The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.13, page 124, Aug. 1914, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers The Negro business and professional men have in the past few years made remarkable progress. Their progress in the future, however, Is going to depend more and more upon the progress and development that the Negro who remains on the soil makes. As they acquire more land, raise more cotton and corn to the acre, raise more live stock and poultry, they will be able to support more banks, more drug stores, more dry goods stores and pay the teachers and preachers better salaries. When the ~,ooo,ooo Negroes of the Southwest have made the most of their opportunities and have let down their buckets deep into the earth and brought up the riches contained therein in the forms of cotton, corn, oats, wheat, potatoes, chickens, turkeys, hogs, horses, mules and cattle, they will be able to support in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma, ~ ,ooo more grocery stores owned by Negroes, 500 additional dry goods stores, 300 more shoe stores, 200 more good restaurants and hotels, Boo additional millinery stores, coo additional drug stores and 40 more banks. Whenever we think of agricultural progress among Negroes we invariably associate it with the mule. The most modern vehicle for transportation is the automobile. It Is doing almost as much for the Negro as the mule has done. The business man, professional man, and the planter in aD parts of the South are using the automobile. This has necessitated the building of good roads in every section of the South. The building of these roads has brought the country nearer the town and is carrying the town into the country. The rural free delivery, the parcel post, and the telephone have aB helped to bring the remotest sections of the South into close touch with the cities. All this has tended to make conditions in the country better for the Negro. With these facilities for the Negro in the country, with the opportunities for the Negro business man of the cider growing brighter, let us press forward to that goal of American citizenship of which not only we and our children shall be proud, but at which the whole world shall marvel and do us honor. TMd Con. 959 BOW Papers DLC. Both BTW and E. ]. Scott made minor editorial changes in this draft. I24