Show IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN TRUE how hov calhoun webster with his un tailing failing optimism had the better t of the deacon scott bond a ric rich ll 11 arkansas Arkan planter said bald at tho the recent I 1 convention of tho the national negro business league in now new york the open places uro tire jhb places for you the farm lands you wont bo be sick out there and tho the ground will vill love you like a brother 1 I a man optimist for my farm brother I 1 know lie must succeed anti anil any argument you bring against his hie I 1 can answer optimistically in fact im like calhoun washington who said bravely no matter what misfortune lafortune ni happened well it might havu have been 1 but tho the deacon thought hold hod got the best of tho the optimist calhoun and so BO he said to him ono one day 11 11 1 I had a dreadful dream last night I 1 thought I 1 saw the bad place there was a 0 great lake of boiling blazing pitch and we all were swimming in it you and 1 I and all our friends and when wed ead got get near tho the shor 0 o and try to climb out imps with horns and tails would jab red hot pitchforks into our faces well well said calhoun ito ho thought a moment then ho added but it might have been worse ch h how flow might it havo have been worse you goolt fool shouted tho the deacon angrily i why said calhoun it might havo have been true |