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2 The Golden Age Published Every Thursday by The Golden Age Publishing Company (Inc.). OFFICE: 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 Edior Price: J 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. Atlanta, ga.i . PUBLISHERS' PRESS. PRINTERS TWO POWERFUL UTTERANCES ON THE EUROPEAN WAR. Here are two of the most powerful and sat isfactory utterances that we have yet seen on the principles involved in the European War. An English View. The great London paper, The Baptist Tinies and Freeman, says: “We are fighting for righteousness and freedom, but we are also fighting for our national existence as truly as France or Belgium. The triumph of Germany means the enslavement of Europe, the es tablishment of Prussian militarism on the throne of the world, with all that that implies. We must not delude ourselves. If Germany wins, Belgium and Holland disappear as independent nations. They become German provinces, and with their added resources of sea power, Germany will then set her self to the attainment of the real aim of her policy for years past —the destruction of Great Britain. “These then are the spiritual and material issues involved in this tremendous struggle, and we have to ask ourselves as citizens and as Christians what is our duty in the matter. There can be but one answer. The whole resources of the Empire must be applied to the destruction once and for ever of the menace of German militarism. And the duty of the individual citizen is also clear. Those who can do so should at once enlist and join the armies that are fighting for the Kingdom of God as surely as did the Puritans in Cromwell’s day. Those of us who cannot do that must find some other way of service. Let no one stand aloof. Above all, let us go into the conflict and conduct ourselves in it as did the Puritans, stern in resolve to defend the right, and relying humbly upon God to give us courage and strength to preserve to the end, how ever long and however hard the war may be.” An American View. In a strong article on the war in the Stan dard, Dr. Edward B. Pollard says: “Finally, let us not overlook the fact that this great war of the nations will surely turn out to be the birth-pangs of a larger democracy. ‘The twilight of the kings’—how pathetic, how tragic; and yet how inevitable! The whole creation moves irresist ibly toward equality, brotherhood, democracy. The militarism of a toppling autocracy is responsible for striking the blow which has submerged Europe in blood. Militarism is the cold logic of autocracy and the everlasting foe of the people. Despotisms must go down that democracy may be fully realized. They that have taken the sword are to perish by it. Civilization has provided itself with engines of war fare, gigantic and ingenious, with fighting machines, projectiles and armor plate. But it has built up no less powerful engineering of peace in its laws, its science, its commerce, its peace societies, and all the wondrous interlocking of modern human inter ests. Why then has civilization appeared so sud denly and so signally to have slipped back to bar barism? For want of a ratchet sufficiently strong to prevent. It is a ratchet that is not forged and set in place in a day. It is found only in redeemed on disciplined democracy, a social order born from above, functioning through a public opinion in the presence of which selfishness and savagery wither and perish.” Don’t forget the war is making us NEED your new or re newal Subscription VERY BAD! THE GOLDEN AGE FOR WEEK OF OCTOBER 8, 1914 Verily, it is a silver lining to the .war cloud that comes from the Empire of the Czar. The The War Measure Will Bring Permanent Blessing to The Word. permanent blessing to the great Russian Em pire as revealed in the following dispatch: “Petrograd, October 1. —(Via London) —An order was issued today that the prohibition of the sale of vodka shall be continued, indefinitely after the war. This order is based on the tremendously im proved condition of the country since the emperor issued the edict prohibiting traffic in this liquor. Travelers from Southern Russia say there is such a change in that region that the country is hardly recognizable. Peasants who, before the war, had fallen into hopeless indolence and depravity, al ready have emerged into self-respecting citizens. Huts, which formerly were dilapidated, and allowed to go without repairs, are now kept in first class condition. The towns have become more orderly and the peasants indulge in wholesome amusements. These people now save 55 per cent of their earning, which formerly were spent for drinks, and they have increased their earning capacity through sobriety. This startling regeneration of the peasantry, in the opinion of the Russian authorities, is likely to have an important effect on social and economic conditions of all Russia. A change in the large cities also is noticeable. Liquor is still sold in first class caffs but these are practically empty. The Nevsky Prospect, once famous for its gay mid night life, is now quite without a sign of revelry.” Stay Russia I That last paragraph is “a fly in the ointment.” We are surprised to learn that where the authority of the Czar is so near ly absolute he did not force the cities to be as obedient as the peasant districts. But after all, we are told that the city drink PROHIBITION “MAKING AWMBWSSIA” recent prohibition of the sale of vodka, the national intoxicant of Russia, was made as a war meas ure —for the government must have sober soldiers to fight and > sober citizens to support these sober soldiers. And now behold the national, LIQUOR LEADERS AS PREVARICATORS If the Psalmist were only living now! "When he was on the earth he one time said: “Rivers of water run down mine eyes be- We Mourn cause they keep not Thy law.” For Their If he were just in Virginia now Sinful Sins- and were to see how liquor lead ers “keep on keeping on” mis representing conditions in prohibition territory surely the “Sweet Singer of Israel” would draw himself in a flood of tears. We gave abundant and melancholy evidence last week that, in their effort to keep bar rooms on the political throne in Virginia all sorts and conditions of falsehoods are being circulated about the “failure of prohibition” in Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee — and everywhere! Returning from the field of battle in Virgin ia last week the Editor of The Golden Age met on the train a handsome young man, intel ligent and genial, who proved to be a com mercial traveler. He was F. M. Salley of Ashville, N. C., and he gave in casual conver sation such an illuminating testimony about the good effect of prohibition as he had seen it all over North Carolina, that we urged him to send a brief of his statement to one of the Norfolk papers. Permitted to copy his letter we reproduce it here asking the friends of prohibition to pass it on as another weight in the cumulative tes timony in behalf of prohibition:. shops are empty, either from the sorrows of war or the influence of the Edict of Govern ment. And a like condition obtains widely in the war-zone. One nation has prohibited the use of grain in the manufacture of intoxicants because, of course, it is needed for food, both for the warring and the waiting millions. Listen— Liquor has destroyed more millions If In Europe Why Not America? and damnation it can be conservatively declar ed and conclusively proven that “war has slain its thousands but liquor its tens of thousands.” Then in God’s name why should not every civilized nation on earth permanently follow the example of these warring nations of Europe and stop forever and a day the manufacture and sale of the liquid poison that makes men less fit to live and prosper than it makes them fit to fight? And hear it, O Peace-loving America, rightly following the leadership of a Peace-loving, God-fearing President and Secretary of State —why, in the name of Christian citizenship— yes, for the wholesomely selfish purpose of the preservation of its citizenship, does not this neutral, Peace-seeking nation, standing on a pedestal in the eyes and the thought of the world, as never before—why does not our own great nation move at once for the speedy and everlasting destruction of this “Great De stroyer?” True, the white-bannered hosts of reform are marching, but let “official Washington” lead in this as in other great movements for the betterment of the world. God save Ameri ca from the wanton destruction of men! Editor Ledger-Dispatch: I am, and have been a resident of Ashville, N. C., about twelve years, and as a commer cial traveler giving all my time to North Carolina I have had a fine opportunity to see the actual effect of statewide prohibition, and I am amazed to see m Virginia papers, the statement of anti-prohibition leaders that there is more liquor being consumed in North Caro lina than before saloons were voted out. I was formerly an “anti” but prohibition has con vinced me. There is simply no comparison be tween conditions now and then. Despite the fact that Virginia liquor dealers who claim to believe in “local option,” do ship the stuff in the state and help to keep prohibition from prohibiting, drinking has greatly decreased and business and educational conditions are far better. I have heard that your paper is “neutral and fair” and I hope you will publish this statement. We be neighbors—and as a loyal “Tar Heel” I naturally don’t like to see my state misrep resented by the liquor interests. F. M. SALLEY. Asheville, N. C., Sept. 17, 1914. Now the thing we want to know is this— in the face of such testimony how can any man who claims to be halfway decent, delib erately and conscientiously prevaricate in favor of a thing as bad as a bar room? Please, Somebody tell us! « in a generation than even this, horrible war will destroy, ap palling as that statement may seem; and in its destructive flow toward the region of deaths