The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.13, page 473, Dec. 1915, U. of Illinois Press

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DECEMBER · ~ 9 ~ 5 ''yes er li'l' cabin whah de blue smoke rise an' cur} Kin hoi' ernough ob happiness ter re'ch eroun' dots worl'; Dey tells me dat I poah, but de woman's In de doah. An' de chiDun's on de floah, Er singe' an' er sing~n' in de mo'nin'.'' Booker T. Washington did not escape the penalties of aD greatness. He was misunderstood by many, misrepresented by multitudes, and maliciously maligned by some. While he was the idol of thousands of his race, perhaps his own people supplied his severest critics, if not his cruelest foes. Indeed, it is just possible that among the intelligent white Christian people of the South his sincerity and the sanity of his theories were more nearly universally acknowledged and applauded than they were by the religious and educational leaders of his own race, many of whom, though gifted and powerful, are honest in their bitter opposition to the Tuskegee sage's philosophy. But the shadows lengthen and loom larger as the sun sets, and this man's greatness is secure. His teachings the cardinal ones wiD come to be esteemed by the negroes at the South as worthy of aD acceptation. The false philosophies of many generations are seldom destroyed by the blows of a single man in one generation. Over any mistakes made by this prophet of his people—and he made mistakes and over any weaknesses he had - and of his inheritance and early environment who dare demand perfection? let there be drawn the kindly curtain of the Golden Rule. It is enough to remember that a