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Senator Borah, oratorically extraordinary gentleman from Idaho, a fortnight ago tramped southward to Augusta, Georgia, heart of the Southern "Dry" belt; there, naturally, made a speech Volsteadian in tone. He deplored "nullification" of the 18th Amendment, did Mr. Borah. Yet, had it not been for the lazy hot sun, many a disenfranchised Negro might have scented an anomaly, might have pointed out to the Senator that here, indeed, was where pride-wounded "Colonels" first conceived the effective thought of "nullification." Others, not Negroes, have made this fact clear...
...What might Negroes have scented in Augusta...
...repetition of the Dover disaster from the Navy arsenal at lona Island, a mile away. Perhaps Manhattan citizens tremble as they recall the terrors of Dover if they know about the arsenal at nearby Sandy Hook. Other death dealing overstocked plants include the arsenals near Pittsburgh, Springfield, Mass., Augusta, Fort Monroe, Va., Philadelphia, Rock Island, Watertown, Mass., San Antonio and many another town...
...balage), for a value of about $2,000,000,000. They knew too that last year's average cotton price was 24.8c a pound, that present prices average less than 18c a pound at U. S. cotton markets (Manhattan, New Orleans, Galveston, Mobile, Savannah, Norfolk, Augusta, Memphis, Houston, Little Rock, Dallas, Montgomery, Ft. Worth), that at Liverpool, to which Europe looks, prices are little higher. Then, too, ecto-blasts of monopoly bounders fluttered over the aborning Institute. The manufacturers felt obligated to make a gesture toward the growers. They invited them to Institute membership...