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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Lawrenceville, : : Ga.
over G. W. A A. P. Cain's Stor \
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ceive prompt attention.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
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THE NEWS-HERALD.
PROHIBITION.
Following i 9 the speech of Sen
ator McGehee on tho Willingham
prohibition bill.
Mr. President: At this honr 1
feel that the senate of Georgia has
reason to congratulate itself, be
cause from the first session down
to the preeeut moment all discus
sions have been upon a
high plane, and no dart of person
ality or unbecoming speech has
been thrown in our midst. May
such conduct mark our presort
and future deliberations, so Dwit
when the hour of final adjourn
ment shall have come we may de
part from this chamber without a
single feeling of regret. Senators,
the eyes of Georgia, the nation,
the world, are resting upon us
now, while the universal ear is
bending this way, eager to catch
the first sound that tells the fate
of the pending bill. Will the sen
ate of Georgia save our grand old
commonwealth from tho giant
curse of the age, or will it endorse
and continue “a traffic that burns
up men, consumes women, curses
God and despises heaven; a busi
ness that degrades the citizen, dis
honors the statesman, debases the
legislator and disarms the patriot;
an evil that is the son of villainies,
the father of all crimes, the moth
er of sorrows,the devil’s best friend
and God’s worst enemy ?” These
are questions that are stirring the
hearts of ten thousand thousand
souls in this state today, and
while I ‘alk to you, gentlemen,
prayers which no man can num
ber ascend from cottage homes and
mansions fine, asking the blessings
of the Divine One upon our delib
erations, and to direct our course.
What will we do, senators ? What
ought we to do ? What shall wo
do with this pending measure ?
Since this bill was first introduced,
to the present hour, no newspaper
in the state of Georgia, no repre
sentative upon the floor of the
house, no senator upon the floor
of this senate, haa endorsed or
dined to defend the liquor traffic;
“ttrrT-Tif-'B*Wirt* • r :t Jr a.rtdm
demued l«y the silence of its ad
vocates, and no voice is heard to
call it blessed. I have been lis
tening, senators, with intent car,
with anxious heart, to find a man
who would endorse the results of
the liquor traffic in Georgia I
have not heard it. Is the liquor ”
traffic wrong ? No one questions
it. What is the policy of govern
ment—what is the prime object of
government, fellow citizens and
senators ? The fnndimenta! defi
nition of law is, that it is a rule
of action commanding the right
and prohibiting the wrong. All
law is embraced in that one max
im, and if the liquor traffic is
wrong, it- is your right, your duty,
t" prohibit it. If it is right, en
dorse it, and set it up. I have
been surprised at the argument of
senators, one from the Thirty-fifth,
a man whose gray hairs and age
and dignity carry me homeward
and remind me of the father I
love better than life. I heard fall
from his Kps this morning the
statement that he knew a case of
a man who was in the barroom
busines; that he was a sot aud a
drunkard, thereby disgusting his
own children, who became sober
men, and he was thereby a bles
siug to his family. The state
ment was made as an argument
for barrooms, but the aged sena
tor has never advised his own sons
to open saloons iu order thereby
to become a v.oral example to
their children. Such a statement
is unworthy of the man who made
it.
Sehators, iu one respect this
looks like an unequal fight. I
have the proof, and call you to
witness, that there is money, that
there is a trust, that there is a
combine of liquor dealsrs of the
united world; that they have a
regular assessment, a tax levied
for the purpose of defeating legis
lation. With the liquor power of
the nation on one side, the money
is on that side. I have a record
here where in Pennsylvania they
admit that they paid thousands
upon thousands of dollars iu or
der to contiol legislation, and I
will turn it over to any gentlemen
who may desire to see the records.
I don’t say, aud I would not say,
that they have entered the grand
old state of Georgia with their cor
ruption. I love senators too well.
I esteem their honor too high, but,
hear me today, and I speak it be
fore you and in the presence of
S Almighty God, I say if the liquor
i trusts of the United States have
LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4,1900.
not tried to destroy this bill, it is
not their fault, but it is because
Georgia senators could not be
reached. On one side are the
breweries, the capital, the bar
rooms, the gamblers, powerful
trusts, and they are organized for
the purpose of continuing this
traffic. I will not say it, but I
ask the question: Has not the
very traffic which we are trying to
prohibit today invaded the sacred
precincts of this grand old Capi
tol ? Has it not gone beyond the
barrooms and local self-govern
ment uud found an abiding place
nearer the legislative halls ? Ido
not say it is true, but I ask if it is.
Will we succeed in this battle?
That is the'tfinalle*t question in it
to me. The paramount question
is, will I do my duty in this fight,
so when it is over I can return to
my humble home and look my
sweet children in the face, and
as they kQeel at my side when
evening shades have fallen to say
“Now I lay me down to sleep,’’
looking into their tender eyes can
say, in the presence of God, I did
what I thought I ought to do ?
This bill will not fail. It may be
crushed in defeat on this senate
floor, but it will rise again. It
has been launched, like a majestic
ship upon the sea, and the storms
of opposition, the storms of influ
ence, the storms of organization,
and the storms of money may
trouble the waters and impede her
course for a while, but hoar me as
I tell you today that she will soon
make a safe landing, for God Al
mighty’s hand is on the helm and
His breath is in her sails.
Gentlemen stated that we should
lay aside sentiment and deal with
cold logic, cold reason. They tell
me there is no place ir. this bill
for sentiment. I confess to you
that the sentiment in it appeals
to my heart and my mind stronger
than any other feature of the bill,
and I plant my support on that
sentiment. I accept the challenge.
What is sentiment ? Mr. Web
ster, the ieadir.g authority, de
scribes sentiment as follows : “Sen
timent is the determiuat'on of the
mind which results from the co
operation of rational powers and
moral feelings. ” Th°re is eenti
mont in this bill because there are
rational powers in it and moral
feelings in it. Sentiment! There
is no sentiment in the whiskv side
because there are no morals. As
I walk upon the streets of this
.capital city, and as I see the gran
ite base upon the main thorough
fare and behold the likeness that
stands upon it, reeoguizing the fig
ure of the man that once lived in
this community, that man of
whom it was said “the world is
better becaused he lived and heav
en is brighter because he is there,”
as 1 look upon it I say to myself
that likeness is nothing but senti
ment melted into the figure which
keeps fresh the noble life and
character of him who gave his soul
to the measure I represent; a man
not only loved in Georgia, but by
the nation. Sentiment! Senti
ment! Thirty-seven years have
passed, Senators, but the scene is
as fresh in your minds as if it oc
curod yesterday. The sun is rising
from the eastern hill, shooting its
golden light through the leaves of
yonder forest on the mountain
side, beneath whose shades there
nestles an humble Georgia home
in which a widowed mother and
dependent children dwell, happy
and contented because “Be it ever
s i humble, there’s no place like
home,” Listen 1 What sound is
it that comes from that home in
the early morn? It is a song of
thanksgiving and it always rises
from that humble fireside after
the morning meal has been taken.
Watch that mother and those
children as they step upon the
front porch. The mule stands still
in the lot and the plow ceases to
move in the furrow. I see a noble
son, seventeen yeaas of age, stand
ing as a central figure with the iit
tle children grouped around him ;
t hat bod whose muscle and brain
GLORIOUS NEWS
Comes from Dr. B. Cargile, of
Washita, I. T. He writes' “Four
bottles of Electric Bitters has
cured Mrs. Brewer of scrofula,
which had caused her great suffer
ing for years. Terrible sorei would
bieak out on her heat and face,
aud the best doctors could give no
help, but her cure is complete and
her health is excellent.” This
shows what thousands have proved
—that Eieceric Bitters is the best
blood puriher. It’s the supreme
remedy for eczema, tetter, salt
rheum, ulcers, boils and running
sores. It stimulates liver, kidneys
and bowels, expels poisons, helps
digHgtiou build op strength. Only
50 cents. Sold by A. M. Winn &
Sou, Druggists. Guaranteed.
have combined with the sunshine
and shower to give bread and meat
to the humble family. I see
mother as she stands on the
far side of the porch gazing into
the distant future, i can Dot un
derstand the scene until I look
and see her turn and walk to the
boy. She throws her arms about
his neck, pulls his cheek to her
quivering lips and pressing upon
it a last farewell kiss, she says:
“Go, my boy; God will take care
of us.” That boy walked down
the steps, out of the gate, on to
the bend of the road where he
■turned to take a last look at that
sacred spot. He joined the Con
federate army. For four years he
marched without shoes,. he slept
without cover, he fought without
trembling, and finally died with
out fear! His body rests today on
the soil of Virginia, possibly.“ U
nknown.” Mr. President, is marked
on the board that stands at the
end of the mound, but with each
recurring spring the fair hands of
our women gather the choicest
flowers and lay them upon bis
grave as a memorial and remem
brance of his noble deeds. You
talk to me about sentiment! Wbat
is that but sentiment? God-given
sentiment! Sentiment which is
the base of the grandest impulses
and the grandest movements that
ever stirred men’s souls, I say
this bill commends itself to me on
account of its sentiment. Not only
that, senators, that self-same sen
timent has been enacted into law
upon our statute books. That same
sentimeut said to the Georgia leg
islature. “Gentlemsn, on account
of the sacred sentiment, because
it is right and because it is moral,
put the law upon your statute
books, taking care of these grand
old men who live, and do not let
them go in want and penury I”
Sentiment! I say I thauk God
for the sentiment that lurks in
that bill.
Now, let us discuss thiss bill on
its merits. The senator from the
Twenty .eighth, in his discussion
yesterday, found great trouble
with the bill upon the idea that
it was unconstitutional. At first
I thought that was his objection,
but in the course of his remarks
I found out that he waß such a
strong prohibitionist that this bill
was not strong enough for him. He
actually opposed it because he
thought drug stores would abuse
it, and sell intoxicants as a bever
age. If that is the objection of
the senator, I will strike out that
clause in order to get his support,
because he is an ardent prohibi
tionist and in hearty sympathy
with the bill and is a great advo
cate of temperance (?) Now, Mr.
President, the senator, always so
fair, not only fair in form and
beauty, but fair iu argument, re
sorted to an argument yesterday
that was uot exactly right in the
discussiouof this bill. He spoke
about the Maine law, and compar
ed it with the Georgia law. Now,
the only place that the Maine law
can have in this discussion is to
throw light upon the question
whether or not prohibition will pro
hibit. That is all. But what did
he do? He spoke of certain men
in Maine who are obnoxionsto our
grand old south; men whom wo do
not love possibly as much as we
ought, and appealed to this senate,
through sectional hatred, thereby
attempting to create prejudice
against this bill. I say it was not
fair. But does prohibition prohi
bit? Gentlemen, if you put it on
that ground, I tell you candidly
there is no law on the statute
books of Georgia that does
prohibit. If you repeal a law be
cause it does not prohibit, then
you must repeal every criminal
law in our code. That is uot the
question, whether it prohibits or
not; the question is, is the thing
it seeks to stop right, or is the
thing it seeks to stop wrong? That
is the only question. If it is
wrong, we ought to enact the law,
whether it is kept or not. If it is
right, we ought to endorse it. That
is the only question. Now, let’s
see: does the law against arson
brohibit iu Georgia? There are
now seventy-five in the Georgia
penitentiary convicted of arsou.
Therefore, do away with your law
on arson and turn men loose to de
stroy property. Senators, for at
tempt to murder there are two
hundred and thirty now serving
in the Georgia penitentiary. That
does uot prohibit, therefore do
away with your laws for assault
with intent to murder. There is
another crime, which I will not
mention, for which one hundred
and one are now serving in the
penitentiary of the state of Geor
gia, because law does not prohibit.
Will you pull down the strong
| protection that we throw around
j the virtue of our women 1 What
j say you to the local option argu
ment when applied here? The seu
| ator from the Twenty-eighth stat
ed yesterday that figures and sta
tistics as to crime should betaken
from adjoining counties, And from
all over the state, out of one conn
tv here and there. I have dono
that.and beg that the senators will
give me a careful hearing. In 1890
the census says that Fulton coun
ty had a populatiog of 85,000.
There are in the penetentiary two
hundred and sixty-six, a ratio of
one to three hundred and nineteen.
Le|’s take the next county. De-
Kalb, right next to it. DeKalb
hii/ a population of seventeen
thousand. Twenty are in the pen
itentiary, one to every eight hun
dred and fifty. DeKalbb is a dry
county, and the ratio of crime in
Fulton is three times as much as
it is in DeKalb. Does prohibition
prohibit? Will you answser it,
senators, by saying that the peo
ple of DeKalb county are three
times more moral and three times
better than in Fulton county? Will
the senator from this district say
that he can explain it od the
ground that the citizens of DeKalb
cojjnty are throo times as moral,
that they have three times as much
Christianity, as the people of Ful
ton county? Let’s see. Gwinnett
is the next one in line. This coun
ty, had nineteen thousand inhabi
tants, six in the penitentiary; one
to every three thousand and thirty
three. The further you get from
the center of livuor the less crime
there is. Why? Because they
cannot deluge a distant county
like they can the one right by it.
Let us try Bibb. The county of
Bibb had forty-two thousand pop
ulation, one hundred and seven
teen in the penitentiary; one to
every three hundred and sixty-two
just about on a par with Fulton,
Houston had twenty-one thousand
and it is a dry county, twenty-four
ip.ttie penetentiary, one to every
Itiie hutiered. Three times as
much crime in Bibb as in Houston
Now, senators, in all fairness and
C&ißjLor* tell me if it is not atrapge.
if it is not passing strange, that
this thing just accidentally hap
pens to be that way wherever li
quor is sold and where if is not?
Now, isn’t it strange? You say it
is none of our business how many
criminals you have. I say it is
our business. When you. fill up
the state penitentiary from Ful
ton, we are interested, because we
are taxed to pay the expense. Ev
ery county in Georgia is taxed to
keep up that institution. Money
is taken from my pocket, from ev
ery white man’s pocket in Georgia,
to pay for the criminals who go
from these counties, which must
be sustained by public taxation.
But you say it does not prohibit?
Why does it not prohibit? Why,
gentlemen, if it does not prohibit,
what are you so alarmed about?
If prohibition does not prohibit,
why all this stir among the brew
eries of the United States, from
north to south and from east to
west? What is the matter? They
don’t stir when nothing is in the
way. What does all this mean?
It means that they are powerfully
afraid it will prohibit. That is
true. Now, let’s see. In 1898, in
Macon, the state and town licenses
issued for bar-rooms were sixty
four, the internal revenue licenses
were one hundred and thirteen.
Now you take sixty-four from one
hundred and thirteeu ; it leavos
forty-nine "blind tigers” in Ma
con. Well, gentlemen, bar rooms
don't prohibit. You have the bar
roonij and you have tho “blind
tigers” both. Bar-rooms don’t
kill out “blind tigers.” In the
city of Atlanta there were one
hundred and four licensed in 1898;
two hundred and eight revenue li
censes, one hundred and four
DOES IT PAY TO BUY CHEAP?
A cheap remedy for coughs and
colds is all right, but you want
something that will relieve aud
cure the more severe and danger
ous results of throat and lung
troubles. What shall you do? Go
to a warmer and more regular cli
mate? Yes, if possible. If not
possible for you, then in either
case take the only remedy that
has beeu introduced iu all civilized
countries with success iu severe
throat and lung troubles, “Bos
chee’s German Syrup.” It not
only heals and stimulates the tis
sues to destroy the germ disease,
but allays inflamation, causes easy
expectoration, gives a good night’s
rest, and cures the patient. Try
one bottle. Recommended many
years by all druggists iu the world.
Sample bottles at Bagwell’s Drug
Store, Lawrenceville; Smith and
Harris, Suwauee: R. 0. Medlock,
Norcross.
“blind tigers,” just as many “blind
tigers” as bar-rooms. Therefore
local option means this: It means
to have local saloons and to have
local “blind tigers,” to have both.
As a gentleman has said, “the
great trouble about local option it
is too local and too optional. ”
Now, I come to Rome, the home
of a senator on this floor, for
whom I have the greatest respect.
In his own beautiful city the rec
ord showed that laHt year there
were ten bar-rooms and ten “blind
tigers.” I have it from undispu
ted authority, from the senator
himself, that they had prohibition
in the county of Floyd under the
local option law, and it did not
prohibit, Why ? Because in the
adjoining county, just fourteen
miles off, there was a bar-room
which sold sixty thousand dollars
worth of liquor in the county of
Floyd in one year. What does
that mean ? It means that the
people of Floyd county, by local
option said, "We don’t want li
quor,” and another county right
by stepped in and with a grog
shop set aside the wishes of that
county and nullified the law that
those people had endorsed. You
tell me Floyd county has no
rights ? You tell me counties
may do as they please ? You tell
me that when my county has
voted local option, that a liquor
county has a right to deluge my
county ? If one hundred and
seventeen dry counties have no
right to say liquor shall not be
sold iu the 20 wet counties, then
tell me what right these twenty
counties have to deluge the hun
dred and seveuceen dry counties
with liquor, when they have said
by local option they don’t want
wh.skiy ? But does prohibition
prohibit? I have letters here
from public men who are known
in Atlanta, real estate men, men
of busiuess, men who have been
for and against prohibition, who
testified that the prosperity under
prohibition decreased when the
bar-rooms came back to the city,
and physicians state that they
could not collect their bills and
merchants their accounts after
bur-rporos. werq ra-iijstatpd. Is
that not a fair tost and fair ar
gument ? I don’t know about
Baldwin county, but I will road
you. lam not responsible for it.
I give it for what it is worth.
Prohibition prohibited in the i
county of Baldwin. An article |
on November 28th, from the Un- '
ion Recorder at Milledgeville, in 1
speaking of the representative who
fought the Willingham bill iu the
House, represents him as saying:
“I tell you that the jails of my
county and the police barracks
overflowed with prisoners during
the reign of prohibition.” This
paper says that in 1887, the first
year of prohibition, thore were fif
tv-one esses before the mayor, in
1888 forty cases, in 1889, fifty
cases, and iu the three years im
mediately following, which had
bar-rooms, the docket shows iu
1897, two hundred and seventeen
cases, four times as many as dur
ing prohibition, and in 1898, two
hundred and sixty-two cases, and
iu 1899, up to Thursday, the 28rd
day of November, two hundred
and twenty-four cases.
Senators, you may talk about
men and you may talk about coun
ties. That is merely to draw the
attention from tho issue. The
question is, is the sale of liquor in
our beloved state right, is it bless
ing our homes, is it bringing pros
perity or ruin, is it bringing sor
row or sadness, is it bringing life
or death, is it bringing peace or
crime ? Those are the questions
for us to solve, and I tell you they
should burn into our souls. Now,
let’s see. For fifteen years the
people of Maine tried prohibition
and after that they voted it iuto
their constitution by a vote of
three to one. Let me beg you in
all candor to deal fair with the ar
gument; if the state of Georgia
after trying this bill, if it were
passed, for fifteen years, would
turn around and vote it iuto her
constitution by odo hundred and
fifty thousand for it and fifty
thousand against it, would you
not say, as honest men, that that
was high evidence that the law
worked well ? Would you not,
honest, now ? Why not be can
did about Maine ? Let’s deal as
fairly with Maine as we would
with Georgia. State lines make
no difference; it is the principle.
I dare say there is not a man in
this house but who, if he were up
north and met Senator Bacou, or
Senator Clay, or Governor Candler,
and asked how the prohibition law
in your state is, and they were to
tell you it is a great success, would
believe him. Now, I say to you,
that tho statement of senators,
governors and representatives
fiom the state of Maine who say
that it is a grand success there
and that liquor drinking is almost!
reduced to the minimum, should)
be believnd I will read yon two
or thr»e letters. Hon. William)
Fry, United States senator from
Maine, said in answer to a letter
in 1899: “The law is not a fail
ure. It has been, on the other
hand, a wonderful success,” and
he goes on to say that the people
are sober, and that there is h as li
quur drinking there than in any
slate in the Union. Now, suppose
our senators and our governors
were to say that about the law in
Georgia; would they be worthy of
consideratiou ? Why not deal as
fairly with men who occupy that
same high positiou in other states
as you would in your own ? I
have a number of letters here, but
will read one iu reference to Kan
sas, from Johu J. lugalls, in which
he says: “The opeu dram shop is
as extinct as the sale of indulgen
ces, a drunkard is a phenomenon,
the bar keeper ' has joined the
troubadours and the crusaders;
the breweries and the distilleries
and the bonded warehouses are
known ouly to the archeologists
The consumption of intoxicants is
consequently decreased ; a conser
vative estimate shows the reduc
tion to be 90 per cent.; it cannot
bo loss than 75 per oent.” flow,
gentlemen, I ask you candidly, as
fair-minded men, if Congressman
Crisp, a man who has a warm
place iu every Georgian’* heart,
while iu life had told yon iu New
York that a law had passed iu
Georgia and that be knew it had
actually decreased the crime it
was directed against 90 per cent.,
would you not believe it was pro
hibiting just a little bit, just a lit
tle bit', gentlemen ? Would you
not admit that it was worthy *of
at least, some consideratiou ?
Now, we come to the financial
question, and I state in my place
that the financial argument is un
worthy of consideration in a great,
moral issue like this. Seuators,
will you put jhe happiness of your
home, will you put the future of
your bright-eyod boy, will you put
the happiness of your daughter
who is just blooming into beauti
ful womanhood, in the balance
and weigh it against dollars aud
gold dust and silver? Will you
do it ? The time has not come in
Georgia, it will not come soon,
when the people of this state will
weigh gold and dinmonds, dollars
and pounds, against virtue and so
briety, truth and honor, temper
ance and justice. But let us de
scend to that low and unworthy
argument, and I challenge any
man te refute the proposition,
when I say by passing this bill you
would sav« enough money in one
year to run the Btate government,
with its schools and charitable in
stitution for two years, 1 and then
leave a handsome sum in the treas
ury. Now, let’s see. The people
in the state of Georgia pay annu
ally for education two million dol
lars, they pay for state govern
ment and public schools two mil
lions, that makes a total of 4 mil
lion dollars, and they pay 10 mil
lion dollars every year for whis
key. That much in a year in Geor
gia ! Now, that is just the bare li
quor, to say nothing about the ad
ditional expenses >■( courts and
jails, police and penitentiaries.
Ten millions! Just think of it.
When we spend money for schools
the.buildings themselves aud the
useful knowledge stored away in
the minds of our children abide
with us as an Jinvestmeut which
pays large dividends; money spent
for our charitable institutions is
an investment which brings honor
to the state because it is her duty
to care for her demented, poor, af
flicted children. Whit, seuators,
does the barroom give us in re
turn for the ten million dollars—
what ? It does not leave a shin
gle, a brick, a springing blade of
grass. Far better for our people
A LIFE AND DEATH FIGHT
Mr. W. Hiues of Manchester,
la., writing of his almost mirac
ulous escape from death, says:
“Exposure after measles induced
serious lung trouble, which ended
ii) Consumption . I had frequent
hemorrhages and coughed night
and day. All my doctors said I
must soon die. Then I began to
use Dr. King’s New Discovery for
Consumption, which completely
cured me. I would not be with
out it even if it cost $5.00 a bottle.
Hundreds have used it on my rec
ommendation and all say it never
fails to c ure Throat, Chest and
Lung troubles.” Regular size 50c
and SI.OO. Trial bottles free at
A. M. Winn & Sou’s Drug Stoe.
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Only $1.25.
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RoVal
Baking Powder
Made from pure
cream of tartar.
Safeguards the food
against alum*
Alum baking powders are the greatest
menacers to health of the present day.
(Soya! havi no anwne* <v» arw «ncv
if this ten millions were burned in
the scorching flames. Were it
thus consumed, we would save our
state from reproach, our homes
from sadness, our childreu from
shame and want, our citizens from
disgrace and death, our women
from sorrow and tears What is
the proposition of the saloon ? In
return for the ten million dollars
per year, which they take largely
from the working and laboring
classes, they propose to give us
three hundred end fifty thousand
dollars, which can he applied to
the education of the children.
Senators, it is an insult to the vir
tue, intelligence and manhood of
Georgia, and I resent it in the
name of this grand old state.
What care the barrooms for the
education of our children ? Noth
ing! The liquor traffic is after
money, and only money. What
is three hundred and fifty thous
and to them when they get ten
million by debauching our sons,
blasting the lives of our daughters,
filling our homes with wail and
want ? Why does this tax go in
to the school fund ? I believe it
is a part of a scheme intended to
fasten eternally this curse upon
the state. They know that is the
place to put it so it will be strong
and have the greatest possible
power. They know where they
are putting it. They are invest
ing it iu the education of Georgia,
not because the liquor traffic of
Georgia loves the education o£
your eidldwan pot a bit of it, isit -
because they want to see yo»/r
children elevated. They put it
there because they knew it was a
strong place to invest their mon
ey in order to keep the legislature
from rc oting up and rooting out
their business. That is why they
put it iu the public schools, and it
was thrown into the teeth of men
in that house, “yon gentlemen
'Ught not to support this bill, be
cause you country members get a
thousand dollars from the liquor
business.” I throw it back into
the teeth of the cities who made
the charge and I say to you that
the country members of Georgia
today are not ready to sell out
their homes and their virtue, aDd
damage their children for a few
paltry dollars from the cities of
the state of Georgia. I will tell
you what, if the cities of Georgia
will let us alone we could afford
to let them alone. If local option
is good for the cities, why is it not
good tor the country ? They say
we have no right to cross city
boundaries and dictate to them
what they shall do, but every day
they are setting aside our law and
dictating what we shall do. If
you will keep your liquor out of
the dry counties, if Fulton will
keep her liquor at home and out
of these adjoining counties where
she is growing fat and rich on the
liquor business, draining five, ten
and fifteen thousand dollars a year
from a county aud quit debauch
ing ruining our boys and homes
and damaging our community,
then we may listen to her talk of
“personal liberty.”
[continued on second page.]
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