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T
IE PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOU
Temperance
A JUDGE'S OPINION.
Judge Emory Speer, of the Federal
court in Georgia, has given remarkable
testimony to the results of prohibition
laws. His testimony has attracted the
attention of the law journals throughout
the country. Judge Speer's words are as
follows:
"Already the most astounding benefits
have teen experienced by the people
at large frcm the Prohibition law. Why,
even the dumb brutes which have been
suujeeieu to the service of man would, I
if they could, thank God for Prohibition.
"The hard driving and neglect of the
drunken negro and the drunken white
as well have been succeeded by kindliness
and attention.
"The state of Georgia in twelve months
will gain incalculable advantages in the
improvement of stock alone, because
drunkards no longer handle and drive
them. A prominent mill man in -Macon,
one of our best citizens, assured me that,
while heretofore he could not get his men
to worn before Tuesday or Wednesday
after the Saturdnv nicht doho.mh
0? v uvuuuv/U, UUW
that whisky is gone, bright and early
Monday morning, they are at the engine,
the spindle and the loom.
"Labor, which was almost impossible
to obtain through the rural districts, is
now plentiful, and the work has just begun,
Litle more than a year ago I heard
experienced contractors complain that
many of the laborers would work only a
day or two in a week to obtain enough
mnn otr ? ? 3 * *?
..iuuv.j tui aupijun una me small amount
of food consumed and then quit work
until the money was gone.
"The police courts of such great cities
as Macon, Augusta and Atlanta, when
contrasted with their former methods,
have practically gone out of business.
"The offenses formerly engaging their
attention are now not committed. This
will be found true in the superior courts
and the county courts throughout the
state of Georgia. Where a week or two
weeks of the people's time and money
were expended upon the criminal docket
it will not bear out my experience if they
do not finish in a day or two days.
"I well remember when I was a young
solicitor general that in one county of
my circuit the sale of liquor was forbid.
den. Early Monday morning the tall,
stalwart, clear eyed people, cleanly, manly,
quiet, temperate and discreet, would
gather in the county seat. By the second
day we were through with the criminal
docket.
"In an adjoining county, with the same
lands, the same climate and the same
people, often of the same families, the
sale of liquor was present. The faithful
judge was prompt to call the criminal
docket at the first moment, but it was
uouttuy irue mat wun ail the energy
and dispatch of its officers at least two
weeks were required for its disposition.
"The looks of the people were different.
In one county there was the temperate
life, where hope elevates and Joy
brightens; in the other the countenances
of the people were sodden. There were
Tli. March 3, 1909.
the bleared and bilious eye, the lurid
visage, the unshorn jaws and not infrequently
the unbathcd person, which dis
tilled in the court an odor that, in the
language of John Wesley on one occasion,
'did not smell like balsam.'
"In a short time after the abolition of
the liquor traffic in the noble city of
Athens I have seen the drunkard reformed
and rnponcoomio-i j .. *? ? - m
....U.vviui.vu iu uic mines or
manhood, his dingy house repainted,' his
fences rebuilt, his once pathetic, barefoot,
dirty little children clean, well
clothed, well shod and well fed, with
bright eyes hastening to school, and the
wife whose once worn and wasted features
in the happiness and pride of his
resurrection had regained the loveliness
and charm of youth.
"I have not discussed the moral phases
of this great question, but merely those
which seem to be legal and political. If
the laws which the people of our state
have enacted are enforced the chief hap
puiess 10 inure to those we love is the
consciousness that henceforth, if we expel
the demon of the still from our borders,
confidence and peace will reassume their
place in happy hemes among those dear
objects of our love, dearer to us 'than
are the ruddy drops that visit our hearts.*
"Once there was, within my own memory,
no such thing in all the borders of
this southland as that unspeakable crime
the bare mention of which will stir a
fever in the blood of age and make the
infant sinews strong as steel. It will disappear
from our civilization when the
brain of the docile African, even cf th
lowest order, is no longer infuriated and
rftb^Ofh/1 noroloon J -*
.._Uwvu ui ueaperaie OI COnsequences
by the drink he absorbs. In his
furtive wanderings on the lonely roads or
In his solitary lair in the forest the
poisonous cardiac stimulant drives the
blood of the savage in swift pulsations to
his compressed or maddened brain, and
then, no matter how desperate the
chance or certain of detection,, the crime
is committed. This it is which has ranked
the people of Georgia, save perhaps in
one or two great cosmopolitan cities, in
the serried ranks of those who have determined
that the sale and furnishing of
liquor shall stop within our borders.
"The politicians did not do it. They
framed a platform for local option. The
representatives of the people stamped the
planks of this platform into nothingness.
"It is a revolution, and it will not stop
with Georgia, nor do I believe it will stop
with the south. Even now the senior
senator of this state has evoked the pow
erful aid of congress to fulfill the purpose
of this people.
"Lives will become Irradlant by Its
presence. Gentle woman reassumes her
rightful station as regnant queen. The
prayers of good men In great cities, amid
the dim religious light of great churches,
are heard that it may prosper. And In
country churches, in the shade of gigantic
oaks or amid the sighing pines, the pray
ers and the song worshlp^of the simple,
earnest servants of the old time religion
as they roll away amid the aisles of the
forest are thank offerings of a long suffering
and a sorely troubled people that
strong drink has been forever banished
from our state."