Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-05-31
A PAIR OF THEM

That both W. E. Du Bois and Emmett
j. Scott are men Of more or less import
ance as well as usefulness in the uplift
work of the body polite of the colored cit
liens of the United States is well known
to all manner of man in this country, but
when they pit their usefulness against each
other and call upon he public to choose
between the two then to speak plainly and
to the point they are both making genuine
damphools Of themselves, and at the rate
they are travelling in their personal rivalry
it's only matter Of very short time be-
fore both of them will be eliminated from
the race leadership.
Way down in his heart of hearts Du Bois
knows that Scott tried to get all out of
the war situation for the colored citizens
of this country that his circumscribed po-
sition would permit. His position to be
sure was but a sinacure and only created
for political buncome, and was operated
under a chief wholly antagonistic to any
good arising therefrom but even at that
Scott did some little good and no harm,
and half loaf is better than no loaf
at ALL He realized from the very outset
that anything he got for the colored folk
was like finding it and so, using the vulgar
vernacular fo the street, he did his damd-
est'' After however, it's all over comes
Du Bois and practically accuses Scott OF
entering into cahoots with the Democratic
colOrphobia fanatics to prevent the colOred
soldiers from getting square deal, which
to us is preposterous.
Like Du Bois, way down in his heart,
Emmett Scott knows Du Bois has and is
doing all within his mind and soul to make
conditions better for the colored man in the
United State, but he, Scott, hits back at
Du Bois' Crisis aricle in an open letter,
which falls little short Of declaring Du
Bois a traitor to his race and, like the
Mexican greaser, hanging round to thrust
his deadly stilleto into his, Scott's back.
The letter was we'll written and with far
more between the lines than on the lines.
Both Scott and Du Bois are we'll educated
and both we'll supplied with vituperative
venom, and they have the ugly faculty OF
cutting and injecting their poison into the
incission and yet smile most charmingly
all the time they are doing so.
Taking it all in all both Du Bois and
Scott have thoroughly convinced all who
have read their bellingsgate against each
other that both Of them are such hideous
monsters that to be hated they need but to
be seen.
The white man of this country will see
to it that neither Dubois, Scott or any other
colored man or woman reaches any very
great eminence in this great governmental
fabric and it seems a wilful waste of valu-
able time and energy for one colored man
to set out on like mission against an
other colored man. Even if we can we will
not all act alike One will not see things
in the same light as do others, but happy
medium can always be struck by persons
with knowledge in their heads and Chris
tianity in their hearts
Whether Dubois possesses greater num-
ebr Of human faculties than does Scott or
vice versa the public is wholly Indifferent
and if the two possess an equal number
and are to spend their equal human facul-
ties in trying to silence the other, then