Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-02-14

my struggle for mere existence is just as
great and my concern for the necessities OF
life for the future is just as acute as it was
forty years ago, and as with me, so with an
overwhelming majority Of the men Of this
land of sun shine and plenty Many, yes the
most of us, are industrious and thrifty, and
we try to husband our earnings but at that
we make haste slowly if at all. In that life
beyond are we to become stronger person
ages on account of our life struggles in this
world? is question that comes to many Of
us, but without an answer |, like other men,
look at my family and see each of them lack
ing not for the luxuries but the necessities
of life, and sometimes feel almost like say
ing most of the human family has been ours
ed with poverty, but | soon recover from
such state Of pessimism, and take up the
cudgel of reaching the goal of gold with as
much determination as [ did the day after
I had passed my twenty-frst mile stone and
as [ do so do the great majority of the hui
man family. We live on hope.
"Owing to the fact that I have
colored blood in me, I find it ut
terly impossible to get office rooms in
any Of the prominent buildings Of Seattle''
and he was well appearing man and at first
glance would be taken for anything but a
man of African descendants, all Of which is
more or less remarkable to me, and to my
mind shows the inconsistency Of the white
man Of this country, and the unreasonable eX-
tent he permits his antipathies to the cOlOred
folks Of this country to take him. In one of
the most prominent office buildings of Seat
tie, the owner of which says he is Chris
tian gentleman, which no one, who has had
business dealings with him, believes for a
minute the owner turned a cOlOred dentist
out of offices he had occupied for a
number of years, soon as he acquired the
property, this dentist was returned soldier,
and of official ranks. The owner OF the build
ing is worth ten million dollars, if cent,
and yet he did this on the grounds that, the
presence of colored man in the building
jeopardzed the success of his business, but
this self same Christian patriot has scores of
Japanese business men as his tenants, none
Of whom in times Of national trouble, would
he trust as far as he could throw ten year
old bull by the tail, but he would be patting
the colored man on the back telling him all
about his 100 per cent Americanism. But the
actions of the above Christian gentleman(?)
differs in no wise from the actions of the
most of the Christian white men of Seattle,
they all bow and crutch to the Japanese
in order to get his money. In other words,
the white man is simply money mad But the
laugh of this whole situation is that every
colored man running a barber shop for
"white men only bows and apes to the
Japanese customer, but frowns and scowls
at the colored customer. He, however, does
not do this because he loves the colored man
less but because he knows it pleases the
white man. What fools we mortals be.
County Commissioner Claude c.. Ramsay
returned to Seattle few days ago, after
couple of months visit in the East While
away he visited with relatives in his native
state, North Carolina and he is we'll pleased
with the outlook of the affairs of that state
While North Carolina is classed as Demo
cratic strong hold in national elections, yet
he seems to be of the opinion now, that it will
be in the Republican column next Novem-
Der. Mr. Ramsay said he was proud of the
stand the state of Kentucky recently took in
preventing a colored prisoner from being
lynched and further said, Kentucky is but
foil %,o o1yo &c