Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1917-12-15

a few days ago ana cOlOfeO IeutenanC Ill
Vicksburg was kicked and cufed by the
white citizens Of that community and even
by the soldiers because he dared to show
up in that town, where his parents resided
and he grew to manhood, wearing the garb
of an army officer, and yet the authorities
so far as the general public is aware, have
made no inquiry about it and the probabili-
ties are, they will not. Suppose, if you WILL
one of the Senegambion soldiers now fight
ing for France and England would be in
suited by the white citizens of either of
those countries, the king of England and
the president of France would punish the
guilty rascals if they had to send an army
to do it, but in the United States the black
man has no rights that the white man is
bound to respect and if one white man
does condescend to respect his rights, such
an white man is ridicrled for so doing by
the balance of the white folks, though the
black man wears the garb of soldier. The
final outcome of the Houston court martial
is no more than could have been expected
owing to the domineering influence the
Southern Democrats exercise over the pres
ent administration. In conclusion, permit
us for your edifcation to quote from an
ancient poet which is as follows:
"Yet come it will, the day decreed by fate
How my heart trembles while my tongue
relates,
When thou, Imperial Troy, will bend
And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end"
The above we wish to aplpy to the South
only, and we wish to be understood as not
CHASING the average white man of the
North with the white man of the South, for
the white man of the North almost without
exception, is for fair play for the black man
and in the North the black man gets, for
the most part, just as square deal as the
white man. We long to see the time come
when that section of this country known
as the South, will be wiped off of the map
Though the black folk of this country
are the recipients of multiplied thousands
OF insults by the white citizens, yet they
are even more loyal than the white citizens
themselves and about the same time the law
was hanging the colored soldiers for hav-
ing resented some of their many insults a
colored woman in New York was giving
vent to the following patriotic utterances:
we American citizens pride ourselves
on patriotism The love of our country has
been lnstllled into our very lives from BIRTH
we, as colored citizens, have the highest
love OF patriotism, and we are sending our
sons and contributing our means as freely
as any American born citizen that ever
lived
II believe that every colored citizens
prayer went up in union on last Wednesday
for the boys in the trenches, not as colored,
but as one inseparable out of which God
created us all equal
Let us continue to pray to Almighty
God to clear up this chaos. No man can
say when or where the war will end, but
one thing we know, that God will bring
everything out in His own time and that
every cloud has silver lining. Possibly
this war will end the dread monster strong
drink, which has claimed as many victims
as war;
In the past Tacoma may have been a
most excellent nerve-quieting resort. but
its nerve-wracking community at present.
If Chief Rockingham was guilty of NAL
fesance in office then in our opinion Mayor