The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-27
USES The CUDGEL
Rev. G. ID. Olden Defends His
Position.
Why Negroes and Whites Should
Have Separate Schools.
HIS BITTER WORDS.
Flags Negro Editors Who Have
Attacked Him.
Colored People Not Respected as
They We're 90 Years Ago.

Nick Chiles and ]. H. Childers, editors
and proprietors of a Topeka negro
newspaper, were publicly denounced by
Rev. G. D. Olden, pastor of the First
African Baptist church. Sunday even
ing in a talk in which he answered the
editorial of that publication on his adj
dress of week ago on the Color Line
in Our Public Schools Rev. Mr.. Olden
took up the article at length and upon
each of the points made the most cut
ting comments.
OF Chiles he said: Talk about
'checkered career Rev. Olden never
has been charged with violating the
law. keeping joint, nor has he been
arraigned before the courts. What kind
of life has Mr.. .Chiles led? He is
known to the courts as a violator of the
prohibitory law. The police records
of infamy and vice. never have at
tackled Chiles, but when he takes out
his pen and dips it in the ink and
charges me with a 'checkered life then
1 take out my scalpel and skin him from
head to foot. 1t is just the class of
men of Childers and Chiles that are
causing all the trouble, the race preju-
dice by their bulldozing."
In his disposal of Childers, Rev Olden
said: "Childers, that means childish,
you know; that is the child under Nick
Chiles. that eloquent reporter, that dis
tinguished editor of the notorious Plain
dealer. Nick stands for devil and Nick
ChileS means the devil in the child. So
this pencil pusher is a child in the
hands of the devil in a child. 1t would
take a hundred and fifty such leaders
as Childers to run Olden out of Topeka.
When such men as Chiles and Chill
derS have long passed into oblivion the
truth will still live. Jasper Childers,'
he continued in his excoriation, be
longs to a class of colored people in this
community that never visit the common
rabble. Jasper's got an eye on some
government job and is now champion
ing their cause. He had the register of
deeds idea in his head awhile and some
body else beat him to it; he talked too
much. He wants to quit cleaning
breaches down here; it is not as lucra-
tive as his mental calibre demands. He
is trying to use the negro as a political
TOOL
Before beginning this skinning opera
ton Rev Mr.. Olden had devoted himself
at length to the consideration of the
color line subject in the schools under
two leading heads: Prejudice, and the
proposition that the negro teachers,
other things being equal, are more COM
petent to instruct the colored youth
than the white teachers. Prejudice"
said he, lis what confronts the negro
in every avenue of life. This is largely
augmented by the Negroes own conduct
and lack of discreetness. He persists in
his determination to put himself where
he is not wanted and it has caused the
white race to raise a barrier against
him. This is no new thing; it has been
discussed before by leaders of our race.
II is only to be overcome by careful,
discreet gentlemanly or ladylike de-
pertinent. Years ago the legislature of
Tennessee passed a law providing sep
arate coaches for the negroes and it
was because colored people conducted
themselves so thai the whites became dis
gusted. This is not because all the col
ored people are not right but because a
large portion of them are not. You will
find this same prejudice in the court
room, in the school house and the only
way to break it down is by manly con-
duct and manly respect.
1T has gone out through all the length
and breadth of the land that the negro is
seeking to associate with the whites. to
item. We are not in faSor Of amaiga man
tion,'' declared the speaker with much
the schools he predicted: you find it not
only in the schools but it will also be in
situations if the negro persists in this. I
believe in the negro taking a lower seat
until he IS ready to take higher No man
of self-respect will push himself where he
is not wanted. Twenty years ago there
was no such prejudice as there is today.
Twenty years ago the negroes in this
community were more respected than they
of colored citizens devoid of manhood
and womanhood that they push themselves
some in that class from whom should
White race IS the Tight kind Of 5s st4 when
it thinks Is5 more Of its own than it does of
unanimous. notwithstanding the large
amount an tf OF preJndices; believe today It is
is raising 1t up for the good of humanity
just as he did the Jews and the Greeks.
THE negro teacher is better fitted to in
Struct the negro, all things being equal,
than the white because he knows better
the needs of the colored child. Between the
white teacher and the colored child there's
a little line, despite everything you can do.
teacher and the colored child, because the
teacher knows the child is of its own
race. You say you put them altogether
because there isn't enough refinement in
the negroes You go to the Lincoln school.
for instance, and you see at recess the
colored girls go off to themselves and the
white girls go off together just natural
". and there's no fuss about it. either.
There is no turning up the noses; the
it ought to be fixed. God knew what he
was doing when he made the black man
and the white man, and we are trying by
some hook or crook to change the things
which God has already fixed. The same
thing is true in our colleges the negro is
to be to himself or herself and to develop
along his own racial lines. The colored
child holds to the colored teacher just as
readily it goes to it's mather.
Il have seen cOlored talking to
whites on the street and when another
back He doesn't respect his own race
The most detestable thing is a white
stuck negro. It's disgusting.
Every man and woman of color tonight
way to overcome this prejudice is to de-
port ourselves in a manly. respectable
way The way to become citizens in reaIi-
ty is to deport ourselves so that those
who have rights will give them to u.s.
OLD BUST OF VICTORIA.