Cayton's Weekly

Cayton's Weekly SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1919 --- PRICE FIVE CENTS CAYTON'S WEEKLY Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington, U. S. A. Subscription $2 per year in advance. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON..Editor and Publisher Entred as second class matter, August 18, 1916, at the post office at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910 Office 303 22nd Ave. South OUR SOCIAL UNREST. "It is an amazing thing," says the president of Columbia University, "that after 125 years there should appear the necessity of redefining Americaism." Why is it an amazing thing? Every generation has defined Americanism for itself, and the country still belongs to the living, not to the dead. Even Nicholas Murray Butler would not accept the Americanism of 125 years ago, with its human slavery, with its denial of manhood suffrage, with its property and religious qualifications for voting, with its indentured servants and with all the class privileges that it sought to maintain. Americanism has been revolutionized in the last 125 years, and it will undoubtedly be revolutionized again in the next 125 years. The country is now passing through a period of great economic industrial unrest which in turn is causing more or less political unrest. Much of it is the direct product of the war and must be dealt with accordingly. Neither the Bolsheviki nor the I. W. W. have created it, although they are busily engaged in trying to capitalize it in the attempt, by violence and otherwise, to fasten upon the United States a new system of class government. It is futile to try to deal with this situation merely by a policy of repression. After all the alien Bolsheviki have been deported and all the I. W. W. chased from one town to another.. as the practice is in the West, we shall be right where we started unless an intelligent attempt is made to arrive at an understanding of the causes of this discontent. It is not the discontent of people who are starving or who are even hungry. It is not the discontent of people who are oppressed by government except in so far as Prohibition contributes to it. It is rather the discontent of people who in spite of the most widely distributed material prosperity are profoundly dissatisfied with an economic system that they regard as unfair, and who are blindly groping toward something different which they cannot clearly define. What is going on in the United States is going on everywhere else. It is one of the inevitable consequences of a war that has unsettled all the foundations of society. When we stop to consider that a year after the armistice was signed there is still no peace and that not a single measure of reconstruction has been adopted by Congress, the wonder is that conditions are no worse. So far as the accompanying manifestations of lawlessness and violence are concerned, something can possibly be done by the Federal Government, but every State in the Union has adequate powers to deal with every offense against its peace and dignity. There was one kind of Americanism prevalent 125 years ago which may still be commended to every governor, every sheriff, every mayor and every police official. In those days the States did not run to the National Capitol shrieking for assistance every time there was a riot or a shooting or a defiance of their constituted authority. They enforced their own laws and they preserved their own peace and they dealt with their own criminals. They were self-governing States in every sense of the term, and if the forty-eight States today had enough gumption to govern themselves the country would have nothing to fear from Bolsheviki or I. W. W. or Communists or Syndicalists or any other advocates of revolution by "direct action." Fortyeight Coolidges properly distributed among the State Capitols would settle every question of law and order, and the economic fermentation of the country could be safely left to clarify itself.New York World. WHERE'S JOHN DOE The law is looking for John Doe, who left before 'twas time to go, he shot his neighbor in the back, as he was traveling down a tract. In every county of this state, the law is just a bit too late, to apprehend the criminal cur, who slew his neighbor from the fir. So sheriffs come and sheriffs go to find John Doe and Richard Roe, who lie in ambush for a chance to shoot some hero at a glance. Such outlaws seek the world to rule through deadly anarchistic fools. They stir their poison in a pot to put our country on a trot, but he who fights and runs away, will live to fight another day. The law will surely run you down if anywhere you can be found. It has been written long before, thou shalt not spill thy neighbor's gore, and whether white or black or "Red" to righteous judgment you'll be lead. 'Tis wrong to kill a fellowman because he doesn't suit your clan. Then forthwith cut your folly out and cause yourself to right about, and meet your neighbor face to face and form some plan to save our race from chaos and disgrace. Its time we settle all disputes and extract all the dangerous roots, which cross our pathways right and left, while lugging nature's heavy heft. When each one lends a helping hand to all that's living in this land, then nature's sun again will shine on you and yours and me and mine, and from the hill tops and the trees we'll all proclaim, let man be free, in this sweet land of liberty. A BAD BEGINNING If the Triple Alliance of this state, county and city thinks it can succeed in its political efforts, by putting forward candidates for public preferment, who are either accused criminals or dangerous radicals and hope for even a majority of the persons, who hold some slight allegiance to its cult, to say nothing of the public in general, to vote for them, then the Triple Alliance is not only crazy, but absolutely criminal. The voters will decide today who will succeed W. S. Lincoln as port commissioner and it is here predicted that by a two to one vote it will be W. S. Lincoln. The candidate of the Triple Alliance is not under a criminal cloud as was one of the candidates for school director advocated by the Alliance, but he is a pestiferous agitator, whose teachings have verged closely on to revolutionaryism, none of which is desired by the loyal citizens. If the Triple Alliance do not put forward better men for its standard bearers it will do as has many similar moves, die abornen. VOL. IV., No. 25 DEFYING THE LAW. Unless we are sadly mistaken the directing spirits of the Union Record of this city are not only denying the allegations which have been lodged against them, but they are likewise defying the allegators, in their unnecessary criticism of every part and parcel of the United States government, none of which, as we see it, will make matters any better. That there are multiplied thousands of irregularities, yea even grose abuses permitted in the ruling affairs of this government is quite apparent, but there is no sense in destroying the entire governmental fabric in order to correct an irregularity or a well established abuse. What think you of one who would raze his house to the ground to stop a leak in the roof?. If the radicalisms of the editors and publishers of the Union Record and like publications prevail in this country then our governmental home will be rent assunder in order to correct or eradicate a weakness. Its within the voting strength of the working people of this country with their ballots to correct or change any part of the working system of this government and yet not resort to violence in any form. Again we appeal to the citizens of this country to sheath their swords, extinguish their fire brands and throttle the god of war and lets reason together and save our country from a like fate of that prevailing throughout Russia. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS We do not believe the grand jury indicted Listman with malace aforethought or in other words because he was Litsman nor do we think he is guilty because the grand jury did indict him, but since he had been indicted he would have shown horse sense if he had have withdrawn from the school board race and permitted some organized labor man to run without a cloud upon his escutcheon. He got what he ought to have expected. Shop early is right and proper, but we will have to shop late, not from choice, but because our subscribers, like great bodies, move slowly, however we feel quite confident they will move and perhaps in a body. There may be bigger liars than the average southern Democrat, when it comes to telling about the colored man within their gates, but if so, it hardly seems possible. South Dakota has fired the first presidential gun of the 1920 campaign and while our own Poindexter was on the fireing line, yet Wood went over the top. When the administration gets tired of demanding that Jenkens be freed then let it plead with tears in its eyes that he be freed and perhaps it will be done. Fifty years have wrought many changes in Seattle, but the changes wrought in the past fifty years are just nothing to what they will be in the next fifty years. If organized labor made the school election a test vote of its strength then its strength in Seattle is inconsequential. December is perhaps making the keynote speech of what January will be in the way of cold weather. PT re eas eile COAL eke eee gens See ik ee THE PASSING THRONG. all persons by the name of Sullivan, charged with minor offenses, showed a most com- mendable spirit and surely one of broth- erly love. T read the account in the morn- ing paper the next day and wondered to my- self how many Eprahams did likewise. Sullivan at lagre was not necessarily clan- insh in wanting all of the Sulli- vans locked up to likewise be at large, but “birds of a feather will floek together.’’ In the United States of North America all citizens thereof are or should be one and the same, but to me it is God like for kinsmen to not forget each other in times of trouble and distress. It would give me much pleas- ure to shake the hand of the thoughtful Mr, Sullivan who made others happy as well as himself. * 8 # Last Tuesday morning I witnessed the former white owners of a splendid eight room modern residence on Beacon Till turn over the keys to its new owner, Burr Wil- liams, and he then showed me through the house, which he is soon to oceupy. Along with the house he also purchased the most of the furniture of the same, thus me king it possible for him to occupy the same alsnost immediately. It is sitely with a view of the Sound to the West and Lake Washing- ton and the Cascade mountains to the East. After looking over this house and premises he took me a block further and showed me another residence even more sitely and just as commodious as the first and that too he held the papers for and T said to him, you’re alright ‘Mister Nigger.’’ you’re alright. * * # After Wiliams had dumped me out of his car T continued to hot foot it on to the city and T came dangerously close to giving myself credit for much of the real estate Inying that many of the colored citizens have been doing in recent months, for had T not preached such a modus procedure in Cayton’s Weekly, week in and week out, year in and year out, but then IT came to myself and said, it was doubtless a case of have to, and then T thanked Mr. Case of Have to for the work he had done in moving these black folks to invest their earnings in things substantial. These two properties cost their purchaser about $10,000 and it is like having that much money in govern- ment bonds and, believe me, T would pre- fer such an investment a hundred times over to U.S. bonds. * * * At least one colored person reads Cay- ton’s Weekly for did not John F, Cragwell tell me about an article he had read in the paper last Saturday about C. J. Smith and how he appreciated the same, and all be- cause he was well acquainted Mr. Smith, and he could verily testify to all the article re- lated. The editor hereof met Mr. Cragwell in Seattle when he first arrived and_he, Cragwell was employed in a barber shop, where now stands the Alaska block and T have reasons to believe that Mr, Smith fre- quently went to his place for hirsuitacle accommodations. The old timers of Seattle, are rapidly going off into innocuous des- itude, by being lost in the thousands of new comers that throng the streets of the new city and they hear of each other with joy- our remembrances. * * * Perhaps Bob Dixon was not physically able to be present at the half century Seat- tle celebration last Tuesday evening, but T know his heart was with those old pioneers as they retold their stories of Seattle’s muni- cipal infaney. Some poetical jingoist onee edie OB cee BRR es | ke i. nares Or cote! ey ee, | ee ee their bit and in recent months they are showing many signs of doing their bit, het- ter than ever before and it is hoped they will not slacken in their pace. * % # A high school boy, who is a constant reader of Cayton’s Weekly, was asked what feature of the paper did he appreciate best and he replied, The Passing Throng, because it occasionly halls the fellows out. I do not mean for any one to get the impres- sion that I ball any one out simply be- cause T have a paper of my own. I mean to he perfectly fair in my criticism of those from whom I differ and T assure you and each of you that I would prefer a thou- sand times over to say nice things about my fellowman than ugly ones. And this re- minds me of the words of a man, who duti- fully reads this paper each week. ‘‘You seem to overlook the good things the Negro is doing and parade his misfortunes.” If this T have done I did so without my knowl- edge and T have no desire to issue any such publication. T want to be constructive rath- er than destructive. * o # The Mt. Zion Baptist Church closed one of its periodical rallies last Sunday ,even- ing and the finals showed the sum of $3,800, which is now in the bank and is the build- ing fund. In addition to this $5,000 have been subseribed and the present church lot is valued at $10,000, all of which will go in- to the building fund making a total of $18,800. Another rally will be put on next spring and in this it is expected not. less than $9,000 will be raised giving a total of $27.000. The estimate cost of the structure is $32,500, which will only leave an in- debtedness of $5,000 when the ehurch is dedicated. The church already has its new building site and owes but $1.500 on that and the property is now bringing a monthly rental of $70.. The Rev. Carter says he is well pleased with the entire situation and predicts the completion of the new church by next fall. * * The Reverend Carter, preacher Bill, ex- pects a brand new church to build, in which to house his Sunday throng and those, who .to his church belong. THis captains and lien- tenants have done well and so have all the dainty belles, which gives to them a mighty roll, with which to raise their high flag pole. They hope they'll have before next May, the necessary funds to pay, to build the halls and paint the walls and finish all before next fall. Capt. Clark and Capt. All the Army moved at Carter’s call and gath- ered in the golden shells with which to buy the chiming bells. One bright and shining Sunday soon this dear old church will meet its doom, a structure grand its place will take and it will simply take the cake. Comes then the dedication day and all will bow their heads to pray and call on Tim above us all to conececrate this splendid hall. Then Reverend Carter and his foree may sing and sing ‘til they are hoarse, Toosana to the Lord on high and Save me Jesus ere I die. * * #& Next morning after Thanksgiving the P. T. carried almost a column-review of the sermon delivered by the Rey. D. A. Graham of the First A. M. E. Chureh of this city, which recounted some of the trials and trib- ulations of the eolored man of this country, and likewise dealt with some of the in- consistences of the white man in his déal- ines with the colored man, TI have always maintained that the cause of so much fric- tion between the whites and the blacks of SS TTS Sen SME, eens: | Veen Denner | oni ee ee ce a oe which for a time was a source of much pleas- ure to Editor Wells, but when some of his white patrons realized that it was to be a permanent feature of the paper they laid down on Wells and laid down on him hard and he weakened and he finally discontinued the service. Too many realities were be- ing given to the publie to please the anti- Negro reader and Mr. Wells was plainly told fo choose between them, Let more such faets as were told by the Rey. Graham get into the daily press and there will be fewer race riots. Let some of the good things as well as the bad that the colored man does be ‘published and the white man will cease to picture him in the light of ‘‘all coons look alike to me.’” ee & It came to my ears one day this week that Russell Smith, the recent purchaser of the north east corner of Twelfth and Jack- son, would move back ‘to Seattle from Port- land and might begin the erection of a brick block on his property in the no very distant future. I trust this is true and that before another winter a modern hotel will grace that corner and Russell Smith will be its controling spirit. The project would pay and pay big, in my opinion, from the very day its doors were thrown open to the gen- eral public, and it would be something that the colored colony of Seattle could feel justly proud of. ** = * Most any kind of a commercial enterprise, in my opinion would pay on Twelfth and Jackson, but my hobby is a first class drug store operated by a colored man, ‘‘said W. Tf. Banks, general manager of the Alhambra Cash Grocery Co.’? Send East and get a registered pharmacist, and one with some money to invest and in a week after he got to going he would have a permanent business and likewise an established one. I understand that Mr. Smith contemplates building on his property and if he does the corner store would make an ideal location for an up-to-date drug store.’’ I fully agree with Mr. Banks in this and it seems to me some effort on the part of the colored citi- zens would be made to carry out his ideas. + * I walked into a voting booth last Tues- day evening to cast my ballot for the school directors and I had no sooner walked into the room when the mest of those, who but slightly knew me, exclaimed there is a Walker-Santmyer vote and the union label man looked his aecquiessenece. I wondered why all colored men are looked upon as 100 per cent American even before they ex- press themselves one way or the other, and T felt much as did the little colored boy, who was told by his mother to keep his mouth shut when he visited their neighbor and not open it and let every body find out you are a fool. When the little fellow was questioned about his health and other things concerning himself and family he was as mute as a mouse and so disgusted did the lady he was visiting become that she petut- antly exclaimed ‘you are a little fool.’’? The little fellow went home like a shot of of a gun and yelled to his mother, Mama, Mama, she found it out and T never opened my mouth.’* The Walker-Santmyer ticket was mine alright and I never voted a_ ticket that gave me more pleasure than that, but T object to being designated on account of the color of my face. ee # Tf the working force of a newspaper can dictate the kind of reading matter that the paper prints, as it does the kind of workmen it employes, it occurs to us that the news- SATISFACTORY TERMS ALWAYS The GROTE RANKIN Co. 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It starts out with the following paragraph: "It is not always possible on the first press reports to obtain sufficient evidence from which to draw correct conclusions concerning complicated public events, such as the race revolution attempted last week in Phillips County; but there seems to be good ground for believing that the Negroes who, without apparent provoction, attacked and killed a number of white men and resisted the efforts to restore order, had been led by revolutionary propagandists to organize for the purpose of murdering their landlords and taking possession of property with the idea that this was a patriotic duty and they could enjoy the fruits of their lawless action. 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They had employed a reputable white lawyer to go in the courts before a white judge and a white jury to see to it that they got their equity in the cotton—their equity and nothing more. Because they refused to be robbed the planters got mad. The Negroes were murdered upon the slightest pretext. In the search for high-powered rifles the Negroes were reputed to have had, the best that the soldiers and civilians could do was to find among the Negroes a few rusty pistols. They said Negroes must have hid their high-powered rifles, and that is what is called a "revolution." Race relations are usually good when Negroes submit to everything, and are very bad when they protest against high-handed wrong. Later on in its article, the Arkansas Methodist says: "Negroes ought not to be lynched. As long as we are able to write or speak we ACTORY TERMS A OTE RAN Pike St. and Fifth Ave. --- novelties shall denounce mobs; but, knowing human nature, we are compelled to say that as long as Negroes violate white women there shall be mobs in spite of our denunciation." This is just about as fine a defense for lynching as a member of the mob would want. It is easy to infer that lynching is for rape, and that all rapists are among Negroes. There are as many rapists among white men to the population as there are among Negroes, and when it comes to Negro women who are raped by white men we hang our heads. And yet, when any member of the Negro race stands up and brings forward these nasty facts, certain "Negro religious papers" are considered "not prudent nor calculated to promote right relations." Permit us to give two first-class examples of lynching. Down in Macon, Georgia, the other day a ten-year old Negro boy had been sentenced for an attempt upon the life of a foreigner, Charles Tingle. Tingle was not seriously wounded, but his friends had made the repeated threats that they would get Hamilton, the ten-year old Negro boy, whose lawyers had made a motion for a new trial. A mob of sixty men met the --- ```markdown ``` sheriff who had the young Negro boy in custody, and took the boy and shot him to death in broad daylight. The boy was bound, hand and foot, and stood up by the creek bridge railing and shot to death. The verdict of the Negroe's death was "death of gunshot wounds at the hands of parties unknown to the jury." It was not a very serious charge against this Negro who was lynched. Certainly womanhood was not involved. Here is another case: The four Johnston brothers were outrageously murdered near Elaine, Arkansas. The four brothers, one of whom, Dr. L. H. Johnston, of Coweta, Oklahoma, who was there visiting his other brothers, had been hunting and was peacefully returning home with their game when they were intercepted by a white man, supposed to be a friend of the Johnston boys, and told that a race riot was in progress in Elaine and advised them not to go in that direction, but to return to a point below Elaine, leave their guns to avoid suspicion and take the train for Helena. After considerable persuasion on the part of their supposed white friend, the Johnstons followed his advice trying to avoid trouble that they knew nothing of. When the train on which they were riding en route to Helena reached Elaine their good white "friend" led a mob aboard the Jim Crow coach and with guns drawn commanded the Johnston boys to throy up their hands, according to eye witnesses, and in a few seconds had handcuffed three of the boys, evidently not recognizing Dr. L. H. Johnston as one of the brothers, and were marching them out of the train when Dr. Johnston spoke to the men, saying: "Gentlemen, these men are my brothers, and I want to know why you are taking them from the train." In reply one of the men said: "If you're their brother you'd better come along with them." To this Dr. Johnston retorted: "Well, I will certainly go," whereupon he was also handcuffed and the four forced at the point of guns to get into a waiting auto and hurriedly driven off. That night about 11 o'clock the bodies of the four brothers, riddled with bullets and mutilated with knives or other sharp instruments, were found by the roadside. They had been murdered in cold blood! The perpetrators of this grewsome crime then issued a statement to the effect that one of the Johnstons took a gun from a deputy sheriff and killed him, causing the posse to fire on the four brothers, killing all of them instantly. Now to add to this awful crime, the mother who was at that time in Arkansas, went to claim the bodies of her four murdered sons, but she had to pay a ransom for the bodies of her sons before she could get them. She paid the price, however, and followed the remains to their last resting place in Little Rock. One of the boys, Leroy, had seen two years' service in the war for democracy while serving as bugler for the 15th New York regiment. Dr. Elihue, the dentist, was a very successful man and owned nearly half of his home town. All of the Johnstons were highly respected wherever they were known. There is no rape here or any insult to womanhood. For our part, we would not cover the crime of a rapist with the end of a needle. We would expose him, we would turn him over to the law, we would help to run him down. But we solemnly protest against blackmailing an entire race for the crime of a few brutes who are to be found in the rank and file, not only of the Negro race, but every race. Much of the unrest in America is due to the fact that we have not curbed lynching. The lawless element knows that it will not be punished. There is no jury to convict any of them.—Chicago Broadox. CAYTON'S WEEKLY wants two columns of classified adds made up after this style and fashion. Rates very reasonable. Beacon 1910. THAT BOY OF MINE I went out shooting at Tom's place, "said my big boy, who had just returned from a trip in the country, to his sister, who slightly stutters. "Well did you hit it?" That milliner who "wanted a girl to trim rough sailors," if she had have had any dealings with that big boy of mine, might have added "and squeeze fast chaffeurs." "Wanted woman for sweeping Fridays" is and advertisement inserted by a house wife. Remembering my big boy's objections to cold water. I felt very much like adding, "and scrubbing Billies." "I do not believe you know the value of a dollar, said I to my big boy the other day." "Oh yes I do, pa, its just half what it was a year or so ago or at least it only goes half as far when I go out for an evening." I put my big boy to work the other day and he had no sooner begun, when a dashing come-and-get me appeared at a near by window. It was not long before the boy was doing more watching the clock and the girl in the window than he was work, and to my mind both of them were a bit fast. Say boy this car you have will land me in the poor house, said I to that big boy of mine. I hardly agree with you father, for its a high power machine and it will run by before you can land. "Say, pa, I proposed to Miss Jingle Bell last night," said my big boy, "and her father overheard me." "Well did he kick you out of doors? "No indeed, he didn't wait until I got out of doors." My big boy kills time in my machine and he occasionally takes Rosa Sweetmeet riding. One day he suddenly brought his car to a stand still after she had nudged him in the ribs and inquired of her why she wished the car to stop, "to see if you are peralized." NOTICE. The King County Colored Republican Club will hold a grand Rally Meeting at Alhambra Hall corner 12th Avenue and Jackson Street on the 8th day of December 1919, at 8 o'clock P. M. Good speaking will be the feature. Invaluable information will be conveyed. Everybody Welcome. F. B. COOPER, President. C. R. ANDERSON, Secretary. J. W. EDMUNDS, OPH. D., Graduate Op- Eye Specialist. Personal attention given in Eye examinations for Glasses. Fifteen years in Seattle. Balcony, Fraser-Paterson Co. CAYTON'S WEEKLY Regular, Reliable, Republican, Readable Wants 500 New Subscribers This is a Sample of what it sends out Every Week No Friends to Reward or Enemies to Punish A Publication of Ideas Rather Than Personalities Read for Yourself and Be Convinced Telephone Beacon 1910 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF KING COUNTY, State OF WASHINGTON. ELBERTIE FLORENCE PEAK, Plaintiff, vs. EMMET STEDMAN PEAK, Defendant. No. 139203. SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. THE STATE OF WASHINGTON TO: Emmet Stedman Peak, 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 8th day of November, 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 the 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 this action is to dissolve the bonds of matrimony now and heretofore existing between the plaintiff and the defendant in this action and for an absolute decree of divorce. Date of first publication, November 8th, 1919. ANDREW J. BALLIET. Attorney for Plaintiff Office & P. O. Address, 320 Railway Exchange Bldg. Seattle, Washington. 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