not in the sense of apologizing for a necessary evil, is spreading alarmingly among the negroes, as it has but by bringing out the usefulness and wholesomeness they deal with the use of liquor as an ineradicable Well, the South shall lie on the bed of its own the problem, but only with some of the negative ones, in commendation of the stand taken by the brewers done in all prohibition states and districts. Evidence continues to multiply that it is necessary in the Rockford (111.) Star of December 8, 1907: What then is the definition of this thoroughly organized and popularly backed agitation to put the saloon out of in favor of cleaning up the retail business, still the The Usefulness and Wholesomeness of Alcoholic and wholesome features. practice, but nowhere recognize its necessary, useful been said in the daily papers during the past month general tone of the editorial remarks shows that the Drink Must be Shown to the Public. for the brewers to take up the defense of their business of the temperate use of beer. Although much has making. Already travelers tell us, the cocaine habit writers are not familiar with the positive aspects of in drink for the benefit of his poor black brother ! realize that the dramshop has produced no good and that Here is a characteristic utterance from an editorial business? Is it not that the great masses have come to