The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1907-08-15
.PRlll0IBl7I6'il'|.. !.
Interior, With the
LaEor
.tsSYSt>f& l'"r.r.'' .
Southern WorkiSsg1h.n Resent ANY
Prohibition lUnon What They "
May Eat Sor Drink.


Washington. $DN c., Aug. "a
high official Of tAe immigration ! hu j.
reau is authority tbaay for the stats
ment that the, prohibition movement
in the South will seriously Interfere.
with efforts rtoget immigrants to
that section of the country. = :.
: 'It Is none Oh my business" he
said. although have been cooper
ating. as far as possible. with the
immigration bureaus Of the states
or South cafoiiha. Virginia and 9TH
ers. SO soon stne class Of people
being sought in-S3the South find out
that prohibition laws cucumber
their personal liberty they viii re-
fuse to go sodth and those now
there win leave, .rhe German, Aus
TRAN, Swede, Finn and nearly all
other classes of Europeans will not
go where they cRn not get beer. Be
sides that they resent any interfer7
once with what they shall eat or
drink, believing that these are mat
tiers OF PERSONAL liberty. They do
not hold the view that so light a.
drink as beer, 4eh@n taken In mod
crate amounts and under circum-
stances to which they are aecustom-
ed, is either a ssinsor crime, They
look down upon whiskey drinking in!
this country as aS>moral weakness
to which Amerieans should not be
addicted, and prohably would not
care what happened to the ardent
spirits, but they object to being de-
prived Of beer.x In Finland, for in
stance, the government and the In
'teliigent classes encourage the use
of beer as keeping down the heavy
drinks, which threatened to IN
crease In consumption, and .F1nland
is considered ting, model temperance
nation of tho earth. -
Mistake In SOUTH
Personally Il think a great mis-
take is being, made in the South If
these prohibition Laws are being. en-
acted to make the Negro a sober cit
izen the error VIII be discovered
in few years. The Negro will now
become an imbihere of the cheapest
and most fiery grades OF mean whis-
key, and I will venture the predic-
tion that in preHiBitfon states OF
the South crime will increase. 1t is
history that prohibition runs out the
mild drinks. like beeE and brings In
the worst Of the ardent class. The
Negro naturally likes the stealth
that goes with blind tigers and it
will not be long before ne will take
the lead in defiance OF law and hyp-
oricy. He will copy after the white
man, 1t Is true. When he sees pro-
hibition laws defied he will pay less
attention to other laws. 1t Is well
known that in many portions of the
South where prohibition is in force
through local option the Negro has
turned to cocaine and drugs and has
become so WORTHLESS sthat he Is a
menace. ..,
Sale Of Beer.
What the South should do to
help the Negro be a better citizen
and to encourage the immigration
Of useful and intelligent. European
workmen Is to enact laws that will
favor the sale Of beer and the light
est OF wines. This course Is now
advocated in many states of the
country by distinguished churehmen
and thinking citizens who want to
find a medium between the radical
ism OF prohibition and the extreme
of wide open conditions. Commits.
sioners from Finland who recently
came to study license lays in this
! country were horriffed at what they
saw in the prohibitions state of Maine
and went back home with, recon-
mendations that their own laws
showing partially to the light
drinks, we're the best In existence
They saw more DRINKS in Maine
cities than any other place they Wis
tied" #*..*