The Golden age. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1906-1915, July 03, 1913, Page 4, Image 4
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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. WM. D. UPSHAW .... Associate Editor
MRS. G. B. LINDSEY Managing Editor
LEN G. BROUGHTON, London, Eng. . Pulpit Editor
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WE WANT TO DESERVE THIS
But we ask that you “hold our heads”
and hearts while we let you rejoice with
us over such an endorsement of our will
ing service from such a source:
Editor Golden Age,
Atlanta. Ga.
Dear Brother Upshaw: Allow me to
thank and to congratulate you at one and
the same time upon your recent bold at
tacks which you have been hurling upon
the liquor traffic and other social evils
which are the perils of our state and na
tion. And yet this is no new thing with
The Golden Age. For I know full well
that from the very first issue of your
great paper you nailed the banner of tem
perance to its masthead and flung it out
to the breeze.
I doubt if any other paper in the world
is cleaner, more clear-cut and fearless in
fighting the devil, than The Golden Age.
And you are still making a great fight for
God and humanity. The church is with
you and all good men are with you and
so the victory is sure.
I sincerely wish you would go up to the
State Capitol and get the whole legisla
ture on the “mourner’s bench” and sit up
with them until they are converted. They
certainly need conversion.
Ts we cculd only get the legislature
soundly converted, then the “Tippins
bill,” or some other bill as good or better
would pass, and the “near-beer and
locker clubs” would have to go.
Surely every man who loves God and
his fellow man is in favor of crushing
out their devilish abominations which are
a shame and disgrace to our Christian ■
civilization.
If our country had more such papers
as The Golden Age, we could soon put
the devil to flight and win this land for
God Every honest man and even the
devil admires The Golden Age. It is a
God-honoring, man-loving, dare devil and
honest paper and has “no axe to grind.”
May you long live to fight the good
fight and may the white banner of The
Golden Age continue to float in every
breeze of heaven until the victory shall be
won.
Truly yours in the faith and in the
fight.
A. R. HOLDERBY,
Pastor Moore Memorial Presbyterian
Church.
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THE GOLDEN AGE FOR JULY 3, 1913
George Robinson, of Texas, “Coming Thu’’
Told you so! Fellow citizens of Texas and
several other states, look out for George Rob
inson. the genial, patriotic editor
Editor Waco of The Waco Tinies Herald!
Times-Herald j u ,t as we prophesied, he is now
Mourner’s on ie ‘‘ mourner ’ s bench ’’ on the
Bench prohibition question and as the
old negro said about “gettin’
’ligion,” the Texas editor bids
fair to “come thu.”
Naturally resistive, as any sober, honest,
misguided patriot would be under the inevi
table logic of the situation that any man who
sells liqucr or votes for liquor to be sold be
longs to “the liquor crowd,” Editor Robin
son answers the recent good-natured prodding
of The Golden Age with a serious editorial en
titled: “Take the State Out of Partnership
With the Liquor Business. ”
There is tonic in the very title of that edi
torial. It sounds like it might have appeared
as the “leader” in “The Amer-
Certainly ican Issue ’” ‘"Home and State”
That’s What or even The Golden Age.
We Are But the argument of our good
Trying Texas friend is rather hazy, ac-
T© Do cording to our thinking—espec
ially in face of the fact that he
had such a glorious opportunity two years ago
to help take Texas out of partnership with the
liquor business —but, alas! failed to see his duty.
Indeed, we are compelled to “heap coals of
fire on his head” now by declaring that if The
Waco Times-Herald had thrown its powerful
influence—editorial and reportorial columns, in
favor of taking Texas cut of the saloon busi
ness, the few thousand votes necessary to
change the result might have —we actually be
lieve they would nave been forthcoming.
In order that other “anxious souls”—men
who say: “I never drink, myself, but I am op
posed to prohibition on principle”—in order
that these may see even beyond George Robin
sen’s near-vision, we are giving in full the
Times-Herald’s reply to our reply—and really,
as an editorial curiosity it
Ought to. ought to be put in a glass cage
?? Exhibited an( q exhibited at the next meet-
Stateptir “V* TeXas . State Fair at
Dallas. Here it is:
We take it that there is in this country
what may be legitimately called “the li
quor crowd.”
How do we get that crowd ?
By and through government.
The national government puts a tax on
the manufacture of intoxicating liquors.
I hat gives us the wholesale liquor crowd.
The state government puts a tax on the
sale of intoxicating liquors.
1 hat gives us the retail liquor crowd.
Many good men would meet this situa
tion by having the government forbid both
manufacture and sale of intoxicating li
quors.
It seems to us —we are not infallible, of
course —that this is going at the matter
wrong end foremost, for it assumes that the
government is the guardian of the people’s
morals.
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Wouldn't it be far better for the national
government to quit creating the wholesale
liquor crowd, and for the state government
to quit creating the retail liquor crowd?
Every sale on in Texas, for instance, is
the creature of the state.
The man who runs the saloon didn’t
bring it into existence; the state does that.
If the state would go out of the saloon
business, the saloon wculd disappear.
This whole liquor question comes to us by
and through government.
In our humble judgment, there would be
no liquor crowd if cur two governments,
the national and the state, would go out
of the liquor business.
Drinking resorts, as we know them to
day, would be unknown because every such
place, freed from police protection, would
become a nuisance and it is the business
of the state to abate nuisances.
It is curious how we Americans insist
on using the hair of the dog to cure the
bite.
We have through government created
what many good citizens consider a grave
evil.
Then we propose to use more govern
ment for the cure of this evil.
When the real remedy—the safe remedy
and the natural remedy—is to take the
government out of partnership with the
business.
If the state of Texas will go out of the
saloon business, there won’t be a saloon
from the Red to the Rio grande.
We just simply haven’t got the courage,
people of Texas, to trust ourselves and the
law of the land.
M e insist on going to town with the cart
before the horse because we are afraid the
horse will run away and dash us to pieces.
Take the state of Texas out of partner
ship with the liquor business and there
soon won’t be any liquor question to divide
us into hostile armies.
But remember, Editor George, that the nat
ional government’s putting a tax on the manu
facture of intoxicating liquors does not neces
sarily create “the wholesale liquor crowd.”
It is not compulsory. Men go into it because
their deeds are evil—because they want money
regardless of the wreck and ruin it brings.
Neither, “my son,” does the state’s putting a
tax on the saloons create the retail liquor deal
ers in your great “Lone Star” empire. They
deliberately go into it with the cold-blooded
purpose to make money absolutely regardless
of debauchery of human beings and the
corruption in politics which the legalized sa
loon produces.
But you answer: “Begin at the top—take the
national government out of the whiskey busi
ness.”
Certainly—we are working toward that end
now. But we must create sentiment before it
can be done.
Will you help us create that sentiment? Take
Texas out of the liquor business? Certainly
that’s what we were trying to do several years