The new Federal law has helped to control the evil, but both cocaine and alcohol are still sold to negroes, sometimes by pedlars of their own race, sometimes by unscrupulous white men.

The consumption of both is less, however, than before the restrictive legislation.

The South has traveled far from its old opposition to sumptuary laws.

Like State Rights, this principle is only invoked when convenient.

Starting largely as a movement to keep whiskey from the negro and, to a somewhat less extent, from the white laborer, prohibition has become popular.