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.
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