That the question of the negro's status in this country has not yet been settled could not be more plainly shown than in the outcome of President Roosevelt's. informal invitation to Booker T. Washington to dine with him. Washington is by common consent regarded at the most ab-Te and most useful member of the negro race in the United States. Gifted as an orator, splendidly equipped as an organiser and executive, without desire for sclfadvancement, he has made his life work the practical education of his race. In the Tuskegee Institute, which he founded and developed in Alabama, the negro is trained in mind, hand and heart. To his mind is given the education that books afford to his hand, the training in some trade that. will make him self-supporting; and to his heart is brought the need and desir ability of being an upright, self-respecting citizen. The object of the institution, and the success which it las attained, have attracted the attention and the hearty ce-operation of influential men of all classes. Washington has been entertained at the homes and tables of many men of position and authority Roosevelt, desiring information at. first hand about conditions in the South, sought it of Booker Washington. And as is Ins custom with others, he sought it best by inviting him to dinner.
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