tire standing of the liquor business in Indiana, giv- ing it a much stronger footing than it ever had before. It puts the business on an equality with all other occupations, permitting it to do everything that is allowed in any other business except what is distinctly prohibited by statute. Once more, the prohibitionists have been hoist by their own petard! An important step has been taken towards upsetting the arbitrary doctrine heretofore held by our courts that the liquor traffic has no com- mon law right to exist and is only tolerated to the ex- tent that statutes distinctly permit it. 92 Lesson from Georgia. (August i, 1907.) The Lesson from Georgia's Lapse into Prohibition. The recent success of prohibition in the South bears out the contention repeatedly made in these columns that temperance using this word in its proper sense of moderation in all things is the most decisive char- acteristic distinguishing the higher grades of culture from the lower ones. What is safe for the white man is not necessarily safe for the colored man. It does not follow, however, that the only way to prevent the improper use of alcoholic beverages on the part of the colored people is to prohibit its use by anybody whatever. The fact that no other remedy