The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-03
KANSAS cOMMENT
"cIssYn Johnson.

C1SSY" JOHNSON.
1t develops that a young woman who
graduated at the head of her class In
the Chicago university this year is a
negress- She is white as anybody, and
was social leader during her school
term being beauty, and having plenty
~ money. Mushmouth Johnson,
chicago, is her brother, and he furnish
ed the coin. Beautiful, accomplished,
talented, this girl, whose mother is a
Wnlte woman and whose father is an
octoroon, IS up against a grade of trou-
PIE oy which few people are confronted.
Her white society in Chicago will drop
ner like hot poker, the same as if her
lot mad been cast among the people of
South Carolina. That is race prejudice.
we near great deal of talk about
the race problem and it's solution, but
tne Cnautauqua orators have not yet
race prejudice is as universal as is the
desire for gain, and no white society,
Wnether in Texas or Kansas, Kentucky
or massachusetts,, will meet on a social
IeVeI with man or woman through
whose veins there flows a drop of negro
blood win this girl from the Chicago
university, who has been a belle in an
exclusive white set. be contented with
negro society? That, or the life OF
recluse, is the only way left open for
her, unless she decides to go to the
devil as many an unfortunate woman
under like circumstances has done be-
come forward and settle this wretched
girls case. There isn't anything wrong
with the girl. In fact, she is most &c
sdrable in every way, except Tor ner
parentage, for which she Is In noWlse
responsible. The Rev. Charles M. Shell
don, noted clergyman, once ran the
Topeka Capital as he believed Jesus
would have run it, and be wrote q,
The recollection or the Capital expert
ment, and of Mr.. Sheldon's book.
prompts the writer to ask in candor ana
with reverence, What would Jesus do
with the Chicago university case? And
would the white people OF the country
handle the case as Jesus would nanole
it?-Holton Signal.
A FAIR STATEMENT.
Believing him to be innocent of the
crime charged against him, 1t was pro
per enough for the Western Federatlon
of Miners to- re-elect William ID. Hay
wood to the office of secretary-treasurer
while he was yet on trial. To have
failed to re-elect him at the convention
early last month would have indicated
that his brothers in the union suspect
ed his guilt. But though Haywood mas
been found not guilty of the charge OF
numbering Ex-Governor Steunenberg,
his record isn't clean one. He hasn'
show himself the man to be at the mead
of a great organization like the West
ern Federation of Miners. The state
of Idaho regained a lot of her lost con-
fdence by giving Haywood an impair.
tial trial The Western Federation OF
Miners, whose ways have been as de-
vious as those. of the state of Idaho,
to gain the confidence of the public
will have to drop Haywood.-Salina
Journal
THE HAYWOOD VERDICT.
The sentiment: of the country will be
satisfied with the acquittal of Hay
wood The instructions of the judge
that the testimony of Harry Orchard
was of little value unless corroborated-
left an intelligent jury no other course
The trial at Boise has been admira-
BILE in every particular. 1t was order
ly, the jury was a model for the sys-
tenn, and thet judge allowed the intro
ductfon of every possible, testimony that
would cast light. upon the situation.
The entire progress of the Boise trial
has been such as to make man proud
er of the American system. and the
American community.-Wich Beacon.
A GOOD POLICY.
Vhv doesn't some trust try to show