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exceptional opportunity to know the educated, as
well as the uneducated negro; and. perhaps for this
reason he is more than ordinarily interested
in the race problem, which is no longer sectional
but fact becoming national. It is therefore deser-
ving the best thought and earnest coorperation
of all.

The writer had occasion recently to discuss before the
"City Club a book by a negro, Rev. Sutton E. Griggs, "Wisdom's.
Call" - a remarkably well witten argument for justice
to the southern negro. A number of illustrations
used by the author are taken from our local papers.
reporting cases that occurred in this county.

The inclosed editorial from the "Commercial Appeal"
of [?] discussing the [?] of state-
government in Tennesee, seems to confirm,
in a measure, the author's claim as to its cause.

I believe the average negro laborer compares favor-
ably with the same class of laborer in other countries,
and his general treatment is about the same — except-
ing always the bararous Lynchings to which he is exposed)

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