Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-06-21

Moore, Dr. Arthur E. Burns, Bishop b. ).
ODea, Rev j. G. Stafford, Rev. M. j. By
water Rev. Sidney H. Morgan, Rev. w. ii.
Bliss, Rev. H. II. Gowen, James A. Wood,
Erastus Brainerd, Josiah Collins, j. w.
Spangler, H. G. Henry, Daniel Kelleher.
Edgar Battle. Samuel H. Piles, Albert j.
Rhodes. Frederic Strive, Charles A. Rey-
nolds. Harry w. Carroll, b. B. Burwell,
Claude G. Ramsay, j. B. Howe, Major
George r. Drever, Louis Fredlander, j. M.
jackson, Eben S. Osborne, Mare Lees,
George Simmons, A. Rosenthal, Samuel l.
Schwabacher, Elkan Morganstern, g. G.
mund Bowden, Loren Grinstead, a. Shamen-
ski. r. j. Reeke, w. A. Gaines, Arthur G.
Cohen, Lawrence Booth, j. p Gleason, Otto
S. Graunbaum, Louis Nash, George H.
Walker, j. Metzger, DR.. F. M. Carroll, John
E. Drummey, j. IT, Hardeman, Charles
Osner, Henry A. Munroe, Louis Rubenstein,
Robert B. Hesketh, NJ. Monheimer, Laurence
J. Colman, Leopold M. Stern, A. w.
Leonard. Reuben w. JONES' Frank w. Hull
J. j. Sullivan. j. Berkman, Herbert A.
Schoenfeld, James A. Kerr, Carl Reiter, d.
Lipman. M. Neder, John b. Carroll, Monte
Carter, DR.. j. B. Eagleson, Harold Preston
F.. Rosenberg. Samuel Ostrow and Abe IIur-
witz. And the chief speakers of the occa-
Jeremiah Neterer Mayor Ole Hanson. Judge
Stephen A. Chadwick, Bishop Heater. Rev
w. A. Major, DID,. Rabi Samuel Koch and
Rabbi Simon Glazer. Note if you will the
character quality and quantity of the men
interested in this Jewish question and you
will conclude with us that results are bound
to follow.
With men Of such local and national i'm
portance as are many Of the men in the list
above thoroughly aroused on this or any
other subject, there will always be things
doing.
Recently James Weldon johnson lectured
in Seattle in the main on the wholesale
lynchng of colored folks in the South and
despite the fact the meeting was widely
advertised in the daily papers and personal
appeals were made to many of the citizens
on the above list of vice presidents, as we'll
as to others OF like Importance. yet not one
present to listen to johnson, and if in
any way any OF them were interested they
kept 1t to themselves, which reminds us of
the fellow who could see the mote in his
brothers. eye but could not see the beam in
his own eye In other words, Europe's
treatment of the Jew is inhuman and I'M
Christianlike. but the United States treat
ment of the Negro is our own affair and it
pleases us well to treat him as we damn
please
Now, do not understand us to lay such a
charge as stated above at the doors of the
vice-presdents of the above meeting, for
many Of them have personally expressed
themselves to the writer as bitterly opposed
to the treatment accorded the cOlored man
in this counry, but when it comes to pub
licly expressing themselves on the subject
they are as silent the dead. Recently
high school boy (white) read in Cavton' s
Weekly an article taken from the Nav
number of the Crisis depicting the lynching
of two young colored girls yet in their
teens and two boys, but few months out
of their teens and by the time he had
finished reading the article the big tears
stood in his eyes and he said, eff the P-I