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4 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 Price : $1.50 a Year. In cases of foreign address fifty cents should be added to cover additional postage. Entered in the Postoffice in Atlanta, Ga., as second-class matter. 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 Continued from Page 1 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. FREE ! An L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter free to you. Just a little energy and using of your spare time—THAT’S ALL. Send us 185 full yearly Subscriptions to The Golden Age at $1.50 each and it is yours. Address THE GOLDEN AGE, 13 Moore Bldg. the fearless Commoner! He and Woodrow Wilson both agree with Henry Grady who declared of the liquor traf fit: “It is flexible to cajole,