The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-05-15
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THE OGDEN MOVEMENT.

financial assistance towards the
instruction of the poor white chill
dren of the counties of Georgia
lying along the A. K. & n. rail-
way and east thereof, which chill
dren, it was represented are. al
most exclusively white. Mr.. Og-
den replied stating that his party
is purely in the nature of propa-
gandists for the cause of educa-
ton, whose mission IS to induce
the Southern people to help them
selves in this great matter, and
that they have no money them
selves for the children of the
South. One of the persons con-
nected with this movement states
that he knows nothing of the
alleged gift by Mr.. Rockefeller of
one million dollars for Southern
education. The report to this
effect is probably untrue.
1t is now announced that schol-
arships in the Teachers College of
Columbia University, which are
worth about $500 per annum, are
to be given to Southern teachers,
no distinctions being made Oh ac-
count of sex or race. Mr.. Ralph
Julian, a member of the party, in
a recent letter to a northern news
paper, while he admits the negro
is unequal to the whites qualities
it with ths expression cat least
for the present., and intimates
that by education this inequality
will disappear.
1t is fact that the persons who
have professed most interest at
the North for Southern education
have confined their munifcence in
this direction practically to the
negroes of the South. Thus the
Tuskegee Institute, the Atlanta
schools and other negro affairs
throughout the South have re-
ceived princely gifts from the
great monied men of the North,
while the Southern white institu-
tons have, with few exceptions
been ignored. Any one carefully
reading the newspapers will be
struck with the frequency
with which Booker Washing
toms school receives valuable
requests from dying rich peo-
pie in the North while not a
single Southern white college is
remembered, if the University of
Virginia is excepted, which about
ten or fifteen years ago received a
hundred thousand dollar bequest
from a broad-minded Northern
gentleman. The writer noticed
that during the recent tour of the
Ogden party only very short visits
of inspection were made to the
Southern white colleges while a
rather prolonged stay was made
at Washington's school, which
affair received upon that occasion
thousand dollar check from a
Northern man who makes his
money out of the people of At
lanta which courtesy he forgot to
repeat at any Southern white col
lege that he visited.
All these facts are mentioned to
show that there is at the North
very little sympathy for the white
people of the South; and there is
besides in that section a large ele-
ment who are really antagonistic
to us, who are, tho writer believes,
endeavoring to accomplish by in
direction and duplicity what is SO
abhorrent to the Southern white
people-the social equality of the
races in this section. Else why is
it that Southern white teachers
who may wish to avail themselves
of the Columbia scholarship will
be compelled to associate on terms
of social equality with the negro
teachers whom they will find
there? Such system of instruc-
ton is forbidden by the laws of
Georgia and by the unanimous
public white sentiment of the
state. Knowing this it is direct
insult to the Southern whites to
establish the conditions at Column
bia University named by the Og-
den party. They show such a con
tempt for Southern sentiments,
and an evident desire to force us
into the abandonment of them.
that no self respecting Southern
white man can accept their pro-
fesslons Of good will.
The writer believes that the at
titude of the Ogden party towards
the negro is doing the latter in
calculable harm in this section.
Without adverting to the presum-
ing nature of the negro when he
is given to understand that he is
as good as anvhodv. n disnoSition