The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-11-01
An Open Letter by a
Keen Observer.

The article printed in your Mon
day paper in regard to a meeting to
be held Monday evening by the Hyde
Park and Kenwood Association has
been carefully read by me, also their
pamphlet, hand bill and letter, which
they sent to colored real estate men.
The Hyde Park and Kenwood As
ISOLATION overlooked a great many
facts i'm trying to settle this question,
if it may be called a question. They
seem to be unconscious of the fact
that Chicago is rapidly growing and
is demanding laborers to assist their
manufacturing establishments. The
only laborers that they can obtain at
this time are the Negro laborers OF
the South. No manufacturing estab-
lishment ut the present time in the
city of Chicago is providing houses
for laborers who are continually com
ing TO this city, consequently the
Negro neiehborhoods are gradually
widening their area in order to ac-
commodate these people.
If we are to admit that there is a
depreciation of five million dollars
of property in their neghborhoods,
and eventually a depreciation Of five
hundred million dollars of property
cut in neighborhoods this association
refers to, then they must consider
that this is to be simply an economic
question of dollars and cents. Adj
hitting, as | have stated before, that
there will eventually be a depreca-
ton of five million dollars, these peo-
pie in this district absolutely forget
the fact that by the importation of
Negroes to this city that for every
million dollars depreciation there is
fifty million dollars of porfit.
The Negro is here TO stay, and for
every ten Negroes who come to Chi
ago there are ten white mems
salaries raised, and for every dol
lar earned by Negro there are
, two dollars more earned by white
men. The Negroes earning power is
about one million dollars a week at
the present time If the white man
pays him salary of one million dol
lars u week, the white mans divi-
dends from his labor easily amounts
to Two million dollars a week; fifty
two weeks, or year, one hundred
and four million dollars; in less than
five years this property loss is coun-
terbalanced; in ten years this has
earned the white man an enormous
profit, just as the free labor of the
slave states made both the South and
New England states of America very
wealthy, so the Negro coming into
Chicago is making these same men
who object to a trifling loss of five
hundred millions, tens of billiosn of
dollars by their being here.
If these people who are Directing
so strcnuously to the Negroes moving
to Chicago would desist from buying
stock in the steel mills and stock
yards interests and all manufactur-
ing interests in Chicago, they might
be able to stop the Negroes from
coming to Chicago. But since they
insist on buying interests in these
manufacturing establishments and
running them, Chicago will continue
t. expand and laborers will continue
coming to this great city of ours.
The chief DIRECTORS to the Negro
coming to Chicago are few white
real estate men located in some of
the neighborhoods south of goth st.
who are at the present time not MAX
ing the enormous profits that they
made five or ter years ago.
Chicago is not getting poorer by
the Negro being here in this com
munity, but becoming hundreds of
times richer, and while one neighbor-
hood may be suffering from a slight
depreciation, the great common
wealth of Chicago is enjoying an era
of prosperity by his presence.
The Negro is an asset and not a
liability to any community, and we,
as citizens of Chicago, should not re-
sort to the primitive way of settling
this question, but we insult analyze
the facts with supreme patience and
unerring Judgment.