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The Golden Age
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OTIICLS: AUSTELL BUILDING. WIL ANT A, GA.
WILLIAM ©. UPSHAW ... - Editor
MRS. WILLIAM D. UPSHAW - Associate Editor
MRS G. S. LINDSEY - ■ Managing Editor
LEN G. BROUGHTON - - - Pulpit Editor
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as second-class matter
The Libelous Liqourites.
The whiskey people of the whole country seem to
be united in a campaign of misrepresentation con
cerning the prohibition laws in
They Falsify and dry territory and especially its
Villify, But Truth enforcement in Atlanta.
Will Not Down. In view of the fact that so
many false statements, dispar
aging to Atlanta and the cause of prohibition gen
erally have been published and circulated almost ev
erywhere, we want to give to our readers a plain
statement of facts as taken from the official records
of the city, and published in The Atlanta Daily Geor
gian of November 3, 1910:
Misrepresentation Indeed!
The Local Option and High License Campaign
Committee of 403 Cullerton Building, Oklahoma City,
Okla., is a very industrious committee and is waging
a very industrious campaign. It is opposing prohi
bition in Oklahoma, and judging from its name it
wants local option where local option can’t be pre
vented and high license saloons wherever possible.
As a part of its campaign industry, it is circulating
a handbill, or circular, or dodger, most likely the lat
ter, in w'hich it sets forth the horrible results of pro
hibition in a long list of “dry” cities as a warning to
other cities never under any circumstances to be
come “dry,” and it holds up Atlanta as one of the
most horrible examples of “dryness.”
It heads its artful dodger, “Repudiated Rotten
ness,” and the beginning paragraph is as follows:
“The anti-saloonists do not hesitate to misrepresent
and continue now to use statements of how prohibi
tion is entirely satisfactory to towns and cities that
have thrown off the vice-producing yoke.”
And then further on it remarks: “Let us look over
some other figures that expose the reason for the
refusal of good citizens to longer indorse the policy
of the anti-saloonists.” And these reasons are then
set forth in a list of cities mostly “dry,” and oppo
site each is given what is claimed to be the popula
tion, the total arrests for drunk or drunk and dis
orderly cases, and the proportion of such arrests to
the population. It sets Atlanta down as follows:
“Atlanta, Ga. (Dry.) Population, 135,000. Total
arrests for drunk or drunk and disorderly, 13,816.
Proportion of arrests to population, 1 to 10.”
This is really important, if TRUE. But right here
is the trouble. This active committee, which so
greatly abhors misrepresentation, allowed its impor
tance —to them —to overshadow its truth, because it
is FALSE, four times FALSE.
In the first place, Atlanta’s population, the census
being taken in the early part of 1910, is in round
numbers 154,000; and in the second place, all arrests
made during the year 1909, to which the circular
evidently refers, in which drunkenness was even re
motely connected, totaled only 3,741. Therefore, At
lanta’s proportion of arrests for drunkenness during
1909 was Ito 41. The figures on which this is based
were recently compiled by Recorder Pro Tern W. H.
Preston and published in The Georgian. They are
official and can not be questioned. The arrests for
disorderly conduct during 1909 amounted to 10,079.
These do not include the number for drunkenness,
and drunkenness and drinking played NO PART IN
THEM WHATEVER.
The Golden Age for November 10, 1910.
BEN HILL’S ELOQUENT SON
It is not often that a great orator of state, national
or international reputation lives again in the person
of his son.
A Touching The younger Pitt was an exception.
Incident John Quincy Adams another; likewise
At The ■ Alfred H. Colquitt, and our own
Funeral Reuben Arnold. The mind of a South
of Charles erner naturally turns to these names
D. Hill. when the subject is mentioned, and
then dwells lingeringly and tenderly
on Ben Hill, Jr., and the late beloved Charles D.
Hill. While Judge Ben Hill, of the Court of Appeals,
would not wish nor expect to be classed as the equal
of his illustrious father, yet, there have been times
when his eloquence has been notable indeed. But
we believe almost everybody agrees that if Charles
D. Hill had studiously and sacrificingly followed the
star of political ambition, he could have sustained in
the United States Senate the wonderful reputation
of Benjamin Harvey Hill. If he had been born in
the same generation—if he had been stirred and
molded by the fires of Separation and Reconstruc
tion, Charles D. Hill could well nigh have touched
the heights of the “Bush Arbor Speech” and thund
ered the flaming defense at Davis Hall.
No man who ever heard Charles D. Hill at his best
—"when crowded court rooms have sw r ayed under
his loftiest flights of indescribable eloquence, can
doubt that had the princely son faced such an
hour as did the imperial father, he could have swept
the hearts and harps of men with that matchless
tribute to the “Flag of the Union” and followed the
American Eagle in his measureless flight “though
he blow his breath on the sun.”
But with all of Charlie Hill’s surpassing eloquence
w’hich Ambition never forced beyond his native
heath, after all, it was his great loving heart that
made his jewel preeminent in manhood’s shining
crown.
The beautiful influence of this heart that was
“kingly with Kindness and royal with Truth,” is
found in the following quaint, tender story on the
editorial page of The Constitution, dealing with the
devotion of three Chinamen who bedewed the great
lawyer’s bier w r ith “Celestial tears”:
When Bret Harte wrote his immortal poem about
the “ways that are dark and tricks that are vain,”
whereunder he sought to classify the Chinamen as a
race, he . evidently had not met such of his kind as
Lum Woo, Chu Whi and George Hong, three Atlanta
Chinamen.
It was the tears of George Hong, Lum Woo, and
Chu Whi, prompted by the sincerest of hearts, that
watered the bier of the late Solicitor General, Chas.
D. Hill, who had befriended them during life, and
whose cold fingers they held in lingering clasp as
they stood beside his coffin while hot tears fell in
profusion upon the body of him they had learned to
love like mother or father.
Chu Whi, Lum Woo and George Hong had special
reasons to know the justice and kindness of the
Therefore, this lively committee, which deems it
self shocked to the core by MISREPRESENTATION
has itself given circulation to a quadruple-plated
MISREPRESENTATION.
As a matter of fact, here is the effect that prohi
bition has had on drunkenness in Atlanta, as taken
from Mr. Preston’s figures: In 1907, the last wet year,
the arrests for drunkenness were 6,508; in 1908, the
first year of prohibition, 2,650; in 1909, the second
year of prohibition, 3,741; and for the first nine
months of 1910, the third year of prohibition 1,120,
or only 2,820 for the entire year at that rate.
A marked decline in drunkenness for the entire
period since the prohibition law went into effect is
thus disclosed.
And yet the enterprising Oklahoma committee
holds Atlanta up as a shining example of what other
cities should strive to avoid.
Misrepresentation indeed!
The Georgian might have added another fact,
which is important when considering the number of
solicitor’s heart. One had been saved from death by
the unerring justice of the kindly prosecutor, and
both of the others had been befriended substantially.
They were willing, almost, to die for the white man
who had looked to their needs, and when the news
of his illness became general they were very sor
rowful. •
They called him “Char-Hill,” having heard his
other friends call him “Charley Hill,” and as soon
as they knew the solicitor was sick they collected
three boxes of candy, fine teas and apples, and took
them to the solicitor’s home as a gift to the man
who was dying. Twice every day the Chinamen call
ed to inquire after “Char-Hill.” Then the solicitor
died.
A customer going into Lum Woo’s laundry found
him dully ironing a shirt, the tears streaming down
his yellow face. “What’s the matter, Lum?” was the
kindly inquiry.
“Char-Hill is dead,” said the Oriental in a choked
voice. “The best friend I ever had in the worl’. He>
better to me than my father or my mother. He tak’
care of me; he say, ‘So long as Char-Hill live, nobody
shall hurt Lum Wo,’ ” and the tears coursed silently
down his strange face.
When the solicitor had been clothed in his sombre
clothes for the grave, and the face, which bore
even in death the imprints of a colossal brain, was
smoothed and still by the awesome touch of death,
a queer trio presented itself at the door of the quiet
house —Lum Woo, Chu Whi and George Hong.
“We come to tell Char-Hill goodby,” they said sadly.
They were allowed to come into the room where the
solicitor lay. One by one they went up to the still,
cold form, took the lifeless fingers in their hands
and held them in a lingering clasp, as each said
aloud, “Goodby, Char-Hill, goodby;” and then they
turned away, with the hot tears dropping slowly from
their eyes. And in one of the carriages that follow
ed the body to the grave were the three Chinamen.
Lum Woo has good cause to remember the dead
solicitor. Several years ago the High Binders in
New Orleans were trying to get hold of Lum Woo to
kill him, because he had been a witness in court
against some of them. In order to accomplish their
purpose, a Chinaman high in the order swore out a
warrant, charging Lum Woo with murder. The case
came to Solicitor Hill’s attention, and he became
convinced that the charge of murder was a false
one, made to get possession of Lum in order that
the High Binders might wreak vengeance on him.
The solicitor persuaded the governor to refuse the
extradition asked for by the governor of Louisiana,
and Lum was safe for the time from the High Bind
ers.
“But now Char-Hill is dead,” said Lum. “The High
Binders will be so glad—so glad—to know that my
bes’ frien’ is gone. He can no more tak’ care of
me; and maybe now the High Binders will try to
get me.”
“But,” continued the Christian Chinese, “Char-Hill
is gone to heaven (pointing upward with a gesture
childishly awkward) an’ I’ll see him again.”
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arrests. Atlanta has a police force that is second to
none. Headed by Chief Jennings, a consecrated
Christian gentleman, the whole force, obedient to
instructions, looks to the enforcement of the law.
Many a man is arrested in Atlanta, carried down
and locked up so that both he and the public are
safe from the danger attending a liquor-inflamed
brain, that, in many other cities would be passed by
or put in a cab and sent home. Enforcement of law
may increase the number of arrests for a time, but
who says it is not for the ultimate good of the citi
zen?
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WHAT A HARDWARE MERCHANT SAYS.
Nashville, Ga., Oct. 31, 1910.
The Golden Age,
Dear Sirs:
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Cordially yours,
A. ALBRITTON.
