Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-05-24
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.

Church of the United States. A couple of
years ago an effort was made to unite the
northern and southern branches of the
Methodist Episcopal Church and the move
ment was working like creased lightning
until hte Negro question was struck and in
almost the twinkling Of an eye the whole
scheme exploded into thousand atoms,
which moved some one to compare the
unity scheme to a fellow that had worked
faithfully from January to July and then
spent the most Of his savings in fireworks
for the of Fourth of July. On that glorious
day he called his friends about him to help
him celebrate and watch the display. He
lgted the great pile Of patriotism and
using his own words, 'Fizz, fizz, bomb!
and my money was all gone" We suspect
the unity efforts of the wings of the Pres
byterian Church will meet similar fate as
did the wings of the Methodist Church.
The southern wings Of these two great
religious bodies are religiOnists, but they
are not Christians, and they never will be
until they have been born again and give
up that pernicious doctrine that white folks
are Gods elect and darker folks like the
beast of burden, were created to serve them
without reward remuneration. No one
now living will, in our opinion, ever see
either the Methodist Episcopal Church
North and the M. E. Church South or the
Presbyterian Church Of the North and Of
the South united. The leaders Of these
two churches split on the Negro question
half
members of neither side have changed their
minds on that subject, and until they do
unity is impossible.
Crimes more diabolcal than those per-
petrated by the white men of the South
upon the colored folks also of that section
may have been committed somewhere and
some time, but if so they not of his
torical record. The alleged crimes of the
German soldiers during the late war upon
the French and Belgium women in COM
parison to the crimes of the Southern
white men upon the colored men, women
and children are like Sunday school mis-
understandings between two rivals as to
which one repeat the greater number
of verses There is, however, one conso-
1ation in this lynchng affair, those white
men who participate in such outlawry are
cowardy ours and will not even attack a
colored girl without a great crowd OF
whining whelps. Get the bravest of them
out of their native heaths and they won't
even talk back to a colored person, let
alone try to kill him.
Congress has convened and is now grind
ing away. The chief thing for calling the
solons to the national capital was to con-
slider the league of nations covenant, draft
of which, in the very near future, will be
in the hands of the senator's. If Senator
Lodge speaks with authority the covenant
is already defeated in the senate which
will mean Uncle Sam will not participate
in that august assembly when it first meets.
Cayton's Weekly is violently opposed to
the United States government becoming
party to this League of Nations covenant,
and it therefore will oppose any candidate
for the United States senate next year who
favors the proposition. We have all we
can do to look after the affairs of this
country without meddling in the affairs