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

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