and fair disposal of related problems is to admit frankly that
a rather strict color line is being drawn among us.

The Beloit, Wisconsin, _News_[164] held that the migration had brought
the negro problem north and made it national:

The negro problem has moved north. Rather, the negro problem
has spread from south to north; and beside it in the South is
appearing a stranger to that clime--the labor problem.

It's a double development brought about by the war in Europe,
and the nation has not yet realized its significance. Within
a few years, experts predict the negro population of the North
will be tripled. It's your problem, then, or it will be when
the negro moves next door.

Italians and Greeks are giving way to the negroes in the
section gangs along northern railroads, as you can see from
the train windows, and as labor agents admit. Northern cities
that had only small colored populations are finding their
"white" sections invaded by negro families, strangers to the
town. Many cities are in for the experience that has befallen
all communities on the edge of the North and South--gradual
encroachment of colored folks on territory occupied by whites;
depreciation in realty values and lowering of rents, and
finally, moving of the white families to other sections,
leaving the districts in possession of colored families with a
small sprinkling of whites.

This means racial resentment--for the white family that moves
to escape negro proximity always carries, justly or not, a
prejudice against the black race. It hits your pocket too.

Negroes will enter trades now monopolized by white men,
at first, perhaps, as strike breakers; later, as non-union
competitors, working for smaller wages. It will take some
time, probably, to get them into the labor unions' way of
thinking.

Politicians, both good and bad, will seek the ballot of a
large new element, which will vote largely in the lump. Now,
what will be the effect in the southern States? Already the
offers of better jobs further north have caused strikes among
southern negroes--something almost unheard of. The South gets
no immigration, but the negro has been an ever present
source of cheap labor. With the black tide setting north, the
southern negro, formerly a docile tool, is demanding better
pay, better food