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unwisely and unnecessarily restricts and retards the
development of our State.
“Resolved Further, that in the opinion of this
Chamber of Commerce our State laws should be so
framed as to discriminate between malt and ferment
ed beverages on the one hand and distilled spirits
on the other, so as to permit of the manufacture and
sale of beers, ales and native wines under proper
regulations and requirements to insure their purity
and wholesomeness, while prohibiting all distilled
spirits and liquors of every kind, and maintaining
the ban against the Saloon, the so-called American
bar-room, which exists nowhere on earth except in
this Country with some sporadic exceptions in a few
foreign cities which cater solely to the American
trade. And to this end we ask the co-operation and
assistance of the various Chambers of Commerce and
Boards of Trade in Georgia as well as that of the
various municipalities and business men generally.
“Resolved Further, that the Committee on Legis
lation of this Chamber is authorized to take such
steps and inaugurate such measures as they may
think necessary to carry out the purpose of these
resolutions and to bring the mailer effectively to the
attention of the Legislature and of the Governor with
the view of securing the passage of the necessary
laws in the premises.”
The Waves of Tybee.
(By E. L. Parker.)
Ten thousand angry billows
Commanded by the Sea
Leap over the sands of Tybee
A beaut if ul type of tin 1 Sea.
Oh. those angry waves of Tybee
How they dash and splash the light,
Those passionate waves of Tybee
That leap like souls for life.
Oh, those heaving mountains of the deep
That purge the earth and nourish men
Those snow-capped heights of Tybee
Echo aloud across the span.
And the noise of their humming
As they glisten in the wain
Sounds a note concordant
I n the heart and in the brain.
And my soul was stilled and silent
As upon the beach 1 trod
Walking face to face with morning
And hand-in-hand with God.
The Negro in the North in 1834.
Nothing in your magazine interests me more than
Mr. Baker's articles on The Negro in the North.
And don't these articles prove again the discern
ment of De Tocqueville, who. before 1834, examined
our American life an described it with such vision
that page after page reads now as if it were but
lately written’ Indeed 1 have long made it a prac
tice to compare your great national reporting with
the reporting of De Tocqueville. I find it good col
lateral reading.
In “Democracy in America” there is much about
tin* Negro that is of great interest today. Perhaps
the following paragraphs on this very subject. The
Negro in the North (written seventy-five years ago),
will entertain your readers:
“I see that in a certain portion of the territory
of the United States at the present day the legal
THE REASON
barrier which separated the two races is tending to
fall away, but not that which exists in the manners
of the country; slavery recedes, but the prejudice to
which it has given birth remains stationary. Who
sover has inhabited the United States must have per
ceived that in those parts of the Union in which the
negroes are no longer slaves, they have in nowise
drawn nearer to the whites. On the contrary, the
prejudice of the race appears to be stronger in the
States which have abolished slavery, than in those
where it still exists; and nowhere is it so intolerant
as in those States where servitude has never been
known.
“It is true that in the north of the Union mar
riages may be legally contracted between negroes
and whites, but public opinion would stigmatize a
man who should connect himself with a negress as
infamous, and it would be difficult to meet with a
single instance of such a union. The electoral fran
chise has been conferred upon the negroes in almost
all the States in which slavery has been abolished ;
but if they come forward to vote, their lives are in
danger. If oppressed, they may bring an action at
’ law, but they will find none but whites among their
judges; and although they may legally serve as ju
rors. prejudice repulses them from that office. The
same schools do not receive the child of the black
ami of the European. In the theaters, gold cannot
procure a seat for the servile race beside their form
er masters; in the hospitals they lie apart; and al
though they are allowed to invoke the same Divinity
as the whites, it must be at a different altar, and in
their own churches with their own clergy. The gates
of heaven are not closed against these unhappy be
ings; but their inferiority is continued to the very
confines of the other world. When the negro is de
funct, his bones are cast aside, and the distinction of
condition prevails even in the equality of death.
The negro is free, but he can share neither the rights,
nor the pleasures, nor the labor, nor the afflictions,
nor the tomb of him whose equal he has been de
clared to be; and he cannot meet him upon fair
terms in life or in death.”
—“Pilgrim” in April American Magazine.
Ed. Bristow of Shinburnally
By Peter Lickspoon.
It was a hot summer afternoon in June that IT
ric Sibley drove into the little town of Lynehum,
Miss., from a week’s canvass of the surrounding
country for Mr. Bryan’s “ Bimetalism,” which the
prominence of the author had given wide publicity
to long before he began taking orders for the book.
Turning the fatigued horse which had been driv
en hard all the week, over to a stable boy, he went
directly to the hotel and engaged accommodations
for the night.
At the end of the veranda, on which sat sev
eral traveling salesmen engaged in profitless con
versation, he located a tin basin of water and some
strong, home-made lye soap, which he proceeded to
put to the best use the poor conveniences at his
command would permit of. Not being very careful
in the use of the soap, much of it got into his eyes
and so blinded him that he found the towel nearby
with great difficulty, being aided only by the sense of
( smell. The first wipe greased his face from ear to
ear with a glue-like substance that resembled niat-
I ter forced from the nose by violent sneezing when