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The Golden Age
Published Every Thursday by The Golden Age
Publishing Company (Inc.)
OFFICES: AUSTELL BUILDING, ATLANTA, GA.
WILLIAM D. UPSHAW .... Editor
MRS. WILLIAMD. UPSHAW . Associate Editor
MRS. G. B. LINDSEY . . . Managing Editor
LEN G. BROUGHTON, London, Eng. Pulpit Editor
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LIQUOR AND “PROSPERITY.”
Os all the follies beneath the sun, the liquor
ized folly is the biggest one!
And of all the fallacies which
What John Barleycorn’s economists at-
Kind of tempt to perpetrate is that
Prosperity sophistry which claims that “sa-
Do You loons help business.”
Mean? In the recent campaign which
swept West Virginia into the dry
columns, by more than eighty thousand ma
jority an anti-prohibitionist says: “Vote for
Saloons and Prosperity.”
Commenting on this appeal, The American
Issue says:
“The wet vote is a vote for ‘prosper
ity.’ Under regulation and license the
saloon prospers and the saloonkeeper en
joys all the favors of fortune. The hos
pital flourishes, and the jailer has abund
dant ‘business.’ The brewer waxeth fat
and purchaseth an automobile with which
he putteth the consumer out of his mis
ery.
“The wet vote is a vote for prosperity
—all in a lump, sugar-coated and popped
into the mouth of the man whose liveli
hood depends upon the impoverishment of
the people.
“The dry vote is also a vote for prosper
ity—prosperity fairly divided and passed
all around. The wife of the drunkard
prospers and her prosperity shows in new
clothing and brighter eyes. The children
of the moderate drinker prosper and their
prosperity shows in plumper cheeks and
more frequent laughter. The grocer
prospers and his till overflows, while his
credit book grows thin.
“It all depends upon what kind of pros
perity you want. ’ ’
Verily, the money that goes for whiskey
does not go for dry goods and groceries, homes
and happiness! When will America learn the
lessson?
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A “BOOZE-FIGHTER” FROM “ALABAM.”
Capt. H. J. Davis, the veteran and vigorous
whiskey-fighter of Birmingham, was in The
Golden Age office the other day, renewing his
subscription, telling of the now triumphant but
tottering saloon cause in the Alabama metrop
olis, and fairly “licking his chops” for a lion
spring at the devilish bar-rooms.
“I like the brave, plucky way in which The
Golden Age keeps up the fight.
“I want it to keep on coming. Send it also
to that brilliant young lawyer, Judge J. C.
Wilkinson, who introduced you to that big
crowd at Woodlawn during our prohibition
campaign.
“Wilkinson never lets up on the whiskey
crowd. He doesn’t allow any sort of ambi
tion to make him close his lips. Wilkinson
is a coming man, on the best side of Alabama’s
public life.
“And, by the way,” declared Capt. Davis, of
The Golden Age for January 16,1913.
A Mighty Message On a Mighty Theme
To our thinking, there is no more inspiring
picture in the civic and religious life of this
country than that which is offered
A Trumpet by the “Men and Religion For-
Call By ward Movement,” in Atlanta.
“Men and As it relates itself to every
Religion” movement for the city’s best up-
Forward building, the Executive Commit-
Movement. tee sees to it that Jesus Christ, the
Light of our civilization, and the
personal Redeemer of the individual man is
“crowned Lord of all,” and pressed home to
the hearts and consciences of men and wom-
en.
While a number of the most prominent bus
iness and professional men are backing the
movement, there are two young men especially
to whom its work is a consuming passion and
a daily, hourly joy!
They are John J. Eagan, President, and Ma
rion Jackson, Secretary. They give their
time and liberal contributions of money to
push the work, publishing in the daily papers
double-leaded columns and sometimes whole
pages of display matter, putting before thou
sands of secular readers, who rarely see or
hear a religious thought any where, great vital
Truths, that must make many wise unto salva
tion.
It is simply wonderful to follow these bul
letins from day to day and week to week,
flashing Bible light on municipal
It Is problems, and pointing the think-
Simply ing and unthinking toward the im-
Wonderful. perative and imperishable Truth
that “The Way of the Cross leads
Home.”
For the sake of thousands of our readers,
who are out of the range of the Atlanta pa
pers, we are giving a part of “Bulletin No.
40.”
After commending the Mayor’s appointment
of Mr. A. R. Colcord as chairman of the Po
lice Committee in Council, reaffirming their al
legiance to Chief Beavers in his crusade
against the Social Evil, “the Houses in Our
Midst,” and calling on the friends of social and
municipal cleanness to build up the right where
they have torn down the wrong, the Bulletin
quotes from Dr. Kelly, a famous social re
former, as follows:
“Experience has abundantly proven that
vice begets vice and that it is always a perva
sive agent in spreading corruption.
“Whenever a citizen starts working in be
half of the downtrodden and the outcast of our
cities, he soon discovers the intimate ramifica
tions of vice with all the other moral —and
many of the physical—diseases with which the
city is affected.
“At first sight, this usually proves discour
aging, but later it becomes an inspiration, for
when the purifying is rightly done, the civic
house is swept and scrubbed clean.”
These are the words of Dr. Kelly, scientist
and student, today.
Ages ago Jesus Christ warned as to the dan
ger of the recently cleaned house, whence the
evil has been driven without the bringing in
of the good.
“Gullet Gin” fame, “the bar-rooms under the
Smith law, have made such a mess of it that
it is freely admitted, even by antis, on every
side, that in an election the Birmingham dis
trict would go overwhelmingly ‘dry.’ The
friends of prohibition and good government
are wide awake and eager for a chance to
drive out for good and always.”
When Capt. Smith left The Golden Age of
fice there was a breeze and a glow behind him
“that would not pass away.”
The Saviour pictured the unclean spirit as
saying:
“ ‘I will return unto my house whence I
came out; and when he is come, he findeth it
empty, swept and garnished.
“Then goeth he, and taketh with him seven
other spirits more evil than himself, and they
enter in and dwell there; and the last state of
that man becometh worse than the first.”
“THE LAST STATE” MAY BE “WORSE
THAN THE FIRST.”
If you find fault with those who keep their
oaths and obey the law for so doing—
If you let your children grow up in igno
rance—
If you pay less than a living wage to girls
and women—
If you sanction others paying less than a liv
ing wage to girls and woman
If you are able and fail to provide legitimate
amusement for the young of our city—
If you turn a cold shoulder to those who have
erred, but are now striving to regain their
feet—
More, if you are able and fail to hold out a
helping hand to the fallen—
Though it may be unconsciously, you are
contributing to make the last state of Atlanta
worse than the former, and you are making a
mockery and a byword of your religion.
Chief Beavers is not on trial.
Mayor Woodward is not on trial.
Nor is any other offcial of Atlanta.
But here today Churches and men and wom
en who name Jesus as Lord and Saviour are
being tried in sight of the whole world.
They have torn down.
What are they doing to build up?
What good has been put in the place of the
unclean thing that has been driven out?
In the time of cleansing many girls and
women were helped.
Many are being aided today.
But have you helped?
Have you sought to put good in—to bring
Jesus Christ into their lives to take the place
of the hideous evil?
And you, whether or not a member of the
Church, have you brought your Lord and Sa
viour into your own empty life?
MANY A REFORM HAS FAILED, MANY
A RESOLUTION HAS BEEN BROKEN,
BECAUSE JESUS CHRIST WAS NOT
BROUGHT INTO THE EMPTY AND
CLEANSED HOUSE.
God forbid that you and we make this mis
take in 1913.
God protect us from the peril of the empty
houses in our midst.
THESE ARE NOT THOSE VACANT
BUILDINGS IN MANHATTAN AVENUE,
WHERE VICE ONCE FLAUNTED ITS UGLY
FEATURES.
COURTS WILL KEEP THOSE FOREVER
CLOSED.
But they are the EMPTY HEARTS and
lives amongst us ever inviting evil to come and
live therein.
“And the last state of that man becometh
worse than the first.”
God has given and is giving a golden oppor
tunity. Will you grasp it?
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE
MEN AND RELIGION FORWARD MOVE
MENT.
There it stands in all its vital saving beauty.
Think of it, friends of aggressive, practical
Christianity—think of what it means to have
saving Truths like these displayed in big
metropolitan papers from day to day. Conse
crated wealth—consecrated brains! What a
sacred marriage! We thank God and take
courage!