The San Francisco call., 1901-10-23
ACTION
Of ROOSEVELT
Clergymen Approve the
Booker Washington
Incident.

CHICAGO Oct. 22.-President Roose-
velt's action in entertaining Booker T.
Washington at the White House was up
held and publicly approved by the Amer
lean Missionary Association, which
opened its ffty-hfth annual meeting to-
day at the First Congregational Church
at Oak Park.
The matter had been a topic of con-
Versation among the delegates to the con-
Yention throughout the day, the society s
prominence in the education of the negro
making it matter of unusual interest.
Additional Importance was lent to the
affair from the fact THAI Booker T. Wash
ingtOn is a prOtege of the aSSOciat tfon. He
received his first assistance in securing
an education from the association and the
impetus thus given him in his youth has
often been acknowledged by him as the
basis for the eminence he now enjoys.
The following resolution was unanimously
adopted:
The American Missionary Association of Con-
gregational Churches desires to express it's cor
in entertaining at the White House recently
Booker T. Washington, a justly honored rep
resentative OF his people, thus ignoring race
prejudice, publicity and officially reaffrming
the equal rights of American citizenship and
emphasizing the principle of brotherhood re-
vealed by our great exemplar and master,
Christ
The same matter received attention
from the Rev. S. Parks Cadman of Brook
lyn, who delivered the evening sermon.
Referring to the incident he said:
We cannot shut out from the inclusive mean
ings of the blessed evangel any single child
of the race, and we rejoice in the courage OF
our chief magistrate, who receives at the ex-
ecutive mansion of this nation a distinguished
of African citizenship who is also an
apostle of the principles for which 1 am plead
ing. There is scarcely a monstrous paradox
in the social order of to-day which cannot be
traced to the refusal of man to link every other
man with the efficient causes of the kingdom
of God. and the failure to look upon him as a
brother in Christ and to estimate him by the
law of Christian comfy.
lFARMINGTON. Conn. Oct 22.-Presf-
dent Roosevelts day in Pennington pro-
vided quite q notable addition to the his
toric annals of this ordinarily uuiet old
town. The intention of the Presidents
sister, Mrs. Cowles. to make the ccaSiOn
q private affair was considerably over
come by the anxiety of the people to see
Everybody on the street was inquiring
when and where the President could be
seen. but the mass of people went away
satisfied. for the President made three
dashes through portions of the town. In
the last of these he rode out in open
carriage through the big crowd assembled
on the principal street corners Just at the
conclusion of the ceremony of planting a
Mckinley memorial oak.
The Presidents day was filed with en-
joyable rides walks and receptions tt
was concluded this evening with a dinner
given at the home of Commander and
Mrs. Cowles. Among the guests at the
dinner were the President and his daugh-
telyou, Assistant Secretary Barnes. United
States Senators Joseph r. Hawley and
Orvile H. Platt and their wives. and Gov
error George P. Mclean. Between his
took a long tramp to Pinnacle Mountain.
The President will leave Pennington al
$40 a. m. tomorrow and will arrive in
New Haven about an hour later.