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was written by W. J. Barton, a little South Geor
gia preacher, who as dear old Colonel Dunlap used
to say, is “not afraid of poverty, the poor house,
death nor the devil.”
Here is the opening sentence:,
“The time has come in the bounds of our asso
ciation when, instead of reports on temperance,
we should organize, go to work and dethrone the
bar-room power. The territory of this association
is so cursed by the liquor business that it is doing
more harm than all other evils combined.” And
the major part of the report is incorporated in a
ringing circular issued by this same little preacher
just before the election in Wilcox county.
It is so strong that we give it here as a trumpet
call to other men and communities to quit merely
“resolving” and go to work—consecrated, ever
lasting work—and victory will come as it has come
in Wilcox and Irwin.
This is the circular that started the work:
Stop! Read! Think!
The census report of the United States for the
year 1900 shows that the State of Maine, a prohi
bition State, is the poorest of all the states in nat
ural resources, yet it has more money per capita
in is savings banks, more homes owned by its work
ingmen, a less number in its prisons, and a lower
per cent of illiteracy, than any state in the union.
Take Georgia: The principal keeper of the peni
tentiary says there are sixty out of every 100 con
victs in the penitentiary from the counties which
sell whiskey. He shows that out of the four lead
ing counties which sell whiskey there is one in
the penitentiary out of every 319 of their popula
tion. While out of four of the leading dry counties
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THE “OLD CORNER SALOON”
A place that has been supporting the schools and feeding
the penitentiaries.
there is one in the penitentiary out of every 1,898
of their population. Nearly six times as many from
wet counties as there are from the dry ones.
Six negroes in the penitentiary from whiskey
counties to one from dry counties.
The superintendent of the asylum says that fifty
per cent of the crazy people come from the few
counties which sell whiskey. He says when the
war closed there were in the asylum forty-four
crazy negroes. Now there are 845, and says that
most of these came from the counties which sell
whiskey, an increase of 400 per cent in forty years.
Mr. Strauss, in his work on “Insanity, Its Causes
and Effects,’ gives the instance of sixty-eight males
and forty-seven females addicted to the habit of
whiskey. To them were born four hundred and sev
enty-six children, one hundred and seven died in
convulsions; three of them suicided; ninety-six
were epileptics; thirteen were idiots; nineteen died
maniacs; thirty died paralytics; three were born
deaf and dumb; nineteen deformed; and the re
maining two hundred and five were born with a
well developed taste for strong drink, and not one
healthy body in the entire number.
Men say that it will hurt the material progress
of the county to take whiskey out of it. This is
untrue. In the year 1895 the comptroller general
of Georgia says the taxable property decreased in
round numbers $17,000,000, and that $14,000,000 of
this decrease was found in the forty-nine counties
which sold whiskey, leaving only $3,000,000 in the
eighty-eight dry counties, and says furthermore,
that a steady decline was found in every wet
county.
The Golden Age for September 27, 1906.
You hear it said that it will cripple the public
schools. This is not so.
The state gets about SIOO,OOO from the whiskey
business for school purposes which will only give
each county about six hundred dollars, and the peo
ple of Georgia spend $14,000,000 for whiskey, and
get back $90,000.
Let me have the money spent in this state for
whiskey, and I will educate every child in the com
monwealth free.
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A SCHOOL HOUSE IN FITZGERALD.
Since saloons have gone out, the loyal citizens viill erect
large brick buildings.
Wilcox county barrooms pay into the state school
fund $2,200, and the county gets back S6OO. How
will it hurt the schools to close out the bar rooms?
Take towns which are near to Abbeville and see
how they have grown without the whiskey busi
ness. Look at these: Mcßae, Eastman, Dublin,
Waycross, Cordele, Vienna, Tifton, Moultrie and
others. They have some of the finest schools in
the state, and no whiskey to support them.
Remember your boys when you vote on the 13th.
Those bars must have drunkards to run their busi
ness. Have you one to give them?
The Big Four for Our People.
(We clip an editorial with the above caption
from The Douglas Enterprise. It was so “un
thought, unsought and unbought ’ ’ by us that we feel
like giving it full space. We thank Editor Bryan
for his generous words, counting it at once a com
pliment and a privilege that The Golden Age be
looked upon as a necessity in every home.—Ed
itor.)
Every farmer who desires and can take a daily
paper should take The Atlanta Georgian. It stands
for higher and purer daily Journalism.
They should take The Golden Age of Atlanta,
edited by AV. D. Upshaw. The Golden Age is rather
an innovation in Journalism and stands for the
mental, moral and religious upbuilding of our com
mon country, and no family should be without it.
It is non-sectarian, listing among its writers the
prominent men in different denominations. Mr.
Upshaw is making this new paper fill a long felt
want in all homes, and especially among those who
do not desire a denominational paper. Subscribe
for it and keep it in your homes for the boys and
girls to read. Brother Upshaw is a young man and
not married, but he has educated more girls than
any man in Georgia that has girls of his own.
The Cotton Journal should be in the family of
every farmer in the Southern States, and should
be read by every farmer. The time has come when
the farmer must farm intelligently and must read
to keep up with the times in an agricultural way,
and there is not a paper published that will be
worth more to the average farmer than the Cotton
Journal. Subscribe for it, read and keep it in the
house for your wife and children to read. It only
costs you 2 cents each week and you will chew 5
cents worth of tobacco and think nothing of it.
Take all these three good papers and read them
and then be sure you get the Douglas Enterprise.
We want every family in the county of Coffee to
take and read The Enterprise, and we assure them
that we will give them a good and interesting
paper.
The Enterprise stands for everything that is right
and against everything that is wrong.
Items of General Interest.
In Denmark girls insure against becoming old
maids.
In 1899 the number of automobiles in France
was 1,672; in 1905 it was 21,524.
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A plant for manufacturing artificial marble was
recently established in Catania, Italy.
Cuban tradesmen have been holding mass meet
ings to urge the adoption of American money.
Chile was the first South American state to build
railways, of which it now has nearly 3,000 miles.
Ireland will have a system of land telegraph lines
by October. It has just been connected by cable
with England.
It is estimated that nearly 4,000 acres of cedar
trees are cut down annually to provide the mate
rial for lead pencils.
According to an official report, there has been
only one case of corporal punishment in the prisons
of Ireland for thirteen years.
Malaria used to kill 15,000 persons a year in
Italy. In 1902 state quinine was introduced, and
last year the mortality fell to 7,835.
It is estimated that the actual cost of keeping
only a moderately expensive liner at sea is $2,300
a day, and this does not include insurance.
The railway service in Italy is in such a bad
way that it will take $300,000,000 to bring the state
lines (8,137 miles) into full working order.
The chewing gum habit is increasing. According
to the last report of the gum trust, about 572,000
pieces are masticated in New York City each day.
The patient fisherman has recently been put to
a unique use in France where an enterprising busi
ness house conceived the idea of placing mammidth
advertisements on the backs of numerous disciples
of Walton, who sit for hours side by side ion the
banks of the Seine.
R. T. Lowery has the distinction of being the only
peripatetic editor. He is the publisher of “Low
ery’s Claim,” formerly issued from Nelson, B. C.,
but, as the Canadian postoffice has excluded his
paper from the mails, he has taken to the road
and is issuing his paper from wherever he happens
to be.
Newspapers are beginning to flourish in Italy.
The first in circulation and enterprise is the Ev
ening Courier of Milan, with 12,000 circulation and
an equipment of American Hoe presses. The Tri
buna of Rome is next in circulation and influence,
with an output of 100,000 copies daily.
A recent report of Governor Magoon, of the
Panama Canal Zone, shows that last May twenty
three new schools were already in operation on the
zone. Two more are to be added, and the present
attendance of eleven hundred will then be increased
to fifteen hundred. The native population has wel
comed these schools, and there have been compulso
ry education laws passed by five out of the six
municipalities.
It wiil be of universal interest to note that there
has been recently invented by Daniel Drawbaugh
and Dr. P. E. Gamble a substitute for coal. It is
said that this new substance, composed of chemi
cals and a fibrous matter, burns freely, gives off
heat, does not clinker and lasts longer than the
mined coal now in use! Although this sounds
almost Eutopian to the lay mind, it may mean the
beginning of a great revolution in the fuel situa
tion of the world.