. The passing of the saloon; an authentic and official presentation of the anti-liquor crusade in America;. 00 O - H ^ • >. Q0 *5< «^ c/) W o tf oU - THE NEGRO PROBLEM AND THE LIQUOR PROBLEM. 341 parts of the South where the colored population is so heavy. Of course,in our state the class distinctions have been preserved, and are now as muchin evidence as they were before the war. But I will say for the negroesthat they take to the prohibition idea most kindly, and we have a most ac-tive association of colored women as a branch of our Union. Mrs. Margaret Dye Ellis, of Washington, D. C,
. The passing of the saloon; an authentic and official presentation of the anti-liquor crusade in America;. 00 O - H ^ • >. Q0 *5< «^ c/) W o tf oU - THE NEGRO PROBLEM AND THE LIQUOR PROBLEM. 341 parts of the South where the colored population is so heavy. Of course,in our state the class distinctions have been preserved, and are now as muchin evidence as they were before the war. But I will say for the negroesthat they take to the prohibition idea most kindly, and we have a most ac-tive association of colored women as a branch of our Union. Mrs. Margaret Dye Ellis, of Washington, D. C, said: The purging of the country of the rum curse was a dire and press-ing necessity in some quarters of the South, because of the prevalent popu-lation of improvident negroes and dissolute whites. Of course the effortsof our organization proved of inestimable benefit to such communities and,equally, of course, the moral status of the South is raised in proportion tothe spread of the gospel of prohibition. Mrs. C. J. Vayhinger, State President of Indiana, said: While I am not exactly from the South, I understand conditi
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