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racial relations. It has come [?] we believe and [?]
to stay, for the good of both [parties?] and in spite of the
rantings of negro agitators who seek political prefer-
ment via the race issue, or racial social equality, or
both. The right adjustment of race relations in this
country is earnestly desired by whites and intelligent
negroes as well. We do not believe that the agitators
of Trotter's stripe can prevent it, though they may, by
continued beating of the racial tomtoms, provoke fur-
ther race friction and hostility in the Northern States.

So far as yesterday's episode at the White House is
concerned, however, the question of segregation bears
only incidentally upon, what happened to Trotter. It
appears from the published accounts that he went there
to make himself unpleasant—and succeeded The same
rebuke, we have no doubt, would have been administered
to any man, whatever his race, who resorted to the same
offensive tactics. This is, we believe, the first episode
of the kind that has occurred during Mr. Wilson's ad-
ministration. So that Trotter seems to have established
his own inferiority to the thousands of others who have
been given hearing at the White House during that
period.

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