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Ihe Golden Age
(SUCCESSOR TO RELIGIOUS TORUSI)
Published Kb try Thursday by the Golden C?ge Publishing
Company {lnc.)
OrriCES: LOWNDES RUILDING. ATLANTA, GA.
WILLI O. UTS Haw. - Editor
A. E. RAMS A UR, - - - Managing Editor
LEW G. BROUGHTON - - - Eulpit Editor
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Hughes and the Gamblers.
We are proud of Charles E. Hughes, the faithful,
fearless Governor of New York, who has put the
gamblers to rout! We go further
New York Has a than being proud of him —we are
Governor That Is thankful for him —we are singing
a Governor the doxology in our heart for such
a pure, stalwart leader in the af
fairs of state. When Mr. Hughes became governor
of fussy, famous, furious NeAv York, he soon deter
mined to address himself to the Herculean task of
putting race track gambling out of business. These
blights and buzzards of Gotham’s social and sport
ing life laughed the new Governor to scorn. Secure
in their blatant advocacy of their devilish prac
tices they taunted him as “a dreamer who dreamed
that he was dreaming.”
But Hughes kept right on and, supported by
brave, true men in the New York legislature, he
soon began to make the gamblers tremble as they
read the handwriting on the Avail, and last Aveek
the glorious deed Avas done, one heroic legislator,
Senator Foelker, getting out of bed and risking his
life to cast the deciding vote in favor of the Anti-
Gambling bill. He sank back into his seat and doc
tors Avere summoned to the side of the fainting man
Avho had saved the day.
The cheeks of the gamblers blanched and oaths,
half-muttered, flashed from eyes as Avell as lips.
The galleries Avere wild. Decency, thank God, had
won! The bill Avas immediately signed and civic
virtue wears a radiant face.
Charles E. Hughes may not be President of the
nation —he is able and Avorthy, though—but he has
given his name to fadeless fame. He is a Chris
tian statesman in the real, regal sense of that term!
America stands Avith head uncovered before New
York and her Governor who is a GoA 7 ernor!
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A Miserable Misrepresentation.
Here is another “great big black one.” The fol
lowing letter from far-off Ontario, Avith the clipping
from the St. Thomas (Ont.) Daily
It Is a “Mess,” Times, only gives another proof
Nothing Less that avc were right a feAv weeks
ago in declaring that the salmi:
forces can tell as many “big black ones’ ’ about
The Golden Age for June 18, 1908.
prohibition as the devil himself could Avish. And
the further they travel, as in this Ontario instance,
the darker, it seems, becomes their color, and the
bigger and bolder their shameless attacks on the
citadels of decency and truth.
But read the letter from our Canadian correspond
ent and then, if your system can stand it in this
depleting summer weather, go on and read the clip
ping which he sends:
St. Thomas, Ont., June 3, 1908.
Editor The Golden Age:
The enclosed clipping is taken from “The
Times,” daily, St. Thomas, Ont., Canada. 1
would like to knoAv if there is any truth in it.
The temperance Avave is passing over Ontario
and we are engaged in “local option” cam
paigns and these squibs concerning the report
ed failure of Prohibition, or “local op\i m,”
Avhere they are tried, sometimes has an evil
effect. Noav, if you will reply to this article
in The Golden Age, to which I am a subscriber,
I will see to it that it gets into the St. Thomao
papers. Or, if you prefer, you can Avrite to me
direct, giving the facts, and I will have the
corrections made. Feeling that you would
know the facts, and hoping I have not asked too
much in seeking through you this information,
I am, Yours in service,
J. W. Hoyt,
Pastor Centre St. Baptist Church.
Clipping from “The Times,” St. Thomas, Ont.
Judging by unprejudiced reports of the work
ing of a prohibitory laAv in Georgia, which
Avent into effect the first of the present ac.u.
prohibition does not prohibit the use of liqurr
among those who have the price to get it.
It is asserted that four times as much liquor is
and other cities as was the case when the sa
loons were open. Liquor in large quantities is
ordered by express from Baltimore, New York,
Chattanooga, Louisville, Cincinnati and other
points and is delivered at the residences of pur
chasers. Men who never thought of bringing
whiskey into their homes, and avlio only occa
sionally took a drink at their clubs or some
hotel bar and avlio never entered a saloon in
their lives, are iioav importing Avhiskey and oth
er liquors by the case and keep it in decanters
on their sideboards for their OAvn use and to
treat their visitors. It is becoming the cus
tom of neighbors to exchange visits to exchange
drinks. In this way the consumption of liquor
amcng the business and professional men is
very much greater than it ever was before.
Many young men, avlio never thought of drink
ing more than an occasional glass, now habit
ually keep liquor in their rooms for their own
use and to treat their friends. Under the
license system it Avas possible to prohibit the
sale of liquor to minors, but any minor can
send to Chattanooga or Baltimore for a case of
whiskey, and it has become the fashion to do
so, and when the purchaser gets it he feels that
it is his duty to drink it up, or at least is
strongly tempted to do so. Under the decisions
of the United States Supreme Court there ap
pears to be no effective Avay of stopping this
sort of interstate traffic.
Now, Ave do not mean by our Avords of introduc
tion that this special clipping is of vicious intent.
The misrepresentation has simply gathered strength
and color as it has traveled far. But the assertion that
four times as much liquor is being consumed in the
homes of Atlanta since Prohibition Avent into effect
as there Avas under the reign of open saloons is
simply preposterous. If this be true, then why are
all the wholesale liquor houses fighting to over
tliroAv Georgia’s state prohibition laAvf The out
side dealers are getting the benefit of this so-called
increase. Why are they spending money and carry
ing on a desperate campaign for dethroning prohi
bition and thus decreasing their sales?
The very suggestion is too foolish to need reply.
If monev were going fourfold for liquor it wouVl
not be going for tl?@ comfortable things of life, and
yet I have taken pains to investigate and the large
department stores as Avell as the smaller supply
houses that come close to the people, say that their
trade has been better under prohibition in face of
the fact that a distressing money panic has reigned
throughout the United States, Grand Rapids, Mich.,
and Dallas, Texas, with their saloons, suffering even
more than Atlanta under prohibition.
After all, the Recorder’s court in a large city is
the barometer of whisky-drinking. Look at die
following report by Atlanta’s Chief of Police, Jen
nings, read before the Convention of Chiefs at De
troit :
Taking the police records and the recorder’s
court as a criterion, Ave find a most remarkable
change and improvement. During the first three
months of 1908 as compared with those of 1907,
under the open saloon, we find a falling off
in the number of arrests of about one-half,
and a falling off in the number of arrests for
drunkenness to about one-quarter.
The folloAving comparison speaks for itself:
Arrests first quarter 1907 5,277
Arrests first quarter 1908 2,010
A decrease of 3,267
Arrests for disorderly conduct first quar
ter 1907, largely attributable to Avhisky .2,666
Arrests for disorderly conduct first quar
ter 1908, largely attributable to same
cause • l ,637
A decrease of 1,029
Arrests for drunkenness first quarter
1907 1,293
Arrests for drunkenness first quarter
1908 ' . . . . 328
A decrease of 965
Arrests for idling and loitering first quar
ter 1907 236
Arrests for idling and loitering first quar
ter 1908 164
i ! .
A decrease of 72
Notwithstanding the fact there Avere more
people out of Avork during the first quarter of
1908 than 1907.
The tAVo succeeding months, April and May,
have been about in the same proportion, with.,
perhaps a little increase in the number of
cases from drunkenness. This can be ac
counted for by work having opened up some-
Avliat, thereby supplying more money with
which to order from Avet territory and patron
ize blind tigers. Notwithstanding the fact that
times are and have been hard and money
scarce, Ave have had fewer loafers under the pro
hibition regime. Whether they have left the
city and folloAved the saloon, or what has be
come of them, I do not knoAv, but they are
missing from their old haunts.
We are also having less trouble in the red
light district. The women, under the luav, are
not alloAved to furnish intoxicants by sale or
otherwise; hence less drunkenness and disorder
in these quarters.
Finally, Georgia’s prohibition laAv is not perfect.
Nobody claims it is. But it does what it started out
to do —it greatly decreases the consumption of li
quor, greatly decreases crime and makes thousands
of happier homes in Georgia. Soon Tennessee and
Florida will go “dry” and liquor shipments into
Georgia will not be so easy or so large. We are
fighting inch by inch and Avinning day by day. Lis
ten —this tells the story as nothing else can! Dur
ing the recent torch-light processions and parades
preceding our gubernatorial election—an election in
Avhich neither candidate Avould make the race until
lie declared he Avould veto any effort to weaken our
prohibition law —there were wild, enthusiastic
thousands on Atlanta’s streets, and never an arrest
for drunkenness reported until about midnight.
Georgia is happy under prphibitipp and her hap
piness increases every day, '
