Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-04-20
AMERICAS COLORED CITIZENS

United States are concerned in the Chi
cago defender in the following sensible
words:
1--WE are trying great experiment in
the United States. Can we gather together
from the ends of the earth people of differ
cnt races creeds. conditions and aspirations,
VI no can be merged into one? If we can
not do this we VIII fail. If we do this we
will produce the greatest of all nations and
a new race that will long hold compelling
force in the world Secretary Franklin
Lane. Department of the Interior
For which we thank you, Mr. Lane, for
which we thank YOU fellow begins to
feel as though he were living to some pur-
pose under the glorious old banner of free
a. IN when member Of the President cabi-
ret speaks right out in meetin' thus like.
Secretary Lane said that and great deal
more that s mighty good and true, in an
address before a very distinguished as
senbly Of governors, chairmen Of state de-
Tense councils heads Of civic organizations,
industrial leaders and business men. The
secretary delivered the ''keynote' address
on "AmercanizatiOn
TIE brethren assembled most certainly got
the key: now if they will just go back home
and open the ''door of opportunity' we
WILL as sayeth the prophet, get somewhere
Not that we must come to it,; we are
to it now. 1t is a clear-cut unadulterated
no-denying case of facing the music,' and
if we do not face it, we can sing but one
song. and that is ''Good-by, Old Cow
You'll have to hand it to Roosevelt May
be you don't like him, for one reason and
another, but he is giving more force to true
American dotcrine in these troublesome
times than any other living person.
If real American can read Colonel
Roosevelt's Maine address, or his recent
editorials, and not be moved by their lofti-
ness Of purpose, he has a mind warped
with prejudice that it's cured up like
poplar board in the garden path.
We are all Americans now, nothing more
nor less. If we are less in any particular,
in any degree, less than Americans, we
are false patriots and traitors.
Rooveset is Republican and Lane is a
Democrat but in their fine efforts to arouse
this nation to a sense of justice and duty,
do they not more nearly represent the
righteous ideals Of our nation than jim
Nardaman, who, a member OF a very
important government committee, is letting
segregation follow in his wake like odors
from a slunko
There is only one kind of justice, and
President Wilson named it some time ago:
Equal and exact Justice" In every in
stance. however, words must be backed up
by deeds.
Illinois has been playing the popular
American game of "lynching" again, but
this time the unfortunate victim was a Ger
man. Governor Lowden is red-headed about
the incident-or is this more than an Incl
dent the lynching is getting action from
the federal government, not, as we have
heard up to date, because lynching is itself
is barbarous performance, but because it
is feared that the Germans may do little
playing of the lynching game on their own
vacant lots across the pond, and use Ameri
cans as the rope bait.
Lynch law must go! But it must go be-
cause it is one of the most demnabe spots
in American life.
Leading citizens of the South white, are
waking up to the real facts in the case. In
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