The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.11, page 353, Nov. 1911, U. of Illinois Press

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NOVEMBER · ~ 9 ~ ~ The effects of prohibition upon crime among the people of my race has in many cases been remarkable. In my own county in Alabama cume has been reduced sixty per cent since prohibition went into effect in the county four years ago. In many other counties in the state there has been a like reflection in the amount of crime since the advent of prohibition. When everything, therefore, is considered it appears that prohibition is an excellent thing for the Negro. TMp Con. BTW Papers DLC. Enclosed in E. J. Scott to Charles Banks, Oct. 3~, 1 I. ~ Prepared for Mrs. Eliza Paterson of Texarkana, Tex., a national organizer Hong blacks for the Women's Christian Temperance Union. 2 Walter Clark (~846-~9~4), a Confederate veteran of planter background, was one of North Carolina's leading spokesmen for progressivism. He became a justice of the state supreme court in 1888 and was chief justice from 1903 until his death. He used his position on the bench to attack child labor and corporate power, and to support labor welfare and education. (Brooks, Wal~c' Ctark; Woodward, Origins of the New South, 469.) To J. S. B. Seale: Tuskegee, Ala.] November Second 1 ~ Dear Sir: I have your letter of some days ago. If anybody in your neighborhood he canvassing stock of a silver mine in Mexico and has connected my name with the scheme in any way, it is a gross misrepresentation. ~ am in no way connected with any mining venture. It is simply a scheme on the part of a dishonest man to secure funds from the ignorant colored men and women. Yours very truly, Booker T. Washington TLpSr Con. 439 Fearing. BOW Papers DLC. Signature initialed by Charles H. ~ Seale wrote from Philadelphia, Miss., on Oct. 30, 19~, that a white man was there trying to sell shares in a silver mine by stating that BTW was interested in it. He asked for BI~W's advice. (Con. 439, BTW Papers, DLC.) 353