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Americus Times Recorder
Americus, Sumter County, Georgia
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South Carolina Gov. Thomas G. McLeod, interviewed in Montreat, N.C., attributes Negro exodus to the North to better wages, not Ku Klux fears or social equality desires. He estimates 50,000 have left SC and advocates agricultural improvements like crop diversification and share-cropping to stem migration.
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WHY NEGROES LEAVE
Ku Klux
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Equality Responsible, South
Carolina Executive Says
MONTREAT, N. C., Sept. 25.--
Governor Thomas G. McLeod, of South Carolina, who has been spending two weeks in the mountains near Montreat, in the course of an interview spoke with emphasis concerning the migration of negroes from the South to northern states as follows:
"The stuff that is appearing in the Northern and Eastern press as to the causes for the negroes leaving the South is all sentimental and psychological rot, for the negroes know they have no reason to fear the Ku Klux, and ninety-nine out of every hundred have no desire for social equality. They are going North and East simply because they can get more wages in those sections as the people there can afford to pay more. If we do not put our agriculture on a basis to yield a better living and more profits, then not only the negroes but many white people will also leave the state. While it is estimated that 50,000 negroes have already gone from South Carolina, still in many sections their departure has not been any serious loss. In fact there are many still who could go with benefit to the state. It is queer how that the presence of the negroes in such large numbers in the South has, in a sense, long been considered a problem, but when this unexpected solution is offered through their departure, a great cry arises.
"Rotation and diversification of crops and co-operative marketing are what I believe will be the best means of making agriculture profitable in our state," declared Governor McLeod. Continuing, he said, I believe the practice of landlords in requiring standing rent in payment for the tilling of their land is wrong. I think that the old-time idea of share-cropping in which the one who farms as well as the land-owner invests something, the landowner his land, fertilizer and live stock and the farmer his labor, is best for all concerned, for in that way the industrious may be stimulated to greater industry because he knows that the more that is produced and the more profits made the greater benefits he will derive."
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Montreat, N. C.
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Sept. 25.
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estimated that 50,000 negroes have already gone from south carolina
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Governor Thomas G. McLeod, of South Carolina, in an interview at Montreat, N. C., stated that the migration of negroes from the South to northern states is due to higher wages there, not fear of the Ku Klux or desire for social equality. He noted that their departure has not been a serious loss in many sections and suggested that rotation and diversification of crops, co-operative marketing, and share-cropping would improve agriculture and retain population.