Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1917-12-29

down MS past thousand times easier IN
Washington than he can in some other
state and why not give him a fighting
chance. The colored population of Seattle
number about 5000 while the white popula-
ton number about $4,000 and certainly so
few colored persons could not be menace
to the city even if Crane should want to
returne to his wallerings The law would
soon apprehend him and return him to
prison.
This "move on" order issued to Felix
Crane reminds us of the orders so often
given by the police department of large
cities to undesirable persons: t'leave town
immediately or suffer the consequences
It's crime against the country to drive a
criminal out of one town to go to another,
where said criminal is unknown, thus max
ing the other fellow victims unawares: If
a person is criminal and the same can be
proven. then the thing to do is to send said
criminal to prison. from the place where
his or her last crime was committed. If you
say to the criminal. 'you are to be deported
to some country set aside for criminals
then the "move on order is alright, but to
drive citizen from town to town on the
theory that he or she is an undesirable is
not only making worse criminal Of the
unfortunate, if such be possible, but you
make it possible for said criminal to ply
the dark lantern "profesh" on persons and
communities that know not the criminal
nature of the new conner. Crime should be
suppressed, not encouraged and the prac-
tice Of driving criminals out of town is
nothing short of encouraging the commits
sion of crime. The legislature of the vari-
GUS states should pass law making it a
statutory offense for an officer to order
even criminal out of town simply because
a sufficient amount of discriminating evil
dence is not at hand to send the criminal to
the penitentiary
Edwin j. Brown, he of much dental and
Socialstic political fame, announces he has
at last found the elixir of life in "Wilson-
ian Democracy" aand celebrates his new
found conversion in genuine Democratic
style by branding the colored man as the
root of all evil While Socialist DR..
Brown was a splendid fellow and was for
"all men up but he no sooner becomes
Democrat than he is for all men up except
a "damn Niger" Remarkably has the edi-
tor hereof supported Dr. Brown for offices
he has run for, though he seemed to be an
uncompromising Socialist, and had no re-
morse for so doing but as a Democrat we
will forget him as his recent published
utterances put him in the genuine damphool
Democratic corner. Just what federal po-
siton Edwin J. Brown has up his sleeve to
ask President Wilson to pull down for him
has not been as yet disclosed but it is GER
tain, from his recent denunciation of the
colored folks of Seattle, that he is getting
himself right to ask for something And
thus do men like Tillman, Vardeman and
DR.. Brown sacrifice all their humane spirit
for all manner of man to appease their
selfish ambitions.
Much casting about for mayorality can
didate for Seattle is being done by some of
the would-be leading citizens with little or
no results save disappointments An at
tempt was made to draft Harold Preston,
but he claimed legal exemptions and then
John Powell was drafted and he too, plead
legal exemptions, which leaves the situation
completely in the air. At this writing it
looks very much like Gill and Hanson will
be the nominees, in which case Gill will sue
coed himself If, however, Gill and Han