It has been a progressive movement. As the boll weevil has advanced. as his ravages have increased. more and more of the colored population have left and more and more of them will leave. That movement. however. was made possible. and. to a certain extent. was superinduced by the fact that our restrictive immigration measures have brought about a pronouirced shortage of labor in the great industrial centers of the North and the West. and in order to recruit the losses they have sustained by reason of the exclusion of that class of labor which the manufacturing industries have always relied upon for common labor. they have gone to the South and inaugurated a systematic movement. curbed only by the laws of the specific State in which it is attempted to operate. to induce the negro laborers to migrate to the North and West to take the place of the immigrants. the unskilled laborers. who have heretofore been recruited in and who have come to this country from the southern and eastern portions of Europe. The effect. Mr.
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