Cayton's Weekly

STATE LIBRARY, OLYMPIA, WASH. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1919 VOL. IV., NO. 18 PRICE FIVE CENTS Fake Negro Uprising Had not the editor of Cayton's Weekly lived in the state of Mississippi twenty five years, having been born there prior to the outbreak of the great Civil War, and being six years old past at its conclusion; had he not lived there thru the the period of reconstruction, when black human lives were cheaper than the refreshing waters that bubbled up from mother earth; had not he seen the Republican (Radical) party rise and fall in that and adjoining states, the Democratic red shirts wrenching the rule from them, the Radicals, by armed force, using tactics that would have made the actors in the bloody days of the French Jacobin tragedy hang their heads in shame; had he not been acquainted with the murderous methods the white citizens of that state resorted to from time to time in order to perpetuate white supremacy; had he not seen the notorious Vardeman begin his political career, which is bespattered with Negro blood from beginning to end; then he, like most of the readers of the great metropolitan daily press, would attach some slight credence to the recent alleged Negro uprising in the state of Arkansas, reports of which possessed the public mind for ten or more days, and he would conclude with them that the white folks of that state and section of the country act wisely, yea, even humanly, in ever being on the alert and to use whatever force that seemed necessary to prevent the almost barbaric Negro from becoming a public menace to society in most of the states of our own sunny South.. But remembering all these he has his suspicions that the late Arkansas Negro uprising differs in no wise from the thousand and one that have been nipped in the bud "down South" by the ever vigilant white man, for the protection of white womanhood and for the continuance of the absolute purity of the white race. Way back yonder prior to the Civil War Negro uprising throughout the South were of common occurrence, so said the white man of that section, which we suspect, like the recent Arkansas one, was no uprising at all, but when one or two Negroes became unruly and refused to be whipped, murderously regulated. Now Christian white men could not afford for the world to know that the black slaves were slaughtered in cold blood by them and so they deemed it necessary to trump up some plausable excuse for the wanton slaughter of Negroes, so they legalized and justified the killing by branding it a Negro uprising, which was put down by the strong arm of the law. So fearful were the whites of Negro uprisings that the word of God could not be given to the blacks only by white preachers and then only when a score or more of the masters were present. Since the fall of the Republican party in the South in 1876, Negro uprisings have been of common and periodical occurrence, and just as vigorous methods were used to put them down as those recently used in Arkansas, and and being without arms for defense, the helpless colored man could but cower at the feet of his white slayer and beg for mercy, and thus has human slavery in the South been continued from time to time, and its almost as bad today as it was prior to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. How we remember when the white men of our section of the state by the hundreds, from near and from far, would assemble about some Negro uprising district, armed as if for war, to put down an alleged Negro uprising, which was no uprising at all, but only a couple or more of Negroes refusing to be bulldozed to death; and after having killed the "smart niggers" and severely whipped a score or more of those "who refused to help them kill or punish their brethern," the whites would return to their homes and "praise the Lord with one accord." We subsequently read in the Northern press the full account of this or that Negro uprising and would wonder to ourselves when it all happened. But could more be expected than Negro uprisings when Negro men are brutalized to keep them in subjection and Negro women are beastialized to satisfy the animal lusts of white Christian men? It was in Arkansas where Federal officers whipped colored women on their bare backs last year because they refused to work on the farms. It was in Mississippi, Arkansas' next door neighbor, where two young colored women, respectively eighteen and sixteen years of age, were lynched for having raped an innocent young white man, and both of them being in an advanced stage of ‘Gh be ” dee tae ges ® ees. f te : a pregnancey by this self same innocent young white man. It is in Arkansas where colored men are denied all the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution and “regulated” at the will of armed white night riders. It was in Arkansas where colored soldiers in the service of the United States government, were forced to hide their uniforms or be killed by the white regulators. And yet in our opinion, no Negro uprising has occured in A rkansas, and we repeat, could more be expected under the above circumstances, than not only one bloody Negro uprising, but many of them. However only one side of that awful human tragedy that is being staged in the South has ever been told by the great daily press and that side is the biased white man’s side. Who could read the stories that have appeared in the daily press for more than a week depicting the Arkansas Negro uprising and the eminent danger in which the white population lived from day to day, with- out feeling that civilization advanced many notches when scores of dangerous Negroes were shot down and hundreds of others clubbed into subordination by the ever vigilant white men. But way down in your heart of hearts, dear reader, do you not feel and even know that the Negro in the South is as harmless as the razor-back mule he drives on the farm? In many of the states in the South there are on an average of ten or more colored person to every white person and if they were as vicious as reported, it would take large standing armies to prevent them from outraging the white women, murdering the white men, burning the houses and homes of the state, and bringing about a general chaotic state of affairs. We venture the assertion that under no conditions could colored men be induced to hang up a white woman by the heels, disembowl her and mistreat. her unborn baby. Nor could colored men under any conditions be induced to practicethe brutalities on white men that whitte men prac tice and perpertrate upon them. A more humane people never ewisted than the colored folks of the United States and the day, we trust, will yet come when the same will be fully recognized by the white citizens of this land and country. He who will fight for a flag as does the colored man for the flag of Uncle Sam under the conditions that have existed since he gave his life at Bunker Hill, New Oreleans and the Great Lakes, that he might still be a slave, is the most loyal human benig that ever lived and should be lionized instead of brutaliized by the dominant class among whom he lives. Since man to man is so unjust, We scaracely know what man to trust.’ NEGRO EXTERMINATION The week just closing has seen three bloody outbreaks between the white and black citizens of the United States, which, viewed as a whole, for- bodes no good for the future. The first of the series occurred in Omaha, Nebraska, which resulted in the lynching of a colored man, accused of having outraged a white girl, which may or may not be true, but at any rate the accused was given no opportunity to prove an alibi. So intolerant did the mob become that it came dangerously close to taking the life of the mayor of the city because he stood for ‘‘the law taknig its course,’’ and the mob set fire to the court house, which was more or less destroyed. Moralizing on the Omaha situation for a minute, we do not hesitate to say it was absolutely uncalled for. Tad the proper officials been alive to their duties they would have called for the troops, which were already stationed in the city, to quiet the riotous element. Men frenzied can not be reasoned with only with cold steel in the hands of determined men. The time to quell all forms of riot is when it begins and the way to do it is to do it. We have no sympathy for any man that will rape a woman and,death is too good as a punishment for such a wretch, but we are unable to figure out how a man eould hold a gun on another man and at the same time outrage a woman. The Alabama horror Monday was perhaps the most cold blooded mur- der that white men of the South have ever committed on colored men, which is saying a great deal. Almost without proof, three colored men were placed under arrest, charged with having attempted to outrage a white woman, and they were taken to an open field and told to run for their lives, when all three of them were shot to death by the mob, but a few yards from the muz- zles of their guns. And this was done by Christian White Men in a Christian Land and Country. An alleged Negro Uprising was responsible for the infuriated white citi- zens of an Arkansas community, to grab their guns and shoot to death a num- ber of colored men and one white man last Wednesday evening. How much truth there is in the story no one knows, but there does not seem to be very much, Just another excuse for the white man to put the fear of God into the black man’s heart. What means all this, you ask? Simple enough. It means that the notions that the Negroes got into their heads while in Europe must be shot out. That the growing spirit of freedom in the bosoms of black men must be curbed, whenever and wherever it puts in its appearance. The Negro must he reduced to the same cowardly state of mind that he was in before he went to war. He must be rebaptised in the law that sent Dred Seot back into chains. The spirit of Justie Tarney must live on and on. ; We know not what others think on this subject, but ‘“‘for me and mine’’, like the immortal Patrick Henry, ‘‘give me liberty or give me death.’? We prefer to see every colored person in the United States slaughtered and their bodies fed to the buzzards rather than for them to surrender one iota of the manhood they fell heir to while fighting in France to make the world safe for democracy. If bloody death must be our portion for being a man then. “Oh death where is thy sting? Oh grave where is thy victory’? WHAT OF OMAHA'S MAYOR Much has already been said commendatory of the actions of the Mayor of Omaha, who almost suffered the humiliating misfortune of dying an ignominious death—lynched for endeavoring to prevent a colored man from benig lynched—and, perhaps, he is deserving of a much greater amount of favorable comment than he has already gotten, and, while we heartily commend him for what he did in that gruesome affair, yet we do so with a most decided reservation. After havnig carefully studdied over the whole ugly situation we have no hesitancy in taking the stand that, the mayor was a political coward, as was also the sheriff of the county, in not asking for government troops, which were already in the corporate limits, long before the mob reached the frenzied state of mind to attempt the lynching of the chief executive of that city. He was, in our opinion, a political coward and a lynching appologist for not moving against that mob, backed by the strong arm of the law, when it gave evidence of becoming unruly, and not only prevented the lynching of a human being but likewise the wanton destruction of private and public property.. Yea, we are not too sure but that a fearless grand jury would indict, not only the mayor, but the sheriff also, for criminal negligence, on the grounds that they did not use due precaution to prevent murder and incendiarism. Trying to cajole an angry mob of human beings, with hell in their hearts and Bolshevism in their brains, to convert it from its determined purpose, is as utterly impossible as it would be to dissuade a pack of howling hyenas from the trail of a flock of innocent lambs by sprinkling sugar on the trail, over which they would distractedly gallop in quest of their victims. No one knew this better than did that Omaha mayor, but he hesitated to take the bull by the horns in its incipiency lest he jeopardize his future political opportunities. However, when it was too late he attempted the impossible and now realizes his mistake. Had the mayor of Omaha been a student of present-day conditions, in every city in the North, where colored folks in large numbers from the Southern states have rendizvoud since the outbreak of the recent world war, he would have observed the strained relations between the white and black citizens of such cities and communities, and he would have called for such help in the very outset as would have enabled him to have stemmed the tide and thereby allowed the law to take its course. That mob did not wreak vengeance on that colored man because the members thereof were so keen to safeguard womanly virtue or to avenge the wrongs suffered by that particular young woman, but it took advantage of the opportunity to administer a rebuke to the colored folks for taking white men's jobs.. It was another instance of that evil genius, which left Washington City a few months ago, and has since only hit in high places, getting in another well-directed blow on the black man. In the face of all that has been said to the contrary, the colored man is not a rapist, not only not a rapist, but not a criminally inclined creature, save only in isolated instances, and this is said advisedly, because meeting as many private and public insults as he does from time to time and observing the wholesale bestiality his women are subjected to by the white man, the wonder is, that the whole damn family are not confirmed criminals of the most dangerous type. This reign of terror that is running riot all over this Christian land and country at present is a well directed propaganda with no higher aim and object than to intimidate the colored soldier, returning from "over there", back into his former crouching condition, and while it may result in the murdering of multiplied thousands of them and their friends, yet, be it understood, the remaining ones will continue to lift high their heads and shout aloud, "and yet we are men for a' that. And if the officials of the law refuse to protect us, because we are black, then we will endeavor to protect ourselves as long as we can, and when we fail we will fall with our faces to the enemy and die like men." Color in th human family is but a varigation and by no means a designation and the black man of this country has as many and as varied rights to protect as the white man and in the future he will exhibit a much more decided strength of character in the protection of those rights, than he has as yet ever done. This country is in imminent need of public officials with the strength of character to checkmate riots in their incipiency, at any cost and do so without an eye single to their political future; officials, who stand for law and order, rather than graft and political ascendency, and such being acquired and installed they will find the hearty co-operation of the great rank and file of this "land of the free and home of the brave." Let the people rule. --- --- CAYTON'S WEEKLY Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington. U. S. A. Subscription $2 per year in advance. 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That the average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or distributed, through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the date shown above is 500. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 27th day of September, 1919. ALBERT D. MARTIN, Notary Public in and for the State of Washington, (My Commission expires April 30, 1923). IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County. Mrs. J. Campion, Plaintiff, vs. Emma E. Ware, and all persons unknown, if any, having or claiming an interest in and to the real property hereinafter described, Defendants.—No. 137331. Notice and Summons. The State of Washington: To the above named defendants and each of them: You and each of you, as owners, claimants or holders of an interest or estate in and to the real property hereinafter described, are hereby notified that Mrs. J. Campion is the holder of 1 certain delinquent tax certificate herein below more particularly referred to, issued by the Treasurer of King County, Washington, for delinquent taxes upon and against real property situated in said King County, described as follows, to-wit: Hillman's Meadow Garden No. 3; lot 1, block 28; Emma E. Ware, owner; certificate No. C-15552; date Dec. 11, 1918; amount $1.93; year 1915. That the taxes upon said real property for prior and subsequent years have been paid by the plain- tiff as follows, to-wit: Hillman's Meadow Garden No. 3 Lot 1, block 28; receipt No. 90995; taxes for 1916; amount $1.00; rate of interest 12%; amount of interest $0.18; date paid Dec. 20, 1918; total payment $1.18. Lot 1, block 28; receipt No. 90995; taxes for 1917; amount of taxes $1.16; rate of interest 12%; amount of interest $0.07; date paid Dec. 20, 1919; total payment $1.23. Lot 1, block 28; receipt No. 90995; taxes for 1916; amount of taxes $1.28; rate of interest 12%; amount of interest $0.07; date paid Dec. 20, 1918; total payment $1.30. That the several sums hereinabove set forth bear interest at the rate of 15 per cent per annum from date of payment, and are all the unpaid and unredeemed taxes upon and against said real property. And you and each of you, (including said persons unknown, if any), are hereby directed and summoned to appear within sixty days after August 23, 1919, exclusive of said date, and defend this action and serve a copy of your appearance or answer upon the undersigned attorneys for plaintiff at the office address below stated, or pay the amount due, together with interest and costs. And you are notified that in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered, foreclosing the lien of such taxes and costs against each parcel of said real property for the sums and amounts due upon and charged against the same as hereinabove set forth. MRS. J. CAMPION, Plaintiff. FRED C. BROWN & C. C. DALTON, Attorneys for Plaintiff, Office and Post Office Address 431 County-City Bldg., Seattle, King County, Washington. Date of First Publication August 23, 1919. Date of Last Publication Sept. 27, 1919. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Mrs. Emma C. Williamson, Plaintiff, vs. J. B. Hanrahan, and all persons unknown, if any, having or claiming an interest in and to the real property hereinafter described, Defendants.—No. 137234. Notice and Summons. The State of Washington: To the above named defendants and each of them: You and each of you, as owners, claimants or holders of an interest or estate in and to the real property hereinafter described, are hereby notified that Mrs. Emma D. Williamson is the holder of 2 certain delinquent tax certificates herein below more particularly referred to, issued by the Treasurer of King County, Washington, for delinquent taxes upon and against real property situated in said King County, described as follows, to-wit: Hillman's J. Pacine City Add, Div No. 6; lot 27, B76681, date June 1, 1913; $0.95, year 1913, B76681, date June 1, 1913; $0.95, year 1913, Lot 28, block 113; receipt No. 191378; taxes for 1917; amount $0.82; date paid July 1, 1918; total payment $0.82. Lot 28, block 113; receipt No. 134772; taxes for 1918; amount $0.88; interest $0.02; date paid July 29, 1919; total payment $0.90. Total $11.10. That the several sums hereinabove set forth bear interest at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum from date of payment, and are all the unpaid and unredeemed taxes upon and against said real property. And you and each of you, (including said persons unknown, if any), are hereby directed and summoned to appear within sixty days after August 23, 1919, exclusive of said date, and defend this action and serve a copy of your appearance or answer upon the undersigned attorneys for plaintiff at the office address below stated, or pay the amount due, together with interest and costs. And you are notified that in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered, foreclosing the lien of such taxes and costs against each parcel of said real property for the sums and amounts due upon and charged against the same as hereinabove set forth. MRS. EMMA C. WILLIAMSON. FRED C. BROWN & Office and Post Office address: 431 County-City Bldg., Seattle, King County, Washington. Date of first publication August 23, 1919. Date of last publication September 27, 1919. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County.—In Probate. In the Matter of the Estate of Laura M. Proctor, Deceased.—No. 25710. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as administratrix of the estate of Laura M. Proctor, deceased; that all persons having claims against said deceased or against said estate are hereby required to serve the same, duly verified, on said Lucy Scott Whitley or 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 first publication of this notice, or the same will be barred. Date of first publication August 9, 1919. LUCY SCOTT WHITLEY, Administratrix of said Estate. Address 791-703 Leary Building, Seattle, Wash. E. H. 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