Show SOUTHERN PREJUDICE PREJUDICE T 0 THE T NORTHERNER the hue and cry which TO 1 has been set up in the south by President Roose volts entertaining Booker T 1 I Washington at din dinner dinner ner nor is at first a little litle difficult to t understand understand Only a short time before it was announced that tat the president had consulted Mr M Washington about an appointment and had acted largely upon his advice Yet this caused no considerable adverse comment coment from the south while the comparatively inconsequential act of inviting the negro educator to dinner der has stirred up a tempest of protest The Tho distinction drawn bv by the south between these two acts is that one one was political und tind nd the te other social soc al Southerners have become used to recognizing the negro I as a factor in politics but do not and will wi not admit that he be nazi can al over ever become the social equal of the white man ian manThey fan fani i They Th y look Jook upon pon the act of the president pr ident as a sanctioning i the social equality of the negro with ith the tle white Some of the comments of southern papers p are arc exceedingly bitter biter The Memphis Commercial Appeal demands that thai the white Democrats Democrat of the south who have hac received L appointments from President Roosevelt R os velt resign their thou offices The Richmond Times declares that Mr M Roose Room Roosevelt volt velt elt has aroused the disgust of the south Similarly the thi Chattanooga a News asserts aF erts that the respect which the th people of the south nad had for Mr Roosevelt has bas been beer turned to contempt contempt A few papers arc are more temperate but the majority of the tle southern press is a unit in denouncing what it i t considers an attempt on the the president president to es establish establish social equality between whites whit and blacks black Mr tr virtues intellectuality and ability go for fo r nothing The he people of the south can see only his color colori i and because became this is black instead of white they cannot t look table with equanimity on his eating at at tho the presidents presidents S I 0 r |