from Albany, Georgia, in the center of the
section apparently most affected, and where efforts are being
made to stop the exodus by spreading correct information among
the negroes, say:

"The heaviest migration of negroes has been from those
counties in which there have been the worst outbreaks against
negroes. It is developed by investigation that where there
have been lynchings, the negroes have been most eager to
believe what the emigration agents have told them of plots for
the removal or extermination of the race. Comparatively
few negroes have left Dougherty county, which is considered
significant in view of the fact that this is one of the
counties in southwest Georgia in which a lynching has never
occurred."

These statements are most significant. Mob law we have known
in Georgia has furnished emigration agents with all the
leverage they want; it is a foundation upon which it is easy
to build with a well conducted lie or two, and they have not
been slow to take advantage of it.

This loss of her best labor is another penalty Georgia is
paying for her indifference and inactivity in suppressing mob
law.

If Georgia is injured, agriculturally and industrially by the
negro exodus, the white people here have no one to blame but
themselves.

The indictment is true, every word of it. The appeal to
humanity, to fairness and justice and right, has been
apparently without effect. It is unfortunate for the people of
Georgia that an appeal to the pocketbook should be necessary
to bring back the enthronement of law, but if moral suasion is
powerless, the question of personal interest has entered and
in no uncertain degree.

The trouble incident to the migration of negroes from Georgia
and the South is exactly as stated.

There is no secret about what must be done, if Georgia
would save herself from threatened disaster, which, in some
sections, has already become serious.

In the first place, there must be no more mobs. Mobs and mob
spirit must be eliminated completely, so completely that there
will be no danger of recurrence. If a negro be charged with a
crime, even if it be known that he is guilty, he must be given
the same fair treatment before the law that is accorded the
white man. If anything, it would seem that ignorance and
childishne