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The Golden Age
Published Every Thursday by The Golden Age
Publishing Company (Inc.)
OFFICES: 13 MOORE BUILDING, ATLANTA, GA.
WILLIAM D. UPSHAW Editor
MRS. WILLIAM D. UPSHAW . Associate Editor
MRS. G. B. LINDSEY . . . Managing Editor
LEN G. BROUGHTON, London, Eng. Pulpit Editor
H. P. FITCH . Field Editor
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THERMOPYLAE.
This is the place—the mountain bay
Is wild and stern and grand,
As When the Lion held the way
That barred his mother-land.
Long years and change and earthquake shock
Have wrought upon the scene,
Where once the sea waves lapped the rock
Are meadow lands grown green;
But Oeta still looms vast and grey
To hide the setting sun,
And still the mountains bar the way,
And every way but one:
The sulphur springs still fume and flow
Along the rough hill-side,
And far-off Othrys veiled in snow
Sees where the Spartan died.
There is a spirit haunts the place
Where mighty deeds were dared,
Though time and change have left no trace,
And not a grave be spared:
And climbing up the grassy hill
Where Sparta’s lion stood;
The heart still answers to the thrill,
That marks the hero mood.
And as I read the page again,
That quickens from the dust
The tale of those three hundred men
Who died to keep their trust,
I knew the fire was not yet lost
That nerved my younger age:—
The shadow of an eagle crossed,
And fell along my page!
THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.
The Farmers’ National Congress is up in
arms against the threat of legislation affecting
the freedom of the press and especially the rul
ings of the postoffice department, which invade
the prerogatives of legislation. An official
communication by congress says:
At the recent annual session of the Farm
ers’ National Congress (36 states represented
by delegates appointed by the governors there
of) the following resolution was unanimously
reported out by the committee on resolutions
and was unanimously adopted by the con
gress :
“Resolved, That a free and fearless press
is of such great importance in safeguarding
our liberties that no legislation abridging the
freedom of the press should be enacted by
congress, and that no legislation should be
enacted by congress unless it has been duly
referred to and acted on by the proper com
mittee of both houses and opportunity has
been had for free debate thereon in both the
house and the senate.”
Please do your part to prevent further leg
islation about the business of periodical pub
lications and also the enactment of legislation
by an executive branch of the national gov
ernment, i. e., rulings of the postoffice depart
ment.
The Golden Age for April 3, 1913
lion dollars, and with the proven death rate,
according to Congressman Hobson, of over
seven hundred thousand a year, directly or in
directly tracable to the manufacture and sale
of this liquid poison, our nation’s president
must see that it is high time for the strong
hand of the government to strike at the root
“We Shall
Not Do
This as
Partisans. ’ ’
dent Taft’s veto by an overwhelm
ing non-partisan vote.
The common fairness of the thing called to
every patriot’s sense of justice. And that same
sense of justice which our new president has
declared “shall always be his motto,” will
demand, at least, that our government shall
not allow through its interstate i commerce
laws, a man in Pennsylvania to do to a man in
Georgia what another man in Georgia cannot
do—that is, to sell him the liquor which a man
in his own state cannot sell him.
This is the next step—and it is simple jus
tice! A ] ong with this be it remembered that
a government revenue license issued to a man
in prohibition territory, state, county or town
ship, is a plain case of governmental aid to pal
plable crime.
Our great government cannot afford to set
such an example of complicity in crime before
the eyes of its citizens to whom it must look for
law-abiding support.
“This is
No Sentimen
tal Duty.”
duty.” Nor with it, that fine,
practical paternalism which protects the suffer
ers from flood and famine, which appoints a
commission to secure a reasonable protection
for our pig iron, and which sends out experts
and trian loads of propaganda for protection of
pigs and poultry, cows and cotton from threat
ened ravages of lice and cholera, ticks and
boll weevil. We must reckon it now as an anti
quated truism from Gov. Jno. P. St. John when
he said: “If our children were pig iron our
politicians would favor their protection.”
That was one time true, but surely no more
forever. As President Wilson further said:
“The scales of recklessness have fallen from
our eyes.”
We Answer
His Closing
Appeal.
“This is not a day of triumph; it is a day of
dedication. Here muster, not the forces of
party, but the forces of humanity. Men’s
hearts wait upon us; men’s lives hang in the
ba ance; men’s hopes call upon us to say what
we will do. Who shall live up to the great
trust? Who dares fail to try? I summon
all honest men, all patriotic, all forward-look
ing men, to my side. God helping me, I will
not fail them, if they will but counsel and sus
tain me! ’ ’
No patriot, no leader ever uttered more
beautiful words. We believe Woodrow Wilson
meant every word of this, and more. We be
lieve in him. We love him. We are counting
on him, when it comes to a clinging faith in
his unselfish sincerity. And in the spirit in
which he asks it we have come thus early
among the “honest, patriotic, forwurdJooking
men” to counsel and sustain him, in his de-
Woodrow Wilson Preaches Sound Prohibition Doctrine
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of the “Great Destroyer.” We
shall not “do this as partisans.”
Certainly not —but as patriots,
even as the Sheppard-Kenyon-
Webb bill was passed over Presi-
Verily in the words of Wood
row Wilson concerning “safe
guarding the health of the na
tion,” “this is no sentimental
Listen and be heartened by
these noble closing words in our
new president’s inaugural ad
dress :
termination to safeguard the millions of men,
women and children who suffer from the un
speakable ravages of this great “protected
vice. ’ ’ We counsel that we no longer penalize
the product and legalize the system.
Nor can we forget to take heart again from
the fact that our patriotic, humanitarian pres
ident will have as his chiefest counselor and
abettor in his constructive humane legislation,
that other spotless Christian statesman, the
great American Gladstone, William J. Bryan,
who recently declared: “If you are looking for
vice, the saloon is the first place you will go,
and if you are looking for virtue the saloon
will be the last.”
No more “Boozecracy” for
Wilson and
Bryan—Let the
Liquor Barons
Tremble.
but merciless in victory. Today it strikes the
crust from the lips of a starving child, and to
morrow challenges this government in the halls
of congress!” Knowing its insidious, hideous
horrors, the president, vice president and sec
retary of state, have driven the demijohn and
the decanter from the White House and all their
social functions! The Kingdom is surely com
ing.
Time was when the leaders of both great
parties were cowards —nothing less —before
the threat and the challenge of the liquor bar
ons of America, but thank God, the daydawn
of that time has come when timorous souls are
relegated to the rear; men with “regnant
conscience” and uncringing character are ac
tually at the front, fashioning our ideals and
forming our lines of battle, and these leaders,
counseled and sustained by the rank and file
of all patriots in all parties everywhere, are
going to see to it that our nation “does not
itself crush or weaken or damage its own con
stituent parts” by allowing the insidious in
treagues and the merciless march of that in
solent power which defies all law’, laughs at
all patriotism, corrupts all politics, shelters all
vice, companies with all crime—and registers
alas! the full measure of its prosperity by the
downfall of that citizenship without whose
homes and health and happiness our nation
cannot endure!
“KEEP AFTER JOHN BARLEYCORN.”
Another staunch Alabama friend. Mr. J. A.
White, of Birmingham, in sending the subscrip
tion of a friend, says:
I want to say that Dr. George W. Garner
speaks my sentiments concerning The Golden
Age exactly. I wish we had more papers
that would camp on the trail of John Bar
leycorn and his crowd and stay after them
as The Golden Age does; and I am anxious
to do all I can to put the paper in the homes
of Alabama as I think that is the time and
place to begin the work for civic righteous
ness, by putting the right kind of literature
in the homes for our children to read and thus
keep out a great many bad things that they
do read. Success to The Golden Age.
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the fearless Commoner! He
and Woodrow Wilson both
agree with Henry Grady who
declared of the liquor traf
fit: “It is flexible to cajole,