their own petard! An important step has been taken (August i, 1907.) tent that statutes distinctly permit it. acteristic distinguishing the higher grades of culture held by our courts that the liquor traffic has no com- prevent the improper use of alcoholic beverages on the that is allowed in any other business except what is mon law right to exist and is only tolerated to the ex- anybody whatever. The fact that no other remedy distinctly prohibited by statute. part of the colored people is to prohibit its use by The recent success of prohibition in the South bears towards upsetting the arbitrary doctrine heretofore all other occupations, permitting it to do everything It does not follow, however, that the only way to from the lower ones. What is safe for the white man ing it a much stronger footing than it ever had that temperance using this word in its proper sense out the contention repeatedly made in these columns of moderation in all things is the most decisive char- Lesson from Georgia. 92 is not necessarily safe for the colored man. before. It puts the business on an equality with tire standing of the liquor business in Indiana, giv- The Lesson from Georgia's Lapse into Prohibition. Once more, the prohibitionists have been hoist by