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VOL UME TWO.
HUMVEE EIGHTEEN.
VALDOSTA’S VISION OF VICTORT
Valdosta is in the tight 01. her life and she
is going to live!
The good old county of Lowndes, so long blighted
by the presence and power ot barrooms, is rising
in her might to hurl from their thrones of debauch
ery and blood these enemies of the home tor each
saloon is, indeed, “the despoiler ot men and the
terror of women.’’
The battle of ballots will come on next Monday,
June 24, and we believe these remorseless agencies
of horror and sorrow will be gloriously crushed
“now and forever more.”
We salute Valdosta aforetime on the freedom
that awaits her! We lift our hat to Lowndes
county —and we lift our heart as well, praying
that the last “black spot” on the border-line of
Georgia will be cleansed by the prayers of lair
women and the ballots of brave men until it be
comes “white as snow.”
The editor of The Golden Age was in Valdosta
last Saturday, and had a picture made of one of
these dens of temptation and sin surrounded by
a crowd of lounging, lolling, di inking negroes —
and, alas! —a few white men.
We present til’s picture of just one of these
saloons, and over against it we give the picture
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ATLANTA, GA., JUNE 20, 1907.
7JV William D. Upshalv.
of a bright bay, and there are many such in \ al
dosta, each the pride of his father’s heart and the
hope of iiis mother’s life, and we ask the honest,
seif-respecting voters of Lowndes county to choose
between the two.
And yet (in a whisper) when this comparison
was made between the number ot arrests made in
Waycross and Valdosta, a man on the saloon side
made this weak answer: “Oh! but you can t tell
from that because they arrest people in some
towns for things that they don t arrest them fol
in other towns.” Ha! ha!! ha!!'
Then statistics don’t count. Suppose you <|uit
talking about Maine, Kansas and North Dakota,
then, with their mongrel population from beer
drinking ami Sabbath-desecrating Europe. lake
statistics (doser home.
Gainesville, Fla? Mayor W. R. Thomas writes
Rev. L. R. Christie: “The prosperity of our town
began when whiskey was voted out.”
Live Oak, Fla.? Just been there. A few years
ago, with saw mills am! saloons. Live Oak had two
thousand people. Now, with saw mills and no sa
loons this live town has seven or eight thousand
people and is growing' by leaps and bounds every
day.
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There Are Hoys Like This in Valdosta.
Marvelous Meridian.
Just been there, too. Fifteen years ago Merid
ian, Miss., had about seven thousand people and
more than twenty barrooms. Since barrooms were
banished Meridian has crown to a progressive
city of twenty-five thousand population and by
far the largest public school system in the state.
Finally:
Lowndes County and vicinity spends about
Three Hundred Thousand Dollars a year for whis
key in order to get less than Fifteen Thousand in
Taxes —taxes to help self-respecting men “school
their children. Yes, ami every dollar of this
tax money, s» dearly bought, is stained with
blood and sin and sorrow! God help these hon
est, but misguided men to rise in the might of
their unselfish manhood ami snatch the poison
fiom Valdosta’s lips and wipe the stain from the
brow of Lowndes.
Rev. .1. B. Richards, Associate Superintendent of
the Georgia Anti-Saloon League, has contributed
the following:
The saloon is the sum of all villainies, a crime
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