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oXit ( l >b f ** *—- 1 Gi . 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- [T] 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. • * 'A ? « MH ’ Ok 1 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 (Continued on page four.) ONE HOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS A YEAR :: FIVE CENTS A COPY