in drink for the benefit of his poor black brother ! Well, the South shall lie on the bed of its own making. Already travelers tell us, the cocaine habit is spreading alarmingly among the negroes, as it has done in all prohibition states and districts. The Usefulness and Wholesomeness of Alcoholic Drink Must be Shown to the Public. Evidence continues to multiply that it is necessary for the brewers to take up the defense of their business not in the sense of apologizing for a necessary evil, but by bringing out the usefulness and wholesomeness of the temperate use of beer. Although much has been said in the daily papers during the past month in commendation of the stand taken by the brewers in favor of cleaning up the retail business, still the general tone of the editorial remarks shows that the writers are not familiar with the positive aspects of the problem, but only with some of the negative ones, they deal with the use of liquor as an ineradicable practice, but nowhere recognize its necessary, useful and wholesome features. Here is a characteristic utterance from an editorial in the Rockford (111.) Star of December 8, 1907: What then is the definition of this thoroughly organized and popularly backed agitation to put the saloon out of business? Is it not that the great masses have come to realize that the dramshop has produced no good and that