Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-10-02

washington state TO return Senators ChaS.
Curtis and Wesley L. Jones to the United
States Senate. He states that these senator's
have vigorously opposed all Of the wicked
discrimination of Woodrow Wilson and his
half-tutored hirelings, such as ''the ignor.
ant autocrat Of the postoffce department"
''the head Of the Department of Injustice"
and the other petty politicians, such as Com
missioner Brownlow whom he has placed
over the District government.
Both Senators Jones and Curtis are OBJ.
posed to the League of Nations" he says,
THAT war-breeding pact which is designed
to enslave the darker races of men. 1t is
the most miserable tumble of inconsistent
cies, international intrigue, greed and stu
pidity in the history Of crooked diplomacy.
For a few banquets and other social atten.
tons entirely new to the Wilson family our
president turned dozen somersaults,
throwing away his fourteen points of
rhetoric, and signed the treaty of Versai.
les which pledges to England the blood and
treasure of the American Negro to hold
down four hundred millions Of her dark
skinned subjects who are restless under
their exploitation by the capitalists Of the
British Empire''
''Mr. Wilson declared for no annexations
and indemnties', yet as plaything in the
hands Of Lloyd George he sanctioned the
annexation of three and a half million
square miles of the richest regions of the
earth in Africa and Asia, with their fifty.
one millions of colored people, to Great
Britain. open covenants openly arrived
at was another phrase Of his rhetoric, yet
he refused to open the covenants months
after they had been arrived at. The Sen
ate, under the constitution a vital part of
the treaty-making power, was refused the
Austrian treaty, and knew nothing Of what
was going on at Versailles until Mr. Will
son was ready to present the treaty with
Germany to it and order it to shut it's eyes
and ratify'
Continuing Mr. Thomas takes up the
crime against Haiti. ."While he was vo-
ciferously proclaiming that this war was
to protect the weaker nations against the
strong he was waging a cruel war Of con-
quest, plunder and murder in helpless
Haiti. He commissioned a North Carolina
ignoramus Josephus Daniels, with all Of
his prejudice, to draw up constitution for
the black republic. Our marines proceeded
to shoot down three thousand natives,
usurp the government establish the court
martial in time OF peace, abolish the legis-
lature, conscrpt labor, and establish the
big financial interests of the United tates
for plundering the natives.
"What have we suffered at home He
has placed a common cracker over the post
office department and vested him with CEN
sorship over the sacred right of free speech.
The most that this man Burleson knows
about administration is the means of get
ting rid of efficient colored clerks who have
given satisfactory service for years under
postmaster generals who knew the duties
Of this high office. His attorney general,
Mitchell Palmer, has used the department
Of Injustice to silence the manly Negro
editors who dare to say that they dom like
lynching. He wasted our money presenting
to Congress long wall against these edit.
ors because they wanted the constitution
enforced, and spent goodly portion of
his time, for which we were paying him,
in his beloved Georgia getting votes for
his selfish presidential ambitions
''These two distinguished senators have
consistently opposed the efforts of Senator
Pat Harrison, who misrepresents Mississippi
in the United States Senate, to destroy the
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