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Vol. VIU^—No. 10.
LIQUOR LEADERS “SKEERED” AT PALM BEACH
UNABLE TO DEFEND BAR-ROOMS, THEIR “WET” PAPERS BLAZE WITH ALL FORMS OF IRRELEVANT ISSUES AND PER
SONAL ABUSE—EDITOR OF THE GOLDEN AGE IS CALLED “A LOUD MOUTHED DEMAGOGUE”—ANSWERS A
LAWYER’S “17 REASONS FOR VOTING WET.”
|HE fur is flying down at Palm Beach.
That stylish and famous Florida resort
I is in the throes of a red hot campaign,
with the fate of barrooms —after twen-
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ty years of poison and power now hanging in
the balance.
The opponents of the barrooms declared that
the prospects for driving out these dens of
drink and shame are brighter than ‘they have
ever been —and there have been various and
sundry battles on the part of the “dry” during
these two decades, with the prohibitionists al
ways on the defensive.
This time the militant whiskey-fighters are
magnificently organized and are pushing the
fight so vigorously and renewing the charge
so rapidly that the “antis” don’t even have
time to stop and “spit on their hands.”
The “skeered” feeling in the whiskey camp
can be judged by the yelping and yelling of
the two “wet” blankets —thrown with frantic
regularity on the fevered form of John Bar
leycorn—the Lake Worth Herald, the weekly
booster of the booming new colony at Lake
Worth, and the Palm Beach Daily News, a
paper published every year during the win
ter ‘tourist season, and whose life was pro
longed this year till May Ist for the avowed
purpose of keeping barrooms in Palm Beach
county. Unable to utter one sane, coherent
word in favor of their dirty darlings, they
have been spending their time denouncing
whiskey-fighting preachers from Wisconsin to
Kamschatski, and swearing, not on ‘the Bible,
but over the saloon counter, the demijhons and
“personal liberty” that prohibition has been
a dismal failure everywhere, and that the clean,
spotless men who have been consistent prohibi
tionists ever since they came to the East
Coast country, are now “for political arbitra
tion” battling against the barroom cohorts
who have been on the throne of political mas
tery for twenty years.
Their Wrath Exhilarating.
The wrath of these whiskey papers is posi
tively exhilarating. Think of it, ladies and
gentlemen, the editor of The Golden Age, who
has been fighting liquor with tongue and pen
ever since you have known him, and long be
fore that, was characterized by the “import
ed” editor of one of these papers as “that
loud-mouthed demagogue, who has been im-
INSPIRING VACATION WORK FOR PLUCKY STUDENT S—WRITE THE GOLDEN AGE.
ATLANTA, GA., MAY 1, 1913
By WILLIAM D. UPSHAW, Editor.
ported to hypnotize the people,” and further,
as a “pitiful hireling, who works for his mas
ters for anything he can get.”
Whew ! How do you like that rancorous
rage? One thing I know —such things look
ed at through the rose tinted glasses of the
generous invitations for p’atform work that
have come to me from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, more than several busy men could fill
—make me thankfully feel that maybe after
all I haven't been firing blank cartridges from
my “repeating gun” in Florida, as well as
elsewhere.
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REV. CECIL R. PHILLIPS.
Cecil R. Phillips Has Come.
One of the most inspiring characters I have
met in any prohibition battle is Cecil R. Phil
lips, the gifted young chairman of the cam
paign committee. As pastor of the Baptist
church at West Palm Beach, and a civic leader
in all things making for the community’s best
upbuilding, he had “won his spurs” when the
fig] L came on. He is a thrilling orator, and
it was rather dangerous to have Phillips in
troduce me from place to place, lest the drowd
would want him to “keep a speakin’.”
Humble, but faithful and fearless, Cecil R.
Phillips will be heard from. He is not mere
ly “a coming young man”—he has already
come!
Tourists Who Are Worth While.
With “Lucas the Law Man” dashing us in
his car out to Jupiter, and w »li Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Merrill of Grand Rapids, Mich., dedi
cating their auto to our every need, I got a
fine glimpse of some of Florida’s “imported”
citizens and tourists whose loyalty to sobriety
and whose truceless battle hgaimit saloons
make their citizenship worth while. And there
are countless other tourists all over Florida
who resent the charge of the liquor folks that
“tourists won’t come ‘to Florida if you take
the saloons away.”
“The Tropical Sun” and “The County,”
the two fearless papers, friends of the HOME
against the saloon, have done valiant work
in the campaign.
“Fifty-Seven Varieties.”
I don't love to fight anything but ‘the devil.
I naturally love folks and do not enjoy per
sonalities in a contest, but where a man stands,
up for barrooms the thing must be done.
Living in West Palm Beach is a prominent
lawyer, Col. George C. Currie, an Englishman
by birth, Floridan by adoption and an aiXi
prohibitionist by a travesty and a tragedy all
at one time. He is too genial and clever, his
neighbors say, to be championing the cause
of barrooms. I believe in my soul he is sorry
now he did it, but since he did, he had to
be answered. I playfully called his “17 Rea
sons” “Currie’s 57 Varieties,” and taking them
one by one as published in the whiskey papers
I answered as follows before a great crowd
on a breezy night in the City Park. Whatever
you do, don’t stop till you get to the end:
REASONS FOR VOTING WET.
1. We have no right to compel other people to
conform to our ideas of morality against their will.
1. Answer: The function of government
is to compel evil-doers to conform to the right
ideas of morality. The doers of evil will never
give their conseiX to laws intended to coerce
them; but it is the righteous duty of the ma
jority to enact laws based on righteousness
and then to fight fearlessly like men for the
enforcement of those laws. According to Mr.
Currie’s concept of society and government, we
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