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THE ATLANTA UEOKUiAN ANl> iVEVVS.
MONDAY, JtLY 21. U07.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
(AND NEWS)
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
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Honor to a Good Man.
In the struggle for the success of
prohibition which has been waged for
many years Ih Georgia, few men have
striven harder for the noble cause
than Hon. J. I.. D. Hlllyer. In season
and out of season he tiaa done his
utmost to place before his fellow citi
zens the horrors of tho liquor traffic,
and the necessity for prohibition legis
lation.
Mr. Hlllyer has diligently studied
the problem!, appertaining to the tem-
1 ternnec question, and he has sought
for the best legislative solution of
these problems, lie has never been
a candidate foq political office, so that
no suggestion of personal Interest can
be ascribed to his work.
Mr. Hlllyer has had no political as
pirations, yet he has been In active
politics without reward or hope there
of ever since reaching his majority
In 1868—when the fearful reconstruc
tion period required every Southern
mnn should do his duly. With the sole
object of rendering service to hla state
and community, Mr. Hlllyer has un
ceasingly labored, and, now, tho years
of duty which he and others of the
faithful have contributed to the cause,
are about to be crowned with the tri
umph of the prohibition legislation.
The ^Moultrie Observer wonders "If
the new silver service was Injured by
the explosion on the battleship Geor
gia."
If the Standard Oil Company has to
pay $29,000,000 In lines, the recoil will
be felt severely at the University of
Chicago.—Philadelphia Inquirer.
"The time to regulate has come,'*
says the president. And Roosevelt's
Infallible Regulator Is the medicine
prescribed.—Washington Herald.
The Georgia railroads Bay they are
threatened with bankruptcy. Bays The
Brunswick News. Their Hnanclal state
ments do not show any such trouble.
A man In Toronto was sent to jail
for assaulting a baseball umpire. An
other outrage on the Bacred liberty
and privileges of the individual citizen.
The Brunswick News Is moved to re
mark that "that dark horse of Henry
Watterson's seems to have caused a
case of kicking in all quarters of the
Democracy.’’
The news that a train In Iowa was
held up by mosquitoes Is a sorry com
ment on the premature rejoicing over
the resources of the age to compsss
their extermination.
-Editor Brown, of The Dalnbridge
Democrat, puta this leading question:
"Did -you ever notice that the fellow
who had to be paid to be good never
earns bis salary?"
In many sections of the state peo
ple are learning to drink water so that
when state prohibition goes Into effect
they will be accustomed to the thing
and we are glad to see it.—Batnbridge
Democrat.
That old law, that the Interstate
commission has dug up, provides for
punishing Haryiman by a fine and
"Imprisonment for not less than six
months." Make it life, says the Bt.
Paul Dispatch.
HOW A SOUTHERN CANDIDATE LOOKS TO THE NORTH.
(Editorial Correspondence.,
Every hour of reflection and every day of contact with men north of
the Ohio river confirm my belief that If the Democracy Is to nominate a
candidate and conduct a national campaign, Its wisest course would be to
name a Southern man and to place him upon a platform of definite
Democracy,
I have talked with scores of prominent men, and of men less promi
nent, In' Ohio and New York—men In control of the machinery, and men In
the quiet ranks of commerce or agriculture—and with one accord they ex
press wonder at the hesitation of the South in presenting Its great men
for the chief magistracy.
For five years past this has been the tenor of Northern and Central
and Western comment, and It Is heartier today than I have ever known It
before.
These men say that the South depreciates Its own position In the re
public—that the war Is over, and that the entire North Is so anxious lu
every way to proclaim to the world the wholesome fact of the reunited
country, that a Southern candidate would actually poll more than a party
strength In the section which was victorious. They recall that Grover
Cleveland told Hoke Smith nearly twenty years ago that In the adminis
tration of the Interior, no consideration of his section should deter him
from the reform of pensions or the appointment of the best men to office.
They recall the Spanlsh-Amerlcan war In which the South’s loyalty to the
government had a proportionately greater numerical expression than the
North. They remember the spectacle of old Joe Wheeler, of Confederate
memories, leading the Union army down the slopes of San Juan. They do
not forget the picture of Fltzhugh Leo In Cuba, with a staff which In
cluded a grandson of Lincoln and a grandson of Grant. They have had
their legs under the hospitable mahogany of the South, and they have not
failed to note that the South Is so far above the narrowness of partisan
ship as to receive with Interest and with large approval a proposition to
bury partlcB for a season In an era of good feeling, and revive patriotism
and the republic.
Just rely upon It that the Southern candidate Is the cue of the Democ
racy next year. Even If he lost he would not be defeated any more sig
nally than Bryan and Parker were, and If the race did no more It would
break the apprehension that the South la Ineligible, and open the way to
the Southern candidate In succeeding campaigns.
Even so stalwart a paper as The Chicago Journal says that there is no
reason why the South should not furnish a hopeful candidate for either
party In 1908. The Journal declares with great generosity that there are
"perhaps more men In the South capable of filling the executive office
with credit than there are In the North, because Southerners are people
of reading, education and thought, and Inherit statesmanship In their
traditions.’’
The Boston Herald, that great independent paper of the East, does not
hesitate to express the belief that the time has come for a Southern can
didate.
For my own part. I believe the announcement of a strong, progressive
Southern man would be magical in Its effect at this time. It would en
thuse the country In an "era of good feeling" of a different type from the
Chattanooga suggestion, but the next best thing to It.
I honestly and deliberately state the belief that the nomination of a
Southern man Is the very best, If not the only hope of the Democratic par
ty for success in the next campaign.
Let us see. fn sixty years no Southern Democrat has been elected to
tho presidency. It Is forty-seven years since the South has presented
a candidate for that high office. McClellan, Seymour, Greeley, Tllden,
Hancock, Clevelnnd, Bryan nnd Parker were all from the North or West.
The South has 23,000,000 citizens, and has furnished the votes which
have kept the Democratic party alive. After following for forty years candi
dates nominated by Northern Democrats, and save only In two Instances
following them to defeat, we would like to have a sensible reason against
the nomination next year of a Southern man.
The war la over and the whole country wishes It known. The North
ern mnsses are full of fraternal feeling toward the South, and the North-'
era politicians cannot eradicate that feeling now by sectional appeals.
We have ti»e men to offer from almost every state—Hoke Smith, of
Georgia; Culberson, of Texas; Cormnck, of Tennessee; Daniel and Caper-
ton Broxton, of Virginia; Aycoek, of North Carolina; Raynor, of Maryland;
Rose, of Arkansas, and Williams, of Mississippi—all men high In repute
throughout the country and able to the limit of presidential capacity;
If there Is a chance anywhere for Democracy next year It is In a'
Southern candidate.
If we cannot have an "era of good feeling" among parties, then let us
utilize the great spirit of the time, and Invoke an era of sectional good will
by offering a Southern leader to the party of the people.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
Columbus, Ohio, July 19, 1907.
WM. E. GAUNT DECLARES
PROHIBITION WON’T HURT
ATLANTA REALTY VALUES
To the Editor of The Georgian:
Will you allow a real estate man a few
word*, briefly touching three polnta on tbe
financial slue of tbe liquor question, as this
seems the chief, and, I may gay, the only
foundation upon which It draws out its mis
erable existence?
1. Those In favor of It, “under proper!?)
restrictions,•’ advise us of the Inevitable
slump In general business, to ffillow the
enactment of tbe “drastic measure" now
uunnlmously approved by our senate com
mittee, especially do they say It will affect
real estate values, and practically ruin
most of the firms In that line. If this be
true, then I-am one of the victims (a will*
trfumpti ** ^ thttt “ cr,flc ® th0 r,ght Bhal1
But It-can not and does not hurt values
or business. If n slump does come, let us
place the odium where it properly belongs,
and that Is, at the door of the liquor In
terests. who for the preservation of their
death-dealing business, are flooding our city
and state with calamity's cry. Inducing In
the more timid and conservative fear and
lack of confidence In the future of tho Em?
plre City nud State. Lack of confidence
will bring failure to tho strongest bank In
America, will turn uny tide of prosperity
Into deep depression. 'Tls the calamity
howler, the spokesman of the allied if-
quor interests. Whether he be mayor, alder
man, councilman or leading cltixen (?», who
has sighted tbe I»ogle man, ami trii
000 annual flow down the throat of Atlanta
(that never does a cent’s worth of good to
nnce real estate, or any
other deserving business? But if such were
true. I’d rather be the smnllest real estate
mnn lu town, forced out of business, and
obliged to work ns an honest laborer, than
to Im> at the bend of my line, and one of the
extinguished leading citizens who memorial
ized the legislature In the interest of the
greatest crime allowed to exist In the civil-
zed world.
2. Did you never hear the complaint,
How high everything is? Our business men
must make a profit on entire business, or
fall. They will tell you that they lose a
very considerable percentage of their snles
because the people can't nnd don't pay
i. What more prolific cause of bad
bills than the intoxicating cup? What is
the result? You and I have to pay not only
our legitimate profit to the .werchaut, but
also -the principal and profit of the men
who can not pay. Prohibition will let these
men pay their p-
their bills.
portion, allow the merchant
'to reduce hla price to all, and still wake
a fair profit Wmzelf. This item alone wil
more than offset the bugaboo of Increased
taxation. Mr, Renter, this affects you, for
you surely pay tbe taxes on the property
you occupy when you pay your rent.
3. Flour Is 52 n barrel higher than a
short time ago. Why? Short supply, lake
away from the brewer and distiller the
grain that they rot to make the stuff that
damns, nnd put It into the flour mills, and
there would bo enough for every little
hungry child In all (he wide world, and
flour could be sold nt tbe old price, for the
supply would equal the demand. You must
pay for whit you get. Out of which pock
et will you take It? The extra price for
food, clothing, etc., or one-half os much by
direct taxation and retain your self-respect
for what man wants to educate his cmldrei
at the expense of bread and clothing of the
poor child of the drunkard? And finally,
through the loaa of tbe latter's soul eter
nally, for “no drunkard shall enter the king
dom of heaven.” Two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars revenue back out of $2,600,-
000 expended. Hadn't you better lose the
$250,00<f than the $2,500,030? Bettor have nocf
ets so full that a little falls out to blei
others, than only a little change down In
one corner thnt you hare to dig to find.
Why, then, this penny wise nud pound fool
ish policy? Why save at the faucet and
ledve the bung bole open? Be sensible; be
rational, nnd know of a certainty that
waste never makes wealth.
I can scarce refrnln from expression
the higher and moral planes, but have
taken up too much space. Koine time may
be required for readjustment, but Atlanta,
lustde of two years from the adoption of
the prohibition law (despite the cnlamtiy
howlers, nnd they are the chief menace)
will enjoy n greater prosperity than ever
would lmve been possible under the existing
high license regime, and it will be pros
perity founded on the rocks of Justice,
righteousness and brotherly love.
May the right nnd The Georgian triumph,
as they certainly shall.
WILLIAM E. GAUNT.
Atlanta, Ga.
RESULTS OF PROHIBITION
IN THE cny OP CHARLOTTE
By HERIOT CLARKSON, Chairman Anti-Saloon League.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
A newspaper editor has requested me to write you as to the beneficial results of
prohibition III the city of Charlotte, nnd I hand you herewith booklet showing what
the lending business men, bankers, fanners, laborers end others say. The substance
Prohibition went Into effect on January 1st, 1906, In the -
majority against the saloons was 486. The election took pluce
recorder's court shows that tbe total numlter of arrests for mh. the last year
whisky was sold, was 2,406 nnd during the year of 1906, the first year prohibition
went Into effect, 1,496, a decrease of 909 arrests the first year prohibition went Into
effect.
I hare lived In the city since 1872. I have known the city from a small village
till now. when It In one of the finest industrial and educational centers In this section
of the South, hnvl
In Charlotte from
history of Chn
On the 20th of May, 1906, there was a great
iten. '
I The prosperity of the city has nevi
Iv benefited, ns they hnve gotten money t
corner and laboring mnn Is putting bis i
of tbe Mecklenburg Dec*
dsge In the city of Cha
lotte, and the universal expression was thnt “there never was such a sober and orde,
ly crowd gnthered In this section of the South." A learned Judge In North Caro
lina/ who was against prohibition, and who saw the good order thnt prevailed at
that celehrntlon, declared that he was about convinced that prohibition “prohib
ited/’
never been greater. Merchant* have been great-
~ that once went to the saloon. The wage*
_ money In the building and loan associations
nsd In the savings banks.
I 'This section has wonderftillj
mill owners and the* cotton rail . . ... __ .
thv saloon, nnd In my opinion, ay solicitor of this Twelfth Judicial district, compris
ing the 1‘onnGes of Mecklenburg, Gaston, Lincoln, Cabarrus and Cleveland, the work
of prohibition has done wonders and untold beueflt to the mill owner and tbe oper
atives, nnd nil sorts nnd conditions of men.
Iu one county, Gaston, twenty-five years ago there were about three cotton mills
nnd about forty-eight distilleries nnd many saloons; but today In Gaston county there
are fifty cotton nulls In operation, and about ten In construction, and not a legalized
distillery or saloon In tbe county.^
Just recently. In Ltncolnton, where the prohibition law has been enforced, thert*
was a gathering of some twenty thousand people at a Fourth of July celebration,
nnd the papers commented on the fact thnt never was such a sober and orderly
crowd gathered In Lincoln county.
I write from long ‘
my opinion thnt proh
A HIGHER STANDARD OP SUCCESS.
There are many hopeful Indications that public sentiment regarding
what constitutes success and failure la adjusting Itself along higher and
better llnea.
The pendulum which regulates the machinery of human achievement
haa begun to awing tmekward In Its Inevitable action.
In several of the current magazines tbe question of “Success and
Failure" Is discussed from a most encouraging viewpoint. The standards
of other nnd leas commercial days are again being set up before the eyes
of the youth of the country, and the Ideals of bygono years are commend
ed for Imitation and emulation.
In writing of this subject In tho August number of Uncle Remus's Mag
azine The Farmer says:
"According to modern standards, tho success or failure of a man de
pends altogether on his ability—It ability can have so poor n rating—to
make money and hoard’ It, to gamble with the resources of the people, and
to make great donla whereby millions qt human beings are made to suffer,
while perhaps not more than ten men reap all the profits. This Is the
modern measure of success, . . . Real success means the benefit of hu
manity In aonie form or other. If no such benefits can be shown as the
result of their labors, their success Is not equal to that achieved by
the direst poverty and the deepest Ignorance. . . . There can be no
form of real success that does not bring some sort of old nnd comfort
to humanity, that does not make |>eople a little happier, a little more con
tented than they were before; that does not uplift. In some sort, the soul,
which the German professor could not find In his cadavers, and that does
not bring Joy and content from the shallow well of life.”
By a singular literary coincidence, the above sentiments so won-
drously well expressed by The Farmer In the latest issue of Uncle Remus,
also And similar expression In other publications of note, just published.
These views of Individual writers are creating a change In public senti
ment which perhaps may bring about a revolution In estimating the re
sults of human endeavor, and human achievement.
The honorable accumulation of money Is ever and always to be com
mended. Its possession brings not only the opportunity to gratify the
* better aspirations and ambitions, but It also brings the ability to con
tribute toward the amelioration of suffering and tbe relief of poverty.
But simply estimated according to Its Ignoble purchasing power, mon
ey becomes no longer a thidg to be desired or to be striven for. The
recent years with their garish display of vulgar wealth have established
certain standards hitherto unfamiliar In the South, and certainly unworthy
of the nobler traditions of Its people. But the pendulum of public senti
ment has begun Its backward swing, and no more positive evidence Is giv
en this tact than the simultaneous discussion of such matters In several
of the most notable mngaslnea of current Issue.
Owen Wlster In his exquisite literary masterpiece, "Lady Baltimore,"
perhaps unconsciously assisted In the the Inauguration of this revolution of
public sentiment.
In "Lady Baltimore" all the beautiful Ideals which regulated Southern
social life In bygone years are, with the pen of sympathetic genius, made
to stand out In so delicate and delightful a fashion that the reading world
of necessity compared the worthiness of such a past with the garish folly
of these present days. From Owen Wlster’s story, the question has grown
to be one of Inijiortance with the strongest writers of todgy. This hopeful
agitation must result In nobler standards of every day living and in a Juster
estimate of what.constitutes success and failure.
THE BANKERS AND “1909;"
OTHER PEOPLE AND SALOONS
To the Editor of The Georgian:
I notice thnt the bnnkera of Atlanta are
(tagging for more time—one year longer than
contemplated hy our bill. I am surprized at
thla. It zeetn* to me, almost of nil men,
they would be the lAst to make such a re
quest. Can’t our fine business men—our
sagacious money kings of the city—see thnt
tbe longer the saloon runs, the more money
«uen will spend for rum, nnd the lest they
will spend (for they will not have It to
spend) for hats, shoes, drr goods-nud gro-
banks.
Don’t „ . ...
mutilty nnd make I
know you can’t m
yect them to become better wage-earners?
break the chatus of
They are longing for deliverance, but their
will power Is broken—they cannot resist.
Mrs. these jtoor weaklings are pleading
»r assistance, and they have a right to
expect n brother's helping hand. Do not
’* »olnt them. Do not mock them. Do
lint the door of opportunity In their
fntvs. Give them n chance.
Hit loon s unfit n man for business. Who
wants it drunkard? lie is ostracised social
ly. He is nt a discount morally. He Is lost
out financially. Who wants him? Certainly
•on, and of the drunkard’s hell. You can
not weigh boy* and dollars In tbe name
scales. I see nothing In what you sny but
the almighty dollar. I hear nothing but
the mighty Jingling of gold. Some of us,
The Voice of the People
Commends The Georgian
■ou do
lot want him In the latnk. He Is
■ts him. He Is not even tolerated lu the
snitMin. l.et us not treat our neighbor so
vilely. You hurt him, and not only aim, but
his family nnd society.
In your remarkable resolutions In which
you vigorously contend for auditoriums, ar
mories, engine houses, waterworks and
school buildings, nnd the saloon meu, you
haven’t made n single legitimate argument.
You hove not one thought of the mother’s
liquor dealers till January 1st, 1908, to get
rid of this vile stuff. I doubt If this is
quite fair to the two and one-half million
of Georgians. It is a stretch of mercy. It
Is leaning toward the bar-kecitcra of this
state who hnve killed their thousands. And
now for the five months to come. Think of
It! The misery, the sorrow, tbe murders,
the broken hearts, the blasted manhood, the
ruined girls, the hell that will come by
these saloons, and the big fat breweries lu
Georgia.
Go slow, gentlemen, he careful* how you
ask for nn extension of time. Tbe legisla
ture will never grant this request, for there
Is absolutely no reason for It. Let the li
quor denier ask for time; let the hired law
yer ask for time; let the brothel nnd the
gambling hell nnd the devil nil ask for time,
but never yet our city bonkers-the splen
did. prosperous money Instltutlons-nsk
again for time. Again I say to you, we will
never grnnt It—not twelve months, nor six
months, nor one month more than the nres-
A,it I.Ill n .A,.IAa.
Note—The Georgian Is simply
unable to print all the letters our
friends are sending ub. We are
receiving them literally by hun
dreds. We appreciate them more
than we can tell—they encourage
us to fight the harder.
We will continue to print them
as fully as we can, however,^ and
trust no one who has been good
enough to write us will think we
are un ippreclatlve It we fall to get
their letters in promptly.—Ed.
STAUNCH "FRIENDSHIP.
You do not know me personally, but
I want to express my profoundest ap
preciation of you, your splendid paper
and Its matchless editor for the work
you are doing for the gryat masses of
Georgia and the South In' the present
prohibition fight. For ten years I have
considered John Temple Graves the
most brilliant man, the most magnifi
cent editor and one- of the cleanest
private citizens of this commonwealth;
and to find him at last asaoclated with
a man of such convictions, conscience
and capital as you have, makes my
heart double-quick for Joy and all there
Is within me to strike up a paen of
praise. When Mr, Graves started The
News I was among the first to sub
scribe. When he left It, so did I.
have followed him through The Geor
gian and now that I begin to know
his associate. I pledge a perpetual sub
scription as long as either or all of us
live. Most sincerely,
C. A. RIDLEY.
Live Oak, Fla.
SOUTH GEORGIA WANTS IT.
Please Bend me your paper for three
months. 1 see It Is strongly for pro
hlbltlon, and that ts what we want In
all south Georgia. Also we want state
prohibition. I shall endeavor to se
cure readers for your paper. We think
It Is right; In fact, 127 counties of
Georgia say so. Respectfully.
M. F. TIMMERMAN.
Stockton, Ga.
NOT f"ofT SALE.
Allow me to congratulate you that
the trend of events has brought you
to face the proposition of principles as
against commercialism. Before the
Civil war, a‘business house of national
reputation had cause to make the
declaration that "their goods but not
their principles were for sale.” While
they lost heavily In one direction, they
gained In another, and eventually be
came a very wealthy house. You have
now declared that "your goods but not
your principles are for sale,” and now
It Is up to the people of the state who
profess prohibition to favor that paper
that represents and battles for the
homes of our women and children—to
say nothing about civic righteousness.
JOHN B. STEVENS.
Fitzgerald, Ga.
PEOPLE AReT"rE8PONDING.
I thank God for one newspaper In
the state of Georgia that Is wise to
see what Is best for the people and
has the courage to stand by It, even,
If need be, at Its own peril. Our peo
ple appreciate the stand In the prohi
bition fight that you have taken, and
they are quitting the antl-prohlbltlon
papers for The Georgian, as Is evi
denced bv the number of new subscrip
tions that I am sending you. I love to
work for and to read a clean paper
like, yours, and will do all I can for
The Georgian. With beat wishes, I am,
yours verly truly,
W. E. HENSLEE-
Lake Park, Ga.
FROM A NATIVE GEORGIAN.
Being a native Georgian and a sub
scriber and reader, by choice, of The
Georgian, I am naturally much Inter
ested In the prohibition contest now
before the legislature. I can not,
therefore, refrain from writing a word
of commendation for the noble and
courageous, as well as righteous stand,
your paper has taken on the prohibi
tion question. Should prohibition car
ry In Georgia, I shall be prouder than
ever of the grand old state of my na
tivity. It Is fitting that the Empire
State of the South should take the lead
In this movement; other states will
surely follow. Tennessee Is waiting
on you and la ready to fall Into line,
Success to your noble efforts In de
stroying the traffic In the worst foe of
the human race. My earnest prayers
are with you In this struggle for God
and humanity. Very truly.
I. C. MANSFIELD.
Chattanooga, Tenn.
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MADD0X-RUCKER
BANKING CO.
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Hancock: William II. Tobin, One hundre
nnd forty-sixth. Presidio of ftnn Frau"
Horry .1. Watson, One hundred nnd tw,
ninth. Fort Adams; William H. Knvnj
One hundred nnd fortieth. Fort !!,,«
•Incob E. Wyke, One hundred nud !
first, Fort McHenry; Charles H. Kuiierj.
One hundred and fifty-first, Fort Keren!
Robert It. McBride, One hundred nnd flfts
sixth. Fort Constitution; John L. Roberta
•l.K- hundred nnd forty-third, fort
Washington; J. P. Hopkins. On,- Imndtej
nud thirty-ninth, Fort Dupont; Hannon,
H. Fenner, One hundred and fortv-elthS*
Fort linker; James P. Robinson. uni
hundred and forty-seventh. Fort Presidio of
San Francisco; George H. Perkins, <)„•
hundred and forty-sixth, Fort Moultrie-
Frank B. Edwards. Fort Cnsoy; Arthur
P. ». Hyde. One hundred and thirtieth
Port Adams: John Ntorck,. Eighty-ninth'
Fort Unnks; Jnlrns Moore. One hundred „„!
ninth. Fort (treldei Cnptnln Roderick I
Cnrmlchnel, from Eighty-sixth to on„ hun-
dred and thirty-fourth Compnrir, y,
Mttchle; Uaptnln Jlarry W. McCnuh-v. ft.
Eighty-fifth nnd One hundred and'thirl
second. Fort Trumhnl; First Mcntensnt j.
J. Cooper, from Ninety-third to One hun-
droit nnd thirtieth. Fort Adnms.
Captain A. B. Campbell, to One hundred
nnd forty-fifth company. Fort Totten; Care
tntn Robert F. Woods, to One hundred ami
ttfty-Bfth, Fort Williams; Captain I.ewl» E.
Bennett to One hundred and dfty-serand.
Fort Bunks; First Lleutensnt Fulton Q. 0.
Gardner, to One hundred nnd twenty-ninth
company. Fort Adnms; Captain Homer B.
flront, from. Etghty-nlnth compnnv to unn«
signed list; Cnptsln Grayson V. Heldt
Eleventh cnvnlry, to military non'
West Point, N. Y., August 22.
Following First Lieutenants, const nrtit.
lery corps, to companies and stnttons Indi
es ted. upon relief from artillery school,
" Monroe:
nos Prentice, Fifteenth compnnv. Fort
Worden; William H. Peek. One hundred
and forty-fifth company, Fort Mnultrli;
Witttnm E. Murray, One hundred nnd thlr-
tv-ftrst company. Fort II. G. Wright; Nor
ris Htnyton, One hundred nnd thirty clrtB
compauy, Fort Mott; Bruce Cotteb, Ona
hundred add thirty-second company, Fort
Trumbull; Adolph Lnnghorst, One hundred
and forttetS company, Fort Howard: c.eorgo
A. Tnylor, One hundred nnd Fifty-third
company. Fort Andrews; George W. ‘
eheu. Fifteenth cotiuisny, Fort SteKI
nnd Clifford Jones. One hundred nnd
sixth company, Fort Constitution.
First Lieutenant Gordon Robinson, from
Eighty-third to One hundred nhd thirty
third company. Fort Terry; Second t.le«
tenant John Phflhrtck. from Eighty-ninth,
Fort Monroe; First Lieutenant James E
Wilson, from artillery school, to Fort Moul
trie. ns artillery engineer, district of
Charleston; First Lieutenant John It. Kelly,
Seventh Inf/mtry, to general recruitings-.-
Reams, Trltleth Infantry, who will proceed
to his regiment.
Major Thomas Rlddwsy and Major Elmer
W. lluhbnrd, coast nrtlllery corps; Cnplaln
S. W. MeDnvIs, const artillery corps, am
Charles J. Itngan. nsslstsnt eurgeon.
will destroy the home.
uk of e * •
, In full ,
sands of Georgln boys, and their mothers,
nnd think of the drunkard's awful hell, and
then
termini
wealth:
souls Id thb dear old rommon-
CHEERING WORDS COME FROM
SOJOURNER IN NORFOLK
To the Editor of The Georgian:
All eyes are turned toward Georgia,
which just now Is in .the limelight by
reason of that great and glorious trans
formation which la soon to be the boost
of the Empire State of the South.
What a splendid future lies out be
yond the present, with Its whisky-rid
den towns and cities and. counties,
longing for deliverance from the dread
monster which preys upon the very
vitals of the home and stifles every ef
fort to upbuild and sustain the Insti
tutions which make for the bettering of
the world.
AH honor to the editor and the pub
lisher of The Georgian nnd New*.
Great Is your reward, for thousands
will rise up nnd call you blessed In
that you had the courage to stand for
the home and Ha sacredness In a city
where whisky Is doing Its deadly work
day by day. The people of Georgia
will not forget you—the masses are
with you In your splendid fight for the
very life of the state!
Even If the prohibitionists should
lose their fight this time, victory Is
sure to be theirs sooner or later, and
In «ny event your work. Mr. Editor,
will Jive nnd I* remembered and be
blessed when some of your detractors
are forgot.
Hall! all hall! the South’s greatest
champion of the whole people, The At
lanta Georgian and News.
Norfolk, Va. L. L. P.
HE STAND8 WITH US.
Owing to your stand for prohibition,
I want to take the dally Georgian. I
have for years been a reader of The
Atlanta Journal dally, but prohibition,
or rather antl-prohlbltlon, forever sev-
era my connection with that or any
other paper that's wet. I shall cer
tainly apeak a good word, for your pa
per at every opportunity.
(REV.) J. J. WILLIAMS.
Ashburn, Ga.
WANTS THE GEORGIAN.
Please enter my name for three
months’ subscription to your excellent
paper and send 'bill. I want all the
Issues. I saw what The Golden Age
said of you, and I want a paper that
has not only a backbone, but a moral
backbone as well. Very truly.
•IRA C. CARSON.
Cashier First National Bank.
Batesburg. S. C.
HEARTILY INDORSES.
I heartily Indorse the stand which
you have taken on the prohibition
question, and think that all good peo
ple should patronize your paper. Very
respectfully, -
LUELLA WILLIAMS,
Postmaster.
Ferrobutte, Ga.
APPRECIATE8~OUR POSITION.
I would have subscribed tot your
paper some time ago, but have been
.taking another Atlanta dally. How
ever, I appreciate your position on the
prohibition question so much I can not
longer do without The Georgian. Wish
ing you success, yours respectfully,
W. J. BANKSTON.
Jenklnsburg, Ga.
COMPENSATION ENOUGH.
The manly stand taken by The Geor
gian on the temperance question Is a
refreshing oasis In the great desert of
a purchasable picss. It will no doubt
result In financial loss to you, but a
good conscience Is worth more than
dollars, and In the assurance that you
are serving others, tnen of your caliber
find some compensation for financial
loss. Very truly yours,
W. W. TURNER.
LaGrange, Ga.
FROM ONEWHO KNOW8.
I confess to neglect of duty In falling
to congratulate you for the strong
stand you have taken In behalf of right,
eousness. This was not a small mat
ter for a great dally, but it was right,
and the people In the future will thank
you, when they see the happy fruits,
more thnn they know how now. It is
lamentable that there nre those in our
large cities who are willing to debauch
the people for dollars. What Is money
when measured by tears and wrecked
lives and homes?
That It will Injure the business of the
cities, I deny, but If It does, better this
than worse. When we first had prohi
bition In Bartow there was a hot cam
paign. It was defiantly asserted that
it would kill Cartersvllle. A good
woman. long gone to her reward, re
plied: "Well, If she dies, I want her
to die sober." So mote It be!
Have the tax-payers of our cities
considered the big saving In Jail and
court expenses—one great and legiti
mate result of prohibition? But It
tires me to set money over against
live*. I do not hesitate to assert that In
ntne out of every ten criminal cases In
the city court of Carteravllle, whisky
i nnrtos J. MUD, nssisiniu '
First Lieutenant iioyd L. Krnllh. audosut
surgeon, detailed examining board at Furl
Monroe.
Naval Orders.
Lieutenant J. J; Hanulgan to Albany.
Movements of Vesaela.
Arrived—July !!', Rhode Island, at Brat-
ford, H. l.j Dolphin at Boston; Buffalo it
Puget Sound. ,
Sailed—July 19. Virginia from rape Fid
buy for Bradford. B. !.: Teemnaeh, from
Norfolk for Wash*iBtnn: Florida and V-
vnda from Newport for New London:; i™-
phlu from rape Coil hay for Boston-
from Norfolk for League lalnnd. < allforalt
ordered commissioned August 1, navy yard,
Mnre laland. Indiana placed In reaerv-
urdny, navy yard, larngue Island.
Influence, directly or Indirectly, maf
be found. Truly yours.
A. M. FOt’TF..
Judge City Court.
Cartersvllle, Gs.,
HI8 FAITH""SUSTAINED.
Soon after The Georgian was -stab
llshcd I quit taking The Atlanta Jour
nal and subscribed for The Georgian-
The reason I did this was on account nr
the high moral plain on which
launched your paper, your refusing to
take whisky or any other fake advertis
ing. I Jell then, and feel now, that
Is the duty of every man who stanM
for right to support you and Colon
Graves In your effort to build up
morals of our state. ,
Since the legislature met, I
very much aetonlshed to see that !
had not entered (he fight f° r •“»**
hlbltlon, but I was very much «rati n ~
when I saw your Saturday i l*J ..
nee that you had entered the light »
a determination to remain In it t .
finish. I know It takes courage sn^
manhood for men at the
great dally paper like The Ueorgtan^,
take the position that you l' a 'r ^
hut I rejoice In your bravery- t0 .
pledge you iriy lasting support sn
operation. . , lhre e
Hurah-I for The Georgian and m
cheers for state prohibition.
Yours for stSte^prohlbUtmu^
Crawfordvllie, Ga.
EXCEPTIONS PROVE THE RULE-
(Charleston Sews and Courier ^
The Nashville Amerlcau «>•: * b „(,
crat it a man who ■w**rn wnt»« w j,.,
Who tlrlokz when he Iz Invited. ■ * m -
cuzzet when things «lon t go to ^.j
One tllzlfke* to cavil at
cleau-cut a definition, 4>nt If nppD*** j ^
It trill exclude our moat «m»» ** ht
Colonel Brjran drink* not, neiti»*'
ctUNL Colonel Grave*
zplrez), hut run* a P’J * ,i .!!v««‘at *
Keiintor Tillman drlnha little *t» * * t(r , t„.
whlzky zbonz In which men can
vlted to drink, and, ” ,t F.v
whether thing* go to null him* J ' aa 11 '*
Menu tor earmark !• a
of the definition. r«hm-<«mrjj ^-**1
land. Colonel Wat lemon. Senator D»*
Senator return are Democrat*.