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The Golden Age
SUCCESSOR TO RELIGIOUS EORUTi
Published Ebery Thursday by thi Golden Age Publishing
Company ( Im .)
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WILLIAMD. UPSHAW - Editor
MRS G. 2?. LINDSEY - - Managing Editor
LEN G. BROUGHTON - - - Pulpit Editor
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Tlpo Happy ‘Benefactors.
One of the most beneficent and far-reaching enter
prises ever launched in the South was formally given
to the world on November
Practical Philanthropists
Makes Noble
Contribution to a New
“Republic.”
George Junior Republic in New York.
The well-told story of the birth of this young re
public as given on our first page this week by Rev.
Millard A. Jenkins, of Athens is worth not only
reading now r , but keeping on file as the story of a
most unusual endeavor for the uplift of humanity.
This new and youthful “State,” was born on a
splendid farm of over four hundred acres, given to
Georgia for the reformation of erring boys by that
eminent Christian gentleman, physician and states
man Dr. L. G. Hardman, of Commerce, who was
author of the State Prohibition Bill, when he was a
member of the Georgia Senate.
Dr. Hardman has done a great service to humanity
by this princely gift, and this generation and genera
tions yet unborn, will rise up to call him blessed.
The real basis of this movement, which has had
such a beautiful, practical and enduring culmination,
was laid several years ago by
Crawford Jackson
The Friend of God
And Erring Boys.
officers and asked to be allowed to be his friend.
His self-sacrificing work for that boy and many of his
unfortunate little brothers since then, attracted the
attention of the public in many States, real philan
thropists came to his aid, and this juvenile State,
where erring boys will be guided in the building of
their miniature republic and thus help each other
to “straighten out” and become exemplary citizens
is the glorious result.
Crawford Jackson and Dr. Hardman must have
been “mighty” happy men on the 24th day of Novem
ber, and the joy of the other big-hearted men asso
ciated with them, of course, was as nearly equal to
theirs, as their love, labor and treasure have been
invested in the noble enterprise.
Here’s to the juvenile State, to Governor Gentle,
its first ruler and all who bless it with their loyalty
and crown it with their benefactions! Let a new
star be placed on the flag of our Christian civiliza
tion —for a new republic is born.
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A Coming Tlississippian.
On our fifth page this week appears the picture
of a young man who is as sure to be Governor of Mis
sissippi or represent that great state
Young
Whittington’s
Throne of
Hearts
barely more than thirty, and seems as far from be
ing a politician in the common acceptance of that
term as any lawyer of superior gifts that we have
ever seen. But these very gifts are such as to almost
force him into public life, especially when his char
acter is so stalwart and splendid as to make the peo
ple call him when they are looking for A Man.
24, six miles from Athens,
Georgia. It was the cele
bration and dedication of
“The Juvenile State,” mod
eled after the far-famed
Rev. Crawford Jackson, who,
learning that a small boy in At
lanta had been sentenced for
some petty offence, w r ent to the
in the United States Senate someday
as that time brings riper years upon
him, and he keeps his present grip on
the minds and hearts of the people of
Mississippi. William Whittington is
The Golden Age for December 2, 1909.
Esther Terr all in a Christmas Dress
Everybody loved Esther Ferrall. Everybody was
blessed by her thrilling “experiment” and inspiring
Popular Brain Child of
Mrs. Odessa Strickland
Payne is Brought Out
From Her Retirement.
She’s As Pretty
As a Dream.
pling music of her laugh, the elasticity of her step,
the vivacious vim of her faith, the all compelling
fascination of her beautiful personality and the posi
tive tonic of her unselfish, womanly purpose, will
make her a delightful solution to the Christmas shop
pers’ problems and will be a welcome guest in the
home of the fortunate recipient.
The defeat of the constitutional amendment for
prohibition in Alabama, while a disappointment, of
course to the organized leadership
Alabama Still
“Dry.” It Was
The Defeat of
Personalities
And Not
Prohibition
Sentiment.
they refused to endorse his adminis
tration by putting the amendment in the organic law
of the State. But irrespective of the results of the
Alabama battle the lesson for all prohibition efforts is
the same. The liquor forces that were behind the
opposition to the constitutional amendment are abun
dant in resources and absolutely devoid of conscience.
Wherever and whenever they have been given the
opportunity they have proven the truth of Henry
Grady’s scathing indictment of the liquor traffic when
he said in his famous Atlanta speech: “It is flexible
to cajole, but merciless in victory.”
Many good men were blinded by sophistry and
seemed to actually think that there was some other
issue involved in the campaign except the everlast
ing dethronement of liquor.
Personalities entered into the campaign to a large
extent and overshadowed principles with thousands
of voters. Because of his stalwart leadership along
certain lines of anti-corporation legislation and the
skillful and vituperative tactics of his enemies, the
movement for a constitutional amendment was false
ly declared to be simply a Comer measure hatched
out wholly for the purpose of sending him to the
United States Senate.
Governor Comer met the charge with the sweeping
declaration that he was not a candidate for the sen
ate and never intended to be. But the most shame
ful bitterness and billingsgate perpetrated by the
■liquor leaders was the lying abuse of Brooks Law
rence, Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of
Alabama. His chief crime was that he was “born
in Ohio, where they love the negro,” and these
wretched editors and speakers rushed to the rural
We do not know whether he traces his lineage to
the famous and spectacular Whittington, who was
one time Lord Mayor of London, but we are mighty
sure that if he lived in London now and were to
turn his attention to things political, the grace of his
bearing and the splendor of his powers would put
him in Parliament, or make him Lord Mayor.
Mr. Whittington is a graduate of Mississippi Col
lege, a leader of the Greenwood bar and an eloquent,
fearless champion of all that is best in Mississippi’s
civic life.
But best of all, this coming Mississippian, who has
“already come,” is an active Christian worker —a
man who counts his obligation to his God and his
church as the supremest call of his life. Solid, poised,
genial and warm-hearted, no wonder he lives on a
throne of human hearts, and all over Mississippi you
achievement. We hated to
see her leave us and we re
joice at the prospect of her
early return. She is com
ing just in time for the
Christmas holidays and we
are sure that the radiant
smile on her face, the rip-
The Lesson in Alabama
of the cause, is not a defeat of pro
hibition. Alabama is as “dry” as it
was last week —and that is much
“dryer” than some prohibition terri
tory. In their purpose to rebuke
what they unjustly called the per
sonal ambition of Governor Comer,
Some of our new subscribers may not recognize
the “Lady Esther” of this editorial announcement,
but the majority of our readers will reach out the
“glad hand” of welcome to the Christmas publica
tion in book form of Mrs. Payne’s beautiful story,
“Esther Ferrall’s Experiment,” which appeared as a
serial in The Golden Age in the latter part of 1907.
There was an insistent demand at the time for
the story to appear in book form, but circumstances,
which the author could not control, prevented; and
now this charming story is to come out in beautiful
holiday attire, just in time to be used by the Sunday
school teachers, by mothers, daughters or sweet
hearts in their list of Christmas gifts, and may be
had by sending one dollar and six cents for postage,
to the Golden Age Publishing Company, 510 Lowndes
Building, Atlanta, Ga.
districts with the inflaming declaration that “no
nigger-loving Yankee should be coming down here
helping to make laws for southern white men.”
Ignorance and prejudice were thus successfully
appealed to, starting a flame of feeling and folly
which could never be put out.
And then another catchy, though groundless ap
peal was made to the thoughtless and ignorant. The
anti-amendment forces arrogated to themselves the
name, “Defenders of the Constitution,” and wore a
small United States flag, caught into a pretty design,
and the “designing” orator scattered these buttons
among the boys and careless men and called on them
to “defend the Constitution of Alabama.”
And the shameful interpretation of this “defense”
was the fool fuss that was made over that pro
vision in the amendment which allows an officer to
search any house, business or residence, which gives
evidence of containing “blind tiger” liquor. Every
body knows that this plank was only intended to
protect all homes against having a “blind tiger”
planted among homes of peace and sobriety. This
was magnified by unscrupulous speakers who played
upon the minds of the ignorant and transformed
them far and wide into the vicious. They simply
grew “red in the face” over the idea of an officer’s
“searching their home” and they “swore” they
would “defend their homes and the constitution.”
Was anything ever more palpably, demagogic and
“low down?”
And listen: To pay the expenses of speakers to do
this shameful work all over the states —especially
in the rural districts the head of the forces confessed
to the business manager of The Birmingham News
whom he tried to buy that the Brewers and Liquor
Dealer’s Association were prepared to spend Three
Hundred Thousand Dollars to defeat the amendment
and help elect another legislature that would change
the present “jam tight” prohibition law.
And Alabama’s lesson is the lesson of other pro
hibition states. The battle is on.
Quit you like men everywhere and fight hard the
hordes of darkness that would bring bar-rooms again
to our doors!
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hear enthusiastic words of love and honor, coupled
with highest predictions as to his future.
It is refreshing—it is glorious to see such a young
man as William Whittington coming to the throne
in the state of Prentiss, Davis, George and Lamar.
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