leageu than in the League of Nations.—Columbia State. Reports are that the Hohenzollern ex-Kaiser is raising a beard, which is an improvement on what he has been raising for the last four or five years.—Philadelphia Press. Two German steamers are to be used in taking American officers and men on excursions up and down the Rhine. No wonder the ex-Kaiser is reported to show signs of becoming a hopeless lunatic.—Baltimore American. "Giving the men a part of the profits has proved the greatest investment ever made by the Ford Company," says its advertising manager. Perhaps it will do no harm to cut this out and show it to the boss.—Boston Globe. The Holy Land is much holier than it was.—Greenville Piedmont. It seems that the only use of the consumer is to be consumed.—Florida Times-Union. Any peace that favors Germany will be one that passeth understanding.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Dr. Wilson better hurry with his peace remedy or all the patients will be dead.—Columbia Record. Money still talks, but contact with the high cost of living seems to have given it throat trouble.—Arkansas Gazette. When we recognized Poland's independence we didn't mean that she should be too darned independent.—Greenville Piedmont. The former Kaiser is suffering from ear trouble. No wonder, with the stuff that continuously reaches his ears.—Nashville Banner. And apparently the Kaiser is better off with the blues in Holland than he would be with the Reds in Berlin.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. Well, just as the Kaiser expected and prophesied more than a year ago. German ships are landing troops in New York.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Kaiser is said to have aged ten years since he fled to Holland two months ago. It is much too fast. Somebody ought to put an end to it.—Kansas City Star. This is the first time our executive has been abroad, but not the first time the country has been without an executive.—Greenville Piedmont. The German sailors are said to be taking a neutral attitude during the present trouble in Berlin. They don't want to mar their war-record evidently.—Syracuse Herald. Some of the Germans seem to think that as they are honest enough to admit they are dishonest, the account should be struck off the books.—Knoxville Journal and Tribune. Colonel Roosevelt did not discover the Ten Commandments, but the trouble came from his wanting to apply them to a lot of men who felt that they were outside those issues. Minneapolis Journal. As a matter of fact, it's the overbalance of power, with the liberty-loving nations on the heavy end, that makes the world feel so safe now, regardless of just what form the League of Nations takes.—Clinton Daily Clintonian. A. D. Richardson Undertaker a.i.d Embalmer Fully preared to handle those who pass away by the latest and most improved methods. Day and night service A. D. Richardson Undertaking Co. 1218 Jackson St. Beacon 103 UNITING CO. Phone East 179 PENN UNDERTAKING COMPANY Funeral Directors and Embalmers The only Colored Undertaking Establishment in the Northwest Owned, Managed and Financed by Colored Brain and Money. "Best service at moderate prices," is our motto. Your business will be highly appreciated. Calls promptly answered day or night. P. FRAZIER Funeral Director and Manager Parlors. 1215 East Marion St., Seattle IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for the County of King.—No. 133363. Summons by Publication. J. Abe Fisher, Plaintiff, vs. Fred Therriault, and William Fisher and Eve S. Fisher, his wife, Defendants. The State of Washington, to the said Fred Therriault, Defendant. You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit, within sixty days after the 1st day of February, A. D. 1919, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the Clerk of said court. The object of the said action and the relief sought to be obtained therein is fully set forth in said complaint, and is briefly stated as follows: To partition the following described real property: The East Forty-five (E. 45) feet of Lots Eighteen (18), Nineteen (19) and Twenty (20) in Block Thirteen (13) of Front Street Cable Addition to the City of Seattle, King County, Washington. ANDREW J. BALLIET, Attorney for Plaintiff. P. O. Address: 320 Railway Exchange Bldg., Seattle, County of King, Washington. First publication Feb. 1. 1919. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF KING COUNTY, State of Washington.— In the Matter of the Estate of Erick J. Edlund, Deceased.—No. 24729. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed Executrix of the Estate of Erick J. Edlund, deceased, that all persons naving claims against said deceased are hereby required to serve the same, duly verified, on said Mary M. Edlund, or on Andrew J. Balliet, her attorney of record at the address below stated, and file the same with the Clerk of said court, together with proof of such service within six months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or the same will be barred. Address: 320 Railway Exchange Bldg., Seattle, Wn. ANDREW J. BALLIET, Attorney for Estate. 320 - Railway Exchange Bldg., Seattle, Wash. First publication Feb. 8, 1919.