The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-06
KANyAS COAMEWT
PROGRESS m TIFF soITTH-


The people of Atlanta, Ga, where the
Iearful riot occurred last fall, in which
negroes We're Unfortunately pulled
from the street cars and murdered and
homes destroyed have taken a new
and wise view of the race problem. The
pest citizens have banded themselves
together to give the negro square
deal and not allow honest industrious
men TO be emobbed on account of crimes
committed by the worthless, criminal
type A short time ago a jury of the
most PROMINENT men of that city did
thing that was never done before in
the south. They patiently heard the
evidence in case wherein a negro was
accused or assaulting white woman
as her assaflant. 1t was proved that
the negro had always borne a good rep
utation. That he was sober and indus
trlous: That he was at home when the
assault was made. and the jury acQuit-
ted him. The man, however, was
afraid to go home for fear of the mob
and left the state Afterwards the real
culpr1t was caught and identified by
the woman and was quickly found
guilty. This new policy on the part
of the best southern people, to insist
that judgment shall be passed upon
negroes as individuals and not as a
race, is hopeful indication of better
days in the south for both white and
black.-Jewen Republican.
THE GOOD OLD DAYS.
We often hear some neighbor say,
Things were not that way when was
young. But they were. 1t is not the
things that have changed, but our
selves. Our I1rim and precise aunt
may make fuss because niece strolls'
down to Lovers lane in the summer
twilight, but all the same she would
have jumped at a chance to do the
same thing thirty years ago. When He
came along She Went. Mother grum-
bles because we sit out on the porch
and talk little late, but she forgets
how the old man used to call her down
good and hard because dad stayed
pretty late when he was sparkling her.
We think the circuses are hummer
than they used to be and the clowns
are not half as funny. But they are.
The winters get just as cold and the
summers just as hot The flies are as
thick and the mosquitoes bite just as
hard About the only difference is that
in the fiowery days of our youth we
didn't have troubles. Now we do
Osborne Farmer. 81
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If Burton had come quietly back to
Kansas and gone to work he would
have won much more friendship and
sympathy than he has by his grand
stand play. Then the generous peo-
pie of Kansas would have forgotten
the past and have given him the credit
for every honest effort to make a new
start and retrieve his fortunes. Now
they feel inclined to pass over Burton's
TRADE with the reflection that no presi-
dent who goes after graft in high
places as well as in low places can
escape fierce denuncia lions from those
who could not bear the search light he
turned on, .them.-Jewellt Republican.
MORE PROOF"
For an insane man Harry Thaw in
the lunacy hearing has caused no end
of worry to the sane and brilliant Mr.
Jerome It's an old saying. that. fool
can ask questions a wise man can't
answer, but thfs seems to be a case
of the questions of a self-admittedly
wise man being cleYerly answered by a
supposed fool,-Hutchinson News.
TOUGH ON BRASS BANDS
The people of Abilene. welcomed Bur
ton home with a brass band The peo-
pie of Sedan had out their brass band
when Fitzpatrick returned home In
other words, the brass bands do not
seem to care whom they are associated
with.-Burlingame Chronicle.