Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-01-17

Negro uprisings throughout the South were
of common occurrence, so said the white
man of that section, which we suspect, like
the recent Arkansas One was no uprising at
ALL but when one or two Negroes became
llnruly and refused to be whipped were mur-
derousy regulated. Now Christian white
men could not afford for the world to know
that the black slaves were slaughtered
in cold blood by them and so they deemed
it necessary to trump up some plausible ex-
c,lse for the wanton slaughter Of Negroes,
so they legalized and justified the killing
by branding it Negro uprising, which was
put down by the strong arm of the law.
So fearful were the whites Of Negro up
rising that the word of God could not be
given to the blacks only by white preach
and then only when a score or more OF
the masters were present.
Since the fall of the Republican party
in the South in 1876, Negro uprising have
been Of common and periodical occurrence,
and just as vigorous methods were used
to put them down as those recently used
in Arkansas, and being without arms for
defense. the helpless colored man could but
cove at the feet of his white slayer and
beg for mercy, and thus has human slavery
in the South been continued from time to
time, and it's almost as bad today as it was
prior to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclama-
ton.
How we remember when the white men
Of orr section of the state by the hundreds,
from near and from far would assemble
about some Negro uprising district. armed
as if for war. to put down an alleged Negro
uprising, which was no uprising at all, but
ONLY couple or more of Negroes refusing
to be bulldozed to death; and after having
killed the ''smart niggers'' and severely
whipped a score or more of those who re-
fused to help them kill or punish their
brethern,' the whites would return to their
homes and "praise the Lord with one ac-
cord''
We subsequently read in the Northern
press the full account Of this or that Negro
uprising and would wonder to ourselves
when it all happened.
But could more be expected than Negro
uprising when Negro men are brutalzed
to keep them in subiection and Negro wo-
men are beastaized to satisfy the animal
]usts of white Christian men, 1t was in
Mississippi, Arkansas next door neighbor,
where two young cOlOred women, respect
lively eighteen and sixteen years of age,
were lynched for having raped an innocent
young white man. and both of them being
Ill an advanced stage or preGnacy by THIS
self same innocent young white man. 1t is
in Arkansas where colored men are denied
all the rights guaranteed to them by the
Constitution and ''regulated' at the will
OF armed white night riders. 1t was in
Arkansas where colored soldiers in the SER
vice of the United States government, were
forced to hide their uniforms or be killed
by the white regulators. And yet in our
opinion, no Negro uprising has occurred
in Arkansas, and we repeat, could more be
expected under the above circumstances
than not only one bloody Negro uprising,
but many Of them.
However only one side of that awful hui
man tragedy that is being staged in the
South has ever been told by the great daily
press and that side is the biased white
mans side. Who could read the stories
that have appeared in the daily press for