Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1917-08-04

day call on the bank for an extension OF
time and no more is heard Of the loyal
Negroes till another loan is needed, or an
extension required and then there is another
''Be it Resolved, That we reaffrm our 10y
atty to our country
The truly loyal Negroes Of this country
are not assembling in mass meetings, and
passing high sounding resolutions, and re-
affirming their loyalty to the country for
that loyalty has never been qupestioned,
but they are studying plans, and devising
means, just like the other citizens of this
country, to do whatever is best to bring
this great war to triumphant close, and in
such a way that he, the Negro might get
some Of the glory and honor thereof. The
Negro is clamoring to get in the navy, the
Marines on the torpedo boats, the destroy
ers, the submarines in the artillery, and in
every other branch Of the service where
duty may be performed
If the Negro were given the chance for
which he has been begging, and which will
be given him before this war ends, every
regiment would be filled, every ship fully
manned, and well equipped host of fight
ing Americans, undivided in their alleg-
lance would now be on the firing line, do
ing, enduring, dying but winning, never
letting Old Glory touch the ground
The kind of meeting that I desire to see
the Negro hold is one in which he will not
talk 50 much about his loyalty but pass
some resolutions which shall bring home to
this government the fact that it cannot win
in this war with one of it's hands tied now,
any more than it could so subdue the brave
and dauntless South more than fifty years
ago. 1t is time that some Of this humbug
and hypocricy were stopped, and the truth
told: the Negro is loyal but he is not salts
fed, and cannot be- so long as he is ex-
pected to be content to eat crumbs while
Others many of them aliens and enemies to
this country, walk off with the choicest
slices of the nations bounty.
The Negro is not telling the truth when
he says that eve willingly give ourselves
to be used by our country in whatever ca
pacity our President shall determine.
Every Negro in this country is willing to
give himself to the country, to be used in
whatever manner the President shall de-
termine to use him as free born Ameri-
can, entitled to all the privileges as such;
to this he is entitled, and if he say that he
is content with less, then the truth and he
has had serious disagreement.
Professor G. w. Hayes, used to say that
if a man could not tell the truth about the
races aspirations and desires, it were bet
ter that he kept still and those Negroes who
are holding these little shoe shop mass
meetings, and voting for resolutions that
ninetenths Of them know not the meaning
Of are doing the race a great deal of harm
for they lead other people to think that the
Negro is satisfied with anything when in
fact he is not, and will not be, till merit
and not color shall be the bounds that limit
his privilege, when that time comes then
the following will mean everything to him:
''Your flag and my flag!
And Oh how much it holds
Your land and my land
Secure within it's folds!
Your heart and my heart
Beat quicker at the sight;
Red and blue and white
Sun-kissed and wind tossed
The one fag-the great flag flag for
me and you-Glorified all else beside-the
red and white and blue''
John owls no Oh