Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-09-13

even shake his hand when in their hearts
they say to hell with his policies. President
Wilson will receive a warm welcome in Sc
attic because he is president and by no
means because he put over the Shantung
outrage and the less he has to say about it
when here the more generous will be his
reception.
BUT KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY
However lamentabe the race riots Of this
country may be, they are demonstrating the
fact that the coored man is no longer folding
his arms and depending upon "the saliva
ton of the Lord to save him from the
mobs'', but has come to the conclusion
that his alternative is to fight back even
though death be his portion. He long ago
found out that it's death for him. if he
does not fight back, and now he knows it's
death if he does fight back but in fighting
back he dies with the satisfaction of know
ing he is not going to cross the dark river
all by his lonely. The mob did not lynch
the colored man it made arrangements to
lynch at Knoxville, Tennessee last Saturday
night and it did not do so because it met
an anti-lynching mob, if you please, at the
JAIL which gave the lynching mob warm
reception. More colored men are dead as
a result of the fighting back than there
would have been had they permitted the
jailed man to have been lynched, but
equally as many white men are likewise
dead and the lynchOphobia has been ad-
ministered a severe remedy that will have
a more or less soothing effect on it's future
ebilutons.
FROM "THE PuBL1c'
''Lest anybody should doubt the fitness
OF Texas to clean up Mexico, and teach
fho SOroo 10 o1>o
der, County Judge Dave Pickle, and Con-
stable Charles Handy of Austin, Texas,
aided by some other law-abiding citizens,
gave conclusive demonstration by beating
up John R. Shillady, Secretary of the Ma
tional Association for the Advancement of
COlOred People, as he emerged from pub
lie hall in that city. Having thus express
ed their devotion to law and ORDER these
Texas heroes put Mr.. Shillady on a train,
and warned him not to leave it till it got
out of the State. We trust that President
Carranza will be properly impressed by
this demonstration, and will instill in the
minds OF his judges such a love of order
and justice that if anybody in Mexico says
anything against the ancient and honorable
custom Of lynching they will vindicate the
law as Judge Pickle did when he pummeled
Mr.. Shillady with his bare fists. 1t might
be said by way Of extenuation that the
Judge said he had acted in his capacity as
a gentleman, and not as a member of the
bench. We trust that Mr.. Shillady will note
the distinction. 1.-The Public.
GETTING THE DIRT
With the exception of one forty foot lot
this entire block is owned by colored folks"
said Newton Coleman, better known as
''Blend' "and I am certainly proud Of be-
ing one of the number" And as we look
ed over his almost palatial home we felt
that he had just cause for feeling proud.
The city block referred to is the eighteenth
block on Twenty fourth avenue and barring
some millionaire's row a more handsome
block is not to be found in the whole of
the city of Seattle. This is the only in
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