The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-09
The South American Exodus.

The Kansas organization which proposes
70 COLOMBO colored people Of the Southern
States in Brazil and the Argentine kepub
lie, doubtless has some fraudulent purpose
in view. The MORNING News called atten-
ton TO this organization ami its published
plans some weeks ago, and warned thu col
ored people to beware of it. Colored people
in some parts of the South are, according to
newspaper reports, becoming interested in
it, but if they are wise they will nyesti-
gate it thoroughly before contributing any
Of their hard-earncd money to it.
Nothing definite is known dbout the or
ganization or its ability to carry out it,
contracts 1t is alleged that a wealthy
colored man of Topeka, Kan is at the
head of it., and that its chief agency Is IN
Kansas City. These statements may be
true, but what evidence is there that it Is
not composed of sharpers, whose only aim
is to defraud the colored people out OF
money! 1t is said that each colored emf
grant is expected TO pay Sl4 for transporta-
ton from Boston, or perhaps some Southern
port, to South America but If this money
is demanded Of an emigrant before he leaves
his home for the port of embarkation it
will be pretty good evidence that he is TO
be swindled
What will the emigrants do when they
get to South American porte They will
not find it easier to make living in any
South American country than it is in this
In fact, they viii not find it so easy They
will be strangers in strange land, and
they will wish themselves back in their old
Southern homes before they are there a
week
What is the object in going there2 The
man who Is at the head of this emigration
scheme says it is greater political freedom.
Are colored immigrants from the Southern
States likely to find greater political free
dom in South America than in this coun-
try9 Those of them who try to find it there
will be greatly disappointed. The colored
people Of this country now have all the
political freedom that white men have, and
that is great deal more than they know
how to make the best Use Of
There isn't one in a hundred that
has a proper understanding of the
meaning of political freedom. There Will
be a more general understanding Of it as
property and education are acquired.
The colored people of the South are get
ting along very well In every Southern
State they are acquiring property. Many
of them are rich men, comparatively, and
Thousands of them are in comfortable cir
cumstances. 1t is worth noticing that those
who have property and comfortable homes
have no complaints to make about their
political rights and do not propose to emf
CRATE.
1t is curious that all these emigration
schemes for the benefit of the colored people
of the South originate in the North. There
are more colored men in the South capable
of leading their race than there are in the
North but somehow or other they do not
advise their people to leave their Southern
homes. The reason is that they know that
thew are better off where they are than they
could possibly be elsewhere. Some years
ago an emigration movement to Kansas
was started among the colored people of the
South Many of those who emigrated
either starved or were frozen TO death and
the great majority of the others were sorry
they ever left the South. There was a sus-
picon that certain railroad companies
were chiefly responsible for that emigra-
ton movement They were not interested in
the welfare of the immigrants, but they
were in getting business. May not some
such motive be at the bottom of this South
American movement;