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Ihe Golden Age
(SUCCESSOR TO XELIGIOUS TOXUJT)
Published Ebory Thursday by the Golden Hge Publishing
Company (Inc.)
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WILLI9IPi V. UPSHHW. - - - - Editor
A. E. KAPISA GE, - •» - Pfanaging Editor
LEPIG. BROUGHTON - - - Pulpit Editor
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Senator Allison ‘Dead.
The recent death of Senator W. B. Allison, of
lowa, removes from the stage of action one of the
great statesmen of the nation. For a full genera
tion Senator Allison has been representing his peo
ple in the national capital, and it is a lesson to the
young man who feels the stir of political ambition
in his bosom to reflect that Senator Allison lived
so long and yet so well that he died without a cloud
upon his name —honored by all men of all parties in
A m erica.
John N. Holder.
Than John X. Holder there is no more pop
ular or beloved man in the present legislature of
A Head of
Brains and a
Heart of Gold.
among the law-makers of Georgia,
and, although he has been a. victorious leader along
the lines of reform, his conscience has been so reg
nant, his life so pure and his demeanor so much
that of a Christian gentleman, that the sky above
him is absolutely clear and as bright as the smile
of the sun can make it. Although the contentions
about him have been fierce and the opposition often
strong, he has preserved his equanimity, kept his
grip on the friendship and admiration of all sides
and now he comes out of the conflict over the con
vict lease system with the shining face of the vic
tor.
Everybody says that John N. Holder is going to
be speaker of the next legislature of Georgia and the
honor will be a fitting crown on the long service
of an able, faithful and stainless man.
Hope For Consumptives.
The Georgia Legislature has done a necessary and
far reaching thing in voting to establish a state sani
tarium for consumptives. Repre-
Let Every State
“Go and Do
Likewise. ’ ’
pression o£ tuberculosis and Dr. L. G. Hardman,
author of the senate prohibition bill, championed
Georgia. For about a dozen years
this solid statesman, editor, farm
er, and all-around citizen, has rep
resented the county of Jackson
sentative T. R. Whitley of Doug
las introduced the bill giving
$25,000 for the establishment of
a sanitarium for the cure and sup-
The Golden Age for August 18, 1908.
the sanitarium bill in the senate. Dr. Hardman of
fered an amendment to the original bill providing
that the fees paid to the state by doctors for their
licenses to practice, be set aside to meet this appro
priation. It is estimated that almost the whole of
the $25,000 can be raised from this source. The
Atlanta Journal says:
“In championing the bill before the committee
Dr. Hardman said that it was now a scientific fact
that consumption can be cured, and that an ef
fective serum known as ‘ tuberculine,' was now be
ing prepared by the state board of health and can
be obtained by any practicing physician upon appli
cation,
“Dr. Hardman said that the work for the preven
tion of tuberculosis had already begun, as the leg
islature appropriated $3,000 in July for the prepa
ration of the tuberculine serum.”
There has long been need of such a door of hope
for consumptives and there has been a growing sen
timent on the part of the public demanding this
humane legislation.
Senseless Sentimentalism.
Some smart people have mighty little sense. They
dream Utopian dreams, but fly the track of the
Dreamers,
Schemers,
Morals
and
“Politics.”
tar —the stone and stamina —which votes and legis
lation alone can make.
They are afraid of “politics,” but they fuss and
fume at the “politicians.” They forget that in a
government like ours every man must be a senti
mentalist or a citizen, a coolie or a king. They for
get that while they are dreaming there are others
scheming to turn their dreams to dust.
We have read nothing in a long time along this
line that pleases us quite so well as the following
from The Atlanta Journal, commenting on Seaborn
Wright’s great speech at The Grand, Atlanta, on
the Convict Lease system:
“Every once in a while some Arcadian mol
lycoddle rises to protest against 1 dragging’
this or that public question into ‘politics.’
1i It would be interesting to know what con
ception such men have of the real nature of
politics or the functions of government by the
people. While it could not possibly be en
lightening, it might be at least diverting.
“The idea seems never to enter these twi
light intelligences that great public questions
affecting the welfare of the people, are not
settled by the Daughters of Dorcas in a sol
emn session of the sewing society nor yet by
the checker players and pine whittiers of the
corner grocery.
“There is very little, outside of religious
dogma, which does not and should not have a
place in politics, and the more vitally it con
cerns the great body of the people the more
intimately bound up with politics it becomes.
“Hon. Seaborn Wright, of Rome, has a re
freshing way of going straight at the heart of
a question and presenting the gist of it in
language which is literally ‘reason on fire.’
“That is the way he went into the discus
sion of the convict lease question at the Grand
on last Sunday, and the thunders of applause
which greeted every ringing sentence he ut
tered indicated very clearly that the people
were with him. He excoriated the namby
pamby doctrinaires who were afraid of muss
ing up their white shirt fronts if they got down
into politics, and told his hearers with earnest
candor not to ‘damn the politicians.’ Contin
uing, he said, ‘When you put men in office who
are unfit for office, it comes back to you.’
“It was a stirring appeal for higher and
more active citizenship—a citizenship which
was not afraid to express itself at the polls
and was not frightened by the pious horror on
only way to make their dreams
come true. They seem to forget
that, while they build castles of
government in the air, those cas
tles must always be of the “stuff
that dreams are made of,” unless
supported by the bricks and mor-
the part of some economic type against ‘drag
ging’ public questions into ‘politics.’
“The people of Georgia ought to have a few
more homely truths like those of Mr. Wright
launched at them every day or so. The appli
cation of the collective will of the people to
the machinery of government, in prescribing
what is right and prohibiting what is w 7 rong,
is what the ordinary citizen, w r ho lives down
here on earth, calls politics, and it is a subject
which should arouse the interest of every intel
ligent, patriotic voter in the state of Georgia
It means that such questions as prohibition and
the convict lease question would come under
the scrutiny of the people, who would hold their
ballots over the officers they elected, just as
formidably as the whipping bosses held their
raw-hides over the helpless convicts. It means
that men would go to the polls with definite
convictions of their own, and a high sense of
the responsibilities which belong to the fran
chise. ’ ’
This is glorious doctrine from a great paper.
Now, if our brilliant friend, The Journal, will just
write an editorial as strong as the above on the
consistency of writing flaming editorials on morals
and citizenship on one page while carrying on an
other page liquor advertisements to tempt and
poison the citizenship of prohibition territory--if
The Journal and The Constitution will just perform
this wonderful feat they will afford “diversion”
at least for a long-suffering public.
Gentlemen of The Journal and The Constitu
tion and indeed, all papers who build citizens and
laws with editorials and strike them down with
poisoned arrows in the advertising columns —geni’e-
raen, hear us —we offer a prize for “the best
say” on this subject.
Prohibition Ahead in Texas.
After all, the early dispatches were mistaken and
our editorial of last week, based on the defeat of
“Submission” at the recent pri-
The Tables Have
Turned Since
Last Report.
weeks after the primaries, did the Dallas News se
cure returns full enough to make the definite an
nouncement. Day after day, backward and for
ward the pendulum swung, the anti-submissionists
claiming the victory now, and next day submis
sion looming ahead. The final, full account places
submission nearly 5,000 ahead, and yet the liquor
men are claiming “at the present writing” that
submission has lost because, forsooth, it did not re
ceive a majority of all the ballots cast for the high
est candidate who was voted upon in the primary.
The submissionists answer wisely and truly that
they are not to blame because some of the voters
were too careless to vote at all on the question, but
the fact that submission received a majority of all
votes cast on that specific question is enough to give
them ample victory. The prohibitionists have a
large majority of delegates in the State Democratic
Convention meeting this week in San Antonio and
it is expected that they will do some interpreting of
the law themselves. Anyway, if there had been no
election and if nobody had spoken at the polls on
this question, making a submission plank mandatory
in the platform, it is still within the province of
the delegates to the convention to put any plank
in the platform which they please, and with such
a petition on the part of the majority of the Dem
ocratic voters on this question, it is thought now
that a submission plank will win in the convention.
And woe unto that legislature that dares to deny
the will of the people.
The battle is on and it now looks like Texas will
go “dry” in 1909.
I?
I desire to say something in commendation of
your most excellent paper. My opinion is that-it
contains much high class, wholesome matter, and
T feel that I shall be strengthened by the strong
intellectual information which I find therein.
Birmingham, Ala. . J. W. Hargrove.
maries in Texas, might have been
saved if we could have waited a
few days longer. Not until Satur
day morning. August 8, about two
