Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-12-20

nelpeQ TO lucrative pOS1ClOnS. Inc Negro
was permitted to vote and enjoy some civil
privileges and considerable freedom of
speech. He had more freedom in New Eng
land, New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
and Illinois than in any other sections. Then
the religious denominations like the A. NJ.
A., the Freedman's s Aid and Southern Edu-
cation Society, the Baptists, the Episcopali-
ans and the Presbyterians spent hundred Of
thousands literally for the education and re-
ligious training of Southern Negroes The
Unitarians contributed literally to the in
dustrial propaganda, and few phianthro-
pists gave a half a million dollars in
lump sum. The Negroes main drawback
in the North was that he was barred fror,
the labor unions. But they have now be-
gun to let down their bars.
But in the Southland, the Negro is barred
from holding political office, is disfranchis-
ed, jim-crowed and lynched If Milton
Satan should conceive the idea of setting
up terrestrial Hell, he could conceive moth
ing better than the state of affairs in some
sections of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mis-
sissippi, louisiana Arkansas and Texs
Over in the West Indies, between the
British taxes and regulations and the United
Fruit Company's high rates, the blacks were
reduced to poverty. Before the European
war, all of Africa, except Liberna and Abys.
sinia was partitioned out between England,
France, Germany, Portugal Bvlgium and the
Beers. The exploitation Of Africa was
byword. France gave her blacks chance
to rise in the Army and Navy and to set in
the Chamber of Deputies, and England made
some educational improvements in Sierra,
Leone and Cape Town. But while the mis-.
sionary was present, the main purpose of
the colonization of Africa was the gathering
of the gold, ivory, diamonds cocoa, rubber,
ebony, mahogany and other products. And
this could best be achieved by keeping the
African in a state of political subjugation.
The Belgians and Beers were the hardest
taskmasters Frances quarrel with Ger
many few years ago, which nearly precip-
itated war, was over Africa. And the de-
sire to harvest the wealth of Africa was
one OF Germany's purposes in the last war;
But Thanksgiving Day, with the Negro
all over the world discontented, the white
and yellow man was also dissatisfied every
where China did not desire to give Shan
tung to Japan! Korea was protesting against
Japanese domination: Persia did not desire
Englnd to establish protectorate over her.
Ireland, India and Egypt complained Of
the heavy hand of Great Britain: the Ital-
ians and Jugo-Slavs were on the eve of war;
the Jews resented being massacred by the
Poles; the British workmen were dissatis-
fled. Despite the revenues from the colon
les, the maintenance Of landed aristoc-
racy, with palatial mansions and vast
estates, who toll not, spin not, neither do
they reap. and the war reduced England to
a state of poverty and brought her to the
verge Of bankruptcy. And in America
100000 striking coal miners were in state
OF defiance. Such was the condition of af-
fairs on Thanksgiving Day
What was the trouble? What was wrong
with the world? The Darwinian hypothesis.
the revelations of modern science and the
higher criticism weakened the iron grip OF
the Bible and weakened the hold religion
had on the masses of men. Then men made
religion of Nationalism. And it was the
Jealousles and rivalries of the various