Show STUDENT LIFE 170 Rosalind’s boots hurt her feet causing a pained expression of countenance that greatly marred the effect 3 Audrey’s cat meowed twice behind the scenes in a different key from that in which the orchestra was playing The bloody napkin was 4 2 stained with red when obviously since Orlando was of the nobility it should have been blue Miss Peterson sang about be5 ing “under the greenwood tree” when by actual measurement she stood a full eight feet away from it Besides the tree was of canvas instead of wood Booker T Washington the Negro Educator living in the Western States are not apt to appreciate the conditions existing between the white and the black races of the South It has become the custom of some western people to assume that they know the cause of these conditions and that if the question should be given them to decide upon it would be but a short time before all trouble would be at an end The slave problem is not one that can be solved in a day or in a year or even in ten years We do not know when or how its solution will be brought about but we believe it is our duty to accept exist- ing conditions and to improve them whenever we can The negro of this country not only has a right to live but he also has a right to participate in the political affairs which are of interest to every true Yet we can American citizen scarcely conceive of a fusion of the People two races from a social standpoint Past experience indicates that such a thing will probably never take place We submit the question to men who have studied carefully the relation of the races There are a few persons in this country some white sopie black who have interested themselves in the negro question They have met with many successes and many We should praise them failures for their successes and not deride And we them for their failures should remember always that of all men who have interested themselves in the negro question the men best equipped to solve the intricate problems concerning it are those who have lived a life time among the negroes and who have exerted themselves to create a friendly relationship between the two races The man who stands foremost today among the many |