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City of Union and Suburbs Has f ~B~~^ I T T 1% 7 m "M B~ City of Union and Suburbs Has Five Large Cotton Mills. On? Knitting li' " ' B 1 .*B ' I I I IB / I J Five liralei Schools, Water Woikr, aud Spinning Mill with Dye Plant, Oil flj z? M I H 1 1 1 I B ! 1/1 II , , ago Syateni, Klt-?;ri? Lights, Three .Mill, Furniture Manufacturing and I I I J ^ V P V 3 1 V I H ' J L / Ihtnks \\ ith aggregate capital of H'oO,000, 7 Lumber Yarda, Female Seminary. JL .JL . jLv. Vr L B JL JB. -1. f JL -JLA ?-7 ? Lloetric ltailway. Population 7,000. VOL JuV.'NO. 24. ~ ONION, SOUTH CAROLiNAT FRIDAY. JUNE 16. 190,5. #1.00 A YEAR: B I THOMAS DIXON, JR. HIS Reiterates His Charge Tt a "Negro Worshippc Why He To the Editor of The State: Thanks for your kind offer of ^ | your columns for a reply. I am sorry my letter to The News and Courier was printed in the raw. It wab VC-L'y hurriedly written and very clumsily expressed. The truth of my statements, however, cannot be questioned. The quotation in The State's editorial from Mr. Ogden's private letter, as follows, is very vague: "The statements contained in , the article have no foundation in fact, in general and in particular. I have never uttered a word in the introduction of Booker T. Washington to a public meeting that you and all my reasonable friends in the souch would not cordially approve. The allegation* r ? relations with colored persons in my place of business are too contemptible for notice and so absolutely, absurd as to make a denial or explanation purely ridiculous." These lines were evidently not written for publication and I fear Mr. Ogden will be far more distressed over their appearance than I am. He simply declares that his "reasonable" friends will cordially approve and that my allegations are "too contemptible for notice." I do not understand him to deny them. He will not deny them over his signature, for Mr. Ogden, apart from his crazy notions about the negro, is a truthful and lovable old gentleman, a very estimable citizen. I repeat my allegations with renewed emphasis and challenge Mr. Ogden or any other man to deny them. I know that his introduction of Booker T. Washington to a Cooper Union audience was a loathsome and disgusting performance, because I was present and witnessed it. The lady with whom I went was anything but an enemy to the negro or to Mr. Ogden, a woman of well poised mind and sound common sense, When Mr. Ogden finished his remarkable speech of introduction. she turned to me, with a look 01 contempt, and said: "Well, I have heard of suet things, but never in my life be fore did I see a white man gei down in the dirt and kiss i . negro's feet! I've enough, let'! go!" I said: "No, it isn't th< negro's fauld. He can't help it He would crawl under the tabli if he could, but he can't escape The negro is good, let's hea him." We stayed, and she like< the negro much better. Among the things he said i] that introduction, I recall on sentence in substance: "Mei tell me sometimes that I hav made a success in life. Ladie and gentlemen, I count all m; nohiftvements and all mv honor as trash compared to the gloriou privilege of standing here tonigh and truthfully saying to you tns ' I am the personal friend of th illustrious man whom I have th honor of introducing to you." This is only a sample. I repeat the allegation th* Mr. Ogden walked through th Wanamaker store in New Yoi 4 ( ' , "V-- , r - V.a Ui VAIUII HtHHBEi Son, Bankers, | DEPENDS PORMER STATEMENT. I lat Mr. Robert C. Ogden is! >r, Pure and Simple." Thinks So. ' with his arm around this negro, because I saw him do it. How long he kept it there on that occasion, I can't say. He may J have done it unconsciously; if so, all the worse, as a revelation of I his character. I might prolong this contro| versy at great length and have 'much fun with the venerable president of the "Southern" Educational board, but I have no j time at present, being under conI tract to furnish three articles to ; great northern periodicals on this theme and its allied ones in the near future. I allow myself a single statement, however, "to make the ;tale simple and unvarnished; straight to the point; without tatters of passion or thunder of invective," following the admoIIIL1V11 1)1 1/1IV. VUIW, ? uldlC. I think it will be sufficient to convince the editor and all his southern readers. I repeat with emphasis my assertion that "Mr. Ogden is a negro worshipper, pure and simple, '' because ne teaches a school six days in the week on Broadway where negro 'equality is taught in the most direct and powerful manner possible by personal example. Mr. Ogden is the head of the John Wanamaker store in New York, and he conducts there the only first-class restaurant in the metropolis where a big buck negro is allowed to enter and seat himself at the same table with a white man's wife and daughter. So far as^L^now, this is the only restaurant where such a disgusting spectacle can be seen in New York, and, so 1 far as I know, Mr. Ogden is the originator of the idea in this town. i I am inclined to think that our . people of the south were a little unfair to President Roosevelt ' about his famous lunch with i Booker T. Washington. It was i purely an accident of the president's busy life. Booker hapl pened to be there at the lunch . hour, the president wished to talk with him and accordingly . lunch was served in an informal F manner. Mr. Roosevelt did not mean to preach social equality with negroes?he does not be lieve in it. In the heat of polit tics we of the south didn't tote * 'il j v iair witn our aasning young 3 president. But in Mr. Ogden's case, we s have the real thing; an honest, earnest, well-meaning Yankee e fanatic who does believe in it with all his soul. He not only r believes in it, he preaches it. He i not only preaches, he practices it. I have nothing to say about n what he may choose to do at his ? own table in his own home. But n I have the ri^ht as a citizen and e a patron of his store to object to s his attempt to force my family y to eat at the same table with s negroes. s The State declared, before >t learning my identity, that "the it author's intimacy with things ? southern is not the point, his & knowledge of Mr. Ogden's mode of association with persons of color is the question at issue." ^ The point is well taken. I i? have voted in New York contin'k uously since 1889. My knowledge on this issue is ample and firs hand. Mr. Ogden's store is th only one where I keep an ope account from year .to year, have had this account there abpt te*i years. Mv wife (and daugt , ter now, also,) are afflicted, wit; ' the "Wanamhker hftbit" (a dis J ease for which KeelejL never ir ? venj^d air^'cure)" They gother add stand all day?stand on tjjei frjjet: looklhg at .his tempgni pwarea^ raf&e tfpler hang's droum j lafcse. I can't blame theni: The! ! are made that why. Mr. Ogdei j keeps a fine store? a temptinj ; store?one of the best in Ameri ! ca. In all my dealings with hin I he has never sold me a shodd: I piece of goods?I have alwas go I my mcney's worth. As a mer i chant, he is a man of the highes order of genius. But as a teach cr on the race problem, he is i man of profound and pathetic ignorance, where money and posi tion make him a fanatic of dan gerous and far-reaching power. If Mr. Ogden ran a restauranl for negroes and whites aparl from his store, it would be a matter of little importance. It would become a negro joint in a few weeks-.NK No first-class taurant in New York dares allow negroes at its tables. But Mr. Ogden's dining room is not run to make money. It is there for the accommodation of his women snoppers, that they may not leave as lon$^>h&jr money lasts, hence the atv of his use of it for the purp*. of preuching social equality. x If you ask me why I continue to patronize his store, I say to you frankly that I am a married man. I don't patronize his restaurant, nor does my wife and daughter. I have begged and pleaded with thHlavery of the "Wannamaker hnV,;* " vvell talk to an opium eater or an old toper! She has sworn to me again and ag^in that she will reform, but the minute she strikes New York, straight to Mr. Ogden's . store she goes! I don't object to her going there on his account-far from it. She is a good Georgia girl, who graduated on the race problem long ago. I confess my reasons are financial. I am now consumed with a secret hope that when Mr. Ogden reads this he will find it so "contemptible," so "absolutely absura," as to make "a denial or explanation purely ridiculous," and that he will order the head of his book department to throw "The Leopard Spots" and "The Clansman" out and make my name taboo in his shop forever more. Then, oh Lord, will I give thanks, for my wife will never go there any more, and I shall be saved! At least, I'll save from $500 to $1,000 annually! If the editor of The State wishes to test the question of Mr. Ogden's pitiful negro obsession, lqt him challenge the president of the "Southern" Educational / nnfnvflnnn fn nriun lin V?1Q npirrf W 13* TVs U|y Aaiu v propaganda restaurant, orresigr his presidency! I'll guarante* that negroes will continue to eal with white ladies in his store,and that the conference will find i new presiding officer! I may be mistaken; it is barely possible that Mr. Ogden's innovation o: the past few years in associatin* with Southern white people ma? have broadened his mind?bu I will not believe it until I see it The State asks why I have de layed my attack on the efforts o a grouo of good-hearted, weak minded Yankee philanthropist to pauperize the educational sys tern of the south in the interest of negro equality. Again I will be frank. Thi "Southern" Educational societ is composed of many of my warn personal friends, among ther Mr. Page, my publisher. The are in dead earnest and their air is high, and in the main, gooc I have hoped that they migt shake off the influence of sue men as Ogden and the editors c the northern negro organs lik ; The Outlook. But it seems , vain hope. The truth is, thes i negro propagandists are the me f who secure tne funds which mak the "Southern" Education, board a power to be reckone with. > As a southerner, who loves tl i t- South and the north, and wh< e believes that the south has per n formed a mighty service for thi: I republic in preserving our racia it integrity in spite of the effort.' i- of apch men as Mr. Ogden to cor h rupt it. I view with suspicior i- the Greeks who bear gifts. Anc i- I venture mildly to suggest that e< a "Southern Educational boarc t* ^r|th its headquarters in a negrc tt >eqil^lity restaurant on BroadOr wajji New York, is a legitimate e subject of discussion, i- l^ie State has been deceived, ^ ^jtlpast about Mr. Ogden? whose a ieai^iritfcr?sts have always been 5. with the negro during his entire -j life. . He is the president of the r ' board of trustees of the negrc /' school at Hampton, and on the t board at Tuskegee. If he were to deny over his signature his t negro loving obsession, it would - raise a laugh among his friends i wjiich could be heard in Phila delphia. This soft spot in his - brain is so well known here that - it is*3ft joke, and is excused by his . moceT*obust associates as a mild t fdrm of insanity. t It is a good time for The State i to grttcefully ^yvithdraw as an t Ogdqpite chty* <on. areTiot * ^^anp'Bubtl4n,Vces are at work : in America ' .^.Tidermine the u?:?-?i----. ^ uamciB wiiiL-i^ parate our y,000,000 Africans from the white race. There is enough negro blood here, if allowed to mix with ; ours, to drown the national character at last in a welter of negroid mongrelism. Neither toleration, education nor religion can make a negro a white man, nor justify the pollution of our blood with his. In our humble judgment the most insidious, dangerous movement agafaidt Southern sentiment since the war is concealed behind Robert"c^&g3en oVthe'Wampttei negro school, proprietor of the Broadway negro equality restaurant, is chairman. Thomas Dixon, Jr. New York, June 6. CAUTION IN IMMIGRATION. A dispatch from Washington says: , ? United States Consul Henry W. Diederich, whose post is at Bremen, Germany, has sent to the State Department an exhaustive report upon the condition of the emigrants passing through that port on their way , i *i i r*i _ j mi _ T? to tne united oiaies. ine Russians now flocking across the Atlantic, he says, are recruited from the lowest and most degraded of the Czar's unhappy [ subjects. 1 "Since I entered upon my present duties," he says, "I nave seen 611,492 emigrants pass through Bremen, but official candor compels me to say that some ^ of these Russian refugees belonged to a lower type than I had > ever seen. As they are led 1 through the streets of this city 1 to the dock of the Argo Steamf ship Line, to be transported to 1 England, it is a common remark 1 hearn on every hand, 'How can * England and America receive > such people?' Yet the Bremen f population is hardened to such ? sights, the main streets of the f city being daily thronged by t emigrants of all nationalities on * their way to other countries. "Should the war continue, * this rush of the fugitive Russians to our country will also continue, s and I cannot help feeling that 1_ many of them are very undesira3 ble. Unfortunately, our present immigration laws do not reach s; them. They impress one as y being more or less physically and n mentally degenerate, unable and n unwilling to do any but the y cheapest kind of work, and bj n overstocking the labor market ' they tend to reduce the standare of living of the American wage h | worker and to increase the arm: )f j of the unemployed and discon :e ! tented, as there seems but littl< a probability that such as thes< ,e j will be uplifted by our institu n , tions and civilization." :e I This is only a confirmation ol &J what is reported by every inves ic* tigator of the immigration move ment of the day. Immigrant 16 we now coming at the rata o 5 L II III IIII I" Hill" I E F. M. FARR, President. I Merchants and PI: Successfully Doing Bu: imR Is tlu- OI.OKST Hank U 9 lias :i ami suri PS S is theon v N \TIO.\j 9 S lias pniil (liviilcmls ? 3 m pavs FOT'll |>cr con Jj is the on'y Hank in lr Eg 9 has IUirKlar- I'roof vn B 0 pays more taxes than WE EARNESTLY SOI ' nearly a million a year, and, un like the former times, the greal bulk of present immigration con sists of the very lowest classes of Europeans?of people less likely to be of value to the country than even Chinese. The latter would at least make good laborers, and that is what the wholp country needs. In view of thv haracter of immigrants now <?v ng from Russia and elsewhere, the South should with ihsravor upon the scheme to establish at Ellis Island government bureaus which would make it possible to turn into the South the great stream of undesirable immigration. The South needs laborers, and it needs them badly, but while other sections are being aroused against so large a part of the immigration which is now flowing this way. we must not make the mistake welcoming it and thus adding to our burdens. Of the better class of Italians, of Germans and Scandinavians we cannot have too many, but we must exercise Sumo disc"mination and prevent the South being made the dumpmg-ground of the vast hordes so rich ihT-rlbed by Consul UiedeWashington. face, and into whicn iiik,%r^ayj Southern men are innocently drawn, looking to the turning into the South of much of the most undesirable foreign immigration. Deeply interested as the Manufacturers' Record is in seeing a vast increase in South| ern population, we realize that at the moment exceeding care is needed. On the one hand we have the danger of a vast influx of the lowest classes, and on the other we have the danger of the labor organizations trying to prevent all immigration, because, according to their view, immigration lessens their control of the labor supply.? Manufacturers' Record. In Defense of Ogdenism. The "triumph of Ogdenfsm" at Columbia, S. C., in the last week of April was in such inverse proportion to the expectations of individuals and groups most interested in its success that the State of that city, its chief remaining apologist in the South, and mainly responsible for its strictly refined and family performance at Columbia, has been occupying much valuable space in its columns ever since, almost daily with explanation and more or less befogging assertions bearing upon the matter. Of course, no charitably-disposed person can object to the State's attempt ing to vindicate its mistakes, for, really its clinging to the subject leads it now and then unwittingly to let in some light. For example, referring to its issue of June 2 to its violent and unjusti i fiable tirade against the Rev. William E. Hatcher, of Rich ; mond, Va., nearly two months i ago, it says: i "The State produced the hot I test expressions of Dr. Hatcher I declared them positively at va i riance with the record and thi r facts and challenged proof t which has not been offered. Th< II fact that Dr. Hatcher is 'th - foremost minister of the day ii r the Southern Baptist church - does not affect our criticism, bu 3 when we read his first article ii 3 the Manufacturers' Record w - did not associate, the writer wit! the venerable Dr. Hatcher o I Richmond, whos years entitl - him to respectful consideratio: - from this paper, else the terr s 'disgruntled preacher' would nc f have been applied." J. I). ARTHUR, Cashier. H HE \] inters National Bank, 1 siness at the "Old Stand." | in Union, dun of $10 .000. .1 i I. Hank ill I'lii'in, jj mount Itiv to $3IU 4'?. y t. interest on deposits, D nlnn inspected by an ontoe?\ W nit. and Safe with Titrc-Loek. ? A I.I. the funks in Union combiti d. LICIT YOUR BUSINESS. | That paragraph indicates the t value of the State's utterances - upon any subject where thire i3 i opportunity ft r expression of the ; emotions of ignorance. It says - that when ,'t called the Rev. Dr. i William E. Hatcher a "disgruntI j led preacher" it did not associ; ate him with the "venerable Dr. Hatcher, of Richmond"" That confession indicates that either the State had not read Dr. Hatcher's article as originally published or that it did not realize who Dr. Hatcher was until it was very propevlv rebuked by the Charleston News and Courier for its solecism. That it did not know | v ho Dr. Hatcher was woa nr. ? ?? 11 \J X. C" flection upon Dr. Hatcher. The State lives and learns. But the very article of Dr. Hatcher showed that he was of Richmond, Va. Another indication that The State had not read the article as carefully as a would-be critic should is that it charged Dr. Hatcher with a statement in the article that Dr. Hatcher had not made, and upon that charge based its additional charge that the statement was a "palpable and absurd untruth" and "a slander that should have no place ^in a Southern newspaper which has the opportunity of informing anybody to actcpu to prove things that he has not said. It ought not to ask others for proof of the products of its own excited imagination or its careless reading, and therefore I its allusion last Saturday to the six or eight weeks' old Hatcher incident may only be taken as a sample of most of the stuff in defense of Ogdenism which it has been erupting. In all kindness, however, it may be suggested that havinc discovered | that it should not have applied the epithet, "disgrunted preacher" to Dr. Hatcher, The State read Dr. Hatcher's article, and it will then discrver that it contained no palpable untruth or slander.? Manufacturers Record. LINCOLN'S WAY TO A GOOD LIFE. In his new book on the maintenance of health, once a man enjoys that happy condition, Dr. A. T. Schofield compiles the maxims of a small army of great men who, by the way achieved wonders after they had passed Dr. Osier's age dead line of forty. Among the rules quoted ; none are more happily put nor more practical for everyday use than the following, credited to a i i t : 1- . /\urcwmm ajiiicuiii; Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; think of your wife; be courteous ' to your creditors; keep your digestion Rood; steer clear of biliousness; exercise; ro slow and easy. Maybe there are other things that your especial case requires to make you happy; but, " my friend, these, I reckon, will J Rive you a Rood life. Other maxims Ratheredby Dr. Scholield lay stress upon par' ticular habits ofeatinR, sleepinR, a I VII lllIMU^,, WUirvlUg til HI till U1HL, e but Old Abe's brief creed has the ' life of all of them.?Spartanburg Journal. i' Artificial kisses are the kind t women exchange with each other. i e After rejecting a young man h nothing is calculated to make a f girl so weary as to learn that he e has married disgustingly well.? n Chicago News, n A woman's hat may be off her 1 head and still on her mind.