The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.7, page 4, Jan. 1903, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers ~ Cassius Carter, born in Virginia in 1857, practiced law in Virginia and Texas before moving to California in 1886. He was district attorney in San Diego from 1893 to 19°3 Thomas fungus Calloway to Emmett Jay Scott Washington, D.C. Jan. ~2, bloc Dear Mr. Scott: You will be interested to know that we had an ''anti-Booker Washington t''] meeting at Bethel Literary society the other night.t ''Upstart'' Ferris, from everywhere in general and from nowhere in particular addressed the society on ''The Boston Negro's Idea of Booker Washington.'' The burden of his complaint and, as he states, of the Boston Negroes, seems to be that Mr. W. ignores and actually harms the higher aspirations of the Negro, because of his public utterances of the Negro's need of industrial education. Of course this is the old, old story of Mr. W's being opposed to the higher education of the Negro, which has been refuted so often. Ferris attempted to belittle Mr. W's motives, and attempted to show that Mr. W. was losing hold of the New England people. He gave credit for the work done at Tuskegee, but deplored as a racial calamity the ''gospel of work'' which Mr. W. is preaching to the American people. If you have seen the Boston Guardian I suppose you know better than I can say the nature of ~ . . . . . errls anlmaclverslons. The interesting feature of the occasion, to me, was the evidence of a number of people here who, from their applause, indicated a feeling of hostility to Mr. W. In studying these malcontents I felt that I could account for each of them by reason of interest in rival institutions, Howard, Atlanta, &c. and the others under the not very elegant term of ''sore heads'' who have succeeded wonderfully in doing nothing themselves and hence have a grievance against any man who is doing something. I must say, however, that except on the part of some over zealous ''defenders'' of Mr. W. the discussion was on a high plane, and interesting principally in the fact that with all the ingenuity of the ''Boston Negroes'' and their advocate (Ferris) so little could be 4