The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-13
MIGRATION 0F NEGROES
ANALYSIS MADE BY THE MANU-
 FACTURERS RECORD.
Massing of the Colored Men in Parti- cular Localities Q Token of Material Development
 in This Section.

Baltimore, Dec. l2.-tSpecia)-In an elaborate article treating of the negro industrially presented in this weeks issue of The Manufacturers Record, an aEalysis of the figures bearing upon the migration of negroes during the past ten years. from which it appears that the massing of them in particular locations In the South may be regarded as a token of material development and the migra- tion of others to States outside the South, as a gain for the South in more wcys than one. It may surprise many that of the 2.Ss7 counties. parishes, dis trfcts. municipalities, etc., regarded as general divisions in the 1900 census emu meration, only 169 had no negroes in their population. Striking points about these figures are the fact that 35 of 243 counties in Texas have no negro population, while there is but one of the 102 counties of Illinois without them, and that there are more negroes in Massachusetts than in Delaware. while their number in Missouri is but 4.3S9 greater than their number in Pennsylvania These figures show that the negroes are on the move. In a com paratively small group of States the males and females are moving at the same rate and about in the same direc. tion. The tendency of females in the movement in the South and as they have moved from 1t, has been for the most part toward towns and cities. This Is q result in large measure of the openings in urban life to household service, or it's accessories, especially dn the South, and in Eastern seaboard cities, such as Phil adelphia and New York. In the East this movement has brought about an excess of female negroes. though the excess of the males outside the South amounts to 13,- 64l In the South the female negroes are in excess in all the fourteen States except Florida, Arkansas and West Virginia, but their exoesses fin Kentucky, 56o; in Mis- sfssippi s62. and in Texas, 542 are so slight as to be almost as significant as the excesses of males in the other three Southern States mentioned. The article says:
 Tn many instances, as every day oc- currences prove, the trail of the migrant females has been closely followed by not few males, curse to any conn whsre n hey Norn aermed saaah aas o i've
 one of whom requires the bulk of the wages of from three to five servant girls to keep him in vicious, or criminal ease. tentious politician, or a plain. unvar- nished parasite. But the males who have migrated from the South, in spite of the discouragements in other sections all of that grade. especially the class who found lodgment behind the Allegha- nies in the group of counties of the Pitts burg region and in other States. The safely 'be regarded as workers drawn to the region where work for which they are peculiarly fitted. may be had.
 This assertion must be modified when applied to the negroes of the South. though even there the relation between opportunities for work and negro migra- ton is strikingly manifest in many cases, in spite of the fact of the calls of agriculture to which negroes of both sexes have been accustomed"
 Special attention is given to the figures for Alabama, Arkansas. Florida, Louis. it is shown in rather striking manner that In the counties in those States where male negroes are In excess there what may be called pioneer work Is be- construction and public or private im- provements. This conclusion Is reached; At least one portion of the negro race possesses qualities similar to those. of tho white race which, as a rule. place the males in majority in the nigra- tory movement for the betterment of so- cial conditions. It was the case half apa RoTe ws ese with immigrants from Europe and 1t Is the case with the mass of negroes moving Northwest or Southwest beyond the AI- centers as Warwick County, Va. Mo- Dowell County, W. Va, Jefferson Coun- ty, Ala. Maury County. Tenn, and Jef- ferson County, Texas In the South the exodus of females to Eastern cities Is a source of irritation, compensated for, however, by the knowledge that the in- adequate training of these females and the presence about them in the cities where public sentiment in the North is created, of the greater number of worth less males, who leave the South for the good of the South. will undoubtedly bring the main issues of the race prob lem close home to those persona who have attempted. in remote misundeF- standing, to solve 1t theoretically. and will induce them to help the, South to handle 1t practically. It's solution in the South is being hastened by the strongly marked determination of male negroes to do the heavy work of numbering, min ing and railroad which they have done in States that are well on the way to
 full development and which they are doing in States which. during the past l ten years, have gotten in step with the country's industrial progress. The race | is in Aux at present, shifting from agriculture to industrial occupations, or | the reverse. but with the sloughing on of the. undesirable and worthless to quarters beyond the South. the indus trious negro wifi, if permitted to bt guided alright. ultimately find himself tC
 his own benefit and to the benefit of thu whole country"