Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-11-01
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

Either he is or he is not citizen of this
United States If he is citizen he is the
peer of a Woodrow Wilson, a John Sharp
Williams or a Any One Else. If he is not
a citizen then he is an ALLEN and at the will
of the citizen be put in the undesirable
class of fore: gners. AS undesirable as are
the Japanese in this country, yet not one of
hcr number has ever been lynched
~ Infatuated white mobs. That lynch
NC game has just been tried once on
he undesirable Italian and Uncle Sam
found himself in the uncomfortable situation
of looking an angry Italian man of war
square in the face. 1t is apparent that the
white roughnecks of this country are too
cowardly to mob man that has country
behind him. but they take fiendish delight
in mobing weaker class of citizens among
them. If God really hates a coward the
white mObists of this country will not be
permitted to even reach the pearly gates to
near their fates, but way off in space st.
Peter will meet them and read their titles
clear and then all of them will hear their
dooms and sink to hell
This appears to be Seattle's open shop
season as we'll unionized as is the working
man of this city. One hundred or more
gas workers struck and have failed and the
gas plant is now an open shop. Three hun
dred allied printers Of Seattle walked out
about the same time as did the gas work
ers and their efforts to have the master
printers accede to their demands have thus
far failed and open shops among the print
cry are now common in the city. The same
commentary can be made of the tailors
strike. This striking business seems to be
badly on the toboggan.
In honoring the memory of Theodore
Roosevelt it can be said without fear Of
successful contradiction that the master
mind of our Republic is being revered.
Roosevelt did not rise to greatness on the
wings of the god of war, but on the wings
of common sense, fair play and personal
justice. He was tower of strength men,
tally morally and physically from the cradle
to the grave and his memory will be idol
ized as long as lives the present civilization
and perhaps then some
Has ORGANIZED labor reached it's zenith
and any change will mean decline? is the
open question of the hour, not only through
ont the United States, but throughout the
world In the past organized labor has
done much for the uplift Of the laboring
man. but it seems to have become beastly
drunk of success and the pendulum is
SWINGING as far backward as it did for
ward Capital, however, is no nearer right
than labor, but two wrongs never make a
right.
In view of the fact President Wilson has
given the South her way on all Legislative
and appointive points since he has been
president accounts for the South being
solid for the League Of Nationsnot that
they love war less but government control
more, and then again it would be ungrateful
en- the part Of the South to not reel procate
to the president in kind -''you tickle me
and | tickle you.
AS long as presidents of this country try
to be the whole show and give neither the
Legislative, the judicial or the appointive
functions of the government any hand in the
directing Of things we will continue to talk
of ''our overworked presidents. Our
present chief executive is overworked be-
cause he himslf wantd Woodrow Wilson to
have hand in everything that happened
in short to be the 1t of the world