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The Golden Age
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THE SHAME OF SHAMES.
The Shame of shames and the crime of
crimes is being entered into by the godless,
“wideopen” element in Atlanta
Devilish *n their effort to serve the head
Conspiracy of Chief Beavers on a political
To Defame charger, while the devotees of
Atlanta and municipal lewdness dance
Dethrone around that devoted head in
Beavers. bacchanalian revelry. It is
strange—beyond all understand
ing. that men who claim to believe in decency,
who are supposed to love their homes in pref
erence to liquor clubs and brothels, will be
found engaged in such high-handed, low-lived
conspiracy as is revealed in the following
ringing editorial from The Ocila (Ga.) Star:
Chief Beavers and the State.
Failing in all the other attempts his enemies
have taken to oust Chief of Police Beavers of
Atlanta, from his office, they have now taken
the fight outside of Atlanta, and are trying to
create a state-wide prejudice against him.
They have employed a certain press bureau
that sends out to the weekly papers of the
state much of the matter that appears under
Atlanta date lines, to create the idea in the
state at large that Chief Beavers is failing in
his duty in protecting the citizens of that city.
We have not “fallen” for that kind of news.
We are just old fashioned enough to believe
that Chief Beavers is doing right in his fight
against the so-called “social evil,” and with
out doubt this is the real reason for the op
position that exists to Beavers. The enemies
of Beavers tried to get rid of him on account
of his fight for a purer town. Failing in this,
they are now trying to create the idea that he
is not efficient as a police chief, and to that
end are sending out news stories to the effect
that Atlanta is very badly policed.
We do not undertake to say that Atlanta is
not as badly crime ridden as some of the cor
respondents say it is. But we look askance at
any new attempts to get rid of the most nota
ble police chief Atlanta ever had.”
Good for editor Flanders! When he gave
up the school room for the editor’s chair he
carried his conscience and character with him.
We rejoice to see that other editors over the
state have caught on to the crime of these con
spirators. Shame on any newspaper agency
or “news” peddlers who will sell their serv
ice as a woman prostitutes her virtue for
money, money MONEY! But after all their
wicked scheming—after all the help which
leading Atlanta dailies are giving to the con-
GOLDEN AGE FOR WEEK OF FEB. 5, 1914
THE
Comes to The Golden Age a clarion call from
that old Prohibition War-horse, Rev. L. L.
Pickett.
Temperance Having covered the country
War-Veteran widely for many years, preach-
Utters Clarion ng vital Christianity and Na-
Call For tional Prohibition, tfiiis brave
Party Ad veteran has landed at last
Organization, at “The Haven” St Augustine,
Fla., where he has organized a
strictly “prohibition hotel;” and from this re
markable resort for Temperance Tourists he
sends out bomb shells, grape and canister oc
casionally against his old-time enemy, The Le
galized Liquor Traffic.
Here is his latest:
Push Tne Party Work—Why?
1. —Because it is the only way to victory. A
party is simply a co-ordination of effort, a un
ion of forces. Scattered workers, disorganiz
ed political forces, are as easily defeated as an
army without compact organization.
2. —Because everything yet gained has been
by the party method. Even in a local election
where a town or county is voted “dry” the
people drop their political party shibboleths
and all become prohibitionists. To get the
law enforced requires the same method, as
where, in Tennessee, the decent, law-loving
democrats voted with the republicans and
elected Ben W. Hooper governor, because he
was for a “dry” state. They formed them
selves to all intents and purposes into a pro
hibition party. Why? Simply because it was
the only way to break the power of the organ
ized liquor law-breakers.
3. —The combination of forces has been found
necessary to secure a law, to carry a town,
county or state dry, or to properly enforce the
law in limited territory. How much more
will this be necessary in grappling with the
larger problem, that of nation-wide prohibi
tion !
4. —The people are ripening for party align
ment. In other years, men were democrats or
republicans first, prohibitionists afterward.
Now multitudes are at the forks of the road.
They are ready to join Mr. Hobson in the
worthy sentiment, “If my party can’t live
without the support of the liquor interests, let
it die.” The spread of this sentiment pre
pares the voters for the necessary party affil
iation.
5. —Men are becoming ashamed of fellow
ship with drunkards, and, worse still, drunk
ard-makers. But all the legal standing the
bloody booze traffiic has ever had has been
given it by the old political parties. Men are
getting their eyes open to this.
There is nothing left us but to press the bat
spiracy, it will be a long time yet before the
head of James L. Beavers falls from the block.
Unafraid and faithful he smiles on and does
his Duty!
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PICKETT WOULD PUSH THE PARTY
tie as never before for a union of forces that
will anniliate the liquor traffic. Victory is
in the air. L. L. PICKETT.
“The Haven,” St. Augustine, Fla.
Well, there is about one thing only that can
be said about Veteran Pickett’s trumpet call
—and that is, that the argument is essentially
unanswerable . The only question comes as to
method and time of action. The Golden Age
has been an advocate of the purposes, but not
some of the methods of the National Prohibi
tion Party. We have believed —quite as hon
estly as the party leaders have disbelieved it
—that the best method toward national pro
hibition was to take charge of the great party
machinery already existing rather than try to
build entirely new machinery.
Like an attacking army in a great military
campaign we have believed it wiser to drive
away the enemy and capture the bridge al
ready built, rather than declare that we won’t
cross the bridge at all unless we can hew out
new timbers and build a brand new bridge.
But the National Prohibition Partv has done
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some yeoman work. They wrought first and
most valiantly when the harvest was plenteous,
and the laborers were few. They kept everlast
ingly at it.
They played on one cord until the nation
began to hear. True, the music jangled a lit
tle at times, but it made people listen none the
less. There came a time when a great non
partisan, yet omni-partisan movement was im
perative, and the Anti-Saloon League of Amer
ica answered the call of the hour. A federa
tion of all church people, with an invitation
to good citizens of all parties, appealed to pro
hibition patriots on every side, and the mar
velous growth of the cause during the two
decades of its, existence proves the wisdom of
the League’s birth and leadership.
And glory be! The recent Columbus Con
vention of amalgamated whiskey-fighters
found the long-faithful Party Prohibitionists
shrining their name, if necessary, and all the
pride of party organization on the altar of
comman purpose, along with more than ninety
other uplift societies in America who are
seeking the overthrow of the liquor traffic.
We take it that Veteran Pickett does not
ask especially that the name of the National
Prohibitionist Party shall be retained, embalm
ed or enthroned, but that all friends of the
national movement in all parties shall make a
“party” of themselves and stay together un
ttil the “great destroyer” is completely de
stroyed.
1 hat is what the declaration of the Colum
bus Convention meant—if there is no other
way! But we believe the dominant political
party will see the handwriting on the wall and
clean up their platform, and thus clean up
the nation. We hope a Prohibitionized Demo
cracy will destroy America’s worst enemy—
th? legalized saloon!