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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.
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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
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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.