Looking Back, I Have This To Regret,

One Of The Points In Which I Was Especially Interested Was The Jim Crow Regulations, That Is, The System Of Separation Of The Races In Street Cars And Railroad Trains.

I Sometimes Think We Expect Too Much Of Christmas Day. We Try To Crowd Into It The Long Arrears Of Kindliness And Humanity Of The Whole Year. As For Me, I Like To Take My Christmas A Little At A Time, All Through The Year.

Measured By Any Standard, White Or Black, Washington Must Be Regarded Today As One Of The Great Men Of This Country: And In The Future He Will Be So Honored.

The Streets And Alleys Of The Ward Were Notoriously Filthy, And The Contractors Habitually Neglected Them, Not Failing, However, To Draw Their Regular Payments From The City Treasury.

In The Beginning I Thought, And Still Think, He Did Great Good In Giving Support And Encouragement To This Movement. But I Did Not Believe Then, And Have Never Believed Since, That These Ills Can Be Settled By Partisan Political Methods. They Are Moral And Economic Questions.