Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 38
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, November 20, 1902
THE EXODUS TO OKLAHOMA.
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Negroes Are Lead To Believe That Great
Things Await Them.
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The exodus of colored people to Oklahoma continues, in fact is just now getting
under headway.
It is estimated that one hundred families
from Falls county have already gone to the New Eldorado beyond the River Red and
that that many more will go before the new year dawns.
These people have been lead to believe that
great things await them in the land owned by the "Injuns." Smooth
immigration agents and strikers of their own color have pictured to them the
beauteous lands and the high order of social and political existence that were
in store for them in the new found land where "flap jacks" grow on mesquite
trees and the rivulets flow with milk and honey. The story that is told
these people double discounts the "forty acres and a mule."
Those who h(a)ve money, the kind that
prospered here, will get along alright in the new country. Those who have
nothing when they start will have less when they get there and still less when
crop time comes.
Those who have money will find plenty of people there to get it from them and
give them the back of the hand when they have no money. It is a new
country and matters being unsettled they may find it difficult to get
accommodations at the stores.
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by The Democrat, Marlin, Falls Co., Texas