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March 13, 1913.

[stamp: ACK'D MAR 22 1913 C.L.S.]

Mr. President:

We congratulate you for your splendid Inaugural
Address. It is teeming with expressions of justice and equal
rights for each and every citizen. It expresses the ideals of
equal rights as conceived by the founders of our Government.
Being representatives of that class of American citizens who are
habitually controlled by the forms and practices of the slavery of
the past, we rejoice in your grand expressions of equal rights for
every citizen. We assure you, Mr. President, of our activity
and help in aiding you to make those noble sentiments of justice
delivered by you on March 4th, 1913, a practical realization
among the citizens of our great and grand country. No citizens
are more patriotic and no citizens are more true and loyal to the
stars and stripes than those we represent and we will always be
willing and ready with whatever power we possess to uphold the
equal rights of the citizens so well announced by you.

We thank you, Mr. President, for this interview and we
hope that your administration will go down in history as one of the
best in the United States of America.

Respectfully,
Joseph H. Stewart
Secretary

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