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The Golden Age
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OFFICES: AUSTELL BUILDING. ATLANTA. GA.
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TLx-Gobernor Nor then Honored.
The thousands who love that eminent Christian
statesman and scholar, Ex-Governor Wm. J. Northen,
have been gratified by the
He Will Finish announcement that Governor
Records -Left by Joseph M. Brown has appoint-
Gov. Candler’s Death, ed Gov. Northen to complete
Georgia’s Colonial, Rev
olutionary and Confederate records that were left
unfinished by the death of the lamented Ex-Gov.
Allen D. Candler. The appointment is a fitting and
timely recognition of William J. Northen’s scholar
ship and patriotism, and the work that he will
do so well will link his career yet more strongly to
the history of the state that he has so conspicuous
ly honored by his constructive statesmanship and
his spotless name.
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The Passing of a Good Tian.
Dear old man —how we shall miss him! The recent
death of Dr. John L. Dagg Hil’yer, one of the ripest
Bible scholars of his day,
Dr. J. L. D. Hillyer, causes mingled sadness and
Preacher and Scholar, gladness in the hearts of ail
Is No More who knew and loved him.
Sadness because the going
away of those we love is always sad; and gladness
because affliction and sorrow marked his closing
years and death came as a sweet release to his trust
ing, imprisoned soul.
His Bible scholarship was remarkable. He could
write a paper on civic reform and general statecraft
that would have done credit to a leader of the
United States Senate. He had a wonderful fund of in
formation that was a well-spring of inspiration
to young preachers and writers who often sought his
* aid.
The writer has found himself crying; Such a pity
that this dear, wise old man could not bequeath his
knowledge and learning to me —for I need it so!” And
he has found himself grieving too, that absence in
the Florida Prohibition campaign—a work that Dr.
Hillyer loved so w r ell —prevented the ministrations
which love would have prompted in the closing days
of our father-friend. Peace at last, dear old heart,
and everlasting fellowship with the Redeemer.
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The Humane TLffects of Education.
No nation on earth excels Japan in-proving that
“education is the cheap deference of nations.” Ja
pan has given Korea, where there was no public pro
vision for education, a system of manual training,
common and high schools, and commercial, indus
trial, agricultural and medical colleges, having al
ready appropriated over $250,000. In the Industrial
Training School at Seoul, six lines of modern tech
nical training, from weaving to engineering, are es
tablished. Where public hygiene was unknown, one
half of the people dying of smallpox, and syphilis be
ing almost omnipresent, Japan has introduced water
works, hospitals and other means of preserving life,
her appropriations to date rising above $6,000,000. —
Baptist Commonwealth.
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Look Out!
Watch for our Special Christmas ad in next week’s
issue.
The Golden Age for November 17, 1910.
NASH BROYLES ELECTED
Well, the agony is over —and Judge Nash Broyles,
Atlanta’s fearless Recorder, whom we recently intro
duced to our readers with pict-
And Evil-doers ure and story, has been elected
Tremble in Geor- by the vote of the people. Al
gia’s Capital City. though his reputation as an able,
upright Police Judge is almost
as wide as Atlanta’s own good name, a change
in the law made this Nash Broyles’ first campaign
before the people, and the friends of law and order
are rejoicing over his victory.
This is no reflection on those who voted for other
candidates for personal reasons —it just means that
the fight on Nash Broyles was begun by the advocates
of municipal “looseness,” while the fight for his elec-
THANK L. MA YES-A Tearless Tloridian
There was a sensation m Pensacola, and all West
Florida—a sensation of the most wholesome kind —a
sensation that frightened the liquor
Editor of Pen- men and caused general rejoicing in
sacola Journal the camp of the white-ribbon hosts,
Strikes Saloon, when Frank L. Mayes, the knightly
Editor of the Pensacola Daily
Journal came out the other day squarely for state
wide Prohibition. Everybody knew -where he stood
personally, and that in the local campaign three
years ago his paper led the fight against saloons.
But the whiskey men had been hoping that in the
statewide contest he would remain silent or possibly
declare for “local option.” But on that fair Sun
day morning when that double-header Editorial came
out over the heroic name of Frank L. Mayes, the
Editor of The Golden Age, who was in Pensacola at
the time, felt the very atmosphere vibrate and ting
ling with spirit and enthusiasm.
If every editor of every city daily in Florida had
believed and written as Frank L. Mayes did the
meager majority piled up by the liquor-bought votes
of negroes in Jacksonville would have been wiped
out and gloriously reversed by the unsullied ballots
of Florida freemen.
Although the battle of ballots is for a time over,
it must be fought again in Florida and many other
states and some of the ringing words with which
Frank Mayes fought are worthy of present reading
and everlasting preservation and emulation. Here
they are:
“My course of action, as it presents itself to me,
is not difficult to determine. The adoption of the
amendment will prohibit the existence of the legal
ized saloon in Florida. The defeat of the amend
ment will make possible the continued existence of
the saloon in Florida. I am opposed to the saloon
whether in Escambia county or any other county
and I am therefore in favof of the measure whose
purpose it is to abolish the saloon not only in Es
cambia county, but in all other counties as well.
“The anti-amendment literature repeatedly empha
sizes the statement that our ‘local option’ leaders
are all in favor of temperance. So am lin favor of
temperance. That is why I shall vote to put the
saloon out of business. ‘Local option,’ in this particu
larlar case, is the last resort of the saloon. The
saloon’s chief business is to promote intemperance.
Every saloon man in the state, and out of it, is now
for ‘local option’ in Florida. He knows that under
‘local option’ the chances of continuing his business
indefinitely amount to a practical certainty. The
business of the saloon does not promote temperance,
and I, therefore, as a temperance man, can not vote to
promote the saloon business.
“We are told that the best way to handle the saloon
is to ‘regulate’ it. “Prohibition does not prohibit” is
the cry of every man who is in the saloon business
and many who are out of it. Ido not pretend to say
what is the best way to handle the liquor question.
I do not know. It has been the problem of genera
tions, and no one has yet proposed a plan that, to me
at least, appears entirely satisfactory. But I would
have more faith in ‘regulation’ if I did not know
that the saloon never accepts regulation except as a
last reluctant concession to public sentiment, and
then it never entirely observes it.
“That ‘prohibition does not prohibit’ I am free to
tion was led by those who believe in law-enforcement
and a clean town.
The beautiful floral tribute sent Judge Broyles by
the ladies of the Tabernacle and Dr. Len G. Brough
ton emphasizes the type of his most enthusiastic
supporters.
For four years more, then, thank the Lord, the
chiefest city of the South is to have speedy justice
dispensed, in her Police Court and “black legs” and
“blind tigers” might as well take to the woods.
And Nash Broyles in Atlanta will serve as a brace
and benediction to many another Recorder’s back
bone all over the land.
Hurrah for Nash Broyles and Law Enforcement!
admit. But I will go further and assert that regula
tion does not regulate. The saloon business is the one
particular business that seems at all times and in
all places to consider itself absolutely outside of the
law. You can neither satisfactorily regulate it nor
entirely prohibit it.
“The saloon tells us that if we prohibit its business
by law it will break the law. It tells us that, by doing
so it will bring the law into contempt and thereby
teach our young men to view the law with contempt
and to become a generation of lawbreakers. All of
this is true. The saloon will do these things and
more.
“But while this is so, I fail to see where the viola
tion of a prohibition law will have any more of a
tendency to produce contempt of all laws than the
viloiation of a regulation law has to produce con
tempt for present laws. And if the saloon is to make
a business of breaking laws and holding them up to
contempt and ridicule, I would just as soon have it
break one as another.
“A law prohibiting the saloon does, however, reduce
the consumption of liquor and it reduces the amount
of intemperance and drunkenness, as well. For these
reasons, if for no other, I should vote for the amend
ment.
“There is also another reason why I shall vote for
the amendment, and that is because the saloon in
terests are againist it. Those interests are not fight
ing for me or my business or my boy—or for you or
your business or your boy. They are fighting to per
petuate THEIR OWN PARTICULAR BUSINESS.
Lincoln said that when it came to a contest between
the dollar and the man, he was on the side of the
man; the dollar could take care of itself. By the
same reasoning, when it comes to a question be
tween the saloon and the boy, I am on the side of the
boy; the saloon can take care of itself. If the saloon
must have some one to stand for it, to speak for it,
to vote for it —whether under the guise of ‘local
option’ or ‘regulation’ or whatever may be its re
fuge—it will have to get some one else to do the
speaking and the voting. I decline to do it. I do
not profess to be any better than the average man.
Possibly I am worse. I don’t think any of us have
a great deal to boast about. But whatever I may
have to answer for when the day for answering
comes, there will be at least one thing which can
never be laid at my door and that is the responsi
bility for the open saloon. I may not be able to
abolish the saloon, but if it is to continue to exist
it will have to be over my protest. If some one
must be responsible for its existence, the responsi
bility will have to rest on other shoulders; it cannot
rest on mine.
“I nave never known of the erection of a monu
ment to the work accomplished by the business of
the brewer, the distiller or the saloonist. I have
yet to learn where any man or woman has been
signally honored because of his or her advocacy of
the barroom. I have not yet heard —and I pause for
the information—of one good thing in government
or in life that the liquor business stands for or has
accomplished.
“For these reasons I shall vote against the busi
ness by voting for the amendment.
“FRANK L. MAYES.”
