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Show mammmmmmm PREDICTS HARII j FDR THE SOUTH Government Official Say Pronibi I lion Will Kcp Many Deiirabic , lmmirnU Away. ! ays the New Law Will Make th Nigra Worts In Hit Habits, as He VIII Take the Laf In Da- fianac af Law and Hyaacrlay. Wash'lnctnn.-A high ofllclal of the Immigration bureau Is authority rot the statement tbat the prohibition movement In the south will seriously Interfere with efforts to get Immigrants Immi-grants to tbat section of ihe country 'It la none of my business, he said, 'although I bare been co-operating a far aa possible with the Immigration bureaus of the slates of Houili Camilla, Cam-illa, Virginia and others Ho soon a the class of people lielng sought ll thi south find out thst prohibition laws encumber their prisnnal liberty the) will refuse to go south. Kill those now there will leave The airman. Austilsn Mih. Finn and ncarlj all other i lasses f Knropeans will not go where ibey can not get beer llesldes that, Ibey resent re-sent any Interference with what they ball eat or drink, believing these ar matters of personal liberty. They do not hold ihe view that so light a drink as beer when taken In moderate moder-ate amounts and under clrautnetsnccs to which they are accustomed, Is either a aln or crime "People of Ihe countries mentioned look down upon whisky drinking In this country aa a moral weakneaa, to whieli Americana abmilil not lie ad dicted, and probably would not caro what happened lo the ardent spirits, hut they object to lielng deprived el beer Personally. I III Ink a great mistake mis-take la lielng made In the south It these prohibition laws arc being enacted en-acted lo make the negro a sober cll-lien cll-lien the error will be discovered In n few years The negro will now become be-come an Imbiber of the chessi and imwt nt-rv grades ot mean whisky, and I will venture the prediction Ih-it In prohibition stales of the south crime will Increase It la history that prohibition runs out Ihe mild drinks like beer and brings In the worst of Ihe ardent class 'The negro naturally goes with blind Users, and It will not lie long belurti he will take the lead In dennnce of Inw mid hpucrlsy He will copy allnr the while man, It I true When he sees piiihlblllon laws defied, be will pay lees attention to other laws. 11 Is well known that In many portions por-tions ot the south where, prohibition Is In force through local option, the nrfim has turned ti rncalnn and drugs, and haa lieroino so worthless that be Is a menace" |