Evening journal., 1907-10-23
ANTI-LICENSE NOTES
THE PEOPLE versus THE SALOON

ing 70 hoodwink the colored voters by
telling them some such stuff as this
Don't you vote against License, for
II you do the temperance people will
pass a Jim Crow Law. and then you
colored folks will be in a bad fix"
Just think of itl The whisiSey men
trying to pose as the friends of the coll
ored race by pretending that they are
opposed to a Jim Crow Lawl For the
benefit of those who may not be ia
miliar with the statutes OF this state,
we will quote from the Revised Code at
page 40. (Chapter 1914, Vol. IS, Laws
Of Delaware.)
Section I. THAT NO KEEPER OF
AN INN, TAVERN, hotel. or restaur-
ant or other place of public entertain
ment or refrcshment of travellers,
guests. or customers. SHALL BE
OBLIGED. by law TO FURNISH enter
tainment or rcfreshment TO PER-
SONS WHOSE RECEPTION or en-
tertainment by nm WOULD BE OF
FENSIVE TO rie MAJOR PART OF
! HIS CUSTOMERS, and would injure
his business The term customers
shall be taken TO include all who have
occasion for entertainment or refresh
ment."
Now you know what that means,
don't you? II means that where the
major part of the customers OF an
Inn Keeper Cor Saloon Keeper, as they
are generally called are white per-
sons who object 90 the presence OF
colored persons in the saloon, then
the Inn Keeper Is not obliged TO fur
nish entertainment to the colored per-
sons You will see at a glance that
la. a. I A IA Il
simple The temperance people had
nothing TO do with the passing of this
law II was enuctcd away back In 1875
l-thirty-two years before this No
License campaign was begun. THIS
DELAWARE JIM GROW LAW WAS
PASSED FOR THE SALOON kELP.
lERS. II the Saloon Keepers are ir
favor Of ai4sutare d deal7 for the negro
why don't they have the jim CROW
llIQUOR LAW" repealed? And, in th'
first place why did the liquor meI
have 1t passed? II they are opposed
TO a Jim Crow Law, why do they no
conduct their business without one.
But the negro citizen is not going Z
be hamboozled by any such toin-fooler.
on the part of the liquor men. Thl
negroes-at LEASE those who have beer
customers of the saloons-know tn
conditions under which the rum traf
fic has been carried on. They know
that-with the exceptions of those sa
5 looms that make Il specially of the col
5 ored trade-they receive poor ENTER
:, tainment" in most of the saloons
4 Some saloon Keepers have boasted tina
D they keep in stock real whisSey 80
p the white people," while they make tn
3 whiskey for the colored folks" by mix
e ling water, alcohol, and other ingred
= tents great many of the colore
r drinkers know this; and they know
e too. Of the two bar system. This two
e bar arrangement of the saloon keeper
e is Jim Crow theory in actual work
d ing order, all right, all right, all right
o He loves him we'll enough to fix u
S a place for him in a back shed some
d where where he can spend his monel
e but he doesn't love him enough
let him have a decent place to drin
in.
We admit that Just al this time N
.lrum-sellcrs arc showing some after
ton to some OF the negroes. We won
Icall Il love; but they are giving the
their attention. The result IS this
those Of the negroes who do drink al
being treated-freely treated. But i
lnO colOred man be deceived by fr,
drinks. Don't imagine that the saloo
keepers. even il they continue to &
business after November fifth, wi
keep on furnishing you free beer an
free whiskey. Not a bit Of It. The
are simply specializing on YOU no'
and for every dollars worth of whii
key and beer they give you now the
ihope later on to get ten dollars, an
more. out of you. This loudly PR
claimed affection OF theirs for you
all humbug They want your vote. an
they want your money. The SaloC
Keepers want you colored people
vote for them so that they can ke'
right on selling you Jim Crow" whi
key. in a Jim Crow "two-bar" saloo
under the Jim Crow Liquor Law whi,
THEY had passed. And whether "
lp vote for license. or against licens
II don't for a moment imagine that q
/? Saloon Keepers are opposed TO Il
- "Jim Crow business. It is the Salo'
Keepers, themselves. who are respoi
o. sible for the present Jim Crow La
y of Delaware.t