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x^|.H] ( l i br/ JjRIX i« # ■I wife mBbm JBL «5l » > >#'W® Vol. IX—No. 17 OATH-BREAKING JURIES, COURT AND CONNIVING JUDGES PROTECT LAWLESS LIQUOR DEALERS WITH UNBLUSHING DEFIANCE—THIS GEORGIA CITY INVITES POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL OSTRACISM BY BEING THE WORST LAW BREAKING TOWN BETWEEN BALTIMORE AND NEW ORLEANS—WE GIVE NAMES, DATES AND FACTS. gs F you don’t believe “the devil is to pay” in Savannah, just steal away down to Georgia’s oldest and most picturesque city and study the situation with your own eyes —and your own “nose!”— for cumu lative evidence, is shockingly abundant before the “sense of sight” and the “sense of smell.” Savannah is a city too beautiful to be blighted J?K-k A law-breaking shameful dives. We are sorry, a thousand times sorry, but Savannah has brought this damaging reputa tion upon herself —and it seems there iS no chance to make her inwardly repent without an outward condemnation that is tragic and universal in the state, whose laws she has defi antly defied! We Are Ashamed of Her. We made the recent Savannah revelations in The Golden Age, and we make this defen sive declaration now, not to advertise Geor gia lawlessness to the world, but rather to tell the world that the law-abiding peo ple of Georgia are ashamed of Savannah ■—that they do not sympathize at all with her law break ing devilment —that Savannah has long been “a law unto her self,” and that her liquor selling offenses which “smell to heav en” are now challeng ing the entire state to devise means to pro duce Savannah’s ref ormation or wipe her off the political map Some of the brav est and best people in the world live in Sa vannah ; and some of them, notably the Law and Order Lea- “THE DEVIL TO PAY” IN SAVANNAH Ml 1 1 rll ’ li 1 1 IBM® sr fi**H H Iff 1 PART OF THE PRICE—The w ork of Savannah Judges, Solicitors and Oath-breaking Juries. DRIVING LIQUOR FROM THE NAVY—Page 5. ATLANTA, GA., JUNE 11, 1914 gue under the leadership of the fearless and incorruptible Christian lawyer, W. B. Stubbs —are fighting against fearful odds to save Sa vannah from herself and redeem her darkly clouded name; but they are in such a painful minority that the name of Savannah is still the synonymn of a “don’t care,” dare-devil, law-breaking municipality. And She is Paying the Price. And a municipality, after all, is just an ag gregation of human entities, and a community must pay the price even as an individual must pay the price, for the course of conduct that brings a hurtful reputation. So tragically has this become true in Georgia that if you brand a public man “Savannah” he at once goes be fore the state with a handicap which ac- knowledged ability and a strong personality can rarely overcome. The Evidence. Recently The Moultrie Observer said: “Chatham county will not only pay the penalty heavily in a political sense, but will pay in a com mercial sense for ostracising herself from the rest of the state.” To this The Savannah Morning News replied that “the sale of beer that carries a large per cent of alcohol is as much a violation of the law as the sale of whiskey”—that The Observer and Ocilla Dispatch are not fussing at Atlanta for selling beer, and that evidently they “have a reason for attack ing Savannah,” etc. In referring to the candidacy of Hon. Randolph Anderson for governor, The News says: “Mr. Anderson has said that he regards the pro hibition question as closed. What he means by that is that we have a prohibition law and nobody ONI DOLLAR AND TIFTY OBA«» A YBAB :: FIYB CBNTg A OOW is proposing to repeal or amend it. A governor has no more to do with the enforcement of it than he has to do with the enforcement of any other law. If Mr. An derson should be elect ed governor he would do his full duty in re spect to every law.” A ringing Rejoinder. Now listen to the ring ing rejoinder from The Moultrie Observer: “The Observer cannot agree with the Morning News that selling near beer is as much a vio lation of the law as the selling of whiskey. We have a law that provides for the sale of near beer. An unwise law maybe, but a law nevertheless. Fulton county closed out her whiskey saloons. There are blind tigers in Atlanta just as there are murders in Colqui t t county, but her newspa pers, her judges and her jurors have in the main supported and enforced the law. (Continued on