beverages. There has been no lack of expedients in of public opinion in regard to the drink question. vent excess in the use of alcoholic beverages. himself? The police power of the state is practically upon being able to secure their supplies by direct ship- present state of ignorance and misinformation in re- I have dwelt upon this incident for the purpose of The Rule of "Not Too Much! 3 exhibiting again the incapacity of our people, in the evading it, or at least evading the spirit of it. the legislation of southern states to restrict the parti- openly going into a law with the full intention of adoption of the prohibition law. No doubt they count Surely a better way could have been found to protect tion would have been sustained if they tended to pre- traffic, and even seemingly arbitrary laws in that direc- comes to devising means to protect the negro from There is no doubt that the white people of the state of unlimited in respect of the regulation of the liquor ment from the adjoining states. They are, therefore, the ingenuity of southern legislators stop when it the colored people from the excessive use of alcoholic up the use of alcoholic beverages, notwithstanding the 93 cipation of the negro in the electoral franchise. Does Georgia, for instance, have not the least idea of giving could be found serves only to emphasize the immaturity