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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. WM. 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. 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. Remember—reading The Golden Age is the ■>nly way to keep up with Dr. Broughton every week—Send $1.50 to pay for a full year’s vis its. Golden Age Pub. Co., 13 Moore Bld<. Atlanta, Ga. 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. LOOK AT YOUR LABEL—DON’T FORGET. $1.50 (Year’s Subscription to THE GOLDEN AGE) is a small master to you, but if two or three thousand, who, like you, have overlooked their date, will send a check TODAY it will mean a GREAT DEAL TO US! ’ SEND THE $1.50 TODAY and we will send you our ‘ ‘ THREE IN ONE ’ ’ offer of THE GOL DEN AGE one year, a handsome 10x12 Engraving of Dr. Broughton, and “SKETCHES BY THE WAYSIDE, ’ a splendid 252-page cloth bound book full of good things in song recitation and story that will help active Christian workers. 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