| Show f IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN TRUE I 1 how calhoun webster with hla his un falling failing optimism had the better odthe of the deacon scott hond bond a rich arkansas vi planter anter said at tho the recent convention of tile national negro business league lergul in ill now new york the open places uio are tile iho places for you tile the farm lands lamia vuu wont bo be sick out thero there and tile ground will lovo love you like a brother 1 I a man mall optimist for my farm brother I 1 know lit ho must succeed and any argument you bring against ills his success I 1 eat can answer optimistically in ili tact fact im like Callio calhoun ull lV washington who said bravely it no ni matter titter what Is fortuno happened belled voll veil it might light havo have been worse nut tile tho deacon thought hed got tile the boat best of the optimist calhoun and so lie ho said to him one day 1 q 1 I hadu biad a dreadful dream last night I 1 thought I 1 sow saw tile bad place there was a groat great lako lake of boiling blazing pitch and wo we all swimming IT in it you and 1 I and all 11 our friends aad when I 1 on wod od get near the shore and try w to climb out imps with horns luul ind tails would jab red hot pitchforks into our aur faces well avell well said calhoun hot ho thought it a moment then ho be added hut it 11 might have leave been oh ell how flow in might ight it have heon been you fool shouted the deacon angrily 1 why said calhoun it might havo boen been true |
