The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-01-11
THE NEGRO MIGRATION.
Movement Has Become Generally No
ticeable.

Hundreds of negroes have LETT
South Carolina for the North where
they have been promised higher
wages for their labor.
From almost every community
there has been an exodus.
The migration from Greenwood
has been noted there. A prominent
woman of that city returned to her
home the other night to find supper
ON the stove, but her cook departed
for Northern parts unknown. he
was lured away by the promise OF
higher wages. It's said an immlgra-
ton agent has been at work IN
Greenwood, but has been operating
under the cover of darkness, so that
he has not been apprehended and
punished under the criminal law OF
South Carolina.
The Yorkville Enquirer reports
that several Yorkville housewives
have been complaining Of late be-
cause their cooks have been lured to
New York, and other Northern cities
by attractive offers of employment as
cooks and housemaids and in other
domestic work" 1t is understood
that others are thinking Of leaving
as they are promised s13 per month
and board in Northern cities. The
ENQUIRER thinks that there is moth
ing to be done except to let them go
and profit by the experience.
The News is just in receipt of
letter from the Indianapolis Ledger,
which styles itself ''the peerless or
gan of the colored people of Ameri-
CA and asserts that in its opinion
the present influx of the Southern
negro to the Northern States is
mistake and will inevitably work to
the disadvantage of the negroes al
ready established in this section OF
the c. lntry." Moreover, the Ledger
proclaims that 1.-The move is the re-
suit of misrepresented and magnifed
stories of actual conditions. The
Ledger has been advising the South
ern negroes to stay at home, and, by
stating the fact, is enabled to put
quite a different light on the matter
from that sent forth by persons who
have selfish ends to serve and who
doubtless will be willing to let the
unfortunates who are beguiled from
their homes and friends by their
false sophistries, root for them:
selves when the war is over and
matters resume their normal state
up here.
s. The negro paper has sized up the
situation exactly. The people who
are Turing the negro labor to the
North and exploiting it care nothing
about the negro and do not warn him
that, when the war has been conclud-
ed, he will have to give way to Eu-
ropean cheap white labor. They do
not tell him that the climate of the
North is very much to be- dreaded by
him and that a great number of these
imported negro laborers have al
ready died from the diseases induced
by the rigors of the Northern clim-
ate.
For it's part, the News agrees with
the Enquirer that, if the negro wants
to leave the South to try the North,
it is best to let him go and profit by
the experience. The chances are
that, sooner or later, he will come
back home. The only preventive
measure that ought to be taken is
to arrest immigrant agents who op-
crate in this State and make them
either take out the $4,000 license re-
quired by law, or send them to jail,
if they cannot pay the fine OF from
$1,000 to $4,000 for unlawfully So
liciting immigrants.-Gr
News.