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[stamp: THE WHITE HOUSE
NOV 19 1914
RECEIVED]

Muncy Pa.

[stamp: ACK'D
NOV 18 1914
J.A.K.]

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Hon. Woodrow Wilson.
President of the United States,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:—

I wish to appland you
for the way in which you rebuked
the egotism of the negro, W. M. Trotter,
as I am opposed to making pets of
the negroes for political purposes.

The United States does not
owe them anything, but on the
other hand they are indebted to
the United States and the institution
of slavery for whatever traits of
industry and thrift that have
developed. No other system of
employment could have taken
such a class of barbarians and
made as much of them as slavery,
even admitting that in some
cases the habits of industry
were literally pounded into them.

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