The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-17
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| emphasizes the wide diteTelce between the south and the north on the negro question.
 i Richmond Times Dispatch: According l to a special from Saratoga, MT. John Wanameker entertained Dr. Booker Washington as his guest at hotel din- ner party on Sunday, and MT. Wana- makers daughter walked with Dr. Wash ington through the long dining-room to the table. Richmond folks who patronize MT Wanamaker's store will read this item with interest. By the way. MT. Wanamaker and MT. Robert c. ogden are partners in business.
 Memphis News-Scimitar: Wanamaker, no doubt considers Washington on plane equal to the one which he occu- pies and we are not disposed to disagree with him. If anything the darkey has the better of 1t. But Booker T. has alienated much of the sympathy which has been heretofore freely given him | by white men in the south and this, he will find, is a loss for which the glory of dining with Wanamaker is a poor recom- pense.
 Atlanta Journal: Wanameker's action, while it may not be excused, may be ex- plained on the grounds of what Wana- maker does not know. It is harder to understand Booker Washingtons part in | the episode. Washington protests that ] he breaches to the negroes not to seek for political power or social recogni- 1 tion but to seek to develop themselves | as workers. He has assumed the atti- tude of a leader of benighted race. preaching to that race that 1t can only uplift through arduous efforts on its own part; impressing upon It that it must not seek for equality. But he must know 1 that his actions will influence hundreds of thousands of negroes whom his words could never reach. He has deliberately brought the sincerity of his own motives into question. If Booker Washington. their leader is to dine with Wanamaker, the negroes will reason that Is the way their education will tend. Washington Is i running his own usefulness, and forfeit ing the support of the white people of the south who believed in the sincerity of his professions.
 Chattanooga Times: The incident at Saratoga rected in the press dispatches wherein Booker T. Washington is repre- sented as escorting the daughter of John | Wanamaker to the dining room of a leading hotel and afterward lunching with her, Mr Wanamaker and others, is of little consequence except as to the effect it may have on President Washing toms further usefulness as the head of | a great negro institution located in the south and among people who for what ever reason very seriously object to the kind of equality he has established with the Wanamaker family. President Wash ington understands very thoroughly what his act meant and it Is surprising as well as discouraging that he should have permitted himself to indulge it. He can not complain at the strictures that are sure to be laid upon him a result, and will be entirely responsible himself for whatever harm may come thereby to his school and 10 the negroes themselves. This is all the more disheartening be- cause the TuslSegee school has promised to do 70 much for the amelioration of the race.
 Selma Journal: Booker Washington evi- dently believes that the time has come for unmaslsing and that he can with safety show his true features to the southern people. His tentative dinner with Roosevelt found so many apologists among weak kneed people in this section and the President was able to rally so many federal appointees and expectants around him and send them out with soothing words that Washington doubt less felt at the time that he had taken long step in the direction towards which his hypocritical face has been so long turned. He next sends his daugh- ter off to a white school somewhere in the north Then he begins to dine side by side with white men at public func- tions and to accept invitations to pri- vate dinners at their homes. Now he has torn aside the mask and shows to the south the defiant face of the negro l who Is determined to have social equality.
 Atlanta News: Booker Washington has forgotten and foresworn the promises and practices upon which he has mounted to success. and his increasing aggressive ness and departure from this realm Is enough to sound an alarm loud and clear to the social life of the south. If the | issue must be made it should be made promptly and made unitedly that, '.the | northern woman who enters a dining | hall or a banquet room an assembly on the arm of a negro. can never there- after enter another upon the arm of a southern gentleman" The southern fana- tics may mock at this assertion and pro- fess to laugh the proposed social boycott to scorn, but those who know the in- creasng Americanism of the south and tho increasing culture and force which are joined with the patriotism of this people and the respect which they bear to the entire republic. may have full confidence that there will be but few indeed to the north of us who will wish to purchase moments notoriety with distinguished negro at the price of their racial recognition by the south
 l Nashville American: Ogden and Wana- maker seem to be as one when it comes to social equality with the negro
 Jackson. Miss, Clarion Ledger: After all the noise that was made about his dining with the President. it was SUD- posed that Washington had learned some sense -B But just the reverse. Having