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News-Herald Constitution, 12 Montlis-$1.25. ! THE GWINNETT HERALD, ) TUB UWHSKCETILLE NIWS, ( COUSOlldltfid JID. 1, 1898. Katabliahed In 1893. > <josi?i jcoogh l m Not worth psying attention fjs to, you say. Perhaps you ET BF have had it for weeks. W It’s annoying because you J ■ have a constant desire to M ■ cough. It annoys you also S ■ because you remember that fl H weak lungs i 3 a family failing. M| B At first it is a slight cough. r At last it is a hemorrhage. V* At first it is easy to cure. ® At last, extremely difficult. Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral quickly conquers your little Backing cough. f There is no doubt about the cure now. Doubtcome* w from neglect. . M For over half a century A In Ayer's Cherry Pectoral has H been curing colds and coughs ® m and preventing consumption. H V It cures Consumption also B ■ if taken in time. leep«M«l »r.i|tr«CKrn w 9 Pctfsral Natters aver |«ar m Mags H its taaglL M a Shall we send yon e Ms mT heck e« this ftubfact, free? VHS w| Omr Mmdloml OmpmHmmnl. « M Xt yen nave any complaint what. K Ms ever and desire tt.s I rrt medical la V ad Tier you oan petslbly obtain, writ# SB Bk tha doctor freely. Tou win receive JS VMS a prompt reply, without coat. m. MS SB Addre.s, 08. 1. C. AVER, w Ew M be well. Meat. K J. A. PERRY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Lawrenceville, : : Ga. over G. W. A A. P. Cain's Stor \ All business entrusted to my care wiil re ceive prompt attention. nTL. HUTCIIINS, JR.. ATTOR NEY-AT-LAW. Office in yostotiko building. Prompt atten tion given to collections and practice in State an i FeaerM courts. OSCAR BHOW'S, JNO. R. COOPKJR, Lawrence f;«. n, Ga, BROWN & COOPER, , x jj,: A j.;-, A v. Criminal Law A Specialty. Office up stairs in the old Wjp.n drugstore. ~ DR. A. M. WINN, ” LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. Artemis- *:t|ls day orni^ht. O. A. NIX, - attorney-at-law. Office iuCain Building. Lawrenceville, Ga. Wiil practice in nil thq courts, Careful at tention ta all legal business. Sep 9ft 1 v " t. mTpeeples, ATTOR NEY-AT-LAW, Lawrenceville, - - Ga. Practice* in tbo State courts. Social atten tion given to the winding up of estates. F. F. .JUHAN L. F MCDONALD. juhan & McDonald, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Lawrenceville, - Ga. Will practice in all the courts. State and Fed eral. and successful experience in every department of the Jaw. Bankrupt Practice i* Specialty. If you can’t pay what you owe cotne and let us give that relief the law provides for you, and eg in life anew. Age and long experience, youth, proficiency and energy combined, Try us. and you will uot regret it. * JOHN M. JACtJBs7~ DENTIST, Lawrenceville, - - Ga. OOlee over G. W. «fc A. F. Cain’s store. V. G. HOPKINS, DENTAL SURGEON, Office over Winn’s old drug store. Office hours—9a. m. to 4 p. m. LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. DR. N. N. GOBER, 86 Grant Building, Atlanta, Ga. Cures ECZEMA. ASTHMA, RHEUMATISM. S. L. HINTOnT PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Dacula, - - - Ga. Office near the depot. Chronic diseases a spe cialty; 20 years experience. The patronage© of the public solicited. ~~ P. E. BELL, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, TRIP. GA. Kesidence at W. J. Trfbble’s. Office opposite stor* of Jacobs A Williams, Calls answered promptly, day or night. JuneV»-ly ' W. T. HINTON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Dacula, - - - - Ga. Located at the late Dr. S. H. Freeman old •stand, and any Of his former customers will jflnd me ready to serve them. Chronic Diseases a Specialty. All palls promptly atteuded to. day or nigkt ' CLARK BANKS, THE OLD RELIABLE BARBER, . Cam be fpund at his old stand, on Pike street jTirat-elas* work. Satisfaction guaranteed. W. R. DEXTER. FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER, JLawrenceville. Ga. -ti; ANTED— Honest man or woman to travel W for larne house- -salary PSS monthly and eituenxs, with increase. Position permanent. Ino''ja» self-ahilressed stamped envelope. M ANAUKit,33O Caxton bldg.,-Chicago. OwDr. Miles' Native Plaktek3 for SPINAL WEAKNESS. AU drugglsta sell em for 25c 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. News-Herald I*™ Journal, weekly, Only $1.25. VOL. YIL—NO 11 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.] It has been demonstrated repeat edly iu every state in the Union aud iu many foreign countries that Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy ie a certain preventive and cure for croup. It has become the univer sal remedy for that disease. M. V. Fisher of Liberty, W. Va.. only repeats what has been said around the globe when he writes: “I have used Chamberlain’s Cough Leme dy in my family for several years and rlwavs with perfect success. We believe that it is a sure cure for croup It has saved the lives of our children a number of times. This remedy is for sale by Bagwell Drug Co. Mr Hugh Hanna a brother of Mark Hauna announces that he will make his residence in Thomas county iu future. He moves from Ohio to get rid of the heavy taxes iu that state sc he says.—Ex. Get the benefit of the eheap Christ mas rates and two weeks tickets by the Seaboard Air Line.