Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-10-04

county and state he is now longshoreman
and earns upwards of $500 per month.
"And believe me, | am far more happy
than when | was pleading cases." said he
one day last week no. this man well up
in years is not laying the foundation for a
future fortune, but he is building bull
wark to keep the wolf from the door when
age bends his body and weakens his walk.
If IIulet M. Wells health is broken and
he is a physical wreck, owing to the more
or less brutal treatment he has received at
the hands of the prison officials at McNeil's
Island, then he has himself to blame for all
Of his troubles. Wells was sent to prison
for kicking against the prcks and once in
prison he was even more set in his cllssed-
ness than before going, all Of which was
nuts for Democratic official to crack, who
in all probability would rather brutaize an
unfortunate than to brace him up with hui
man Kindness But, we suspect in Wells
and the warden it was true case Of
Greek meeting Greek.
Within the United States there are about
thirteen million colored citizens, the great
majority of whom do manual labor for
their livings and yet President Wilson has
seen fit to call a conference between capital
and labor, representatives. from both sides
he himself has named but he did not deem
the colOred citizens of sufficient Importance
with the body polite of this country to
name one of them on that conference board.
Capital has always been more or less an
tagonistic to labor and though it has fire.
quently favored cOlOred labor over white
labor yet it did so because it could use
colored labor to the detriment of white la
bor Capital is selfish and it endeavors to
take advantage of al lclasses of labor, hence
it can not consistently represent cOlOred
labor at the conference. Organized white
labor has always been unit against col
ored labor hence it can not be expected to
advocate any measure at the conference
that will be for the betterment of colored
labor. 1t will thus be seen that at that la
boring conference the cOlored labor will
be taxed without representation. But in
this President Wilson is maintaining his
lifelong opposition to the uplift Of the col
ored man and he never loses an opportunity
to throw impediments in his pathway.
Judging from the reports in the AssOci-
ated Press one John Sharp Williams,
Mississippi senatorial roughneck, caught
tarter few days ago, when he hooked Hi.
johnson from California. 1t took johnson
just five minutes to set the galleries bowling
against the administration peace pact and
to kissing John Sharp Williams as though he
was border outlaw The Mississippian was
informed by the Californian that he was
going to the Pacific Coast to appeal to
Americans and women who think and
act on their initiative and not at the be-
hest of one big chief, who was seeking to
give America over to England and France.
Hi. Johnson might have gone step further
and said to the Mississippi roughneck Il
am going to build up my political fences
with argument and reason and not with the
lynchers limb and the shot gun. California
is Republican or Democratic as it's voters
see fit after the issues have been clearly put
before them, but Mississippi on the other
hand is Democratic under all conditions be-
cause it is ruled by murderers either before
or after the fact''