rear their families in the suburbs, where they can buy their own homes and properly train their children in head, hand and heart. Urge them to get steady work and settle down. Urge them to become good citizens and better parents. Urge them to go to church, to lead patient Christian lives and all will come out well in the end.

The Philadelphia Christian Recorder took the ground that: 1. The negro is an American. He speaks the language of the country 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 which is an effective way to combat it. If a 

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