The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-16
GRAY SAYS BOOKER SHOULD GO NORTH President of Peoples Bank Talks
 of That Dinner AFFR0NT TO THE STATE Mir. Gray Bids Washington to Go Where Ills Ideas of Social Equality are More Popular Than They
 are Here.
AFFRONT TO THE STATE

Henry B. Gray, the president of the Peoples Savings Bank and Trust com pany and candidate for the democratic nomination for lieutenant governor, said last night that inasmuch as Booker Washington had been entertained by John Wanamaker and his daughter at Saratoga, the negro leaders career of usefulness in Alabama had ended. and that the head of the negro school at Tuskegee should forthwith make ready to leave the state.
 A Friend of the Negro.
 My views on this subject are fixed. :" remarked MT. Gray "I hardly think need to prove that I am friendly disposed to the negro. recognize that the black man Is. as Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia, said thirty years ago. in the white mans power in the south and that 'cowardice takes no meaner shape than when strength expresses weakness
 ''The time, however, is come when the white people of the south must speak out on this subject in no uncertain tone. and let the negro understand once and for all that the hope Of social equality in this section will never be realized by the negro.
 Tt is, I believe, cruel to hold out any such expectation to the negro, no matter what may be his mental and moral at ta;oV,aots uIa whit. ,,aonla oe Alato,,,o n have decreed that the negro is socially impossible, and that he shall never be received on plane of equality with Cau- cassians in this state
 ''The principal of the negro school at Tuskegee surely knows what are the views of the white people of Alabama on this subject. He of course, understands that self-respecting white women of Alabama would not permit him to escort else.
 "In accepting the invitation extended him by MT. Wanamaker at Saratoga, Booker Washington affronted the intel ligence and conscience of the common wealth in which he lives. He practically defled the social laws that rule the life of the people of Alabama.
 Should Leave the State.
 "In view of thess facts, feel. and feel strongly that this negro leaders career of usefulness in this state is ended. His conduct arrays against him, against his school and against those of his people who endorse his acts the united and con- of ha xubita pQOnla of Alabama.
 Ut is true that the state gives relative ly little to the support of the negro school at Tuskegee when compared with what the school gets from northern phil anthropists; yet 1t receives proportion ately its share of the states appropria- tions for education. If Principal Wash ington persists in his ill-advised course, he will compel the legislature to with draw it's support of his school. In case the appropriation is cut off l have no doubt that the school would promptly re- ceive large benefaetions from ncrthern men who are in the habit of givpH money for negro education. In withdrawing its support of the school. the legislature would do so not to punish the negroes but merely to protest against the unwise poli- cy adopted by one of their leaders-a policy that is, at bottom. an insidious at tack upon the body social in the southern states.
 Peace Between the Races.
 GAS an Alabamian who desires to pro- mote the welfare of all It's people and who wishes to see the white and the blacks live near one another in a spirit of amity and good will. l earnestly pro- test against such incidents as that at the hotel in Saratoga last Sunday. They prove that Booker Washington should leave the state whose social laws he has de- fled and take up his habitation in com munities where the idea of social equality between whites and negroes is more pop ular than it is in Alabama.
 ssThe Hampton institute in Virginia. was successfully administered by Gen eraI Armstrong. formerly of the federal army. It is now, l think, administered by pr. Fussill, who is also white man. If the friends of Tuskegee are wise they will see to 1t that Booker Washington is promptly displaced at Tuskegee by a white man who will respect the social laws of the state or by a negro leader like Council, who does not encourage his people to expect social equality with the whites.
 q have no feeling of anger about the matter" concluded MT. Gray, but the