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law is the same old stock argument that the
liquor people have used since organized sobrie
ty and decency began to dispute the encroach
ments of the brewers and distillers upon our
manhood, our peace and our politics. They
differ widely from the wisdom of William E.
Gladstone, who said to the House of Commons:
‘lt is the function of government to make it as
hard as possible for the citizen to do wrong,
and as easy as possible for the citizen to do
right.’ Talk about revenue, gentlemen, give
me a sober citizenship, not spending their .earn
ings for drink and I will take care of the reve
nue.”
“Has it come to this—that a great city like
Atlanta, and a prosperous State like Georgia,
cannot keep house, either as a municipality or
a commonwealth, without encouraging their
citizens to drink and crime? And is it either
brave or wise for these prominent citizens to
join the cry of the bar-room forces all over the
land, that we ought not to pass an anti-liquor
law, because it cannot be enforced? Will the
vicious ever give consent to the making of laws
that will divorce them from their vice? It is
easier to fight vice when it is outlawed, than it
is when the guardian arms of the law are
thrown about it.
“In all good humor, I would like to ask the
gentlemen who propose to fight the Tippins
bill this direct, legitimate, personal question:
‘For whom do you wish to have the beer sa
loons and death-dealing whiskey clubs retain
ed? Do you want them for yourselves? Oh,
no ! Or your sons? Oh, no ! Or for the young
men who associate with your daughters? Cer
tainly not! Do you want them for the young
men who stand behind your counters, who keep
your books, or who wait on your customers at
the bank?’ No, no! Os course you do not
want them for any of these. Then, for whom?
The beer saloons, at least, are for the poor, un
fortunate fellows who are given to spending
their earnings for drink and their evenings
away from home —while the locker clubs that
are now selling whiskey generally outright
over their counters, and that are sending com
plimentary membership cards to the members
of our present Legislature, in order to win
their friendship and debauch their ballots —
these “respectable” dens of drink are for the
gentlemen “higher up,” who ar.e too nice to as
sociate with the poor devils of the street.
These statements are not overdrawn. They
can be substantiated any hour of the day, and
they will be disputed only by men who do not
know the facts, or who do not want to know
them. I must submit, that it comes with rath
er poor grace for these genial captains of
finance to join hands, some unwittingly and
others with full purpose, with the lawless ele
ment who simply want to drink and have a
‘good time’ at the expense of sobriety, law and
order. ’ ’
“It is the veriest commercial folly to talk
about license revenue from drink shops, as
necessary to the maintenance of a municipality
or a State, when .every financier with his full
share of brain must know that the paltry
license fee is not a drop in the bucket, when
compared to the enormous stream of the earn
ings of the common people which goes out of
the State in a steady flow into the pockets of
the foreign brewers and distillers; and as one
who has battled for years for the inspiration
and uplift of Georgia youth, I must declare that
no man has a right to fight for the retention of
beer saloons, lockers, or any other licensed evil,
who is not willing to furnish his own son as a
regular patron, or to allow his own daughter
to marry the man who does patronize them.”
“If I were a betting man,” said Mr. Upshaw,
with a smile, “I would bet a dollar to a dough
nut, that most of these ‘leading citizens’ who
oppose the Tippins bill ar.e members —or have
close friends who are members —of these social
clubs where liquor is kept or furnished.”
“Here’s to the Georgia House, the Georgia
Senate, and a square deal for the Prohibition
Law —for everybody knows that a square deal
this law has never had.”
The Golden Age for July 18, 1912.
Harriet Hawkes Home Now a Certainty
Rev. E. H. Peacock Wins in a Long, Plucky Fight, Raising More Than the Nec
essary Fund to Secure Gift of Fifty Acres From A. K. Hawkes.
Because the cause was one of unusual worth
iness and the worker is a man of unusual pluck
and tact, the campaign for the guarantee fund
of the Harriet Hawkes Industrial Home for
Girls has been grandly rounded out to success.
Mr. A. K. Hawkes, whose unselfish purse is
only exceeded by his great heart, had agreed
to give fifty acres of land on Stewart Avenue,
Atlanta, provided Sixteen Thousand Dollars
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be raised, to guarantee the first buildings. Rev.
E. H. Peacock who had won his spurs as a
money raiser and Christian worker in his long
career as Dr. Broughton’s assistant at the Tab
ernacle in Atlanta, was wisely chosen to lead
this campaign as the Superintendent of the
Home. Rarely, if ever, was any kindred en
terprise launched at a more unfavorable time
• WILL YOU NOT, TOO ?
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“Snaggle-tooth, snaggle-tooth, hoy, hoy hoy!
A snaggle-tooth girl is uglier than a boy.”
“Pa, you’d better look after Jim. Sis will jump on him in a minute.”
“It seems to me, instead of beating the chillun, it would be lots wiser to send
Fifty Cents to The Golden Age, 814 Austell Bldg., Atlanta, Ga., for a four months’
subscription to their splendid paper, and get a tube of that excellent No-D-K Den
tal Cream they are giving away absolutely Free. Then have beautiful,
well-preserved) teeth all the time, and would not want and torment each*
other when they had such an inspiring paper to read.”
“You are mighty right, Mother. If you keep the head and heart full of whole
some reading matter, and the mouth sweet and clean with an ideal, thoroughly
antiseptic dentifrice, our children will be sweet through and through, and there
will be no more fighting and fussing.
“Just hand me the scissors and I will clip out and return this coupon this very
day:”
CLIP THIS COUPON.
Enclosed find fifty cents which pays for four months’
(new or renewal) subscription to The Golden Age. Also
send me ABSOLUTELY FREE one tube of NO-D-K
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from a financial standpoint. A half-dozen city
wide campaigns—one of them aggregating
$600,000.00 —had covered Atlanta with a fine
tooth comb. These, too, had had special or
ganizations with committees to help; but E. H.
Peacock fought his battle alone, save for the
fellowship and help of a faithful Board of
Trustees. The victory is all the more notable
when we remember that every subscription,
save one or two in a fund of nearly Seventeen
Thousand Dollars, was secured personally by
Air. Peacock —many of them being small sums,
ranging to SIO.OO.
Work on the buildings will begin immediate
ly, and Atlanta will soon have for the whole
South, a practical,. industrial Christian home
for unfortunate girls.
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