The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.13, page 517, 17 Nov. 1906, U. of Illinois Press

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ADDE N DA ing $150,000 worth of property. Up to this time, we have failed to hear of a single arrest or any great loss of life. We have also seen an account of a happening in Mississippi, where the Negroes with arms, energy and courage broke up a mob and also a Ku Klux Klan. We have, too, received a few subscriptions from Seneca people with encouraging letters, saying ''Keep up the good work.'' We think you will finally come to realize that it is not only wealth and education that are needed by the Negro in this country, but a little manhood and courage to go along with it. We have no objection to your fighting along your line of thought, and hope you will not take any exception to ours, for we think we are making it better for you and the entire race by continually keeping before the people of this country that we are not going to stand these outrages, always without resenting them. The sooner these Southern whites learn this, the better it win be for ad concerned. We are looking forward to great success for the Business League in 1907. Truly, Nick Chiles TLS Con. 3~7 BTW Papers DLC. To Nicholas Chiles [Tuskegee, Ala.] Nov. ~ 7, 1906 Personal My dear Mr. Chiles: ~ thank you for your frank letter of November ~ a. ~ always enjoy writing you because ~ find you are a man with whom one can discuss matters, and even disagree, without personalities and abuse entering in. In the first place, there is no disagreement between us as to the end to be accomplished. Perhaps our only disagreement is as to the method, and I know that in al] you write and do you are seeking the larger good of our race throughout the country, and ~ did fee] when ~ wrote you that if any of the Southern white radical papers had gotten hold of your utterance at the time that it would have used what you say in a way to hurt. You speak of your paper having been circulated in the 5~7