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The Golden Age
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SPEED MANIA.
Ben Cox, the “Broughton” of the West, Grows
Anxious Over the Speed Mania of the
Times.
The most terrific disaster of the century —
the destruction of the superb Titanic with her
many hundreds of human souls —was due to
the speed mania, the curse of today. The Cap
tain was blamed, but behind the captain was
the company, and behind the company, the
public, demanding speed, no matter what the
cost. It seems that our own country is worse
afflicted with this disease than any other. Speed
mania rails, on which are run speed mania
trains, produce speed mania wrecks. Mr. J.
J. Hill says he has had rails in use for 25 years,
which were made in Germany. It is a strange
thing, that although a great part of our rail
roads are owned by steel manufacturers, such
a condition obtains.
We manufacture speed mania lumber and
leather, and then complain that the lumber
rots and the leather wears out.
Business men in large numbers are broken
down with nervous prostration because of their
speed mania methods. Dr. Max G. Schlapp, of
Cornell, says that without a radical change in
the present tendencies of modern industrial life,
modern civilized peoples will go the way of the
Greeks and Romans.
Speed mania methods in education result in
giving a smattering of a good many things
without due attention to the fundamentals.
This results in many students bearing from our
colleges and schools diplomas, while at the
same time, they are dunces in spelling, can
not write an intelligent letter, and find it
well-nigh impossible to engage in helpful con-
The Golden Age for December 12, 1012.
It is a funny thing to study—the ‘ ‘ how ’ ’ and
the “why” on the part of men who become
either advocates or apologists on
Not One the wrong side of the whiskey
Twentieth question.
As Much Over in Mississippi, the state
Drinking which led all other states in the
Since South for years in the progress
Saloons of “local option” prohibition,
Left and which was far behind Geor-
‘ ‘ Ole Miss. ’ ’ gia in banishing bar-rooms from
the state, the present prohibition
sentiment is so overwhelming that the whiskey
leaders themselves would give up and quit if it
were not for the encouragement they get from
the “weak-kneed brethren” among so-called
prohibitionists who prove themselves to be
“prohibitionists—but”—and they “but” all of
their influence for the cause over to the other
side.
Hon. W. H. Patton, of Shubuta, Miss., a
fearless Christian citizen, who is one of the
strongest friends The Golden Age has ever had,
has a wholesome practice of sleeping with his
armor on and getting up at midnight, if neces
sary, to attend to the gentleman who puts a
question point after the good effects of prohi
bition in Mississippi.
It seems that the Hon. W. M. McAllister,
Prosecuting Attorney of Wayne county, has
been indulging in some gloomy prognosticisms
about the future of prohibition in Mississippi,
if the ‘ ‘ present rate of liquor consumption con
tinues,” or words to that effect. Answering
his warning charge that “there is now more
whiskey sold and consumed in the state than
under the reign of licensed saloons,” Mr. Pat
ton says:
“You have published to the anti’s and
world over your signature affixing county
prosecuting attorney for Wayne county to
give it emphasis a lot of imaginary whis
key dope that I believe slanders your coun
ty and state. Statistics will not bear you
up. In behalf of the State W. C. T. U.,
and the prohibition men of the state, I
challenge you to prove that there is even
one-tenth as much sold, even with the in
crease in population. If we took your
declaration as a fact, prohibition would be
more than a failure. There is not one
twentieth as much shipped into the state,
and not one gallon in twenty that is ship
ped into the state is sold by ‘blind tigers.’ ”
In speaking of his half century of observa
tion, Mr. Patton says:
versation. This is one reason that so many of
them take to the dance for social diversion.
Speed mania in domestic life is robbing many
of our homes of much of their peace and pros
perity. Many Americans are digging their
graves with their teeth because they have not
time to eat. Numbers of our women are rob
bed of their peace of mind by their mad rush
to keep up with rapidly changing styles. From
the pad to the plank appearance they find it
hard to keep up with the procession.
Saddest of all this disease afficts us in our
religious work. We go with a rush following
the system of “ten prayers in ten minutes” un
til the Holy Spirit is driven away in disgust.
“Tarry at Jerusalem,” said Jesus, “until you
be endued with power from on high.” “They
that wait upon the Lord shall renew their
strength.”
The speed mania methods of some of our con
gregational singing robs it of the rhythm which
would be so mighty. The custom of announc
ing, “omit the third verse” has robbed our
hymns of much of their power.
In the mad rush we are often too busy to
pray, and thereby lose the communion with
PA TTON DEFENDS PROHIBITION
“I have been living in Shubuta contin
uously for 51 years, have been in public
life since I was 14 years old. Wayne coun
ty line is little more than a mile south of
Shubuta. I was here when the saloons
were in full blast, and merchants also sel
ling whiskey by the gallon, and have been
here nearly thirty years of prohibition. I
know that the white people west of
Waynesboro drinks a great deal of liquor
and Waynesboro has a reputation of having
a rowdy set of drinking young men. When
the local option election was held in
Wayne, I conducted the campaign for the
Waynesboro W. C. T. U., and the white
men west of the M. & 0. railroad voted
‘wet’ largely. One ‘missionary,’ a Bap
tist preacher, was a ranting anti-prohi
bitionist. At the box of Progression there
were cast 33 ballots, including three anti
missionary Baptist preachers who voted
there, and there were 33 votes ‘for the
sale,’ and the county was carried against
the sale largely by the negro vote. I must
come to the rescue of Wayne county’s
drinking proclivities. It would be a great
surprise to the prohibitionists if it was a
fact that Wayne county alone spent $75,-
000 for liquors each year. I make the as
sertion they do not spend that much in five
years. Brother McAllister, if you can
prove they have, I will give you the finest
hat in Waynesboro. I will do the same if
you will show from the express books that
they drank SIO,OOO worth of liquor for
1912, instead of SIOO,OOO. You are wild on
the number of express trains passing
Waynesboro. You can not show that there
has ever been a gallon shipped there from
the wholesale liquor houses in this state,
or that there is a wholesale liquor house
in this state since we have had state-wide
prohibition. The express company is a
common carrier, and they carry liquor
shipped to bona-fide consignees, but they
do not dispense it. The court before last,
I was foreman of the grand jury, and I had
the express books of the county for the pre
vious six months before me, and I em
phatically say that there is not one-twen
tieth as much whiskey drunk in Clarke
county as there was for six months in 1882
with saloons. I took the statistics for one
year before prohibition, and one year after
to refute the assertions of a drinking doc
tor, and there was not one-twentieth as
much shipped here under prohibition.”
our heavenly Father, which comes by prayer,
and also lose the marvelous results which ac
crue in the answer to prayer. It is very true
that “more things are wrought by prayer than
the world dreams of.” We do well to heed
the hymn:
“Take Time to be Holy.”
“KEEP A’KICKING.”
Wm. D. Upshaw,
Editor The Golden Age,
Atlanta, Ga.
My Friend: “He who keeps kicking finally
gathers the butter.”
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Well, I am so everlasting busy I don’t get
to read your bright, brave paper as often as
I want to, but whenever I do I find you kick
ing on the right side for your fellows and
yourself—so keep it up! Buy you some larger
shoes. John Barleycorn is about ready to let
go—let’s kick hard enough to finish him.
Heartily yours,
LINDEN P. SMITH.
Birmingham, Ala.