The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.10, page 525, Jan. 1911, U. of Illinois Press

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{AN UARY . 191 1 which I held in Bullock County on January fist. This meeting was packed with the best white people and colored people in the county. I talked straighter than I have ever done to the white people about the condition of the rural schools for Negroes, and they seemed to take it all right and I believe are going to act on my suggestion.) I am going to keep up this work of going straight to the white people throughout Alabama and talking to them regarding the condition of the Negro schools. I find that the white people in this state really like to be talked to in a frank way; that is, most of them do. Yours very truly, TLpS Con. 52 BTW Papers DLC. ~ v ~ . . ~ . Booker T. Washington BTW spoke for two hours to a large crowd at Union Sorinas, Ala., on Tan. I, 19~. Extracts from the speech indicate that it was less frank than he believed it to be. For example, he remarked that ''the nine millions of Negroes residing in the Southern States enjoy some peculiar and gratifying advantages, though in making this statement no honest man can fail to recognize the fact that we have some disadvantages, but the advantages I believe are more than the disadvantages.'' He did say, however, that for black tenant farmers to remain in the rural districts, white owners needed to provide good dwellings, good schoolhouses, and personal encouragement. (Montgomery Advertiser, Jan. a, 19~, -. A typescript of part of the address is in Con. 957, BTW Papers, DLC.) From Monroe Nathan Work [Tuskegee, Ala.] January 3, ~ 9 ~ ~ Mr. B. T. Washington: I have been thinking about your proposed letter to the legislature concerning prohibition. The following has occurred to me as a way of putting the matter before the legislature: The colored man has no voice in the matter of having or not having a prohibition law although he is the one that will be most affected by the law. Whether there is a prohibition law or not will probably not materially increase or decrease the number of users of strong drink among the white people, nor will it probably increase the amount that is used by them. The white people have attained a certain amount of self-control so that if a thing is thrown open to them they are not as likely to abuse their privileges. 525