The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1938-07-08
Letters To
The Editor
EDITORS NOTE: Herewith is

portion of the editorial referred
to in Attorney Aldrich's letter:
If the Jelo and the Catholic
aoant the support of the Negro to
fight against common enemy,
and they tOiH need it to be success
ful, they can 0ery easily secure
this ValaGbIe ally. A fe1o simple
methods would be to deal fairly
aoith the race in the employment
problem, break doaOn the barriers
that haze kept the Negro from Sc
curing anything but the most me
NAL Of positions, training or abiI-
ity notwithstanding; build an eIe-
nent of confidence beta0een the
race and themselves, By not en-
dorsing, tolerdting, or dHo1oing to
be placed in practice, discrinaisd-
ton against the Negro because of
his color
The Catholic, the Negro, and
the jew
Editor, The Enterprise:
The Northwest Enterprise of
June "a, 1888, featured a rather
pertinent editorial relating to the
above named groups. The sub
stance of the editorial was to the
effect that as the enemies of these
three groups, and those who are
active in the persecution of these
same groups, to wit, the Ku Klux
Khan, ETC., Silver Shirts and so on,
are equally the enemies of all
three, it would seem that the nat
ural instinct for defense and pro-
lection would cause the Catholic,
the Negro and the Jewish groups
to combine in some way for a I'm
tied Front for common defense.
We judge that the Catholics here
number about or around 25 million
more or less; the Jews about 6 mil
lion and the Negroes bring up a
respectable number of about 10
million-in all of the groups about
so million persons, enough to make
rather large and respectable ma
ton. 1t is a wonder this idea has
not appeared before now. How
ever, the things which make these
three groups what they are have
been to a great extent the obsta-
cles which keep them apart. In
other words the groups are sub
stantially different. The Catholic
group, except for the Catholic
faith, is composed of so many diff
ferent peoples and classes that it
would be exceedingly difficult to
get united action among them as
Catholic group; in fact they are
far more divided than the colored
group whose inability to combine
for concerted action in the past
has been proverbial. Catholics are
Republicans, Liberals, reactionar-
! les, Democrats, Foreigners, or
what-nots as you catch them; the
only one thing they agree on here
is the preservation and spread of
their Faith.
The campaign of Alfred Smith
for the presidency proved that Ca
tholics do not stick together" No
Catholic can obtain the unanimous
vote of his fellow coreligionists. So
an allegiance of the Negro, mostly
protestant, and the Catholics as
body, is out of the question.
The Jews, it would seem from a
religious standpoint of view, would
welcome an alliance with the Ca
tholics; both white groups, and the
Catholic can surely admit that his
Faith is the very elimination of
Juaism. But it appears that in
stead of their common origin be-
ing a bond of unity between the
Jew and the Catholic, it is their
greatest obstacle. AS for Negro
Jews, they simply do not exist; so
that the point of contact with the
Jews as such does not exist. There
are few Negro Catholics, and of
late years there has arisen a new
program as regards the Negroes
in the u. S. by the heads of the
J Church.
There is no common action by
any body of Jews in behalf of Ne
groes, but the Catholics stood
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