try and is, therefore, superior to the foreigner in this
respect.

2. He knows the customs of the country and here again has the
advantage of the foreigner.

3. He is a peaceable worker and is glad to have an opportunity
to make good.

4. The negro is physically the equal and morally the superior
of the immigrant from Europe.

There are reasons why the negro should succeed in the North.
So we have no doubt that many will come.

Indeed, if a million negroes move north and west in the next
twelve months, it will be one of the greatest things for the
negro since the Emancipation Proclamation. And the movement of
a million negroes should not alarm anybody, especially when we
remember that a million immigrants were coming every year to
this country before the war.

Let the good work go on. Let every community in the North
organize to get jobs for our friends in the South. Let a
million come. In coming the negroes will get higher wages.

They will get first class schools, running nine months a
year--a thing worth leaving the South for, if there were no
other advantages.

They will have a chance in the courts. If they should happen
to have a difference with a white man, they will not take
their lives in their own hands by standing up for their side.

They will be able to defend their homes, their wives and
children in a way no negro can now protect them in the South.

They will have the right to vote. The foreigner must wait
seven years for this--the negro only one year. If a million
negroes come north, they will soon get sufficient political
power, which combined with their economic power will be able
to force the South to do some things she is now unwilling to
do.

With labor competition for the negro between North and
South with the North offering higher wages, better living
conditions, better education, protection and a vote, the South
must bestir herself if she would keep the best labor in the
world. And southern statesmen will see that the South must
cease to lynch, begin to educate and finally restore the
ballot.

"But," says an objector, "these negroes coming north will
increase prejudice." What if they do? Then the northern
negro will sympathize more with his southern brother. But
if prejudice increases, the negro has the ballot wh