The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-10-30
BILL ARP.
ABOUT THE FAMOUS DINTER
The Governor of North Carolina
Discusses the Event,

| Governor Aycock, of North Carolina
has expressed his views as follows in
regard to the dining of Booker Wash
ington at the White House:
cit is matter OF regret to the peo-
pie of the South that the social ques
ton has been raised by President
| Roosevelt. There Is genuine respect
for the work Booker Washington has
done, and his accepting the invitation
| of the President shows that he has not
properly appreciated the feeling in the
South, The Southern people are will
ing and anxious for tho advancement
of the negro, but they alc not willing
to overthrow their social structure.
| President Roosevelt and Booker Wash
ington have both mace mistake.
This reception by the President has
raised anew the color line in the South
and this is deplored. We cannot get
beyond this question and solve the pio-
blem of individual development. The
true friend Of the negro in the South
regrets the action of the President
The development of the negro is along
industrial lines and this is dependent
upon The attitude of the Southern peo-
pie. And any attempt on the part of
Federal Authorities to force social
equality can but result In injury to the
negro as class. Booker Washington
ought TO bave known this fact even if
the President did not. The act OF the
President is injurious to the South and
10 the negro. HIS course renders it
impossible for the Southern white
Republican to support him and he con-
trolls Republican politics in the South.
l am epdeavoring to secure the sup
port OF all the people for the education
of all children, without regard to color.
President Roosevelt has hampered and
retarded the efforts which are bJlng
made to educate the n,g gro. He has
furnished the opponents of negro edu-
cation with an argument of social
equality which is hard to meet. The
President is measuring life by war,
which is always abnormal, as life can
only be considered properly it its whole
aspect, and the general condition of
the United States is that of peace. The
charge of the Tenth cavalry cannot
furnish basis for action on the part
of the President of the United States.
Blood is thicker than water and The
President will live to learn this lesson."
LINCOLN ON SOCIAL EQUALITY.
President Roosevelt is said to pc
much amused at Southern indignation
for his admission of a negro TO social
equality with the white man. If he
wants to get o good laugh over such a
fantastic objection, he should read the
speech of Abraham LincplA in his de.
bate with Douglass in 1858, in the
course of which he said: " l am not,
nor ever have been, in favor of maxi
ing voters or jurors of negroes, nor OF
qualifying them to hold Office, nor in
termarryiug them with white people,
and / will say, in addition to this, that
there is pl0 slcal difference between
the white and the black race which, L
be ievc, will forever forbid the two
races living together on terms of social
and political equality-and, inasmuch
as they can not 80 live, while they do
remain together there must be posi-
ton of superior and inferior, and L, as
much as any other man, am in favor
of having the superior position as
signed to the white race" The pro-
test of the South against social equality
of white men and negroes is in accor.
dance with tn, teachings of Abraham
Lincoln, and when Theodore Roosevelt
laughs it to scorn he is reviling the
wisdom of the greatest man his party
has ever placed in the Presidential
air.-Ihe Columbia State.