The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.13, page 5, Apr. 1914, U. of Illinois Press

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APRIL · I 9 I 4 To Robert Russa Moton [Tuskegee, Ala.] April 4th, 19~4 My dear Major Moton: ~ think ~ owe you both a letter and an apology. ~ wonder if you have seen my article on education in the South published in a recent number of ''The Outlook.'' Under separate cover ~ am sending you a marked copy of the article. As you perhaps know, I have been doing some work in Southern California which has kept me away from my desk the greater part of March. ~ know what Mr. Scott has said to you ~ answer to your kind letter of March ~ lath. ~ do not grow at Al sour or bitter because some good friends of ours, including Mr. Villard, do not always agree with me or understand me. ~ am simply trying to do the very best ~ can and dr, not proceed In any important direction without getting the very best advice ~ can from as many sources as ~ can. ~ hope people wid not grow impatient with me if ~ do not yield to the temptation of becoming over-excited and ''fly off the handle'' every time something occurs that is meant to hinder or disturb the progress of our race. AB such matters pain me just as deeply as they do any individual in this country, but ~ have reached the conclusion that we have got to depend upon broad education for all the people for the final doing away of these injustices. It is far better for me to devote the greater part of my energies to doing that which, in my opinion, wig broaden Al the people and strengthen them in the direction of doing justice then to fritter away too much time and strength in trying to remedy temporary and often local conditions. In the last analysis, ~ must be governed by my own judgment, though that judgment may be very faulty. Of course ~ fully realize that on many points if ~ speak ~ shaD be cr~ticised adversely, and if ~ keep quiet the same will be true. For example, during the last four or five months I have been through practically every Southern state, and I have yet to find any persons, white or black, who take Mr. Clarence Poe's suggestion to segregate the race on the farm seriously. It is generally understood by people who have given the matter any attention at all that Mr. Poe Is simply emphasizing this idea for the purpose of advertising his paper. The whole idea is so utterly impracticable and preposterous that ~ cannot , ~ ~ 5