The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.10, page 308, Apr. 1910, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers people are pleased as a class and I am equally frank with him in telling him when they are not. I pursued the same course with President Roosevelt and both President Roosevelt and President Taft have always exhibited the greatest degree of gratitude to me for my actions. Yours very truly, Booker T. Washington TLS James A. Cobb Papers DHU. A press copy is in Con. 904, BOW Papers, DLC. An Editorial in the New York Evening Post New York, April I, To MR. WASHINGTON IN POLITICS The old issue as to what attitude the colored people should take towards their political disabilities is recalled anew by a recent speech in this city of Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois of Atlanta University and a letter from him to the Boston Transcript. Few people are yet aware, we believe, of the extent of the cleavage between him and his followers and those negroes led by Booker T. Washington, or of the bitterness that has developed. Dr. Du Bois's attitude is one of resentment toward wrong, of steadfast opposition to disfranchisement, and to the withdrawal of civil and political rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. He believes that agitation and protest are necessary not only to recover lost ground, but to prevent the Toss of more. He will not sit silent in the presence of wrong. He will not refrain from denouncing oppression any more than the German Poles will refrain from opposing their Prussian over-Iords, or Russians of the type of Madame Breshkovsky~ and Nicholas Tchaikovsky2 will abandon their advocacy of freedom for Russia. With this attitude the Evening Post has frequently sympathized. It counsels no man to wear a padlock when his rights as a citizen are endangered. Dr. Washington, on the other hand, subordinates everything else to the uplifting of the negro industrially once economically. His 3o~