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out in some situation which doesn't seem reasonable. Nothing in the particular situation is any reason for the deep feeling that is evoked. I've seen it happen in other people who were brought up in the deep South and had not acquired a philosophical outlook upon everything that happened. I laid it, in my own thinking of him, to the fact that he was a grandson of the Civil War, had grown up in a small town, haunted by poverty and by social changes that had come about with the abolition of slavery, in which the white man had now to become important by things which he did, not just by being right. That kind of demand upon him created a strain. That strain was what was expressing itself.

To this day I have never discovered the reason why he did this. I don't think it's discoverable, but I've never tried to. I'm almost sure there was so reasonable reason. I heard talk about this or that outfit being behind him, but the outfits that were behind him got behind him after he got going. I don't think they propelled him into the situation. I think he got himself into it and they rallied behind him. I have never made any investigation, so I don't know, but that was my assumption. Of course, some of the worst elements got behind him, including the Bund. He swallowed whole, or at least he