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The Golden Age
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•most U MOORS 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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present address of Mr. A. L. Hatch, formerly
agent for The Golden Age, we would be very
grateful if you would write us at once. HE
IS NO LONGER OUR AGENT.
GOOD FOR HAZLEHURST!
That is good news which the press dispatches
bring from the goodly city of Hazlehurst,
Mississippi.
Sparkling big gathering of out-
Champagne . . , .
Ruled Out of oi-town business men were
Banquet, Thank You coming. Some foolish lit
tle “phule” suggested that
as some of them were coming from the “coast
country,” where they were used to intoxicat
ing refreshments it would be proper to “show
their distinguished visitors a good time.”
Certainly—but not that kind of a “good
time for safe and sober Hazlehurst.
“There was hurrying to and fro,” and a
petition of 240 names around the square en
tered a crushing, annihilating protest against
the liquor drinking devilment.
Hats off to that splendid Mississippi town!
GOOD WORDS FROM PREACHER IN CALIFORNIA
Editor Golden Age:
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upon the splendid record of your magnificent
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while I was attending Mercer University. Have
been in California as pastor of M. E. Church,
South, for about three years.
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that will last all the year and you will still have your stock. —MANAGING EDITOR.
THE GOLDEN AGE FOR WEEK OF NOV. 13
It does seem that the efforts of the liquor
forces to prove prohibition a commercial men
ace would have become thread-
bare long ago witb ever y bod F wbo
Do Not Lie has any sense at all.
Harris Dickson wisely said in
his “Battle of the Bottle,” that “It is not ‘sen
timent,’ but business that has caused this wave
of prohibition to sweep over the South; busi
ness men are finding more and more that
liquor and business will not mix.”
This argument is strongly borne out by the
record of prohibition in North Carolina.
B. L. Davis, the enterprising superintendent
of the Anti-Saloon League in the “Tar Heel
State,” has been digging up some crushing
facts which he tells in the following ringing
statement:
“Sometime ago I sent communications to the
Corporation Commission and to Mr. B. R.
Lacy, our state treasurer, for information that
I might show how much business had been
hurt in North Carolina by the overthrow of
the liquor traffic. I asked the Corporation
Commission to give me the number of all banks
in the state, their capital stock, and the amount
of deposits on hand for each year from 1902
to 1912, and in their reply they show that in
November, 1902, there were 156 banks operat
ed. in the state with a capital stock of $6,779,-
917, carrying deposits of $26,427,746. In No
vember, 1908, the last year of license, there
were 375 banks in the state with a capital
stock of $14,392,058, having deposits of $53,-
894,519. In November, 1912, there were 461
banks with a capital stock of $18,644,652, hav
ing deposits of $98,782,645. This report shows
that in the last six years under local option the
people of the state increased their money in
hand $27,466,773, and that in the first four
years under state-wide prohibition they in
creased their money in hand $44,188,126. In
other words, the increase of money under local
option on the average was $4,500,000 annually,
have to stand against from the “prize fight” an
nouncement in the daily paper of Hollister, I am
sending you-
We have a town of about three thousand in
habitants. There are eighteen saloons, two res'
taurants which sell whiskey and numerous pool
rooms, all open seven days in the week. The
atres open every Sunday evening in opposition
to the church services. The conditions in the
large cities are even worse. I am glad to say,
though, that California is fast going dry. In the
past two years scores of towns and supervisoral
“Tar Heel” Prohibition Grandly Succeeds.
whereas the annual increase under state-wide
prohibition has been over $11,000,000.
In writing to State Treasurer Lacy we asked
him to give us the amount of taxes received
each year since 1902 and the amount of all
property, both real and personal, listed in
North Carolina for the past ten years. His full
report shows that the average amount of taxes
paid each year for the last six years under lo
cal option was v 2.330,070.48, and that the aver
age amount paid per year under state-wide
prohibition has been $3,104,245.95. From a
study of the figures you will see that in 1909,
the first year we lost the revenue from the
liquor traffic, therfc was a falling off of some
thing like $225,000, but that in the following
year, 1910, this was more than compensated.
His table of the amount of property listed
shows that all property, real and personal, list
ed in North Carolina has more than doubled
itself in the last ten years. The last six years
under local option the average increase was
$38,206,041 per year, but under state-wide pro
hibition the average increase per year for the
years 1909, 1910, 1911 (the figures for 1912
are not yet available) has been $54,806,264.”
The foregoing investigation and statement
were made by Mr. Davis in reply to the com
plaint of some tourist hotels at Wrightsville
Beach declaring “that prohibition is hurting
business,” because they were not allowed to
sell the “devil’s brew” to their boarders. Af
ter giving a tabulation of the foregoing facts,
Mr. Davis concludes his timely article as fol
lows :
“People are keeping their money at home
and using it for better purposes. North Caro
lina was never more prosperous than she is
today.”
And still in face of such crushing facts liquor
leaders will continue to tell great big black
ones! May the Lord forgive their guilty
souls!
districts have voted dry, and we are confident
ly looking forward to the time when, with the
exception of the large cities like San Francisco
there will not be a saloon within the confines of
this “golden state.” Out here where there is no
Sabbath law, and where the inclinations of many
of the people is toward evil and that continually,
we are striving “to come to the help of the Lord,
to the help of the Lord against the mighty.”
With best wishes, Yours sincerely,
Hollister, Cali- HARRY S. ALLEN.