The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-07-27

crime punishable by imprisonment for
anyone to attempt 20 induce negroes
10 leave their employment. This has
in past years held the oolored man TO
conditions scarcely better than slaV-
cry 1t is evident, however. that
way has been found to entice the col
ored man north without running foul
of the law.
It is small wonder that moral re-
action has set in among the negroes
against ilI-treatment by the southern
whites. The negroes have at last be-
come tired of reading such signs as
Negroes and Dogs Not Admitted
Here" or "This Car for Negroes
Only" In the last twelve months the
movement of negroes from the south
to Ohio. Indiana. New York and other
northern states has been cyciomc.
The $50, 900 colored men and women
who left their homes in that time
caused an economic loss to their for
mer southern employers OF at least
5000 600 900. Leaders of the colored
race declare-and the facts seem 10
bear out their statements-that the
charge against tAe southern negro
has been misrepresenJed in the north,
for it has been proven that many limo
cent negroes have been hanged, shot
and burned There are more negroes
in Harlem than in any other cOmmuni-
ty of its size on earth. and yet no one
has ever heard Of colored man at
lacking a white woman there. 1t is
not easy to understand why negro
would refrain from misbehaviOr in
Harlem and other sections of the
north, where he knows he would re-
ceive a fair trial, and in the south
defy the prospect Of lynching.
There is no prospect of the migra-
ton northward stopping. according to
the best authorities Frederick R.
Moore, editor of the Age. says that
although the colored people of the
south owned 00,000,0O0 worth of
farm lands and implements, homes
valued at $1,000, 100000 and have
$200,000,000 in southern banks, their
continual gradual movement north
ward is inevitable because of the bru-
tai treatment accorded them by the
whites.
I'm Birmingham and Atlanta" says
Moore. if a negro woman tries on a
hat or gloves in store and does not
buy them, she will be insulted by the
white clerk. If a negro steps in a
street car on the end reserved for
white people he will be knocked off
by the conductor The negroes have
no rights in the south which the
whites feel bound TO respect"
The war has drawn hundreds of
thousands of white laborers back to
Europe and hundreds of thousands
more will be taken from productive
employment to fight in the armies of
=! CAto NOAAIA hC oOOtuCAH HCSAO
will be able to secure plenty of work
at good wages, and better living con
ditiOns in the north than in the south
All that is required OF him is that he
obey the laws and live in accordance
with the customs and standards of his
northern neighbors That he will do
this il given half a chance is proven
by the hundreds of thousands OF law
abiding and industrious colored men
who have made their homes in the
north since the war of the rebellion
The Atlanta Normal and Industrial
school and similar institutions in the
south are crowded with young colored
men and women who for a nominal
sum are being educated and fitted for
positions in the north. The north is
big enough and broad enough for all
of them who will turn their backs on
the men who have valued them only
for the work they could do, and have
rewarded them with insults, blows
and lynchings. -Rochester On. "
Evening Times.
Joe l.. Earman of Jacksonville was
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