Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-05-31
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.


Wednesday and the rather odd thing about
it Lynch was white man and the lynchers
were all white men and thus does crime
beget crime and the sins of the father fall
upon the children even to the third and
fourth generation. Retribution is bound
to follow these years of lawlessness in
this country and the innocent will have to
suffer for the guilty.
According to the black dispatches Monroe
Trotter is now in France and is telling no
one his mission, and if that be true then
what can he accomplish while there so
far as the colored man Of this. country is
concerned, but if not actuated by selfish
motives he will be able to fill his brain with
much valuable information, which can be
of invaluable service to the readers of his
paper
1t was proposed some time ago to dis
band the Seattle Negro Business Mems
League on the grounds that it had &C
complished little or nothing during it's ex-
pensive existence, but the proposal did not
even receive second. That was some
five months ago and since that time it has
not had quarter attended meeting. En-
thusasm without determination does not
get you very far from the hitching post
An Arkansas colored man was thrown
into Jail because he had all of $500 in his
possession, charged with 'having too much
money! Had he not have had any money
then he would have been thrown into Jail
charged with not having any money-a
vagrant, with no visible means of support
In the South it's next to impossible for
colored man to please the fastidious foibles
of the white man.
Back to the farm is having it's day in
Seattle among the colored citizens, and, if
those who have gone do hundredth part
as we'll as they think they will do, no
more shortage Of food stuffs will have to
be reported for the Northwest next year.
We are with you brothers. Go to it.
An anti-lynching bill has been introduced
in Congress, which will never pass, and if
it does, it will never be enforced This
lynching disease will have to be worked
out of the system rather than out Of the
hide before it's ravages can be checked.
Down in Java volcanic eruption re-
Gently took place and $4,000 persons are
dead as result thereof! In other Words
Java has had volcanic Bolshevist out
break.
Liberia is charged with being ninety per
cent Ignorant The reptiles and varmints
have doubtless been enumerated in that
reckoning.
If Henry Gregg is as successful in snar-
ing jack rabbits as he was in sharing dogs.
the twenty-one years he worked for the
city of Seattle then Mrs. Gregg will be
able to can enough jack rabbit meat in
the course Of season to supply goodly
part of Seattle with the tasteful morsels
Gay Paree seems to have so charmed
Uncle Sans chief executive that he just
cannot tear himself away. Well we have
heard it said that others have gone and
done likewise.
If Ruth Garrison is crazy then why want
her evidence in the Storr's case. Ruth has
been the same as acquitted by jury and
now it looks very much like Storrs will
be treated equally kind
Advancing colored folks is not often done
in Seattle, and if James Weldon johnson,
with his matchless eloquence and logic can
succeed in having it done then off comes