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