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7he Golden Age
(3OCCZSSOZ TO RELIGIOUS iohujiy
Published Ebery Thursday by the Golden &ge Publiihtnt
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LIQUOR MEN EIGHT "NEAR REER”
There are “hot times” in Georgia right now.
Hon. Hooper Alexander, of DeKalb, has in-
And the
Georgia
Legislature
Is Torn Asunder.
“Watch the
Line-up.”
expect anything else. All the defeated liquor
forces in the State, and out of the State, are
lined up behind the near beer pest holes, and
every other door to the re-opening of the
liquor question in this State. But the strangest
thing in all this fight is the fact that a few
misjudged prohibitionists have declared them 7
selves against the bill because they say Gov
ernor Brown pledged himself before election
to veto any amendment of the State prohibi
tion law. Our contention is that the pledge
which he and Governor Hoke Smith made to a
certain committee that called on them, does
not in any sense tie his hands on this near beer
bill, and as proof of this contention we repro
duce here that pledge in full:
“We, the undersigned, submitted to the
candidates for governor the following ques
tion : Tn the event of my election as governor
of Georgia, I pledge myself to resist, if neces
sary, with the veto power vested in me, any
repeal or change by amendment thereto of the
present prohibition law of Georgia.'
“(Signed)
“SEABORN WRIGHT,
“JOHN E WHITE,
“M. J. COFER,
“LEN G BROUGHTON.”
Governor Smith, in writing, replied that he
would use the veto power invested in the
governor “unless the amendment is for the
purpose of perfecting the law as a prohibition
measure, and is approved by friends of prohi
bition, such as yourself.”
(Signed) ' HOKE SMITH.
Mr. Brown submitted the following state
ment to the said committee, requesting that
it, too, be published:
“To your question I make the following
answer:
“‘Yes.’ . . . .”
He ended by saying, “I am greatly pleased
conditions are such that I can conscientiously
contribute mv part toward eliminating it.
“(Signed) ' JOSEPH M. BROWN.”
How on earth any man can read that sim
ple pledge and then take the position that it
has any reference to near beer saloons, is
beyond comprehension. The fact that State
prohibition law remains intact, and untouched
by the Alexander bill, is as clear as any axiom
ever uttered. The proposed bill, which is a
brand new bill, only kills some snakes that
have appeared on the scene since the former
bill became a law, and continue to do business
in the face of that law. And the few prohi
bitionists who oppose the bill to kill the near
beer (real beer) joints are simply fighting the
battle of the liquor men while these same
liquor men are laughing in their sleeve. Be
cause the battle in Georgia will be the battle,
to a greater or less degree, in other prohi
bition States, we give here a card from The
Atlanta Georgian, written by the editor of The
Golden Age:
“Why Should There Be a Battle?
“To the Georgian:
“Not since the day when all Georgia was
thrilled by the news that a State-wide Prohi
bition Bill had been introduced in the Legis
lacture, has anything so stirred the moral fibre
of our people as the announcement that the
temperance committee has voted unanimously
to outlaw ‘near beer’ and that a bill has been
introduced by Hon. Hooper Alexander to put
the whole near beer devilment forever out of
business. A newspaper headline prophesies
The Golden Age for July 29, 1909.
troduced a bill to kill the
“near beer” saloons in
Georgia and. significant to
note, every liquor sympa
thizer in the House has
unsheathed his sword to
fight the bill.
Os course. W e didn't
‘A Great Battle in the House’ on this question.
“Why should there be a battle?
“All real prohibitionists are obliged to favor
it, for it only clears away the brush in the
wav of enforcing the State prohibition law.
And simple consistency will compel all loyal
Georgians, whatever their previous attitude on
the prohibition question, to be in favor of it,
because they all have said they want to see the
new law have a fair trial —and they ail know
that the law has not had a fair trial, and with
these near beer joints as cloaks for blind tigers,
it is impossible for the State prohibition law
to have a fair trial.
"May I add that it is wholly wide of the
mark to say that this bill ought not to pass
because the present administration is commit
ted to a ‘stand pat’ position on the State pro
hibition bill. Every clear-headed man knows
that the Alexander bill does not touch the pro
hibition bill. It is not an amendment to that
bill. It only clears the deck for action with a
new law —a law which stops the defiant devil
ment of a set of law-breakers who are hiding
behind wrong interpretations of the other law.
“And the expressed fear that Governor
Brown will veto a bill killing the near beer
joints ought to be without foundation. Gov
ernor Brown has declared that he would veto
‘any effort to emasculate the present prohibi
tion law.’
“And if, as some claim, he has also promised
to veto any bill that seeks to amend the pres
ent law, that also does not touch the situation,
since the Alexander bill is not even an amend
ment to the prohibition law.
“Governor Brown’s hands are perfectly free
to sign a new bill killing these shameful guar
dians of blind tigers. He declares himself in
favor of law and order, and this alone must
make him rejoice to sign the bill.
“One more definite word: The people of
Georgia are sick and tired of this babyish play
ing with a great and wholesome law. Only
last week the Georgia Weekly Press Associa
tion passed by a rising, unanimous, enthusias
tic vote, a resolution calling for the abolition
of this near beer disgrace. The editors of the
weekly press know what they are talking
about. And what they advocate must and will
become law. It is another clear case of ‘Let
the people rule.’ This is the essence of de
mocracy. All over the South, on recent lec
ture tours, I have heard the good name of
Georgia maligned and hawked about because
of this near beer, blind tiger folly ,and from
every quarter of Georgia I have heard the out
raged people declare themselves on this ques
tion. It is up for settlenent, and it will be
settled right. For the sake of Georgia abroad,
and in the name of common sense and common
decency at home, let the law-makers of Geor
gia rise in their might and make quick busi
ness of this near beer disgrace in the prohibi
tion State of Georgia.
“WILLIAM D. UPSHAW.”
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Shame on a Great Netospaper !
Just wish you would look at this!
WANTED, A MAN FAMILIAR WITH the
business, to sell goods to blind
Savannah tigers. The Wadsworth Co.,
News Helps Liquor Dealers, Cincinnati,
Blind Tigers. Ohio.
This shameful “ad” was clip
ped from the Savannah Morning News, lulv
21, 1909.
Here is a paper that has had the respect of
the people of Georgia for a generation, writing
platitudes about the “enforcement of the law”
and carrying in its advertising columns this
horrible help to blind tigers—openly aiding
and abetting men who are trying to make law
breakers and liars out of our citizens.
Os course, this anarchistic journal is op
posed to the bill which proposes to kill near
beer saloons. “Watch the line-up!”
