The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-14

which the mere fact of the equality or
 superiority of negroes in numbers to
 white men In any given locality accen- 1 tuates more than ever.
 The sense of Booker Washington is
 manifest. His self control, natural or acquired, is evident. The influence
 which his tact and his character, his | learning, his industry and his wisdom
 exert is well known. The respect to
 which he is entitled is not small, and should not be- The danger of his los
 ing his balance ceased long ago, In the | opinion of those who have studied him | wei.
 1 We have chosen to narrate Booker Washington's experience with white
 men around him, and to do it accurate ly and coolly, as an offset to the ado
 made in sundry quarters over the fact
 that President Roosevelt lately enter
 tained Booker Washington at his fam fly table in the White House. Ad- vices from various parts of the South are to the effect that the act has made
 a great stir there. Political significance
 is given to it. Grace political conse- quences are predicted to follow from 1t.
 The story we have told makes the stir
 which has been aroused not only intel
 ligible but unsurprising. Of course,
 any strictures on a private gentlema.n's
 personal and private hospitality are in-
 solent and uncivilzed. Those who in-
 dulge them are impudent, and do not know it, are civilized and are unaware of 1t, are really barbarous, and are not conscious of it, are not gentlemen, but
 think that they are. That is a matter of psychology, or sociology, or for mis- sionaries It is for academic and not acrimonious consideration.
 The instance is, of course, only sin gle one Booker Washington Is as ex- ceptional among men of his race-or races, because he Is one-third white, one- third African and one-third Indian t-as Frederick Douglass was, with whom Abraham Lincoln, Henry Ward Beecher Charles Sumner, s. F. Chase, George William Curtis, Wendell Phil lips, U. s. Grant, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, William Mckinley and Theodore Roosevelt dined in the past, They were never ashamed of him. No reason exists to conclude that Douglass was ashamed of them. Book CT Washington can get along with Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roose- welt can get along with Booker Wash ington. And the fact Is nobody's busi- ness.
 Not long ago one of the prominent objectors to-day to MT. Roosevelt's din- her to Booker Washington came to this borough. He was and is an eloquent, showy person and perfect southern gentleman" But he carried dinner to him by some plain northern people to such continuation that two walters, Willoughby street policeman, an insti- tute professor, and the editor of an in- dependent newspaper had great difficult ty in getting him into carriage, more difficulty in bearing him to an hotel, and most difficulty of all in preventing him from fighting all creation. One would not more regard him as type of a section or of vocation than one would regard contemporary believers over the Roosevelt Booker Washington as representatives of the really | civilized and progressive south.
 The Eagle understands and allows for the difficulties of white and black at the South. It believes in letting them dIIeCleu Dy lHOSe ulIllcultleS i've [ them up, or down, or out, among them selves. It has no prescriptions and no for them. But the Eagle also insists that the president of the { United States and Booker Washington . shall be let arrange their own personal affairs, in their own way, and that neither should be subjected to the cen arrogant or snobbish remarks or threats of those who are not invited to share their hospitality or authorized 70 intrude upon it.-From the Brooklyn E,a glp nsSff'