The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-06-16
on this issue is ample and first
hand. Mr.. Ogden's store is the

nave ndd CmS account there about
ted years. My wife (and daugh-
] ter now, also, are afflicted with
4 the "Wanamaker habit Ga. dis
ease for which Keelevx never in
!, vented any cure}. They go there
and stand all day-stand on their
fleet, looking at his temptine
fswares, assthe tipler. hangs around
7. a saloo off until they come home
I at night IN a. condition of col
lapse. | can't blame them. They
! are made that way. Mr.. Ogden
keeps a fine store tempting
store-one of the best in Ameri-
ca. In all my dealings with him
he has never sold me a shoddy
piece of goods have alwas got
my moneys worth. AS mer-
chant, he is a man of the highest
order of genius. But as teach
er on the race problem, he is a
man OF profound and pathetic ig-
norance, where money and rosi-
ton make him a fanatic of dan
gerous and far-reaching power
If Mr.. Ogden ran a restaurant
for negroes and whites apart
from his store, it would be a
matter of little Importance. 1t
would become negro joint in
few weeks.~ No frst-class- -ras-s
taurant in New York dares allow
negroes at it's tables. But MIR.
Ogden's dining room is not run
to make money. 1t is there for
the accommodation of his women
shoppers, that they may not
leave as lon their money lasts,
hence the att of his use of
it for the purh Of preuching
social equality. Y
If you ask me why l continue
to patronize his store, I say to
you frankly that l am married
man. | don't patronize his res
taurant, nor does my wife and
daughter. l have begged and
pleaded with With NY ng TWgeai Witeea in ptggf from
fhe slavarv of the-.Wannamaker
Lila tlaI aies es.4s well talk to an opium
eater or an old topper! She has
sworn to me again and again that
she will reform, but the minute
she strikes New York, straight
to Mr.. Ogden's store she goes!
l don't object to her going there
on his account = far from it. She
is a good Georgia girl, who grad
uated on the race problem long |
ago. / confess my reasons are
financial.
l am now consumed with a Sc
cret hope that when Mr.. Ogden
reads this he will find it so "con-
temptible," so absolutely alb
surd," 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 l give
thanks, for my wife will never
go there any more, and l shall
be saved! At least, I'll save from
$500 to 81, 900 annually!
If the editor of The State wish
es to test the question of Mr..
Ogden's pitiful negro obsession,
let him challenge the president
of the Southern" Educational
conference to give up his negro
propaganda restaurant, or resign
his presidency! I'll guarantee
that negroes will continue to eat
with white ladies in his store, and
that the conference will find a
new presiding officer! l may be
mistaken; it is barely possible
that Mr.. Ogden's innovation of
the past few years in associating
with Southern white people may
have broadened his mind-but
| will not believe it until I see it.
The State asks why have de-
layed my attack on the efforts of
a group of good-hearted, weak
minded Yankee philanthropists
to pauperize the educational sys-
tenn of the south in the interests
of negro equality.
Again / will be frank. This
Southern" Educational society
is composed of many of my warm
personal friends, among them
MIR. Page, my publisher. They
are in dead earnest and their aim
is high, and in the main, good.
| have hoped that they might
shake off the influence of such
men as Ogden and the editors OF
the northern negro ORGANS like