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Nov.18,1914
[stamp: THE WHITE HOUSE
NOV 19 1914
RECEIVED]

Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States,
Washington, D. C.
Mr. President, Dear Sir:

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I beg to call your attention to the
enclosed Editorial from the Boston Traveller of November sixteenth.

I believe that it expresses the feeling of many able
and good persons, and Societies, that are working, and have worked,
for fifty years, spending millions of money, and scores of lives,
in helping the Negro race to take its place in the Anerican
Republic.

Race segregation seens to be a fact. It is also an
issue of some sort, political, economic, social, moral. By all
means it is the last, and even though the protestants against
segregation may be infelicitous, the issue cannot be forever
sidestepped by any political party, any more then the issue of
slavery could have been in the sixties.

I beg to remain,
Most respectfully yours,
George H. Gutterson

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