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Gob. Northen ’s Address.
We wish to direct special attention to the address
of Ex-Governor William J. Northen, published else
where in this issue. It is not sup-
Read It, Heed
It, and Tell
It Abroad.
is the message of Christian philosophy and states
manship, spoken as a trumpet-call to patriotic citi
zens everywhere.
The fact that this great and good man has given
himself, his time and his money so freely and un
selfishly to promote the good cause which this ad
dress advocates, should command the immediate
attention, the careful reading and the conscientious
distribution of this vital and timely message. Ver
ily, as we suggest in introducing the speech, it ought
to be read, preserved and lived by every man in
America. Let the thoughtful reader, the real cit
izen and patriot, turn to this address immediately
and put it away in the mind and heart for sacred
keeping.
A Wineless "Banquet.
Three hundred business men at a banquet and
not a drop of wine! And there wasn’t a dull mo-
How Novel
and How Fine!
the sparkling sparkle of sparkling
champagne? The place was the Hotel Aragon and
the occasion was the reception of the leaders of the
Layman’s Movement, leading up to the convention
of these earnest men, held for three days in Atlanta.
Dr. W. W. Landrum presided with that suavo in
modo so natural to that master of assemblies. The
speakers were Dr. Jas. I. Vance, the eminent Pres
byterian preacher, formerly of Tennessee, now of
Newark, N. J.; Major Halford, the stalwart Chris
tian soldier, so long an officer in the United States
Army,* and Mr. J. C. White, a missionary worker
of consuming and inspiring zeal.
Every speech waked brain and heart and purse
posed to be fascinating reading
for the casual, thoughtless reader,
though he, of all others, needs the
more to read it and heed it. It
ment, either! Who says that a
banquet is an insipid thing with
out the glow of “ruby wine” and
The Golden Age for December 3, 1908.
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and gave quickened pulses and larger plans for this
mighty movement among Christian business men for
giving the gospel to a lost world.
Let men who banquet in bacchanalian revelry till
2 o’clock and “go home drunk in the morning,”
look on a sane, solid banquet like this and ‘‘cut
out” that alluring sparkle in the cup that “leads
to bewilder and dazzles to blind.”
H it
The Constitution ’s Mistake.
Our venerable neighbor, The Constitution, finds it
hard to get its eyes open to the facts all around it.
The people of South Carolina are in a mighty strug
gle with the liquor problem.
The Constitution is much disturbed because an ele
ment in that state is anxious to pattern after Geor
gia in an experiment with prohibition. It sets out
by a series of warnings, hints and inuendoes to make
the impression that the prohibition law of .Georgia is
a monumental failure, a dead letter, a fraud and a
delusion and divers other things to same general
effect.
The Golden Age has been keeping its eyes on the
workings of the prohibition la\V. We are bringing
out facts in every issue that squarely contradict the
charges of The Constitution. The counties that were
dry under local option are now nearer free from the
jug trade than ever before, while the dockets of all
the courts, the annual balances in all the tax books,
the prospects of snug balances to carry over to the
next year, and this, too, in a year of panic, all tes
tify that The Constitution is mistaken. Our state
is $8,000,000 richer in general tax returns than it
was a year ago, the panic notwithstanding. This
city is a long way ahead of previous years financial
ly, as we showed last week, despite the panic, prohi
bition and that loss of $150,000 in liquor taxes.
There is a cause for every effect; might we not reas
onably attribute this effect to the cause of prohibi
tion ?
And now the following piece of current news
serves our purpose to show how our law is effecting
the morals of our people:
“Macon, Ga., Dec. 5. —During the month of No
vember, 1907, 133 cases of drunk were docketed on
the police blotter, while only 28 cases were made dur
ing the past month. Forty-eight cases of drunk and
disorderly were made for November, one year ago,
against twenty-eight this year, and seventy-five cases
of disorderly conduct were tried in recorder’s court
during November last year, while only fifty-five were
tried this past month.
“For the entire month of November, one year
ago, 430 cases were docketed on the police blotter,
against 194 cases for November, this year.”
We think The Constitution would do well to co
operate with the law-abiding citizens of the grand
old State of Georgia and assist them in the enforce
ment of one of the best laws on her statute books,
thus upholding her banner before the truth-seeking,
ever-watchful eye of our sister states, rather than
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to be continually publishing to the world the erro
neous idea that we have a citizenship composed of
law breakers.
Our prohibition law is violated, yes. Have we a
single law that is not? By whom is this law vio
lated, and for what purpose? By a class of un
godly men, whom we have ever had with us, and who
seek to make an easy living off the weaknesses of
their fellow man. A class of men who are natural
law breakers, who violate the law whether they
are plying their trade, with or without license.
They are a worse class of criminals than the man
who slips in to your home, steals your purse and
runs away. The one gets your money and gives you
nothing. The other gives you in return for your
money a thing that will debauch, destroy your man
hood, bring disgrace on you and your family, and
produce all forms of crime. Will you please tell us
which is the criminal most to be dreaded, and which
should the good people of our state strive hardest to
be rid of?
Mob Lalv and Poetry.
After Gov. Northen’s magnificent address on
“The Majesty of the Law,” delivered at the re
cent session of the Georgia Bap-
Hugh Oliver’s tist Convention, there were sev-
Proverb. eral stirring speeches in support
of the high purposes of the ad
dress —a sort of “revival spirit” breaking out
against mob law and all of its dangers and horrors.
Among the speakers was Pastor Hugh F. Oliver, of
Buena Vista, whose own gifts as poet-philosopher
only go to confirm the fact that it was indeed his
honored father, Col. Thaddeus Oliver, of Buena
Vista, who wrote ‘‘All Quiet Along the Potomac
Tonight. ’ ’
Hugh Oliver thinks in metre, preaches in anthem
and lives in song. Hear this sentnce in his im
promptu speech that “sounded like” he had sat
up several nights in its preparation and polished
it “after the similitude of a palace”:
‘‘Mow law is corporate cowardice holding a car
nival of crime.”
Listen, patriot, that sentence ought to be
framed and hung up in every home and school room
in the land. Furthermore, it ought to be painted
on every tree and fence and stone wall along the
highway, so that “he who runs may read.”
Let every man be imbued with the idea—yea,
possessed with the conviction, that when he joins
a mob to plunder or kill he is constituting his own
part in “corporate cowardice” and that in the “car
nival of crime” in which a man is killed without
law, he himself becomes as surely a criminal as
the culprit who is swung to a limb or shot to death
by many bullets.
Let the preacher thunder it, let the teacher
teach it, let the judge declare it —let every firside
sacredly impress it: “Mob Law is Corporate Cow
ardice Holding a Carnival of Crime.”
