The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-07
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SIMMONS

--RosCoE sIMMONs-
4. The editors have Mr.. Mencken
with them again. They quote him
joyfully in his Heavy phrases against
injustice. Your preachers don't take
up much time with Mr.. Mencken.
They are so used to being put in the
sky by other politicians-those who
confess their calling and don't wear
their collars backwards-th truth
from new Daniel come to judg
ment goes hard with them.
One or two statements by Mr..
Mencken in HIS Mercury may interest
you. He hooks up the Ku Klux Khan
with the Baptist clergy. The Ku
Klux Klan is Methodist institution,
not a Baptist institution. Baptists,
North or South, white or colored
are not intelligently organized
enough to run the Ku Klux Klan.
The Ku Klux Klan and the Anti
Saloon League go hand in hand.
Think OF one and you think OF the
other. See one whether walking
through legislative halls or collect
ing funds and you see the other.
Ycu saw both together in the Grim
inal court Of Indiana last week, did
you not? Both wept over Mayor
Duvall, but the. jury didn't pay much
attention to their tears.
The Anti-Saloon League Is GER
tainly n Methocist body. dry in ap-
petite. DRUNK in thought.
Baptists. MIR. Mencken, have
enough to carry as 1t is: hand the
Ku kiux Kaift too John WeEley's
crowd. The bishops. grand men Of
this world. know how to bear all
burdens with ease. They are able
to lead the camel through the eye
of the needle. Baptists have
hard time threading a needle.
This hard lick from Mr.. Mencken
will please you: 1.-THE Jim Crow car,
true enough, still survives In such
remote sinks of barbarism as Mis-
sissippi, but what enlightened col.
ored man ever goes into Mississippi" !"
A great many of them go into
Mississippi, Mr.. Mencken. That is
why you hear so much about the
Jim Crow car. One tenth of the
population of cclered u, S. A. lives
in that state. Maybe, also, that
powerful editor doesn't know that
the Jim Crow car survives in other
remote sinks: Georgia, Virginia,
Tennessee, Louisiana, North Caro-
lima. South Carolina, Florida, Ala
bama, Arkansas, Kentucky and
Texas.
Enlightened colored men, even
live in those states; do we'll In them
financially, and do nothing to OPP
pose either the Jim Grow car or
their complete shutout of govern
ments they are taxed to maintain.
Read Mr.. Mencken, as you read,
THINK. Unless you wish to think,
let him alone.
?. Some surprise was expressed
over the report that Mayor Walker
OF New York got hot in the collar
when he saw several colored people,
Brazilians, in cabaret in Rome.
That should not surprise you. Mr..
Walker is general agent OF the can
didacy of Governor Smith of New
York. who is itching to be offered
up by the democratic party.
Gov. Smith knows his case would
be hopeless before the people hut
he wishes to, show that Catholic
can be NOMINATED by one OF the
two big parties for the presidency.
GO ahead and count on me-" the
Pope tells him.
Objecting to colored people in
cabaret, though Brazilians, Mayor
Walker knew would be cabled to the
U. s. A. as news. Southern demo-
Gratis, reading the item, would say
among themselves, 'why look what
Walker did; Smith must be safe oon
great issues" Then the swing.
As long as cbjecting to you, ade-
nouncing you, Jim growing, disfran-
chising you, will help men to office.
power, earthly honor, you will be
objected to, denounced, jim-crowed.
disfranchised. Is not that plain?
Read these few words from Mayor
Walkers reply to Prince Patonzia-
mas speech at the luncheon the
prince got up for the Mayor:
yesterday I was permitted
to kneel at the foot Of the head
of the universal church and the
same day meet the most out
standing force of government in
the world today. nm better
man and a more useful agent
of government because of It."
You can't tell what went on while
the Mayor was kneeling Catholics
lose no wars though battle or so
now and then may go against them.
Had you not thought that the most
outstanding force for government In