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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