The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17
SOUTHERN NEGROES
FIND NEW SLAVERY
IN NEW YORK CITY
FLEECED BY RENT GOUGERS,
QUACK DOCTORS, LOTTERY
SHARKS AND CROOKS.
FIND HIM "A GOOD THING"
New York World Tells Story of How
Negro Is Robbed on Every Hand,
And Otherwise Mistreated. Apart
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AT times the New York World has
had many things to say about the
south and racial relation here. 1t
commented on the movement of negro
population from south to north. Now
it has found that there are many things
to be said of the conditions under
which a great number of negroes are
living in the north. New York city
has not been the heaven that some ne
groes from the south expected to find
when they went there. 1t has reprint
ed from the Survey Graphic a story
which, with one illustration, occupies
a whole page of the World, with these
headlines: "Robbing the Negroes
The New Slavery in Harlem. Black
and White Alike Fleece Our Colored
Citizens-And They Must Submit
for They Can't Move. Rent Gougers,
Medical Quacks, Fake Druggists, Lot
terry Sharks, Crooked Merchants-Ex-
ploiters ALL"
In the story are a number of in
stances of the robbing of negroes, old
residents, apparently, as we'll as new.
And if the situation is even half SO
bad as it is pictured it is very bad.
Conditions under which negroes live
in the south are not as good as they
should be, not by any means But
surely they can be no worse than
- t~1
York, says the Savannah News. The
segregation of races is fact in New
York, not on so great a scale as in
the south but nevertheless it exists.
The Survey Graphic story in the
World shows how a congested negro
district tends to become more longest
ed as the population increases because
other districts do not welcome the ne
groes Their entry into district for
merly white would cause the value of
other property nearby to decrease;
many suburban districts do not want
them to enter to become residents.
They are gregarious, and, it is sug-
gested, couldn't make even meager
living except while living in districts
looked upon as set apart for them.
The New York fake druggists and
doctors (white) are quoted as saying:
oh, anything is good enough for mig
gers"
Is this the boosted understanding"
of the negro which was promised in
ferentia1ly by the north? Is this the
fine treatment he was 10 get if he
would leave the south and go to the
north? He is robbed, cheated in his
sickness, in his superstition, in his
home and at his work. An Investigator
sent to fifteen drug stores that cater
to negro trade and had prescription
filled at each one-and not one OF
them was even halfway properly fill
ed and even the quantities asked for
were wrong. One prescription called
for seven-grain capsules and they
came back all the way from three
grains to ten One doctor (white)
made a habit of Topping down on his
knees and praying after given the ma
ture OF the illness. Another always put
a plaster on his patient, regardless of
the nature of the illness. Another al
ways gave pills in series OF colors.
AS to room to live: Many rooms
work in double shifts; a day worker
sleeps in it at night and night work
err sleeps in it in the day. One apart
ment normally intended for ten per-
sons gave residence to forty-four.
And so the story keeps going. The
negro is a good thing" for unscru-
pulous persons, both of his own color
and white. There is seemingly very
little fairness towards him. He is
short changed even after paying for
inferior stuff what would be a high
price for excellent stuff. He goes into
a store to buy something. The price
goes up and when he Sc
1ects an article an inferior variety is
wrapped up and handed him and then
he is hustled out with less than his
correct change. That system is hard
to beat. 1t gets him three ways on
one transaction.
He is hudded as race, cheated as
a race, Disseminated against in sick
ness and in health. And this goes on
summer and winter. New York plain
ly is no place for the negro New
York used to poke fun at the idea that
southern people understood the ne
gro better than northern people did.
Certainly if understanding" means
profit taking nobody in the south ever
understood" the negro race as the
northerners do who. are making mon
ey out of it.