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. 0 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, JULY 9, WUi. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWS) JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Eddor. F. L. SEELY, Pre»ident. Published Every Afternoon. (Except Sunday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY. At 2S West Alabama Bt.. Atlanta, Qa. Subscription Rates: One Tear M fO Mx Months } W One Month By Carrier, Per Week Telephones eonnectlnf all depart ments. Long distance terminals. Smith ft Thompson, advertising rep resentatives for all territory outMlde ot Georg Is. _ .. Chlcairo Office Trlbnne BhlMjnf New fork Office Potter Utilldln* If yon hare an/ trooble settln* TUB GEORGIAN AND NEWS, telephone the circulation department sod hare It promptly remedied. Telephones: Bell 4527 main; Atlanta 4401. >le that all eoi ... , for publication In TIIB -1EOR01AN AND NEWS be limited to 900 worth la length. It Is Imperative that they be slcned, at an evidence of rood faith. Itejectad mannacrlpts will not Ims returned unleaa stamps ora sent. for the purpose. TIIB GEORGIAN AND NEWS prints no unclean or objectionable advertis ing. Neither does It print whisky or any liquor ads. t plants, ss it now owns Its water works. Other rifles do this and yet fia as low as 80 cents, with a profit to the city. Thla should be done at ones. THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS believes that If street railways can be operated successfully by European cities, as they are, there la no good reaeon why they can not be so oper ated here. Rut we do not liellere this rsn be done now, and It ms/ be some years l»«fore we are ready for so big an niadsrtskloc. 8UH Atlanta should set Its face In that direction NOW. Persons leaving the city can havo The Georgian and News mailed to them regularly by send ing their order to The Georgian office. Changes of address will bo made os often as desired. If we are compelled to swallow germs lot us swallow them cooked. Boll the water. THE DOUBLE QUESTION OP WATER. Four weeks ago The Georgian pointed out almost exactly tho condi tions of Atlanta's water supply as they exist today. • At that tlmo wo urged upon tho city council and all parties In authori ty that without waiting for the maturing of the bonds and the coming of the money from the bdnds voted for thg water works, that those In author ity should use the money now on hand for emergency treatment of the wa ter famine, and replace that money later from the funds accruing from tho bond Issue. . We do not kuow whether this was done or not. We do know that It ought to have been done at that time and long before that tlmo, and we do know that at this time no heroic measure should bo either feared or avoided which will tend to help Atlanta out of a condition which Is not only unpleasant and uncomfortable, but which Is positively and deeply dangerous to the health and cleanliness ot the city. The Georgian heartily Indorses the suggestion of our physicians that every consumer In Atlanta should boll carefully tho water that he drinks In order to precipitate Its dirt and to destroy the germs which It may con tain. Beyond this, every other method that can be devised or discovered should be used to purify the water and prevent disease. State Chemist John M. McCandless tells The Georgian that after careful Investigation he has Installed In his own offlee at the moderate cost of six dollars, a lit tle plterer which not only presents the water clear to tho consumer, but also presents It absolutely free of germs. Surely every business establishment, every ofllce and every drinking fountain In Atlanta should be supplied In this distressing emergency with somo Instrument of this kind. - An epidemic that would visit Atlanta during this sweltering weather which has come lato, but come with stalwart vigor to this city, would do us damage which years of patience might find It difficult to repair. The question of water In a double sense now becomes the paramount Issue of our state and local politics. First, tbe abolition of all other drinks less wholesome than water, and second, the purification by municipal energy and by private Intelligence of all tho water that goes Into the stomaohs or upon the skins Qf the people during this season of excessive heat ATLANTA TAXES AND PROHIBITION. On Saturday we dealt with the money end of prohibition In general— today it shall be our purpose to throw a little light on Atlanta and Its tax conditions, both under the old prohibition experience In 1886-7 and what may be expected In tbe near future. The opponent of prohibition usually wades Into the proposition with ' little regard to facts—If he had stopped to get at the facta, hp would not be an opponent. Now, let's see: Tho claim Is, that for tl^p liquor license monoy lost In 1*886 and 1887, the tax rate was left the samo for the looks ot the thing, but that the assessment was raised most unmercifully, so that enough taxes could be collected to keep the city from darkness and de spair. Tho Georgian reproduces herewith, In full, page 4S of the official report of tho comptroller of the city of Atlanta for 1906: STATEMENT SHOWING THE ASSESSED VALUATION OF REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY, TAXES ASSESSED, RATE OF TAXATION FROM 1881, TO 1906, INCLUSIVE. Tho Charleston News snd Courier Is carrying Ransy Sniffle* tales between Georgia's governor and ex-governor. If the water works department Is not In sympathy with the antl-prohlbltlon- 1st*, present conditions aro difficult to explain. Tbe phrase “The Almighty Dollar" was originated by Washington Irving In “The Creole VJHtgo," which he pub lished In 1837. This is the season when the subur ban resident goes to his crystal well of water and thanks heaven that be does not live In Atlanta. Tho News and Courier says there Is a tremendous power behind \Hoke Smith's throne. Yes, tbe omnipotence of public opinion. Tho suburban real estate agent Is prospering mightily on the popular dis gust with Atlanta's water famine. It's an 111 famine that doe* not magnify the suburb*. “The South Is engaged now In mak ing money, not In making men,” says a contemporary. Ood forbid tbat our progress should be measured along this line. Assistant Secretary Hays, of the De partment of Agriculture, makes' the ex cellent suggestion that the corn tassel should be adopted as tbe national flower. Editor Hemphill Is unpatrlotlo enough to discover a resemblance be tween Ralsull's capture of Colonel Usclcan and General Fred Funaton's capture of Aguloaldo. Shame! If Japan wishes to make Roossvelt'a election sure. Just let her make a real throat of war. With a single gleam of the mikado's teeth the whole country would turn to teeth mope famous and more formidable. Tbe real estate agent has cancelled tbe lease on the colonial house which be bad secured for Booker Washington at Oyster Bay—presumably at the sug gestion of the other residents. A well- timed snub tor Booker. With Henry Grady and 8am tatnan on written record In Indorsement of tbe financial effect of prohibition. It will take a whole host ot ordinary men to iwear.lU beneficence sway. After all, with their other arguments fallacious, the saloon men have one ef fective argument in the fact that It would be cruel to condemn Atlanta to such water as we are having now. But, fortunately, prohibition will not go Into effect within the next sixty days. What t pity that The Constitution, alter suppressing Henry Grady’s great prohibition speech, should actually mis represent tbe dead evangel's open rec ord on tbat great questloo. Truly It's a long leap between editors—longer thin we thought. YEAtl- T5T D lwa . 1M«. IMS . IMS , 18?: 1892 . « . i£: 1897 . 1898 . 1899 . 1902 i 1903 , 1904 , 1906 . 1908 42,230,380jJO 41.402, S43.nl 4S.6J6.508.00 42.474.869.00 40.940.0n.00 41.460.941.00 41.983.861.00 I 7,474,268.00 7.614.710.00 8.194.476.00 MM.1M.00 7.889.290.00 7.879.489.00 7.304.703.00 9.008.617.00 10.222.447.00 11.906.608.00 14.206.882.00 7,849.00 lams:' „ K44J.OO H.780,606.00 11.918.106.00 11.760.208.00 11.601.601.00 iiiwisSiS 11,771,7*9.00 i3.satMl.no 14.SHif77.00 17,143,741.00 20.osa.r73.Qfr ■327.lt0.O91.OO 23.SM.SSS.M Unto per Thousand 13.60 Total Taxes 618,462.97 SH&8 With this table, beforo you, wo call your attention to tho following faots: First, as to amount of assessment: It Is claimed that In order to meet the deficit, the assessment for tho first prohibition year had to bo raised two and a half millions ot dollars. This was 1886. You will find by re ferring to the figures abbvo that It la true; they were raised 33,600.000 from 1886. the last liquor year, to 1886, the first prohibition year. If you will look back to 1883, throo years earlier, when the taxable property was flTo millions less, or over 20 per cent less, a nice little jupip ot nearly three millions was made, and nobody seems to have noticed It. Then tho vory next year a lift of two million one hundred dollars was made, and then, as It to crlpplo the chances of prohibition, tboy raised it only $400,000 from 1884 to 1885, and prohibitions first year bad to take tho blame for two years In one. and even then tho assessments ot 1885 and 1886 together—and with prohibition, too—the Increase tor two years only equaled the Increase that was made In one year, 1883, three years before. Now Just rtlti on down the column a little further and, with no ac companying record of nervous prostration, soo where from 1889 to 1890 It was necessary to boost the assessment five and one-half millions, and from 1890 to 1*891, over six millions, and slnco that seven and eight mil lions at a Jump—must have boon short of money then, too. Now as to taxes: From 1883 to 1384, the Increase was from $396,000 to $427,000, or say $31,000—8 por cent. From 1884 to 1885 the lnorease was from $427,000 to $533,000, but there was one Item alone tacked on to this—tho sale of gas stock—that amounted to $43,000, and with this ofT, regardless ot tho fact that tho as sessment was practically tho same—$28,000,000—we will give them cred it for $63,000 of Increase la taxes—about 14 por cent. With this deduc tion, to say nothing of tho fact tbat the Increase of assessment In two years was only equal to that ot one year three years previous, there was but a deficit ot $30,000, though tho year previous carried $82,000 In liquor licenses. In the year 1890, we collected $827,000, and the following year re duced the rate and dropped $140,000 liquor licenses. And we didn’t reach the 1890 figure again for nine years. Now It would seem that If we could stand that, wo could stand «| Tittle drop In taxes for a year or two. The city received In liquor licenses In 1900 $100,000. If there were no liquor licenses this year, we would presumably be short the $100,000 from our million dollars of 1900—not $225,000 as our dreaming friends put It when they talk of our ruin. But It won't oven bo that much, for the In creased assessment of tbe Georgia Railway and Electric Company and the Gas Company alpne will put back $50,000 of the $100,000, and our nat ural Increase Is about $60,000 a year. So If we had no liquor money next year, wo would still havo more than the million dollars of taxes we had la 1906, and If tho $25,000 a year Tho Georgian got for you off our city lighting bill by Rs fight for municipal ownership Is credited up, tho city will presently find Itself looking for a way to spend the monoy not needed for operating expenses. The ‘‘destruction committee" will now have to make another round and establish a new scare—this one won't work any longer. DON’T SHIFT THE RESPONSIBILITY ON JIM KEY. It has a touch of malice with a largo lack ot bigness of method to bo attacking Councilman Jim Key as responsible for the water famine because he stood obstructive In the way of what appeared to be a plan to shelve tbe great principle of municipal ownership by projecting the water works as a distracting Issue. It every public man in Atlanta or the state was as honest snd sin cere In hts public sets as Mr. Key was public spirited and honest In his action In this matter, the city and the state would be better for tho status of political morals which It would establish. No man was ever more genuine In his sincere desire to serve tbe pub- / Uoaccordlne to h.'s lights and tho conditions surrounding him than Mr. Key In tho attitude ho assumed toward tho water bonds. , If it has turned out that wo are suffering now for water of a proper and wholesome kind, the honest and faithful citizens must look far bo- yond Jim Key to Hud tbe responsibility for the conditions which at present distress us. If any paper In Atlanta has a right to speak upon this question from the standpoint of helpfulness to the water bonds. It is Tho Georgian. Men who remember that eventful election day will recall that The Geor gian In the crucial and critical moment of that election, summoned all tho energies of Its staff behind Its maflaglng editor, and sent out over tho telephono system, contributed to the emergency, something over a thou sand personal appeals to tbe Individual citizens to go out and vote. And you can find today in Atlanta more than one Intelligent and thoughtful citizen who will not hesitate to declare that the water bonds wero voted In Atlanta through the direct efforts ot that strenuous and effective hour which The Georgian gave to the last and critical ballot which saved the measure from defeat and pulled It to victory. Speaking from this standpoint of support and of substantial service, The Georgian does not hesitate to protest as ungenerous and llttlo the dis position to saddle the responsibility for the present conditions- upon a faithful and upright public servant who was fighting for the triumph of tho great arid permanent principle of municipal ownership government The effort to saddle on one man the faults of other men will scarcely succeed where there Is a public voice to expose the fallacy. You can't hurt Jim Key by tactics like these. He may be In error in other lines and he may plead guilty to mistakes upon other occasions as other mortals do, but he' was a good brave citizen In this light and de serves tho thanks of the people rather than the carping criticism of thoso to whose schemes he does not bow or truckle. THE GOLDEN AGE AND ITS EDITOR. The Georgian takes this occasion without apology to commend Iho high tone and tbe more than ordinary ability which is Illustrated In the conduct ot The Golden Ago ot this city. The Golden Age Is the production of William D. Upshaw and his assoclats A. E. Ramsaur, and others. It Is a weekly paper of tho highest moral tone, the nob!ea$ purposes and of very fine literary flavor and abil ity. The paper has been from the first day ot Its existence a stalwart and eloquent champlo not every cause which makes for righteousness, temperance and peace In Georgia. Its gifted and consecrated young editor Is doing as much to Inspire the student life of the South to higher living and nobler purposes as any man not a teacher In the ranks of our citizenship. Wherever Mr. Up shaw goes he speaks to school children and college students, creating the most wholesome enthusiasm by the magnetism of his personality and tbe noble and lofty trend of his moral apeals. His eloquence Is all the more captivating because the speaker, compelled to sit the greater part of hlB time In his chair owing to a feeble body, rises upon his crutches as an Inspiring Illustration of the power with which the mind triumphs ove rthe body and makes It more useful and great What we desire to say Is that Mr. Upshaw’s paper Is yet an experi ment—a noble experiment In the very crisis of Us fortunes. The moral forces In' the state and the republic have been all too laggard in sup porting those brave and unselfish champions that stand for the higher things of life and living, and because we realize this fact The Georgian does not hesitate here to suggest that the men of money or tbe men of character who have anything to glvo to really great causes can do noth ing Better than to give their moral and substantial support to a paper that stands as brilliantly, as bravely and as effectively for every human reform as does The Qolden Age and Upshaw and Ramsaur in conduct ing It. ARMY-NAVY ORDERS —AND— MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS Army Orders. Washington, July 9.—Captain Monroe C. Kcrtb, Twenty-third Infantry, upon comple tion of duty encampment, first brigade. Pennsylvania national guard, to Doltvar Heights: Major William II. Arthur, sur geon, am] Major Benjamin W. Atkinson, fourth Infantry; Captain Gay H. B. Smith, Fourth Infantry, and Captain Bailey K, Ashford, assistant surgeon, snd Plrst Lieu tenant Sylvester Donaffon, Fourth Infantry, detailed examining board at Wasblngton barracks. £aptaln Conrad II. Lanza, quartermaster, to temporary duty In office of quartermas* ter general at Washington. Boards of medical officers hereinafter con stituted appointed to meet Jnly 29, at plaees designated, to conduct preliminary examination of applicants for medlcst de partment: At general hospital, Washington barracks. Captain Walter D. Webb, First Lieutenants Henry F. Pipes snd John D. Huggins, as sistant surgeons; at Columbus barracks. Ma jor Henry I. Raymond, surgeon, Captains Ernest Is. Iluffner and Raymond F. Met calfe, assistant surgeons; at Jsfferson bar* racks. Major Alfred K. Bradley, surgeon. Captains Junius C. Gregory and Will I* Pyles, assistant surgeons. Navy Order*. Rear Admiral O. C. Reiter, retired, con tinue light bouse board, department of com merce sml labor; Commodore W. If. Deeb- ter, retired, contftaue command of naval ate- tlon, Key West; Commodore A. V. Wad- terns, retired, detached navy yard, Norfolk, home. Commodore F. E. Sawyer, retired, detach ed naval training stntlon, Newport, home: Commodore J. ft. Dull, retired, detached tl training station. San Francisco; Cap- D. D. V. Htuart, detached naTy re cruiting station. New York, to navy yard. Norfolk; Lieutenant J. F. Green, detached Indians, home, to await orders. Lieutenant J. V. Babcock, detached Trux ton, l Fitch, man Lawrence. Movements of Vessels, Arrived—July 6, I>ea Moines, at Boston Wasp, at Wilmington; Milwaukee at La Union, San Halvnib»r; 1 /*pbln at New* York city; Jnly 7, Prairie, nt Hampton Roads; Wolverine at Marquette; Helena at Shang hai. Amptorittte St League Island. Killed—July 6, Wasu from Charleston for Wilmington. N. C.; Trslrle from League Island for Hampton Roads; Wolverine from Bault Hte. Mode for Marquette, Mich.; July 7, Rocket from Norfolk for Indian Head; Alexander from Chefoo for Cavite; Ohio anil Minnesota from Hampton Roads for cruise off capes of the chfsapeake; Lebanon from Norfolk to destroy wreck. Iowa placed In reserve at Norfolk navy yard, 6th Instant. eutenant J. v. Hancock, uciscneo xrux- to command Lawrence: Ensign E.O. h, from Fort Uayard, home; Midship- i R. P. Scuddcr, detached Truxton, to EVANGELIST DRAWS A GREAT THRONG Fully three thousand people were as. aembled Sunday night under and around the gospel tent at Marietta street and Bellwood avenue to hear Rev. C. M. Dunaway. Hie theme was the “Personality of the Devil." From the Bible, history, evidence.-, alt around us of human depravity, he sup ported hts contention that there was a personal devil, hating Ood with a sul len, persistent hatred, and determined to spite God by wrecking the human family. When In the course of hts sermon he referred to the whisky traffic as the chief agency in the hands of the devil In hts effort to destroy humanity and asserted that good men would drive it out of Georgia, the great audience was clearly with him and the enthusiasm Intense. These meetings will be continued through the week, with services each night at 7:45 o'clr-*• POINTED PARAGRAPHS. (From The Chicago News.) Too many touches will harden the easy mark. There's either too much rain or not enough to suit the farmer. When It comes to rapid transit a train of thought sets the pace. Marriage Isn’t always a failure; there Is usually a lighting chance. Early to bed and early to rise gives the average man’s wife a surprise. Did you ever know a man to practice half the things he preaches to his boyt A promoter Is a man who makes a strenuous effort to boost hie own Inter ests. It's useless to try to establish uni irsal marrt When a man Is compelled to eat hts words he finds It difficult to swallow his Indignation. it takes a woman to pick a quarrel with a neighbor and shift the conae quences to her husband's shoulders. Fortunate Is the milkmaid who has no kick coming. This world remembers the man who dies game—for a day. A mart" never gets dyspepsia from eating the things be dislikes. There are many high-salaried teach, ere In the school of experience. Marriage la responsible for the de struction of many happy delusions. A woman who gossips la bad enough, but a man who listens to gossip Is worse. When a girl can’t sing and refuses to try she deserves more than a pleasant look. BETH ISRAEL TEMPLE TO BE BEGUN TUESDAY The comer stone of the synagogue of Congregation Beth Ierael, the new Jewish church organised In Atlanta, will be laid with Impreeilve ceremony Tuesday afternoon at I o'clock. The temple Is being erected at the comer of Washington and Clarke etreete, and when completed it will be one of the handsomeet houses Of wor ship In the state. The cost of the struc ture will be about $35,000. The laying of the comer stone will be under the auspices of the Masonic Grand Lodge ot Georgia, and Grand master Max Meyerhardt will be among those who will take part In the exer cises. Deputy Grand blaster David Marx, the rabbi of Atlanta's Reformed Jewish congregation, wilt also be called upon to speak. In addition to these, Georgia's gov ernor, Hon. Hoke Smith, and Atlanta's mayor, Hon. W. R. Joyner, will deliver addressee. The Beth Israel congregation is com posed of many of the best known Jew- sh people tn Atlanta. They accept ful ly neither the exact doctrines of the Orthodox nor the Reformed Jews, their tenets being rather a modification of both. Following are the officers: J. Saul, president; A. Steiner, vice president; A. Landsberger, treasurer; N. F. Loeb, secretary, and Rev. Julius T. Loeb. rabb- t During the Last Ten Years This Bank Has paid to its Savings Depositors over $150,000.00 ia interest, as Dividends on their Savings— Has increased fronj its Earnings the Surplus and Undivided Profit Account over $500,000.00 as additional protection to its Depositors— Has experienced an increase of over five hundred per cent In Deposits, an evidence of Satisfactory Service— This bank is able and willing to meet tho demands of its customers, and offers a service which is proving highly satis factory to an increasing number of patrons. MADD0X-RUCKER BANKING CO. IS QUESTION OF FACTS AND NOT OF SENTIMENT To the Editor of The Georgian: Nodr that the state legislature has a prohibition blit pending, It Is In even- way wise and proper for those respon sible for the bill to give us the facts, which show the wisdom of the move ment The question of prohibition and anti prohibition Is no longer one of senti ment. While public sentiment all over the United States ts largely In favor of prohibition, the question Itself has long since passed the sentimental stage. What we want now are the cold facts. Everyone Is anxious to learn alt that can be told about the liquor traffic. We must not confine ourselves to either side to the exclusion of the other. It is a great question to which there are two sides. One side has been In pdwer for alt the years of the past in Georgia. What It has done for the uplift of humanity can not fall to be seen In the effects of the liquor traf- Whnt prohibition does Is as read ily seen In the portion of the state where It has prevailed. The question has only two aspects— morality and finance. It Is not ns some contend, a political Issue. With the advocates for prohibition the ques. tlon Is a moral one. With the liquor people it Is purely financial. The strongest liquor advocate admits that there Is absolutely no morality In the traffic. No such claim has ever been made. No such claim can over be made, as there Is na morality In any phaso of the traffic from the start to the flplsh. The claim Is made that the traffic has great bearing on tbe finan cial question. This claim Is not made by the prohibitionists, Just as the antl- prohlbittonlsts make no claim on the good morals of the traffic. The three great arguments of the whisky advocates are that saloons make business; saloons put plenty of money with the city treasury, and that liquor will bs sold In spits of nil legls- fatlon. These three arguments are practically all that Is left upon which the advocates of the liquor traffic can hope to live. » We will consider them carefully and give each declaration a fair and Im partial Investigation. 1. Saloons make business. Not long ago a business man was asked to sign a petition to close up a certain saloon. He positively refused. The reason giv en was that ths saloon mads business. When asked what kind of business, the man nnswered, all kinds of business, and added, "I wish we had a saloon on every comer In the city. It would make the business good everywhere.” Again came the question, what business doss ths saloon help? This man was a tai lor. His business was to make clothes for men to wear. In what way did the saloons help him? Surely not In creat ing a demand for more tailor-made clothes among the patrons of the sa loon. The saloon keeper himself was never known to wear a tailor-made ronlzea the saloon never has anythin* left His family Is always In want and trouble. Again we ask what kind of business dees the saloon make? Through all centuries of tho post comes the answer Hell. The saloon Is the . servant of Sa-' tan and everything that touches it travels hellward. The last effects of •the saloon business Is seen when the poor, helpless drunkard falls headlong with a shriek of despair. Into the tor ture of eternity. Again the declaration Is made that the saloons are a great Source of reve nue to the city. There never wa, a greater fallacy. Every saloon calls for more police protection. Instances Innumerable can bo cited to prove that the saloon Is the most costly thing In any communi ty. The gambling house Is a great evil but In gambling the real effect Is to causa money to change ownership. A man can gamble trway a whole fortune and still be able to go out and earn a living. He has not become a moral and physical wreck. A man can not drink up a fortune and be fit for anything, hut the poor house. There Is no polit ical economy In the saloon. What the saloons pay in license Is more than lost In the expente of dealing with tho patrons of the saloon. Let a law pass that all the expense growing out ot the liquor traffic shall be met by tho money paid by the saloon men for li censes and see how quick the business will fall. Ono ordinary murder case alone, growing out of the liquor traffic, will cost more than all the saloon men pay Into the city bolters. Back of all this Is the fact that the liquor traffic Is unfair In that It sells that which Is death-dealing and harmful for good, lawful money. No matter how much the saloons pay Into the treasury of a town, It all has to come out of the hard-earned wages of the poor unfor tunate people who patronize them. If a man pays license to sell clothes ha gives something for money that will cover the body and keep It comfortable. The saloon keeper sells that which de stroys the body, mind and soul and renders tho purchaser Incapable of taking rare of himself. The great curse of the public school system Is that the revenue from the liquor traffic goes for education. While we raise a few cents per capita from this source, we spend dollars In pro- tooting ourselves against the effects of tne vile traffic. It would be cheap er by far to abolish the sale of liquor entirely and thus cut off the fearful tax now levied upon us for our protec tion. Whenever prohibition prevails taxes become lighter. People have moro money to spend for the necessi ties of life. They buy more luxuries. They enjoy life’s pleasures, becauso they have the means for a day's out ing, and In every way a spirit of thrift, happiness and prosperity Is brought Into vital touch with tho people. The last claim Is that liquor will bs sold In spite of all law to the contrary. This orgument simply begs the ques tion. If It will be sold In spite of all suit, so the Increase of business could law,'who are the ones that will sell It? not have been directed toward him. All, Certainly not those who ars seeking around are other business houses, not (0 abolish Its sale. It Is simply a dec one of which agreed with the tailor. I p,ration on the part of the liquor crowd for the grocer, the baker, the clothing thtt t they Intend to violate every law house, the milliner, the shoe shop, the coal and wood dealers, the laundry men, the pressing club, the dairyman and even the coffin dealer, all not only signed the petition, but said God speed the work of getting rid of the saloon. The saioon was abolished. The tailor moved out of tho neighborhood. On the same lot he formerly occupied there are now three separate and dis tinct new business firms. Within fifty yards there are two other new firms. ! n the building which was formerly a saloon. Is now a large and prosper ous wholesale manufacturing estab lishment. while adjoining the building arc two new flourishing stores. The coal houso on the other side has nearly doubled Its offlee capacity. Ths saldon had been right there for eighteen years and not a single new firm was started. Now. Just one year since the saloon was abolished, there aro seven new firms, all doing welt, within the space of one block. Prop erty all around has advanced about 60 per cent. Now wherein does the Sa loon make business? What Is true of tills Identical saloon Is practically true of all saloons. Right here In Atlanta Is a clothing house near to several sa loons. A man saw a suit of clothes displayed In the window that he de sired. He went home and asked Ills wife to go with him and look at It with a view of purchasing. When he told her where the store was located her answer was, "I never walk on that side of the street because of the sa loons." When pressed to go she said. "I once met an Intoxicated man coming out of one of those saloons near there and I had so much rather go some where else.” That clothing house did not gain business on account of the sa loon. It lost business. A restaurant next door to a saloon Is seldom If ever patronized by* self-respecting people. They are afraid to be seen coming out of a place so near to a saloon. Why? Certainly not because the saloon makes business good. The fact Is the saloon Is a festering sore. Like some conta gious disease. It Is a thing to be avoid ed. There Is one ward In the city of Atlanta In which there IS not a single saloon. In that ward there are more saloon keepers' homes than In nearly all the balance of Atlanta. Why? Be. cause the saloon Is a good business proposition? No. Even the saloon keeper Is anxious to rear hts children In a purer atmosphere than that of the saloon. The only business made by the sa loon ts that which makes tears, sor row, pbverty, drunkenness, widows, or- fiiana and death. Take away the sa- oons and yon decrei.se the business of the policemen. You put the Jailer and sheriff almost out of business. You shut up houses of lit feme. You make loafers go to work and cause the rum- soaked. red-nosed gong to become re spectable, law-abiding citizens. If the saloon makes business. It Is up to the saloon advocatei to tell us what kind of business they make. Certainly they will not dare say that their business helps to sell any of the common ne- that looks to Ihe discontinuance of tho tralfic. If the sale of liquor Is pro hibited by law no one will have the right to sell and therefore anyone sell ing will bb punlshbd for his wrong doing. Whoever sells a drop under euch conditions becomes by his own act an outlaw. He is classed with the burglar, the thief, the libertine and tho murderer. The law Is amply able to take care of all such objectionable cit izen*. It would be much easier to pun- tsh the man who unlawfully sells liquor than It now is to deal with the thou sands of poor, deluded drunkards, our claim Is that with the right kind of prohibitory law against tho manufact ure and sale of Intoxicating liquor we only need goed officer* nnd the ssl* will cense. We nre a law-abiding peo ple. We obey the law even It It Is not of our making and sanction. We be lieve In law and only the greedy, rum- besotted- whisky adherents ever say that liquor will ba sold no matter what law forbids It. We dose by saying that no darker stain ever rested upon the escutcheon of our fair land than the saloon evil. No one thing has caused so much or downfnl! nnd sotrow. It has no goou In It. It Is unholy. It Is unseemly. “ Is horrible In fact and effect, and Is nb. solutely without a single redeeming feature. . _ In view of al Ithls, we ask how Ion* shall an enlightened, civilized nation endure this evil? Is It not high tlmo that we regulate the whole business, so fraught with evil, and only evil, to the past? , _ A few facts. Supposing that there are 2,500,000 people In Georgia who pay 7E cents each for religion and charUJ, SO cents for stote government. I I ‘' for education and 34.00 per capita for liquor. Who pays this $4.00? Not tn* saloon men. No, the people pay It. Maine there are $103.76 per capita m savings banks. No other state has hair so much, in California one mur.ier, over a keg of beer costing $1.25. caused the taxpayers to pay out $32,000 in Kansas 44 counties are without a sin gle pauper, 25 counties have no P»‘ ,r house and 37 counties have not a sin gle prisoner In Jail nor a solitary vase on the court docket. A. C. WORD. Body Shipped to Kentucky. Special to The Georgian. Brunswick, Gs., July The remain* of J. F. Barker, a lineman of the South ern Belt Telephone Company. hay* been sent to his home at Sturgis. h>- for interment. While working on in* telephone wire* In this city last - r ‘ day evening Barker came In conts“ with a live wire and was alsctrocuieu- House Destroyed by Fire. Special to The Georgtsn. Gaffney, 8. C.. July The dwelling of Smith Littlejohn wa* totally de stroyed by fire yesterday morning ne tween 1 and 2 o'clock. Some of »» furniture, was saved. Los* pnrtisuj ■'«'« of life, for the man wfryZ.