The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-06
4 Movement not to be Checked.

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 'aT Tt Is stated that forty-two negro families, refugees from Springfield. III, whence they had lied in terror, not long since. made induires at gage Park a suburb of Chicago Wltn tbs H1sw eitizens Hi 'G of Gage Park violently Sp- posed the coming of the negroes Lne Chicago Tribune sent sah,lae a9 intergsTMts dspmty who quoted Ro6srt, ,o,,cwe! M; Senui1e' u0pU's
 "The first negro that sh ows his race around here will wish a dozen tmes as had PegeT hea5a tSers Sf GgSss out more, everybody knows mighty well how to use his gun. Win % we & use t99m Want negroes W here and we are not going to have them. IL. won't be & case Id1st 0L tST and feathers for us; uss;r,MHwsIi' " inst take tn that c w96 .erass si"piS-"'''' ~ sairv farmer was thus quoted: eve won't stand for them here. Tnere's no reason why ss they saoni,e aoine Soe to bs more There's nothing for a 'nigger to do in this claee and we Gant s stan6 aSoIf i3r sbot. Ss guns is right. we'll use them."
 Rrirhton Park correapondents were no less bitter one of whom stated the '1ss @As " q Resident of the south side and one acouainted with conditions there. Especially with reference to the color ed 1vasSn snp ;bd i1%tenseS %isn ES bttsr feeling which Is engendered against the ne. Rroes and which most assureoiy leao to an uprising g,I1 6eSias bs g ehiia!s hiTn game. eP.anIrTs P.nrbs % averase white man will not ac- oept the negro as d neIghPpor'k Ig p knaws dns negro ano%s 0nes sHlS family of his race is located in neighborh ood, property values begin to fall, and the neighbor- h ood becomes negro territory.
 keep him in his proper place and conditions may be better. otherwise prepare for a far worse riot than lnaL at Springfield and that b in a sn oEt Rannbij. 1i1j Tan Would em nave refused to publish such in terviews and letters, & put dne Chioaso do so in the hope of checking the movement of negroes toward Chicago and its en. virons. Nowadays there is guarded blacks to stay away on the part or most of. the organs of public opinion eIa in the Northern cities. where 1t IS ieu that the problem, is serious enough already and that the coming of more negroes means serious trouble.
 And yet it remains true that by Southern negro can better his ,condi:: tions-from his own point of view at least. The unions will be against him, and some of the avenues of labor which are open to him in the South will be closed to him in the North, ns certain kind. No restrictions well be placed on his vote and he can even offer his ballot for sale. He can mingie with the whites at certain pubic gatherings and some of the theatres will sell him the best seats, He soc;si csn achieve a certain measure Of 'soclal equality" and in exceptional cases may even procure a white wife. For such labor as he is permitted to do he will as a rule be better paid.
 Doubtless it is a knowledge of all this, obtained through letters from friends, that is causing the steady mi grafton of Southern blacks into the Northern states. The movement will not me materially checked by such anti-negro outbreaks as that at Spring. field, III, Nor is it well that 1t should be- The South's best interests are bound up with the more or less equal distributation of the negroes through out the United States.