Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-06-26

voice in laws that govern him and for which
laws he has shed his blood freely.
1t is impossible for house to stand erect
and lasting when the foundation is unstable
1t is utterly impossible for America to be
a true democracy, when by unconstitutional
acts the minority rules the majority, when
over twelve (12) millions Of her most loyal
citizens are denied the rights Of citizenship.
TO help change this condition let us live
in the today; yesterday is past. Let us band
together in new era let us be useful to
each other, progressive, starting more bust
nesses, even small ones (the oak was once
an ACORN. Let us help conserve the financial
resources of our race and help thus in the
economic independence which will win
place quicker than in any other way. One
of our greatest needs today is more capital
to achieve the success due us, and to cope
with the keen competition of the business
world. Capital knows no color line, thrift
and success will win a place in business
Successful cooperative stores, chains of
them, steam laundries, our own hotels, shops
of all kinds. Cooperation and organization
will bring this about.
Remember men of my race that if you
can be trusted janitors and servants, in
many cases having complete charge of the
places where you are Employed; if you can
give satisfaction in mental positions, be as
sured that as owners and proprietors of
these same businesses you can also give salts
faction. Sooner or later, more and better
opportunities will present themselves and
you will find that service to yourselves first,
to your country next, will command lasting
respect.
TO the women Of my race, let me beg you,
as mothers and builders of home to stop
oh To bo cd IF
slave foreparents. Rather should we teach
them pride in the sterling worth Of them,
let them know that their honesty, faithful
ness to their masters, and the trust placed
in them as whole, was never betrayed and
this, more than any other trait, had helped
make us the loyal lovers of our America
regardless of the cruel changes of the past
years. Teach our boys and girls to have
the same confidence in their parents and
their country. Do not let them leave school
the first time they think they want more
than you can give them. The higher edu-
cation makes us better citizens, fits us for
any position that is offered finds us always
ready for any call made The response and
efficiency shown by all those of us chosen
for business and positions of trust during
the recent war proves this. We were given
another opportunity to prove our loyalty.
men were sent over seas over the protest of
those high in authority; so much criticism
had been made, so much doubt expressed,
that even our friends were anxious to see
whether we would make good 1t was test
indeed, but if any doubt remained after the
glorious conduct Of our men, after the hero
ism of whole companies, Of individuals and
men that we handicapped by lack of good
arms and ammunition, using, even
pickaxes and cook kettles to rout the enemy
around the doubt has been overcome.
We must join our National bodies, lend
our aid and support to these mouthpieces of
our race The N. A. A. c. P. with only
10000 members and 10000 Of those whites,
should have enrolled every man and woman
Of thinking age The day the armstice
was signed Negro was lynched in Ala
bama. The day President Wilson landed
in Brest to help make the world safe and
a fit place to live in, one Of our race men
was burned on the public square in Texas,
and while they sat around the peace table,
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