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tilled beverages, and so they joined almost unanimously 

 in favoring state-wide prohibition." As I read the last 

 galley proofs of this book on this good twenty-third day 

 of September, 1914, the good news has come that Old 

 Virginia has voted for state-wide prohibition by nearly 

 40,000 majority ! God be praised ! 



SOUTH VS. NORTH. 



I have often been asked why it is that prohibition is 

 more popular in the South than it is in the North, and 

 the reasons which I have heard are of the same char- 

 acter as those mentioned above. The negro is more 

 prone to become a victim of the alcohol habit than the 

 white man. As the beverages which are sold to the 

 negroes are the lowest and cheapest of their kind, made 

 of alcohol, coloring and flavoring materials, and desig- 

 nated as " nigger whiskey/ 7 the effects which are pro- 

 duced upon the colored man who drinks this material 

 are something fearful. He becomes more of a beast 

 than a human being, and the white people of the South 

 who do the voting, although many of them are users 

 to some degree of alcoholic beverages, have gladly voted 

 for prohibition in order to protect themselves and the 

 States from annihilation. 



AN" ARGUMENT FOE EQUAL SUFFRAGE. 



One argument in favor of conferring the suffrage 

 upon woman is that she will aid her brother in 

 establishing state-wide and nation-wide prohibition. 

 Whether this is so or not, I am unable to say. Sta- 

 tistics are unreliable. I would infer from all the 

 circumstances that the woman would be a prohibition- 

 ist, because she suffers more than her husband from his 

 drunkenness. Her love of him and of her children 



