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' / >^J#|if' l |W LIBRA A” A««r\ >- < k C=*<V/A it NMn Aw VOLUME SEVEN NUMBER THIRTY-EIGHT A RINGING, HEROIC SPEECH Ex-Gov. J. Frank Hanly, of Indiana, Who Will Be Georgia*s Guest Next Week, Gives Blazing Defy to Liquorized Poli ticians —Declares He Will Quit the Republican Party if They Further Coquet With Saloons and Breweries “Thoughts That Breathe and Words That Burn.” L . V • - fit r bring saloons back to Georgia, makes it glori ously opportune to give our readers Gov. Han ly’s ringing defiance to the saloon politicians in his own party in Indiana. We verily believe that no nobler or more eloquent utterance against the liquor bus iness has ever been spoken by any states man in America. Speaking to the Temper ance report recently before the Indiana M. E. Conference, where two thousand peo ple sat electrified and spell-bound while he spoke, Gov. Hanly said: Gov. Hanly’s Wonderful Warning. “Today my party in this State stands in the valley of indecision —doubting and un certain. Last year it failed in its duty. It sought not right, but expediency, the ex pediency of silence. It turned its back up on a work more worthy than it had wrought in this commonwealth in the third of a century. As a result of its perfidy it was defeated. Its defeat was sad, but sad der far was the fact that it deserved defeat. That fact stained its nation-wide fame with shame. Today ‘the lip of its honor’ lies low in the dust.’ ’ “Those who brought it there may silence their consciences for the hour, and for the moment justify their act, but before the jury time empanels, they will stand con demned through all eternity. It is better to deserve to win, and lose, than to win, and deserve to lose. Victory unmerited is worse than defeat undeserved. The fruits of such a victory turn to ashes on the lips. No party can afford to sacrifice truth or principle on the altar of expediency. The idea of duty or of service can no more be ignored by a party than by an individual. The truest expediency either for an indi vidual, or for a party is the expediency of right. One Way To Survive. “Neither men nor parties can afford to strike a balance between civic duty and criminal policy. To survive, there must be full acceptance of the first and complete repudiation of the latter. “To fail again next year will involve severer cost. There can be no victory with another surrender to a traffic loaded with T is a good time to give it to Geor gia yea, and to all the land beside. The fact that Former Governor J. Frank Hanly, of Indiana, comes to lecture under the auspices of the Alkahest Lyceum in Atlanta, Mon day night, November 20th —right in the midst of a campaign when the liquor forces are trying to REPLY TO JUDGE RUSSELL’S ATLANTA SPEECH—Page Five ATLANTA, GA., NOVEMK'^ "A, 1911 the curse of God and man. The ill that befell us before will grow, and deepen, until we sink beneath its shame, and the people’s gathered wrath. To thoughtful, sincere and upright men the conflict between duty and surrender is, and will continue to be, irreconcilable. If there is further surrender pleas for party har mony and party loyalty will not avail. They will be less efficacious than they were before, and they were ineffectual then. Harmony can not be built upon false pretenses made and in tended only to deceive, nor can party loyalty BH BB joIBBB i of ■ 11 '' 1 ' ' . ' • ■ *■''£.. ■ ■ . ' 1 ■ ' 4 ■ ■ ’ ■ . ■ ■■ ' ' 'A : A- " ' /'Av ■A//A ■ - ■ .A,-. ' ■ — o ... - i'*". - ... ; Ex-Governor J. Frank Hanly. be founded on the surrender of that which has become a deep and mighty truth to thousands of stalwart, purposeful men. Such men can go to defeat, but they cannot surrender. “Speaking for myself, and meaning the tilings I speak, I say unto you, that if my par ty fails in this behalf next year, either in plat form, or in ticket, I will not champion its brok en faith. I will not share its blood stained hire. I will not help it bear its million-finger ed shame. I will not bring my conscience to another brewers’ mart. I cannot stay and keep my own hands clean. I cannot stand for- ever before the truth and mock it with a lie. And, I will not go in silence, for in such case, silence would be crime. Will Not Go Alone. “Deep as my love for my party has been, and is—and it has been, and is deep and abiding—my hate of that which wrought its shame is, and shall be deeper still. If it betrays its trust again, 1 will drag into the light its sin. I will paint its crime and folly. There shall be no padlock upon my lips, and in such case, I will not go alone. There will be others —thousands of others —and together, rising above the crime and folly of an evil time, we will wash our hands of its sin and shame, and curse. “We will lift this great cause up until a common love shall fuse our hearts in one. And our prayer-nursed purpose shall find a tongue; and the dead in sin shall hear, and hearing, be convinced. “We will appeal anew to the consciences of men. We will proclaim a new crusade with a prayer-forged zeal that will not be denied. Planted upon the adamant of a righteous cause, we’ll put nerve into our task. We’ll hew down the opposition. We will strike home as Christians this monster wrong, strike home until the blows we deal shall be felt the wide world through.” POPE BROWN STRAIGHTFORWARD “Pope Brown’s platform is a straight forward, honest declaration for prohibi tion. He advocates preserving the present law, perfect and strengthen it and enforce it. I can not see how any prohibitionist can criticise a platform like that. “The result of this election is going to make it easier to enforce the law if Pope Brown is elected, but otherwise it is going to make it harder for our officers to en force them. “I plead for every God-fearing and pa triotic citizen to do the right thing in this election.” DR. CHAS. W. DANIEL, ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS A YEAR :: FIVE CENTS A COPY