Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-08-09


women have been indicted but not one
white person. While the colored people
may have fought back in Chicago, vet it is
well known fact that they did not start
the trouble 1t was the wilful killing of
that young man at the bathing beach by
the white bathers that started the riots and
yet 1t will be the colored people who will
get all OF the punishment in the courts. 1t
Will be remembered that after the East St.
Louis riots it was the colored people and
not the white that the courts sent to the
penitentiary, though the riot was precipi-
tated to drive the colored folks out of the
town.
However anxious the 100000 or more
subscribers may have been to get the
Chicago Defender, not one got it, and all
because the entire issue of the paper was
bought up by the state authorities and the
same suppressed. Rumor has it that the
Defender contained the TRUTH the whole
truth and nothing but the truth as far as
the Chicago riots were concerned and the
state authorities bought up the issue lest it,
if circulated, would add further fuel to the
rioting flames. It is always considered dan
gerous to tell the whole truth about the vaor
of the colored man and the publication that
attempts it is either violently suppressed
or is subsidized Even the good things the
colored soldiers did in France are sup
pressed by the authorities Of this country
and the daily press.
TO sell the food the government prr-
chased for the army in France to the citi-
zens at cost is short step in the right
direction, but the amount is but a drop in
the bucket, it would not feed the entire
population more than a day, yea, verify if
that long. Continuous lower rates for food
is what the people need and what they
must get or anarchy will run riot through
out this entire land and country Sugar,
it is reported, will soon be selling at Is
cents per pound, to say the least, twice two
high. Shoes are to double in price in the
very near future and. as in these necessities
of life, so is it to be with all others. AS
the man with big family faces the future
nothing but black despair confronts him.
At the soaring price Of necessities it will
be physical impossibility for man to
provide for his family the coming winter
A statement has been issued by the
Japanese government to the effect that
soon as Japan and China reach an agree
ment. Japan will evacuate Shantung. AS
soon as" mind you, but the probabilities
are that "as soon as" will never come.
l lie eAdCllOIS 1fOlll OulIld Will DC 50 great
for Japan to evacuate Shantung that China
would fare just as well to permit the
Japanese to continue to occupy the country.
The disputed territory Of Shantung has a
population Of forty million, but twenty mil
lions less than Japan's entire population.
The country is rich in natural resources
and the Japanese claim that the United
States captalistic class is jealous Of Japan
getting control of those resources, for the
reason that the Japanese trade with the
United States would be greatly decreased.
In our opinion the Shantung affair is the
seat Of the next world war.
In dispOsing Of the army food to the
people let the postmasters not overlook the
facts that the trusts are in more eminent
need of the same than is the average house
holder, and let said postmasters further see
to it that the said impoverished trusts be
sold the lions share of the said umusued
necessities of life. 1t will be a burning
shame m deDriva those moor fellows of the