Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-02-14
WHAT'S UP YOUR SLEEVE?

fort of the colored man to break into, not
only the skilled labor Of the country, but
yea verify even into the ordinary labor
save that of the cotton fields of the South
but when it found the colored man was
successfully filing the strikers places then
the whole craft took alarm and began to
devise ways and means to pacify the al
ready outraged black man, and many
amends have been recently made to heal
over the breaches Of the past. We are not
rejecting these overtures and know it s bet
ter late than never, 'but we are timid about
accepting the right hand of fellowship from
life long enemies, suddenly converted to the
teachings of, call men are born equal" A
few days ago we cut from the Union Record
of Setatle the excerpt below, and while we
hate to mpugn the motives Of any man, yet
coming at this particular time we read the
article with grain of salt. However we
are very much in the same state Of mind
as was the old woman who was overheard
by bunch of bad boys fervently praying
for bread. The boys saw an opportunity
for bit Of fun at the old woman expense,
and they purchased the bread and threw
it into the room. Suspecting the source of
the answered prayer, she concluded, 81
thank you, Lord, it's good even if the devil
brought it, The article is as follows:
The Negro and the White Mans Conscience
The governor Of North Carolina, Thomas
w. Beckett according to the Christian Sci
ence Monitor, has been giving the Negroes
bit Of advice in speech at Tuskegee, Booker
". Washington famous school.
The governor urged the Negroes to be pa
tient saying that "thc one safe path for the
Negro to follow is the path that leads
straight to the door of the white man con-
science-and in time every plea born of JUS
tice and wisdom will be allowed. -
That the Negro has been patient, no one
Denies That he has found much redress for
his wrongs at the door Of the white mans
conscience may be doubted.
The white mans conscience has not re-
sponded very vigorously in India, in Egypt,
in Middle and South Africa, in the United
States, to the betterment Of black men.
Our advice to the Negro is to help himself
for, according to an old saw, such people get
the help Of God. Economic power, created
by the Negro himself, has done more than
the white mans conscience.
starts wrong, although he takes position
held by many AngloSaxons. He starts in
with the idea that the white man is supe-
rior being, and that "justice" to Negroes is
something to be "allowed' by white men.
The position contradicts the latest history,
the newest thought and the true interpreted
ton Of mankind.
No race dare any longer hold itself to be
master of other races. No race possesses a
conscience to which any other race should
come and make it's plea. Justice is not some
thing to be "allowed" by one race to an
other race.
The demand today is that the white man
Cor man of any other color) should cut out
his "ars," should see that the whole human
family is one socially, industrially, econom-
icaly
The sensible thing for the Negro, or any
other race, is to 60 ahead with the assump-
ton that he is an equal and honorable mem
Der of the human family,-to agitate, to edu-