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J@agf2a^ yMee^( 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 Aye. South BUT TWELVE RIGHTEOUS. When Divine wrath was visited upon the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Lord promised Abraham to spare them from destruction if but ten righteous could be found Avithin their limits. Needless to say, the saving ramnant could not be found and the Scripture tells us that these ancient cities were destroyed in a shower of brim stone and fire. The Republican majority in the House of Reperesentatives made a slightly better score on the side of righteousness at the session just closed, as twelve votes were cast in favor of eliminating the abominable "Jim Crow" car from the railroads of the country. Whether the twelve righteous Avill serve' to save the party from the visit ation of deserved retribution, human as Avell as divine, remains to be seen. The injustice and degradation enforced upon travelers of the Negro race by the exaction of first-class fare and the rendering .0 „„„„.• „ ,,/) fjoorvnirnodations of the vilest description were forcibly presented by re imt'ible' wj+nesses at the hearings on the Madden Amendment held before the Kail road Committee. What moved the Repub licans to ignore this presentation of glaring injustice and perpetuate the infamy of the "Jim Crow" car is a mystery. Some light on the subject may be gained from the following letter, written to Representative Homer P. Syneler by Miss Mary White Ov ino'tem : The Chicago Tribune of Sunday, Novem ber 166, quotes you as saying "Jim Crow" laws of Southern states, by which Negroes are prevented from traveling in passenger coaches occupied by whites, is not fought for by the Negroes. The' National Association fern the Ad vancement of Colored People, representing 12,000,000 Negroes in the United States, hopes you have been incorrectly juoted. In • the event that the Chicago Tribune correct ly represented your remarks, I beg to refer you to the colored voters of NeAV York City for an opinion on the accuracy of your statement. Not only the colored voters of Ncav York City, but the colored traveling public in all sections of the country have been recorded as expressing abhorrence and resentment of the conditions forced upon them by the "Jim Crow" car. Recent protests against this system were presented from an army officer traveling on official business, an Ohio college president, a resident of a small North Carolina toAvn and others, too numerous to mention. The idea that the Negroes of the South are not opposed to the "Jim CroAv" car is a part of the propaganda of absurdities advanced by Southern AAdiites, both in and but of Congress. No intelligent man of n'+her race is fooled by such patent fabrica tions. The fight for equal and adequate railroad accommodations will continue, strengthened by the revelation that there are twelve righteous men in Congress, Avho voted SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1919 against the "Jim Crow" car. It would be Avell for members of the race in all sec tions of the country who are familiar with the hardships of the sytsem to keep such members as Mr. Synder posted as to the conditions and as to the radical sentiment regarding them. There should be no excuse for any Congressman to claim that the in iquity is not fought by the Negroes. In the meantime the name of the twelve righteous should be inscribed on a roll of honor.New York Age. AN INCONSISTENCY. The fellow with the money is the one you should honey, and give him some more, so he won't get poor, and live on the husks and the burnt bread crusts, like the man with mme 1, that lives on the run, to give you the wealth while he has the health. Why buy from the poor, who sleep on the floor, when three blocks away, you can ahvays pay, the money that's yours, to the felloAV with the "chores?" When you buy from the king, it puts you in the ring, where the money gems round then hides in the ground. The man thats poem, don't have to get sore, for not being rich with golden pitch, for he's al ways been in the fix he's in. So let him remain in a struggling strain, that the rich may live on the things he gives. A man told me, "I'd much rather be a rich man's slave than a poor man's knave, for then I can work, and sometimes shirk, and yet be found, though fed on the ground. When the man that's poor pulls open the door, where the moneys in piles and he gets the "tiles," he ahvays overlooks his old time pets, which makes me feel like grabbing a weal and careking his head that's all full of "lead." The rich gets richer if the poor is the pitcher; nenv who is to blame for such a crooked game? Let's patronize men though they are thin that the world be tilled and the bins be filled, of Avhat the gods provide for men to divide, then the poor will vanish and the rich Avon't famish. In other Avemds do, unto others as you would have others do, to you and the' crew. The man with the money shouldn't get funny because the poor has none and lives on a bon, but give them a chance to make an advance and then Avil the world, round the turbulent whirl, pass to the right and avoid a fight. Incon venient it is to have no "liz," but to hell you go, if you have the dough, is what Avas said in the book Aye read, Avhen Lazus of olel by Dives Avas told, no food he had for the poor old lad. So, let the rich and the poor, stand together on the floor and receive from the room, the Grand Bridegroom. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS. Tn Russia where choas prevails Emma Goldman, who has just been deported from this country, will be but one among all and her spasmodic as Avell as sporadic upheav els will attract no wide spread attention. Miss Em has had a long run for her money, but she finally got hers and so promote it be. Pounding arithmetic into his ten year old boy's head with an iron poker is both a new and noved daw 1 v rah sshtr ar mathecians and novel way of making a mathematician out of young hopeful, Avhen -he seems un usually backward in grasping such on sight, was the method adopted by a Seattle police man. Evidently the cop did not Avant his son to be as big an ignoramus as himself and resorted to a such violent method to save his son from his father's fate*. Inspite of the' fact the' Business Chronicle, the' spoksman of the' moneyed interest of Seattle, has lots of high class advertise ings and gets ,$6 per year for a subscription, yet it is making an editorial appeal for in dividual contributions from those interested to help it pull through. We know it takes money to spread propagana and Cayton's Weekly would like te> make a similar ap peal and would verily do so, but its editor would be i branded a grafter if he did and it therefore is just going to ask you to send it tAve) bucks. And Chicago continues as the' convention city the' Republican National Committee deciding to hold the next National Repub lican Convention there June' Bth. l!)l_0. Noav that the coal miners have' decided to accept the 14 per cent raise; the coal bar rons have concluded to have' a bit of fun themselves by refusing to acepl the decision. Its time for another injunction. As long as all of the' persons with a sur plus dolar array themselves on one side of the ditch and all the persons who toil for their daily bread array themselves em the' other side and them soak rocks at each other, just so long will there be contention and st.ii.fe between capital and labor; GeL down in the' ditch together. If those' white men in Alabama, who have' organized "to keep the' white race pure" are successful in keeping the' white' race pure, before they can make' much headway they will have to persuade Divine Provi dence te) cast out a great deal of the "im purity" that has already crept in among them. If Billy Collier of Northern Bank and Trust Company failure fame, saved the amount he' stole from the bank he doubt less has no regrets for the three years im prisonment he' put in. Persons, who are money mad, have no scrupules as to how they get the money nor what sacrifice it costs them. It showed a fastidiousness that was more or less ludicrous when that Snoqualmie rancher thoroughly honed and stropped his razor and them cut his throat with it. Evidently he did not want to leave the' impression that he was a butcher instead of a barber. Of course the administration is going to back down from breaking with Mexico, and its going to back down fremi any thing else that requires backbone to back up. Just how this country can live through this ad ministration is a connu'ndrum. You have never seen colder weather on Puget Sound in December than that which has prevailed over the Puget Sound basin for the past tAvo Aveeks and Aye fear the end is not yet in sight. Being arrested has become so common to the editors of the Union Record of Seattle that the day is considered Avithout important events unless some kind of a legal document is served upon them. VOL. IV., No. 26