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CAYTON'S WEEKLY
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CAYTON'S WEEKLY
Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington,
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.
It is open to the towns and communities of the
state of Washington to air their public grienvances.
Social and church notices are solicited for pub
lication and will be handled according to the rules
of journalism.
Subscription $2 per year in advance. Special
rates made to clubs and societies.
HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON. .Editor and Publisher
Office, 513 Facifio Blk. Telephone Main 84.
IT'S HIS PRIVILEDGE
If he is a citizen in the freest and full
est sense of the word, then why has not
the black man of this country the same
right to migrate to the different sections
or even to another country that the white
man has, and that too, even if he goes in
large neumbers, as he is now doing 1 from
the South f Who has the right to say,
when and where he shall go? If the black
man can be legeally proscribed to any one
section then he can be proscribed as to
the kind of work he is to do, the amount
he is to do and when he is to do it. In
short, he is a slave again. The North sadly
needs the black man of this country just
now to do what organized labor is refus
ing to do. The South has in the past said
she did not need the black man and from
the way they are burned at the stake and
lynched on the slightest provocation, he
must be a meneace to the whites of that
section and it would appear that the de
parture of those "black brutes" would
be a God send. It was but yesterday, com
paratively speaeking, when John Sharp
AVilliams, U. S. senator from the state of
Mississippi, while making a speech in the
senate, said, if it were possible, and the whole
country would be better off, if every Negro
could be deported to some other land.
How different now is the cry from Mississ
ippi, when thousands of blacks are leaving,
and even force has been advocated to stop
the tide of black emigration from her cot
ton fields. If the depearture of the Negro
from the Sbuth is not a good riddance of
bad rubbish then the Tillmans, the Varde
mans and all like peace disturbers are
liars and the truth is not in them. The
black folks of the South must scatter to
each and every section of this country and
even to other North and South American
countries if race trouble are to be avoided.
There must be no black belt. That it is ut>
terly impossible to build up a black race
in a white community is plain to be seen
and fight it as you will or may, the black
folks are to be absorbed by the white folks
or murdered by them and the latter they
will hardly do.
SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS
Cherries are being sold in North Yakima
for six cents per pound and the same fruit
is being' sold in Seattle for twenty-five cents
per pound, and this damnable price is
charged up to war conditions. It costs not
to exceed one cent per pound to bring cher
ries from North Yakima to Seattle and the
speculators therefore pocket eighteen cents
per pound on the proposition. Despite the
fact cherries are raised in this state in such
large quantities that it often does not pay
the growers to pick them, and that is true
of the presenet crop, yet a pound of cher
ries grown in the state of Washington can
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1917
be purchased in the ecity of New York just
as cheaply as it can be in the state of
Washington. Just as in this case so with
most of the fruit and vegetables that are
grown and sold at a nominal price by the
growers and immediately thereafter the
prices advance anywhere from 500 to 1000
per cent. From this condition of extortion
there seem sto be no immediate relief as
the federal authorities are either powerless
to change it or they are not inclined to do
so, and yet our citizens are wondering, why
the I. W. W. disease is spreading so rapidly,
and that too, among heretofore law-abiding
citizens. A fruit grower from North Yak
ima was seen on the streets of Seattle one
day this week and he said, "I was almost
dumbfounded to see the same quality of
cherries selling for twenty-five cents per
pound that I sold the day previous for six.
I asked a number of dealers if they would
not like to buy the fruit cheaper, and was
told they would, but did not dare to buy
from the growers or the commission men
would not sell them other fruit and vege
tables from California." Thus is the whole
country compeltely in the grip of one trust
or another and the rich are growing richer
and the poor growing poorer. The grower
can hardly make both ends meet and the
consumer is paying war-time prices for the
fruit that the grower is selling for a song
and singing it himself. That the United
States is headed for a condition worse by
far than that prevailing in China and Rus
sia is plain to be seen and this is not the
cry of a calamity howler.
AMERICAN LAKE CAMP COMING
Multiplied hundreds of workmen are al
ready on the grounds at American Lake
and a huge city is springing up there like
magic. It is estimated that 20,000 soldiers
will be bivouaced there by September 15th
and that three or four thousand camp
hangers will be on hand. Despite the fact
that the soldiers will do a great deal of
their own work, yet much extra work will
be required and it is here predicted that
they will call for so much extra help that
there will be a shortage of domestic help
in the cities and towns of the North
west on account of the demand at the
camp. Already many colored men getting
as high as seventy-five dollars per month
are throwing up their jobs and going to the
camp, where they can make twice and in
some instances three times that much. It
may appear to some that the positions at
the lake are only temporary, but in this
they are meistaken, for the soldiers in large
numbers will doubtless be quartered there
for one and perehaps five years. They cer
tainly wil be there as long as this country
is in war with Germany.
DESERVES BETTER TREATMENT
Reports from the South go to show that
the colored brother enjoyed the thrill of
walking up to the polls and registering
without giving: any information about his
grandfather or elucidating a passage of the
iority by tearing off the corner of his regis
tration card. The Negro is entitled to bet
constitution, notwithstanding the adminis
tration compelled the branding of infer
ter treatment in this matter, at least equal
to many foreigners. The Negro has a fine
record as a soldier.—Camas Post.
Not only a fine record as a soldier. Brer
Hopp, but a fine record as a citizen, when
he is given a chance. In spite of the fact
that he can only do those kinds of work
that the white man has no desire to do, yet
he has acumulated holdings valued into the
billions, reduced a total educational disa
bility to only a thirty per cent disability.
He perhaps is more criminal than his white
brother because he is murdered and
mobbed without being given even a bluff
at a fair and impartial trial before either a
jury of his peers or even his alleged su
periors. Huddled in unhealthy and unpro
tected sections of cities and towns and re
fused work because organized labor does not
want him, are largely responsible for his
heavy criminal per centage. lie is permit
ted to work on the cotton farms of the
South, providing he submits to a treatment
little short of slavery, and if he resents it
he is burned at the stake. If he leaves and
comes North, where he can get paid for his
services, he is mobbed by union labor agi
tators and the soldiers in all of their mili
tary precisness, stand dily by and see that
the mob does its work well. If the Negro
is a good soldier and a partially good citi
zen he is so laboring under many difficul
ties.
IT WAS NUTS FOR BONE
It was only a false alarm, but quite suf
ficient for the Post-Intelligencer to'make a
double decked scare head-line of a lying
Associate Press dispatch last Sunday against
the Negroese driven out of East St. Louis.
But what more could be expected from a
newspaper whose editorial head is not only
a life-long Democrat, but whose infancy
was steeped in that institution, most damn
able of all, Knights of the Golden Circle.
Until the present editor of the P.-T. took
charge the colored man had no better friend
than the Post-Intelligencer, but he had no
sooner taken charge of the paper than the
Southern Democratic scorn of the colored
man began to show up. How the shades
of Fred Grant and John L. Wilson must
shake in their graves at the desecrations.
LET'S HALT A MINUTE
Is the democratic party drunk with suc
cess, and in its drunken state, does it pro
pose to make a despot of Woodrow Wilson I
By a strict party vote it made it a crime for
any one teo criticise the president of the
United States, and now it is following this
up with a press censor bill that will make
it impossible for the press of the country
to call the public's attention to the short
comings of the Democratic party, if the
censor so wills it. In spite of the fact
that these are war times. President Wilson's
administration is nothing short of one great
agregation of mistakes. Pretending to curb
the outrageous trusts and the actions of the
corporation thievese, that have operated all
over the country, to the extent of causing
as much or more distress among the citi
zens in genera] as is to be found in war
ridden England, France or Russia, and a
thousand times more than is to be found in
Germany, if .reports be true, yet those evils
have fattened and thrived under his ad
ministration. Owing to the trust-ridden
conditions of the country, it would be im
possible for the farmers to grow enough
food, if every acre of land in the country
was under cultivation, to cheapen the price
to the consumers. The whole country is in
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