DOCTOR WASHINGTON AND
DINNER FUNCTIONS
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train, shook hands cordially with
Washington, expressed his pleasure
at the meeting, looked Washington
over carefully and ejaculated: “Say,
you are a great man. You are the
greatest man in this country.” Wash
ington mildly protested, but the man
insisted, “Yes, sir, the greatest man
in this country.” Washington ex
pressed the oponion that Roosevelt
was the greatest man in the country,
which brought out this scornful res
ponse: “Huh! Roosevelt? I used to
think that Roosevelt was a great man
until he ate dinner with you. That
settled him for me."
As a result of this and other inci
dents, Wahsington concluded that
“the curious nature of this thing we
call prejudice—social prejudice, race
prejudice and all the rest,” makes any
attempt to disturb it unwise. Yet
four years later he was again the
object of even more bitter censure
for attending the Wanamaker dinner.
His position on such matters was set
forth by him in a letter to Edgar
Gardiner Murphy, a southerner,
author of “The Present South.” Mr.
Murphy was alarmed over these at
tacks and over their possible effect
upon the work at Tuskegee, which he
regarded as highly important. He
wrote to Washington about his fears,
and received a long letter. This is
an extract:
“I have never attended a purely
social function given by white people
anywhere in the country. Nearly
every week I receive invitations to
weddings of rich people, but these I
always refuse. Mrs. Washington al
most never accompanies me on any
occasion where there can be the lesat
sign of purely social intercourse.
Whenever I meet white people in the
north at their offices, in their parlors,
or at their dinner tables, or at ban
quets, it is with me purely a matter of
business, either in the interest of our
institution or in the interest of my
race; no other thought ever enters
my mind. For me to say now, after
fifteen years of creating interest in
my race and in this institution in that
manner, that I must stop, would sim
ply mean that I must cease to get
money in a large measure for this
institution. In meeting the people
in this way I am simply doing what
the head of practically every school,
black or white, in the south is con
stantly doing. For purely social
pleasure I have always found all my
ambitions satisfied among my own
people, and you will find that in pro
portion as the Colored race become
educated and prosperous, in the same
proportion is this true of all Colored
people.
The dinner with the kind and queen
of Denmark created embarrassments
of a different kind. The king was in
terested in Washington’s work be
cause of its possible application to
the large Negro population of those
Danish islands in the West Indies
which we are probably soon to pos
sess. Here is the way this visit of
the ex-slave to royalty was afterwards
described by the ex-slave:
“As I entered the reception-room
there were about twenty or twenty
five people who were to be entertained
at dinner. I will not attempt to des
cribe the elegance, not to say splendor,
of everything in connection with the
dinner. As I ate food for the first
time in my life out of gold dishes, I
could not but recall the time when as
a slave boy I ate my syrup from a tin
plate.
“I think I got through the dinner
pretty well by following my usual
custom, namely, of watching other
people to see just what they did and
what they did not do. There was one
place, however, where I confess I
made a failure. It is customary at
the King’s table, as it is true at other
functions in many portions of Europe,
I understand, to drink a silent toast
to the King. This was so new and
strange to me that I decided that,
since I did not understand the cus
tom, the best thing was to frankly
confess my ignorance. I reassured
myself with the reflection that people
will easier pardon ignorance than pre
tense.
“At a certain point during the din
ner each quest is expected, it seems,
to get the eye of the king and then
rise and drink to the health of the
King. When he rises he makes a
bow to the King and the King returns
the bow. Nothing is said by either
the King or the guest. I think prac
tically all the invited guests except
myself went through this perform
ance. It seemed to me a very fitting
way of expressing respect for the
King, as the head of a nation and as 3
man, and now that I know something
about it, I think if I had another
chance I could do myself credit in
that regard.”
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