| Summary: | This article criticizes an "immigration scheme" designed to attract African American citizens to a city in the midwestern United States, where "everything will be in the hands of the negro" (including city management, industry, and education). The article argues that because African Americans have few financial resources in the South, they will not "suddenly and by some unexplained process become rich" by moving away: "It is not expected that it will occur to the negro...that if no one of the ten thousand has any accumulated capital, the ten thousand will be without the capital to begin and continue these costly financial undertakings...A lot of worthless land has been obtained and divided into 'city lots,' which when sold for ten dollars each, will bring in enough to enrich the schemers, but leave the purchasers 'poor indeed.' And that will be the sum of the matter. The Southern negroes will be swindled out of their few dollars...They will find that there is no royal road to wealth; and that they were in every respect better off where at least meat and bread and a home were assured them."
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