s, it would end the fear of race
domination, and take from the South many of its peculiar
characteristics, which today hamper development. To the negro
it would be of even more obvious benefit. The race would be
far better educated, considerably richer, and with greater
political power. Success for the negroes of the North would
mean better conditions for southern negroes. For if the
southern negro, finding political and social conditions
intolerable, were able to emigrate to the North, he would have
in his hand a weapon as effective as any he could find in the
ballot box.

The Oshkosh, Wisconsin, _Daily Northwestern_ felt that a large
influx of colored people would bring to the North the same perplexing
problems that long have disturbed the people of the southern States.

This, in fact, is the most serious aspect of this reported
migration of southern blacks, and it is suggestive of no end
of trouble for some of the northern States, which heretofore
have regarded the so-called negro problem as something which
little concerns them. The South has struggled for years to
solve this problem, with its many phases and angles, and
never yet has found a satisfactory solution. Should the same
baffling questions be forced on the North it would give the
people something to think about, and many will gain a new
appreciation of the perplexities of the southern whites. And
the necessity of facing this new problem may come to the North
much sooner than generally is expected.

The Springfield, Massachusetts, _Union_[163] was also of the opinion
that:

The North has been strong for the negro, considered as a
political entity, but our communities are manifestly not
desirous of supplying a field for him to expand and adapt
himself to the social structure, and their leaders experience
more difficulty in this regard than do their co-laborers in
the South, with its vast colored population. This in itself
furnished food for careful thought.

In a way, there is justification for a disinclination on the
part of New Englanders to add a large negro element to their
number. We have enough of a problem already to absorb and
educate the large alien element that has come into our midst
from the Old World. Our duty toward our colored residents
should not go unrecognized, and the first step toward a just