The Topics from Kansas City, Kansas • 2

Ithk NORTH AND I Hut thn ill haR nnm in which thu BAPTIST CUUUCU SOUTH. ffihe Sarnie. Afro-American must choose between food citizenship and codtinuing to be Tiik WMhlDgton Tim uyi: The BY Southern Baptist Convention, now In WE PRINT EVERYTHING. DO NOT FORGET THAT ILe an? tfye oi)ly the subservient tool of corrupt men IflHH MHUPR HflWI FTT fin. "ln In Washington, represent! one of They ean no lone plea ignorance, nor 4 Villi II III l-ll MVIIblil I WVf the most influential religious organlsa- iCk of experience.

The new generation tlona Is the South. Its membership 0f Afro-Americans need no instructions AT CIO KANSAS AVENUE, KANSAS numbers 2,670,454, of which 1,393,394 from their white brothers. i CITY, KANSAS EVERY THURSDAY. WHO are Arro-American ana 1,997,000 are white. About fifty years ago the Bap- The ooward editor of the Petersburg, 50 CENTS PER YEAR.

mm ramnrBRD list Uburon in this country aiviaea on y. Herald is still obeying the white the slarery question, and although no I masters and has to do them the favor reason now exists why It should not be or if he does not he will be drove out of I'oNltlvoly ray In Advance. SALUTATORY. united, both the Northern and Southern I that town like they did the Memphis With the present lssne Tub Topics dlvisons exist as independent organ 1 xa-1 Free Speech. His talk is very cheap as begins what It hop to be a successful tlons.

follows: IN THE CITY OF KANSAS CITY. The K. C. Topics, 610 Kansas Avenue. and profitable carer The sooner sectional lines in churches I "Those Afro-American editors who I I la 1 1 are obliterated the Quicker sectional are iwy wruiog against me ooum This early in its history it will be well, perhaps, to somewhat out-line its and Southern whiles don't know what feeling between the North and South intended future policy.

ill die away. Before the war, when The Tories is a Daner devoted to the they are talking about. We who live here better understand our relation to the white people than those hotheads who Are at long rangr. They do im slavery was a political issue, there was iuterestof the Afro-Americans publish reason for sectional religions differences, But the fact that bo' white and A fro cl bv them and looking Urcely to that more harm than pood. The wh ten ond Afro-Americans are getting along verj will and time will cure all disagreements.

Let the Afro-American stoi. C'mimiHiriL' American now belong to Southern reli race for support. Every subject of interest to the Afro-Americans of this country will be discussed with perfect gious organizations, should do a way with obieolion to reuniting Northern crime, stop raping whi'e w.imen and h)I candor, looking always for the solution this bosh about tie uncivil eolli churches. A raj 1 will be a thing of the past The Christian religion, above all other that. is best caloulated to advance the interests of our people.

In sneaking of agencies, should be used to harmonize and auiet the disturbed conditions All exchanges are cordially welcm subjects thus closely allied to our own welfare we may be expected to speak to our goal house created bv the war. It is natural that plainly, but is no part of our aid the that Deonle who have suffered at the missions engendered bv the wrongs of A am says that the American (H izen hands of eaoh other should foster an ante-bellum days. Those dismal days but the aUioD 0f the church does not get less than 10,000 copies each are passed and at the cost of untold is to preaoh peace, and for that reason miserv the Afro-Americans of this its first dutv is to Dut Itself in a position tn.1 thtn The readers of the American Citizen UU OU OTUWU I affnrt to allav I do not like to see that it m'sses its have been declared a man free before the law, answering no longer to the name of slave, calling no man master actional differences. ouiwn. every weea and obedient only to his own conscience convention ad- Be fere the present Now that this is so, let us look to the Rhnuld ip made VVb will Intend to make The Topics journs an arrangement MV9' anu me iuiure anu uuiuugcr k.in t.ha nf t.h Runt, i.t I an niuairaieu journal as soon a ur 4TH GRAND ANNUAL FAIR WILL BE GIVEN BY THE LADIES SEWING CIRCLE AT THE First Baptist Church Corner Fifth Street and Nebraska Avenue, FOUR NIGHTS waste va.

liable time on the dead, dark I rhiirh Nnrlli anil Hnnth It lvmi Id engraving outfit arrives from St. Louis past. The careful consideration 01 me be te towrd breaking down the monster strides made by Afro-Americans Une- divide the Deoole of An exchange wants to know which is in the short course of a generation is a vote for bread It is well for us to say the North and South on political and w. ll calculated to fill the heart of the that a vote for Kpublioan party is a sociological questions whom vote for bread. philanthropist with joy, Many, ON THE RIGHT TRACK.

years of study and patient thought have The Topics is devoted entirely to the rendered worthy of credance seen to The controversy going on between the home circle Us contents will be such think that they have grounds to hope Justices of the Peace and the county commissioners can not help but result as to make it an acceptable gift in the hat the time is not far distant when homes of the most refined. in good for the county. There is hard Arro-American will take his place men of browny intellect having ly a doubt that thousands of dollars Now is your time to debate. Ques JUNE .3.4. secured that greater freedom the free have be illegally collected through the tion: "Resolved that it is the best for justice courts in fees and costs in years both races, that Afro-Americans in the passed.

Not only have they been charg United States be colonized in Afria." (1'im which marching armies cannot but is only attained at the cost of years of slow persistent effort the freedom of mind. The Topics will ever ed up against the taxpayers, but 11 tl ganta have had to pay constructive The Future State, a monthly or "any advance the belief that the solution mileage and fees amounting up Into time" journal published at Kansas City, The articles are to be sold for the benefit of the church. thousands. Of course no one Can say lfo. by Ernest D.

Lynwood, is a "dead the solution of the "Afro-American Question" is I heir education, not simply in the learning of the schools and just what amounts if any, are now due beat" sheet. Old rascal, thy name is Lynwood. the county until competent Inquiry is had in the several cases, but there is colleges but in the greater education for PROGRAMME. no question that the board of commissioners are on the right traok. Still there which tiie former is but a preparation, the education in political economy and Afro-American Topics.

should be no attempt to collect balances, morality. For no race ignorant of the theory and practice of government or Kansas has eight Afro-American based upon a technical construction of newspapers at present. lacking in morality can long remain Musical and Literary. Admission io cent First Night the lawB where it cannot be shown that the money charged against the officers The Arro-Amerlcans or Mass, are free and cannot but be a menace to the taxed for 11,376.50 worth of property. actually went into their hands To nation of which they are a part.

take such oases into court would be If Tin: Topics can in any way be in There are twenty Afro-American instrumental in brinjrinr about the sending good money after bad, and letter carriers in the Richmond Va Post-office. might work Injustices. Kama Tribune happy day, which no observant man can Second Night Third Night Btownie Drill. Admission 5 cenh Play Drama. Admission cent' believe to be far distant, when the cal Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis has ib-r of the mind and not the color of AS TO TELEPHONES.

left for the West Indie with a company One of the most bare faced robberies of Afro-American artists. he skin shall decide in the desperate race lor supremacy, then its mission will the business men of this city have been Mme Lessieretta Jones, "The Black have been accomplished and its longing compelled to submit to is that perpe Pattie" has left for London, Eng. where Last trated by the Kansas and Missouri Grand Reception in honor of President. Admission 5 cent. satisfied.

The salvation of the Afro-Americans is in themselves. They are she has a five weeks engagement. Company. We have been surprised to Afro-American oratorjwho was sent see how year after year, they have paid three and four times as much as they to the Interstate contest atlndianapoli Ind. by Iowa recenty was "not in it." should pay judging from what we know REFRESHMENTS OF THE SEASO will served in abundance by the Grace Darlings of the comani Leavenworth is the only city in has been paid in other cities.

Mayor Kansas that has Afro-American saloons Twlss has been one of the few men who gambling hells and a gambling church. has taken a stand againt the company and he says he proposes to fight it out. Mrs. Harrison Taylor, Pres Miss Lena Brown, Secretarj A dispatch from Holly Springs, A company has been organixed for the Miss, last Thursday says that the hair Samuel whitening, Manager Door-keepers: R. Bom wan and Mrs.

Julia Smith. of Mrs. Nancy Garrison, Afro-American, purpose or putting in a telephone exchange in this city, A low rate not to Is 12 feet loDg. the architects of their own future. The story of their past is dark and forbidding and the present while presenting serious question gives good ground to believe that the the future will be as bright as the past was'dark.

Let the past be but an incentive to gigantic The Afro-American who is true to himself is of the greatest possible service to his race. In conclusion let us say, that the management expects to make The Tories worthy of your support Its editors are well posted on the trend of the best current thought we ask your thoughlly consideration and if you deem us worohy your support. Yours for the Race, John Homer Howlett Co. exceed three dollars a month will be It is said that the Atchison schools charged and it expected that between two and three hundred phones will be for Afro-American are the best in the 8tate of Kansas but the Leavenworth Herald claims that "Leaven worth is." Whenever you are going used, il the new exchange is success ful, doubtless the lyies will be extended The body of the late Frederick across the line. Whether the new com Douglass was taken from the tomb last pany is successful or not, it is the in Thursday and placed in the family plot tention of Mayor Twiss and certain at Mount Hope.

His widow and family were present. members or the council to wage a war to Kansas City, Missouri do not forget to get BIC MEAL for 10 cents a 548 Grand Avenue. on the Kansas and Missouri Telephone President Cleveland does not feel Company until the rednce their rates to a reasonable figure. Kansas Tribune. AFRO-AM ERIC AN EXDOU8.

The reports of the sending of Afro- that he is quite willing to accept the petition for pardon of William Chase, Americaus to Liberia by the Migration who was recently convicted of publish The Afro-American preaohers of ing a libel against C. H. J. Taylor, Society of Alabama and of the colony of South Carolina, who held a soecial Afro-Americans settling in Mexico have meeting this week, have deolared that recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia. aroused much interest among Afro- they will vote for nothing but all dem Americans, which may result In an Miss Ida B.

Wells, who is lecturing ocrats if the republicans shall treat When You Get in Kansas City, Missouri You Want to Stop at exodus of a large number. The Topics against the lynching of A fro-Americans our race unfair. thinks it is a mistake fur Afro-Ameri in the South; will return to Kansas City The Tofics believes no better work to lecture about May 27. She is now in cans to go to Liberia, for its climate is not fit to live in. It is almost impossible can be engaged in than making a effort to correct the practio of politicant that TJ QWD pK'FK MEl Chicago.

From Kansas City she will go to Leavenworth, Lawrence, Topkeka, for the white man to live there, and the have obtained in all three of the political parties. When the Afro- A fro-American cannot fare much better. The country is exceedingly malarious, A First Class Hotel For the Accommodation or Colored Feoplo. Wichita, Atchison and other towns in Kansas. American first can into the political field as a voter be found corrupt men as Joseph Burrles, alias Joseph Dusty, leaders or managers in all the parties.

Cafe, Billiards, Pool, Sample Room Afro-Amerioan who attempted an assult and nearly nine-tenths of those who go there die in a short time from African fever. They also suffer from large running sores on the legs. The soil is who at once sought to control his vote. on 7-year-old girl last summer, dropped Being uneducated and entirely ignorant through the trap in the County jail at 1012 UNION AVENUE very fertile and the country is rich in of electioneering methods, and not hav St. Joseph, Mo.

last Saturday. Before fruits, but this is more than counter ing an elevated conception of the true oharacterof American citizenship the Opposite Union Depot and Convenient to all the Cable Linei I he went to the scafford he was baptized in the Catholic faith. This was the first legal hanging in Missouri for an balanced by its bad climate. The southern part of Africa is a much better region. Afro-Americay voeer natuaally became James E.

Hollingsworth, Proprietor. the the tool of dishonest Doliticans. attempted assault upon a child..