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Cayton's Weekly 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 3579 Office 317 22nd Ave. South ANOTHER PROPHET GONE ASTRAY Louise Meyers Meredith contributed a letter on "To Solve the Racial Problem" in a recent issue of the Chicago Daily News, which is in some respects satisfying and in some respects disappointing. The writer manifests interest in the Negro and wihses him well, but with characteristic Anglo-Saxon egotism dogmatizes and lays down the law upon things she knows comparatively little about. When Madam Meredith says, "Negroes have brains," "Give them a chance to function." "Fresh from slavery, for a generation or so they needed the close example of white people, now they need to strike out for themselves," she gave expression to a thought that we have long emphasized. Then she goes on to say, "Instead of objecting to segregation they ought to crave a district or a state or a country of their own, not through a sense of being shoved off by white people, but through a desire to get away from strife and friction and to cultivate their natural characteristics, to create their own institutions and commerce and laws." This conclusion we have also emphasized. But we differ decidedly from the writer's premises. We dissent from both the writer's major and minor premises. "White people have examined fully. They understand that industrial and civic equality will lead straight as a running brook to social equality, and and some deep, inexplicable instinct within them cries that white and black shall not mix." That is the writer's major premise. Why do we dissent from it? Madam Meredith knows that it does not apply between white and black. She knows that she does not invite home to dinner every one she sees who rides in the same trolley car, railroad car or steamboat that she rides in or every one who eats in the same restaurant or ice cream parlor that she does or attends the same theatre that she does. We once worked in a factory. Americans, Irishmen, Swiss, Jews. Russians, Polacks, Italians and Negroes worked together in the same room.? We had cordial relations as a workman with several of the employes. But we don't recall being invited to any social function by any of the employes, black or white, and we don't recall inviting any of the employes, black or white, to break bread with us. The amusing thing is that the section of the country which howls the most about the races mixing is the very section where the races do mix and have mixed. Else how came so many mulattoes, quadroons or octoroons in the country? The Bourbon of the South would nt object to an untutored Negro traveling with him as a valet; but he would raise a kick against a colored graduate of Yale or Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge or Berlin or Leipsic riding in the same Pullman with him. A Southern lady would not object to having a Negro travel over the country with her as maid or nurse for her child, but would raise strenuous objection to a cultured and refined colored lady eating in the same restaurant with her. What's the trouble? The trouble is that all of the American citizens of a certain section of the country and a majority of the American citizens in other sections deliberately refuse to recognize a colored man for his attainment and achievements in the scientific, literary, musical and artistic world, for his worth as a man, for his industrial efficiency or professional skill, but seek to determine not only his social but his civil, political, industrial and economic status by the color of his skin. With all of the camouflage, paint, powder, rouge, false hair and false teeth with which our friend is disguised, we simply recognize caste prejudice, based upon color, seeking to rehabilitate itself in a world which claims to be striving for democracy. "White people want Negroes to have justice; they want them to have artistic homes, modern schools, good libraries, beautiful parks, but they want the Negro to get off to himself and provide these things." This is the minor premise, and white people want the Negro to have as good things as they have, but they want him to have them by himself. The psychology is defective here. If the Negro is segregated because he is regarded as inferior to the white man, one would naturally expect that he would be given inferior accommodation. And that is what we actually find in the South and other sections of the country. We find the Negroes of the South shoved off to unsanitary sections of the town to live; given inferior waiting rooms, inferior cars on which to ride, inferior schools and a lower curriculum in the State colleges for Negroes. Frequently the Jim Crow car is attached next to the engine, one-half of it being used as a baggage or smoking car for white men. Frequently it is an old, delapidated, broken-down car on which the dust on the seats is so thick that one could clearly write his name with his finger tips. Why? Just inferior accommodations for inferior peoples. Then, toward the close, Madame Meredith says of the colored people: "They have able leaders, like F. Arnold Hill and Irene Goins." Mrs. Irene Goins is a brilliant and noble woman; Mr. F. Arnold Hill is an intelligent and gentlemanly young man. He does not possess the intellectual ability of Professor Kelley Miller, Dr. Du Bois, Mr. James Weldon Johnson, Dr. Francis J. Grimke, Hon. Archibald H. Grimke or George Washington Forbes. He does not possess the grasp of sociology of Dr. R. R. Wright, Jr., and he lacks the magnetic personality of some of the A. M. E. Bishops, or Prof. John R. Hawkins, Dr. Reverdy C. Ransom and Wm. Pickens. And we can't conceive how a capable and efficient executive and administrative officer of the National League on Urban Conditions, who is neither extraordinary in ability nor personality can be classified as an "able leader." When white men refer to a man as a leader they refer to a man of intellectual power, whose power of mind gives him intellectual ascendancy, like William James, Josiah Royce, George Trumbull Ladd, William Graham Sumner, David Lloyd George, Elihu Root, Henry Cabot Lodge and Philander K. Knox. And the new Negro is making such strides intellectually that men VOL. IV., NO. 42 of medioere ability can no longer gain and maintain ascendancy as leaders. Madame Meredith has the best intentions in the world, but needs a deeper study of psychology, sociology and of the Negro himself. The traditional attitude of the Caucasian toward the African and his descendants needs some revision. Having used him as a slave in the Western hemisphere for over two hundred years, and having exploited his land and labor in Africa for over a century, the Caucasian has finally come to regard the Negro as a sort of animal or thing to be used, to be worked, to be sent to the front, to be thrown aside like an old shoe or sent to the country to vegetate like an old horse when no further use can be made of him. But the world is slowly but surely coming to regard the Negro as a human being, with a soul to be developed and possessing certain inalienable rights. With the Negro envisaged as a man and not as a tertium quid between man and the ape, all of the perplexities of the race question will vanish.—N. Y. Negro World. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS March died hard, but thank goodness it is dead. Of course A. Mitch. Palmer is a presidential possibility, but he's only a Democratic one, which does not mean very much. No mistake is made to pronounce Cuba the criminal breeding ground of North America and yet Uncle Sam wasted good blood to make of it a republic. What a shame. After observing which way the wind is blowing Hoover has come down from his high horse and bids for the Republican nomination. Good man even at that. Perhaps after all the Chinamen of Seattle meant no harm in working so extensively underground, but were trying to get back to China by tapping terra firma. Once again the Supreme Court holds the destinies of this country in the hollow of its hand. It's up to that body to say whether our male citizens be men or beasts. Republicans, Democrats and Socialists are all claiming the credit of having secured suffrage for women and they may all be correct, but the women may vote for none of them. A woman generally does the very thing she is not expected to do. A change of heart suddenly came over the legislators of Mississippi and they ratified the woman suffrage amendment. The average white man of the Tadpole state has always been more or less crazy, and he is not responsible for anything he does. He, however, imagines that he is a very wise man, which makes him more crazy than he ordinarily would be. It seems that the big interest of Alaska are so badly divided that little or no legislation for the relief of that store house of the world will be accomplished in the present session of Congress, and thus do the dear people suffer while the money bags quarrel over the loot. Oh for an honest man in this land of the free and home of the brave. --- THE PASSING THRONG The controversy between the contending factions in Alaska, which has been staged in Washington City makes interesting reading for the country by and large. The lie and the modified lied has been freely exchanged between the representatives of the two factions and may perhaps both sides are correct, but amid it all I have watched and waited to hear one or the other charge the other with representing the working people—the men and women, who form the bone and sinew of not only Alaska, but the entire United States, but neither side seems willing to assume the onerous task of representing the people, and thus does Alaska become but a fat and juicy bone, over which hungry dogs fight to death. The goods that the gods have given unto Alaska are to be gobbled up by a few highwaymen and in spite of the alleged greatness of Uncle Sam he is powerless to turn the whole over to the working people of his eminent domain, but is forced to sit as an arbitrator between two jarring factions each contending for the lion's share. You say there is unrest among the non-millionairies of this country and we quite agree, but the state of unrest is absolutely nothing to what it will be if the present powers that be continue to say, if not in so many words, by their actions, to hell with the poor man, but the rich are to be made richer." Alaska is a great store house and no specific class or selected few should be given control of those splendid store houses which have been provided by Mother Nature, but every citizen of this country should be given a chance to share in its vast natural resources. * * * There came to my address one day this week a copy of a new-born publication in Tacoma, which is labeled Ryan's Weekly and I smiled as I opened it and said aloud, "It's almost as hard to break away from the newspaper game as it is for the proverbial camel to pass through the eye of a cambric needle. John H. Ryan seems to be in a manner born for newspaper work and though after first beginning he has repeatedly broken away from the game, yet he has just as often returned to it. I think it was in Spokane where he first developed the bug, but decided it too hard a graft to make it pay and he pulled away. He next joined hands with the editor hereof in the publication of the Seattle Republican, but getting a hunch that he could do better in Tacoma he began publishing The Forum, which he operated for sixteen years, but tiring of that he laid it aside and repeatedly declared he was through with the game, but, as said above, he is again at the wheel and promises to give us one of the most vigorous weekly publications in the state, and, judging from what I have already seen, it at times will be so red hot that it will scorch the hands of its readers while they are in the act of devouring its contents. * * * I am not surprised at the Seattle police shakeup and from what I have heard from persons who frequent Seattle's underworld a great deal more than a shakeup might be staged, but evidence for such a proceeding is exceedingly hard to obtain. "I know," said a man who lives by his wits in that district," that we get hold of a whole lot of money from suckers, who want to see the sights and see them, but believe me, a very little of it remains in our hands, simply because we are forced to give it up for protection. Mayor Caldwell is shaking up the gang now, but in less than a week the protection grafter will be on his job again and the fellow that fails to come through with the coin will go through the great doors of the bastile. If we squeal on one and he is discharged or transferred we get a double dose from his successor. Do not understand me to be complaining for I have chosen this life, but believe me its not all that it is cracked up to be." This story is repeated not as an expose of the Seattle underworld, but as a mere matter of news, which self same mere matter of news has been going on for years and I am of the opinion it will continue to do so, though such notorious hell holes as that found by Mayor Caldwell and his party one day this week should in the future be impossible even in Seattle's underworld the protection grafter to the contrary nowtithstanding. The blue hen's chicken has hit woman suffrage hard and thereby made it impossible for the women in eighteen states to participate in the next presidential election unless the Republicans can rally in Connecticut and ratify the amendment, thus making the thirty-sixth state. Delaware is controlled by the Democratic party and the state being closely identified with the sentiment of the ultra South it turned woman suffrage down on the grounds that the vote of the colored women would make of Delaware a fixed Republican state. The Republicans of the state, however, are not wholly blameless in the defeat of the amendment in the state as they were sufficiently strong to have joined issues with the commonsense Democrats and have passed the measure. Its an unfortunate, as well as regretable situation and I trust Connecticut will rise equal to the occasion and do the nice thing for the women of our country. LOOKING FOR VOTES The elephant and the ass called on Miss Eliza Glass, each had a bouquet and a note and hinted for Miss Liza's vote. She met them at the open door, with, my health is rather poor, a vote I have in eighteen states, but want the same in froty-eight. Now, its up to you and each of you, to take your voters to the pew, where equal justice is to preach upon the square and level beach, where each will learn what all must do to get me for your voting stew. I am for him who stands for right and for him I'll vote with all my might. Some Democrats are good and true, while others are just common glue. They turn me down in Southern states, and charge it to their Negro hates, but that's too thin to make it win and I intend to make them shin, in states and counteis where my vote stands on a par with men of note. When Democrats come through like men then I will say to them amen and divide my vote between you two and share the spoils as others do. AS YOU LIKE IT "Why, in heaven's name, do you want to get married?" said Bob to Billy. "Because I can almost take care of myself and its a darn poor woman that can't help me a little bit," said Billy to Bob. When the preacher visits the home of the average business man he should be guarded in the questions he discusses as the man of the house might become so interested in the subjects and discuss them with an office lingo. A committee of wise men who had been investigating food cost said, "We find the cost of living very high." "Well, I found that out a year ago," said the cynic, "but I expect you to find some way to make the cost of living very low." "Does a pianola make one hump shouldered from playing it," said a prospective buyer to a more or less submissive man. "Maybe it does, stranger, but my shoulders are bent trying to pay for one which my daughter ordered some months ago." "Now, dear, we really must have a new car as this one is quite of style," said Mrs. Half Strainer to her husband. "Quite right, my dear," he replied, "if we go out in a car at all it will have to be a new one. as the sheriff has taken the old one. "No wonder there is so much unrest in this country just now, her spirits are all gone," said Johnsing to Bronsing. "I am sure glad to hear that all the spirits have left this country as I've always been expecting to meet one," soliloquised Bronsing. "I say, Mr. Jones, I could make a fortune for both of us providing you will stake me to a car." "You, perhaps, are quite correct and I would jump at the opportunity, but my daughter has decided to marry Good Looks and I'll have to get behind him." "Quite so, sir, prohibition does not prohibit," said Tom Teetotaler, "as I see by the papers a dozen or more bootleggers get in jail every day. I tell you when a fellow has made up his mind to break into jail it requires more than prohibition to prohibit him from doing so." "In Black is White" runs a catch line. "Then if black is in white it is probably equally true that, in white is black," which could be construed to mean, white is black and black is white, and, if this be true, it would be hard to say which is which, in other words, a black man is a white man and vice versa. OUR COLORED CITIZENS Memphis Tennessee colored citizens have united in an effort to build an immense hotel for the accommodation of the traveling public. It is claimed that at least 75,000 colored visitors go to that city each year. The New World Movement in the Presbyterian Church will give Knoxville College (Tennessee) $590,000. Of that sum $90,000 will be used for new buildings and the balance will be set aside as a permanent endowment. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will hold their eleventh annual convention this year in Atlanta, Georgia, from May 30 to June 2nd. This is the first time in the history of the Association that it has held a convention in the South. Dr. Bundy, the East St. Louis dentist, who was sent to prison for life on account of the riots in that city, has been released from prison on a $25,000 bond. The court thinks that serious and prejudicial error in the record of the crime. Jack Johnson still is said to be enroute to the U. S. A. While it is reported he is traveling in royal style, yet from the length of time he has been reported coming his whole retinue must be hoofing it home. The distinguished Australian pianist, Percy Grainger, at his recital in Jordan Hall, Boston, scored in his playing of R. Nathaniel Dett's "Juba Dance," which had to be repeated. Mr. Dett was present and acknowledged the enthusiastic applause. The Amphion Glee Club, of Washington, D. C., has celebrated its twenty-eighth anniversary by a song recital and dansante. Mme. Anna Hazelton Lee assisted as soprano. Mr. J. H. Washington is president of the club, and J. Henry Lewis, Director-Manager. You Are Welcome GREAT NORTHERN POOL AND BILLIARD HALL Cigars, Tobacco and Soft Drinks. BOYD & WILLIAMS, Props. 1032 Jackson St. ```markdown ``` THE EASTER SERVICES Great preparation has been made for celebrating Easter at the First A. M. E. church tomorrow. At 11 A. M. Rev. D. A. Gramam, the pastor, will preach on "The New Song". At 12:45 the Sunday School exercises will take place and the little ones will give many recitations and songs to show their appreciation of the Easter message. The evening service will be given up to the choir under Prof. Daniels for a grand musicale, and the following program will be rendered: 1 Song—"The Lord is Risen Today" Choir 2 Organ Voluntary—“March of the Priest” ..... Athalia Miss Mlle. Robinson 3 Anthem—“Look ye Saints” ..... Bruce Stearns Choir 4 Solo—“My Jesus I Love Thee’ ..... Emile Rhodes 6 Anthem—“O Gladsome Light”..... James F. Simpson Choir 7 Solo—“The Holy City”.....Stephen Adams Mrs. A. C. Carr 8 Anthem—“I Will Praise Thee O Lord”.....Fred W. Pease Choir 9 Solo—“The Invisible Choir”.....Chase Mrs. Clara Irby 10 Trio—“Praise Ye”.....Mrs. Murphy, Mrs. F. W. Lanning, Mr. C. C. Daniels 11 Anthem—“Calvary”.....Paul Rodney Choir Program will begin promptly at 8 o'clock. The Easter services at the Grace Presbyterian church for the day will be as follows, so reports the pastor, Rev. J. B. Barber: Morning at 11 o'clock Easter sermon by the Pastor. Reception of new members. Christening of infants. The Choir will render appropriate music. Afternoon at 1 Sabbath School exercises. The Grace Presbyterian Orchestra will appear. Easter eggs for the children. Evening at 8 The Cantata, "The Glory of the Garden" will be sung by a chorus of trained voices, under the direction of Madame Belle S. Tyler. The Mt. Zion Baptist church will hold their services in the new Masonic hall at Jefferson and 21st. Take Madrona car and get off at 21st. UPSTAIRS. The pastor, Rev. W. D. Carter will preach at 11 A. M. Some of the stars who will take part in the big Easter program at the Mt. Zion Baptist church Sunday night: Mrs. Estella Jackson, Mrs. Cole, Miss Albritton, Mr. Rodgers, Mr. Davis, and twenty voices in the choir. Pastor Carter will preach on the subject: "Three Elements in the Resurrection of Jesus." The Sunday school program will be at 12:30 and will be rich. EASTER NOTES Good Friday gave to us a good snow storm. Easter bonnets should have a snow protector. Easter lillies may be exceedingly plentiful but they are not lillies of the valley. Peach blossoms will not be generally worn tomorrow. If religion had all of the money that has been spent on account of Easter religion it would be in a good fix. If it be true that music soothes savage ear we will go to church tomorrow. Eddie Gardner is the proud possessor of an Easter bonnet and will make his annual visit. Easter finds the Mt. Zion worshippers in new quarters. Rev. D. A. Graham is simply going to spread himself tomorrow. The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. Let's hope he does not hate the careful giver. PERSONAL Master Hyram Revels Cayton, who had planned to go on a Y. M. C. A. hike last Thursday, saw the snow, the beautiful snow, with tears in his eyes. He felt as if it was all out of place. The snow out of season was to him trouble out of reason. Miss Margarett Green, daughter of Mr. Frank Green, and grand daughter of Mrs. A. Hughes, and Mr. Halloway were married last Sunday evening at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. A. Hughes. Rev. Sam. A. Franklin of Kenydale worshipped last Sunday with the Mt. Zion Baptist Church and left his fifty dollar souvenir for the building fund. Sarjent Henry C. Bell seems to have troubles of his own. Mr. "Bizz" Gayles, an old Seattle pioneer barber, like the ground hog, was in the city one day the present week, but saw his shadow and immediately returned to his home and it will doubtless be a long time before he comes out again. Mr. George W. Jones, who has been in the hospital for the past two weeks suffering from an injury, is rapidly recovering and will soon be at home again. He was hurt in a building where he was employed. For Sale—a beautiful seven-room house. Good location with a splendid view. The house is modern and has a garage. Price, $4,000, some terms. Mr. Cayton, 317 22nd Avenue South. 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