The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.10, page 334, May 1910, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers colored people in it. There are few colored men in this organization of any real standing in their own communities. And then it is sinful in the highest degree for any set of white men to lend their influence of deceiving the colored people into the idea that they can get what they ought to have in the way of right treatment by merely making demands, passing resolutions and cursing somebody. No individual in America realizes more keenly than I do the injustices put upon our race, but at the same time I realize fully that we cannot change conditions by merely demanding that they should be changed. Of course this organization with a certain element of our people holds out a great temptation. If a child is sick and you offer it candy in one hand and castor oil in the other, the child is more likely to ask for the candy than the castor oil, though the one may result in making him more sick and the other in curing his body; but the masses of the colored people are not deceived and are making real progress. I shall send in the Bert Williams2 article soon. Yours very truly, Booker T. Washington TLpS Con. 4 BOW Papers DLC. ~ Baker had written after attending the annual NAACP conference: ''I delivered my address last night at the Negro Conference here, and I am afraid it did not meet with the approval of most of the radicals there. The more I see of this whole matter, the more I feel sure that you are on the right track—that it is only by patient development and growth that the evils can be met.'' (May ~3, Anglo, Con. 402, BTW Papers, DLC.) 2 Egbert Austin Williams (~87~?-~9~) was the partner of George Walker in vaudeville (~895-~903) and musical comedy (~go3-9). For a number of years beginning in Tog he was the leading comedian in the Ziegfeld Follies. See An Article in the American Magazine, September Anglo, below. Hightower T. Kealing to Emmett Jay Scott Ladonia, Texas, May 27 lo Dear Mr. Scott: Yours from N.Y. reached me here. I am glad to be put in guard, otherwise I might not have suspected the Trojan horse. I have so far had no intimation of the intention of the gen334