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CAYTON'S WEEKLY
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OAYTON'S WEEKLY
Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington,
U. S. A
in me interest of equal rights and equal justice to
ill men and for "all men up."
a i iiiilicatlon of general information, but in
the main voicing the sentiments of the Colored
Citizen:-
It |.« open to the towns and communities of the
»tat< 'if Washington to air their public grienvances.
S< ti:ii and church notices are solicited for pub
lication and will be handled according to the rules
if journalism.
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X KOSCOE CAYTON..Editor and Publisher
Offtee, 513 Faciflo Blk. Telephone Main 24.
V. SIDNEY STRONG
jiis critics to the contrary, notwithstand
ing it can be said without fear of success
ful Contradiction that the Rev. Sidney
Sirohg has never drawn an unpatriotic
V«r«aiK and that the preservation of this
oniom &ncl the protection of its fundamental
principals are as dear to his heart as to
dny wan who boasts of being an Ameri
can citizen, not even excepting a presi
dent or an ex-president. That he has been
indiscrete, owing to his over-enthusiasm
for world peace and the brotherhood of
mini; in the language he has used and the
iYk' he has chosen, during these war ■
tines, seems quite apparent. For years
:ttleites have known the Rev. Sidney
Strong as a man of worth and character,
yea to such an extent did he partake of
these principals that he was readily pro
nounced an ideal citizen. It hardly seems
possible that he so suddenly lost all of
these admirable qualities and developed in
to a dangerous degenerate and a fit sub
ject for imprisonment or ignominious ban
ishment. For years he has been a beacon
light for right and we believe that is still
his life ambition. He has always been a
strong advocate for the man at the bottom
and we, belonging to a class of citizens of
this country who have been the recipient of
many helpful things at the hands of Rev.
strong, can see nothing but good in the
man. The state press very generally has
severely criticised him, but it remained for
the Washingtonian of Hoquiam to say,
"Peverend Strong has become to be a man
to be held in suspicion, for he has aligned
himself with the known enemies of his
country." The editor himself does not
believe a word of the above excerpt and
he wrote it to pander to public sentiment,
and chiefly to impress his readers that his
paper is full and overflowing with patriot
ism. It is always well to watch the fellow
that hollows the loudest about his convic
tions for nine times out of ten he has a sel
fish motive for so doing. The effort of the
few Spanish-American war veterans to re
call Miss Anna Louise Strong as a member
of the school board is to our mind puerile
and another exhibition of trying to attract
public attention for selfish motives. In our
or>ir>ion neither the Reverend Strong or his
daughter can do or say anything that will
stop the present world war and the only
patriotic thing for them to do is to get our
country in a condition to fight its way out,
but we conclude, as we began, in our opin
ion, the Rev. Sidney Strong has never
drawn an unpatriotic breath and that he
has not one iota of sympathy with Ger
many or any other enemy of the Stars and
Stripes.
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, OCT. 27, 1917
WAS ANYTHING EVER WORSE
Inch by inch the Congressional investi
gating: committee is bringing out the hor
rors perpetrated upon the colored citizens
in the East St. Louis riots and while the
daily press tell of it as briefly as possible,
yet one can read between the lines and see
that the cruelties practiced upon the Ar
menians by the Turks pale into insignifi
cance in comparison. "There is not a
slacker among the colored men drafted for
the war in which this country is now in
volved" boasts one of the members of one
of the recruiting boards, and yet those brave
black boys at the front read in the daily
press of such horrors as the Memphis, Ten
nessee incineration and the East St. Louis
holicust, the resultant effects of color prej
udice on the part of the white folks of this
forsooth, the blacks only number one in
ten in comparison to themselves, and might
ten in compariso nto themselves, and might
makes right. Slacking would not help the
situation, but what fair-minded man could
blame them if they did slack and prefer a
prison sentence to enlistment. This is the
black man's country the same as the white
man's and our advice to the black man is
that he stand by his country until his last
drop of blood has been spilled, but we think
it shows little of the spirit of the golden
rule, when the white man will appeal to the
colored man to show his patriotism and then
permit his wife and children to be shot
down by soldiers to prove their ability to
shoot and by fiends incarnate, who will
throw a crying baby into the flames in or
der to keep organized labor in the future
from having to compete with a black lab
orer. The horrors of East St. Louis have
been known to the white citizens ever since
it was committed and yet the press, the pul
pit and the public have systematically strug
gled to suppress the facts and they would
not now be leaking out if the millionaires,
who were using the colored citizens to sat
isfy their own greed for gain, had not been
cut off from a large amount of dollars and
cents. "Who soweth to the winds will
reap a whirlwid" and some day the mur
derers of innocent women and children, be
cause their skins are black, will reap the
prophetic whirlwind. Belgium, for years,
under King Leopold, perpetrated attrocities
on the native Africans, the horrors of which
were never before inflicted on human be
ings, and while we do not now rejoice, yet,
Belgium is reaping her whirlwind. Two
wrongs never make a right and it is our
prayer that the Belgians will be spared
from further punishment for their sins. We
have no desire that those in this country
who precipitated such holicusts as the East
St. Louis affair on the colored folks be vis
ited with a like retribution, but we do hope
that they will awaken to their senses of the
brotherhood of man without regard to race,
color or creed and let all colors, classes and
distinctions of the human family domiciled
in this land and country be able to earn
estly and consistently sing, "My country
tis of thee, sweet land of liberty."
As the weather grows cooler, rumblings
of raise in price of coal are to be heard in
the distance and that, too, when Dr. Gar
field promises it is to be cheaper. Evident
ly the coal kings do not give the doctor
very much consideration.
PROFESSOR KINCAID'S LECTURE
A house full and overflowing greeted Pro
fessor Kincaid at the Mt. Zion Brother
hood meeting last Tuesday evening, which
was made up largely of the leading col
ored citizens of the city. Taking as his
subject, "The Origin and Environments of
the Negro," he forgot history and plunged
into pre-historic science, and for an hour
and a half he had his audience guessing as
to whether the Bible or science was cor
rect in man's origin. Among the many
things he said of rare interest to the Negro
Avas that he originated in Asia instead of
Africa as is the common belief. He also
said that the Caucasian originated in North
ern Africa instead of Europe as was com
monly believed. The Negro, in his opinion,
has been the most prolific of the three prin
ciple types of the human family, the Ethi
opian, the Caucasion and the Mongollic, and
owing to his prolificness his blood has been
diffused into the majority of all the races
that are offshoots of these distinct father
heads. The Negro has never shown any
great strength in organization, which re
sulted in strong national governments, and
yet he has exercised a most wonderful in
fluence over those peoples who have played
leading roles in the making of powerful
centra] governments. The Negro, according
to pre-historic science as gathered by Pro
fessor Kincaid, has furnished the blood,
bone and sinew for the upbuilding of all
the other races and the Caucasian itself is
by no means free from borrowing Negro
blood for its own fortification. The Negro,
according to his theory, is responsible for
the color of the Hindu, the Latin races, the
Jewish race and much of his blood was in
jected into the Mongollic people. He be
lieved that all races had one common origin
and that the divisions and subdivisions were
due to environments and common topograph
ical barriers. While such subjects are al
ways interesting and the person of thought
can listen to them discussed for hours with
out tire, yet they can be of little service or
aid to the world of today, save to learn
from whence we came and to, if history re
peats itself, whither are we drifting. There
is no doubt in our mind but that if man
had one common origin it is the
divine policy of Him, who is directing this
great universe, to, after man has been scat
tered the world over and battled with him
self until the best of him is left, to again
unite the dissenting elements and
some day they will again find them
selves members of one great big fam
ily with the Fatherhood of God and the
Brotherhood of Man as its chief creed, and
if that will not be Heaven then, pray, what
is Heaven. The lecture of Professor Kin
caid was one of the most interesting ones
that we have ever listened to and it is to
be regretted that only colored persons were
present to hear it. To sit and listen to Pro
fessor Kincaid unwind the story of man
of a million years and do so without hesi
tancy and without prejudice or favoritism
you are convinced of the wonderfulness of
the mind of man.
If the South Bend Journal has the larg
est circulation of any paper in Pacific
county, then the citizens of that county
must be dead easy and willing to give up
their money for nothing.
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