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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1907,
4 Qjo
Interest Compounded, Allowed In Our
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
On and After January 1,1907
TH E NEAL BANK
E. H. THORNTON, President.
W. F. MANRY, H. C. CALDWELL, F. M. BERRY,
Vice President.
Cashier.
Ass’t Cashier.
nfipo in' p A V*3 A Study of the Economic
UUlI/0 II ini. Phase of the Liquor Problem
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A WOMAN'S SENTIMENTS.
To the Editor of The Georgian.
• How rny heart thrills with Joy to
know that you and my native state
have taken such a stand (or state pro
hlbltlon. Any state should (eel proud
of such senators and representatives to
flght for so glorious a cause. I hope
the bill will pass by an overwhelming
majority. Surely the men who uphold
the sale of whisky have never stopped
to consider what a (ew dollars amount
to when In a (ew years he will have to
face the Judgment and will be greeted
with thousands and thousands of such
ords as "You are the cause of my toBt
soul.” It is something you will have
to face some day. My readers, stop,
ftop and consider before you place the
whisky glass to tempt the soul Christ
has died and shed His blood on Calvary
for. ft Is enough to make your blood
run cold to think o( the penalty you
and half-starved children that
are all over this (air land, caused by
this vile stuff. Think how many happy
homes there would be if It was not (or
this cursed stuff,. This thing you call
social drinking Is the curse of the land;
It Is dragging our boys down to their
ruin day by day. Think of the dear
boy who has been taught by father and
mother all that Is noble and uplifting
going out to battle In life. He meets
i social drinker, who tempts him,
Conte along, my lad, take a drink. 1
111 treat you. It has done me no
harm; It won't hurt y ...
other such words, he Is Anally tempt
cil to yield and Is brought to his ruin,
| solicitor general of the Stone Moun
tain circuit, In writing upon "Whisky
and Its Effect Upon Crime,” said! “If
you ask me what la primarily the
cause of more crime than any other
thing, oc combination of things, my
only answer could be. ‘Whisky/"
Murder, assaults, robberies, forgeries,
rape and riots are the outgrowth of
liquor, and, In spite of' these terrible
facts, there are men, sensible men, in
Atlanta and the larger cities of Geor
gia faroring the liquor traffic, educat
ing themselves up to the belief that
the sale of whisky Is the financial so
lution and strength of the treasuries
of the cities in Georgia, asserting that
without the revenue from strong drink
their cities' treasuries would almost
bankrupt; but to the men and women
who look higher and see with a clearer
Insight, It would seem that if Atlanta
and the large cities In Georgia can
only exist financially upon the hearts,
homes and graves of the women and
children who have suffered and died of
broken hearts, in want and poverty, be
cause of drink, the sooner disaster
overtakes them the better for God and
humanity. It fs said “The liquor traf
fic holds a mortgage over every cradle
in the land." If so, what of the fu
ture of our children? Is there a mort
gage over your boy? Will the blight
ing hand of strong drink be placed upon
the head of your baby boy—ho who
nestles upon your bosom and upon
whom love and affection are so freely
bestowed, must he be sacrificed at the
shrine of Bacchus? You answer me,
and with '* N °. never ? never.'* But, my dear
iv temDt- ^lend, yonaer reeling, staggering man
was once a precious baby, innocent and
drunkards.
leafing liquors, then, as
the cost of crime that inuy tw chart
against the trade, three-fourths of 1(3 .
or the enormous sum of $450,000,<
000.
But that Is not nil.
We must charge
who
Almost everybody will admit that the
selling of Intoxicants is a bad thing moral
ly, and that the drinking of Intoxicants Is
a bad thing physically, and that both are
bad things politically. But they say that
there is money In It, and hence the sell
ing of Honors is good for the community
because tap Income from the traffic sup
ports the public schools and gives the
needed finances for municipal improve
ments. They say that, If it is an evil, It
is n necessary evil, and being such. 1st us
get all the money we eau out of it.
It may be said, first of ail, that If It !s
an evil, it In not ft necessary evil, and if
necessary, it Is not m* evil. But let thnt
I o. To the money argument let us ad- try.
ress ourselves, for thnt Is the only argu- not want
incut that men will listen to In this com-‘employ tin.
inerelnl age. hands. They are not prompt and reliable.
It Is froelv granted that one of tho east-I They do not work. Employers everywhere
HM’omo Wealthy is to open , are recognising the harmful effects of liquor
or a distillery, or n whole- upon laboring men, and all such men sooner
— .a —a ..aia. t —— or Inter reach a condition whefre t!
come non-productive. They become „
to be supported. This we must charge uj
to the entire sum of the cost of Intoxlca'
Ing liquors to the community at large.
There nre other items we could add,
we would. There nre In America a half ml
lion paupers^ made so directly or Indirect!
against it the iiou-productlvlty of men
nre rendered Incapable of active work
result of drunkenness. The prosperity
a community depends upon the ublllty
the masses of the people to produce weal
and buy the necessities of life. If peoj _
can not buy, they will murder and steal.
Anything thnt hurts the power of the com
mon people to live easily and buy steadily
is Injurious to the prosperity of the oouu-
* This khtsky does. Employer* do
ant drhnkards. Factories will not
r them. Property is not safe In their
up a brewery, ..
sale whisky house. It gtves palatial homes
to the distiller, fat Isiuk accounts to the
dealers, but disease aim poverty to the
man who drinks It, and wretchedness and
•nlfcrlng to his wife aud children.
It la freely granted also that the nation
and the various states and municipalities
reedlvo much money from the liquor bust
tu ui yieju unu is uiuugiu to ms rum.
0 a n f'tVvea? Ut ifTtad bian^ne W had a future bright and promising
J2L h hn, b . 'turned The ■*"»* tender mantle of love en-
1’, ^ ‘ , d J . t /«. would havc turnei1 1 circled him In the home, and a mother,
from him in disgust. > «yi» voice low and sweet saner at
Moke It u penitentiary offen.e ts «lv« ftnaby aong:
drink to another, njul a heavy line tQ avanuo* »ne umaDy aong.
be caught drinking, in a public Place. „ Hu , h my babe , , tm and 8lumb « r
I hope other .tales Will take up the HoIy an(e ^ guard , hy bed ...
noble work and light for temperance
till every par-room in our land Is i W hy were not her fond hope, real-
ooied. Then in place of »o much , zeil7 u la (he Bame story . H e fell a
victim to the fatal cup, the open saloon,
misery, there will be happiness and
prosperity. Respectfully,
MBS. T. W. STRINOFELLOW.
Lady Lake, Fla.
PROHIBITION FOR GEORGIA.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
I want to say in the beginning of
my letter that I havc no enmity In my
fiee.rt against the men who sell whis
ky, not even an unkind word, but with
tongue, brain and pen will fight his
business until every barroom and liquor
hf>u«e in dear old Georgia has closed
Its door, to open no more.
Ask any reasoning man what Is the
greatest curse of our land and he will
answer. "Drunkenness."
It Ik true, there are many other evils
prevalent all over tho land, but they
are but the children of drink. Do
away with liquor, and we will have
pure men nnd pure women and pure
children.
The Hon. William Schley Howard,
the gilded trap, licensed to debauch
and destroy. .
When Gladstone was prime minister
of the United Kingdom of Great Brit
ain a body of brewers remonstrated
with him on his attitude to their traf
fic. telling him how much the nation
would lose should the. revehue from
drink be restricted. His answer solves
the question of revenue. Listen—“Gen
tlemen." said he, “you need not give
vourseif any trouble about the revenue.
The question of revenue must never
stand in the way of needed reforms.
Besides, with a sober population, not
wasting their earnings. I will know
where to obtain the revenue."
The majority of the people of Georgia
are for state prohibition. It is the
will of the people. Georgia's new
governor Is ready to sign the bill. In
his Inaugural address he asserts: "If
the legislature passes a state prohi
bition measure I will certainly sign
the bill." It remains now for the leg
islature to strike the blow that will
drive from Georgia soil the greatest
- BMC
ant bigger now than then, but their rela
tive Importance Is the same. For the year
S K). the Internal revenue atnouuted to
>7,666.910. The cuitotna reeetpta were
518,081. The state and local revenues
were $24.786.496. These added together
nrnke a total of all receipts from the sale
of liquor for the year 1860, $141,000,487. Thnt
is a snug sum for the community to real
ise, nnd should not be lightly thrown away.
It representa the nmounta that the nation
and all the atntcs nnd all municipalities
received from the sale of Intoxicants In
the frenr referred to. Of course the fig
ures are much larger now.
Now what does liquor cost? What does
It receive from the people In order to be
witling to pay snch enormous sums into
the coffers of the various communities of
the land?
The world's drink bill for the year 1860
as In the neighborhood of four billions
of dollars, of which the United 8fates paid
one billion (11,000,000,000). It
half ns much again now, Imt — ...„
basing our calculations on the figures for
1890 let the amount go at the sum given.
The drink bill of tho country equals one
thousand million* of dollars.'
But thnt Is not alt. We must charge up
to liquor Its proportion «»f the cost for
crimes committed by Individuals who nre
under the Influence ,of Intoxicating llquoi
ftt the time the crimes are committed. Mr.
Eugene Smith, a lawyer of New York, who
Jins given the subject of crime *tatl*tlca
in this country most careful study, says
that the entire cost of crime each year to
Ujf l^ftple of the United States is $600,-
000,000. IIow much of tlmt must bo charged
to liquor? Recorder Broyles snld In the
Thursday's Georgian thnt fully throe-
fourths °f the crimes of Atlanta nre com
muted by men and women under the In-
Whence of liquor. In this he is In accord
with lending Judges everywhere, though
some would put the proportion n little
higher, l'ollco Justice Ulennon, of Chi
cago, declared nt n meeting of tho Chi
cago Cltlsens League. "I know whereof I
speak when I say that three-fourths of the
crime committed In Chicago Is due to the
sale of liquor to minors and habitual
lion paupers, mode so directly or indirectly
by drink. They nre n dead weight upon
the community. There are also tho Idiot
Ity,
children of drinking parents,
lit of drink.
and Insane
made so ns the hereditary
They ought to be charged ngnlust whisky,
for they also must be supported by the
community nt large. But we will let all
this go. We will only charge the non-pro-
ductlvlty of drunkards — ** —
charge all of them.
result
alone. Nor will we
hhiiiuh iiumvuui iiruuurm, and all of them
are more or less non-productive. But we
wilt not consider all or them. Of the half
million, oue hundred thousand die in the
United States every year, and theso die
prematurely, nnd certainly ought to b«
charged against the trade thnt slew them.
Their wives ami children had the right to
expect them to live longer and care for
those dependent upon them. The coinmunl
only source of wealth, in the long run,
lies In (fs citizenship. Strike down Its eft •
tens, and yqu tnke from Its wealth, though
Its hills be filled with gold and Its Tal
leys with diamonds. Wo must charge
against whisky the amount which Is repre
sented by the annua! <!rath of oue hun
dred thousand drunkards. But how much?
The average wage of an American cltl
$600 per year, representing a 6 per
Multiply this by
hun-
the result of drl
motts stint of $1,000.000,000 as the economic
loss to America through the non-produc-
tlvlty of one hundred thousand drr““"“*‘
who die annunlly. This Is equal to
nual loss of five Chicago fires. We might,
of course, add to this the economic lost
represented by those who nre In our Jails,
hospitals and asylums, as the result or
drink, estimated at many millions more, but
we do not want to make the amount too
large, for wo nre already mounting Into
figures too large for us to comprehend.
Adding together the three amounts whir!
nre Justly chargeable to the drink tral
fie, nnd we have the enormous total of
12.450,000,000. from which the community nt
large derives an Income of $141,000,000. Is
that not frenzied flunnee with a vengeance?
curse of the nation. Let me In dosing
exort each man to think and pray over
the matter carefully, and be sure you
are led by the eplrlt of Qod In casting
your vote. How will you vote—for
distilleries and drink shops or for God
and humanity? '
MRS. V. W. HENDERSON.
Oxford, Ga.
PURITY AGAINST GREED|
30UL8 AGAINST MONEY,
E L. Seely, Publisher The Georgian,
Atlanta, Ga.t
The stand you have taken for pro
hibition la great indeed. To take such
a stand shows tho true moral worth
of a man. Your true character now
stands out to the world, showing what
you are. May God let every tnan of
true worth show to the world what hi.
Is. If all true men would let their light
shine, then many vile works on the
earth would disappear. It Is Joyful to
know that there are men living for the
right, who' have sufficient moral back
bone to make themselves martyrs.
Stand to your undertaking. Let there
he one clenn secular sheet unfurled In
this glorious Southland, showing to the
world that all neceminry news can be
given In the clear llgljt of truth, with
no menn or sordid appendages affixed
to the avenue of purity through which
many hundreds of homes will be bless
ed, gladdcnlng.the hearts of thousands,
thereby giving to so many lives that
needed inspiration and enthsulaam, en
abling them to do great things for God
and man. It Is a light for purity
against greed, for tho souls of men
against money, for God-llke principles
against avarice, for right against
wrong, for God against the devil. Snin
Jones was out for all that Is right,
against all that Is wrong, and every
pinn ought to show his true colors in
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Daniel Bros. Co.
L. J. DANIEL, President.
45-47-49 Peachtree Street.
all things.
And our state representative*,
well as our great governor, now have
the finest opportunity to show where
they stand on this prohibiton bill. I
am glad that It is the bill No. 1 and
also A-l. The eyes of our people are
now upon our lawmakers. When they
have put out all intoxicants, they have
done well. Let them also put out cig
arettes, degrading literature and ob
scene pictures, then the trash will have
been removed, so that people may then
begin to think, nnd to think clearly,
about the betterment of mankind.
From a standpoint of temperance
and true moral worth, Mr. Seely, you
seem to merit the next governorship
of this great state for the magnificent
stand you have taken in this fight. But
If you do not want thnt honor con
ferred upon you, there aro other good
temperance men—Hon. Seaborn
Wright, of Rome; John Temple Graves,
of your city, and hosts of others that
would adorn the cause of temperance
by leading the hosts of Georgia under
tho banner of love, truth and purity
May your subscribers Increase not
only by hundreds, but by thousands;
not for a few years only, but for dec
ades, and may your worthy paper be
r< ad not only by tho thousands of peo
ple In Georgia, but by the hundreds of
thousands of good people throughout
all the United States, America and the
orld. N. IS. W. STOKELY.
Washington, Gr.
TOUCHE3 UP OPPONENTS
OF PROHIBITION BILL.
To tho Tcople's Paper—'The Atlanta Geor-
fSSr present fight for the people's rights
reminds wo of the lute unplonsniit guberuu-
torlnl scrlmmngc between and l»etwlxt
(Murk nnd Dick. Dick lutd under holt on
Clark nil through the fracas, because ho
wns fighting the people's battle, Just us
The Georgian Is now doing. The Journal
nnd The Constitution seem cowered. They
know they nre wrong. Bending between
the lines, uiethlnks now thnt I can dis
cover that they already feel conscious-
stricken. And poor llttlo Tom Felder
to tote the whole whisky htuduess
llttlo wenk shoulders! Don't you
Tom may come to the front In future,
but If be does, he will surely hnvo to
change his turtles. lie Uns yoked up with
hnud. If ho tries his "rooty
schemes, he will surely lie snowed under so
deep thnt the sweltering rays of a cen
tury's suns will uot melt them away, and
his n/une, with mnuy others, who are
trying to barter men's souls for the sake
or personal gain, nud destroy the happiness
In countless homes nnd paunertso thou
sands of bolpless children, will he held up
• > future generations, ns that of another
Jenedlet Arnold of our beloved country.
All houor to the noble Christian men and
women who have buckled on the armor In
this grent fight for our homes nml our God.
The Imttle cry slinll never cease, nor tho
fight be abandoned until the victory Is won.
su'd this two-edged sword, which has l>eeu
wielded so long to destroy the pence, hap
piness nud prosperity of our country. It
shentlied, nevermore to. lie drawn to cut
down the flower of our young manhood and
and womanhood, nor destroy the pence and
happiness of the l»cst people on the earth.
Yours for the light to the end.
01*
Umbrella Sale
’ $
Black Umbrellas covered in silk
worsted, paragon frame and steel rod.
Ssme with gold handles, silver handles,
pearl handles ahd gun metal.
Also wood handles trimmed with silver
ahd gold.
Umbrellas
Umbrellas
Umbrellas
3.50
4.50
5.00
6.00
at
at
at
Umbrellas at
2.48
2.98
3.48
3.98
Umbrellas in black, cQversd with silk and worsted, 26-
inch, paragon frames, with natural wood handles.
2.00 Umbrellas at 1.50
2.50 Umbrellas at 2.00
Umbrellss in black, with 26-inch paragon frame.
1.25 Umbrellas at 1.00
1.50 Umbrellas at 1.25
Atlanta, Ga.
A. M. WALKER.
AS TO WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
To tha Editor of The Georgian:
Anont the prohibition attention, I
llnd In a recent U.ue of The Auguata
Chronicle the following pathetic wall:
“On the line of breaking faith. The
Savannah Morning New. «ays, 'Repre
senting a half-million dollar., and with
a great many of it. stockholders wid
ow, and orphans, who have all of their
invested In thi. way, the Sa
vannah Brewing Company would be
hit hard by the passage of the pending
prohibition bill. There are 110 stock
holder., and the company employ. In
round number. 1B0 persons. The pro
hibition law would put the brewery
out of business, and the big plant on
Indian street would be Idle. The stock
has always been considered not only a
paying, but a ffite Investment, and
oulte a number of widows have all
their money In th* brewery stock.'"
t would like to ask If there are no
other safe places for Savannah’s ISO
widows to Invest their little savings,
besides the one business of the Bavan-
nah Brewing Company? The Illustri
ous gentlemen who dish out the hap
penings for the readere of Tha Morn
ing News nnd The Chronicle seem to
have lost sight entirely of the fact that
there are a good many more of women
and children who aro not orphans, hut
whose earnings are Invested In the
products of the Savannah Brewing
Company to the neglect of their home
Interests, to their lack of home happi
ness, to the want of home comforts, to
the blighting of their lives. Why, I
wonder, do they forget thla class of
unfortunates, whose lives are blight
ed. whose hopes of happiness now or
In the future, could not possibly be
(Jo to Meriwether White
Sulphur Springs and spend
Sunday—new West Point
Route to Columbus—leave
Atlanta 4:10 p. m., arrive
Meriwether White Sulphur
7:15 p. m. Round trip tick
ets $2.25, good until Tuesday
—fine M"sic, .Swimming
Pool; elevation 900 feet.
realised under existing condition*?
Continue your grand work of preach
ing for good government, good morale
and righteous living In thle present
world, and verily the people will rise
up and call you blessed, aa well aa
they do the lawmakers who are ao
nobly and so grandly enacting laws for
the people'* good.
W. A. HAYES.
Honora, Ga.
FAVOR8 AGE OF CON8ENT BILL.
„ _ 1L
It Is not only a question-of (nrotectlon for
our young klrl*, but a movement for a
*■*'*• “ ndard of morals for our future
that our wuole cfvlc nnd social life Is con
taminated. Whole streets, blocks and sec
tions of oor cities are given over to what
■* e «« the social evil, and s '**
lion noon brings to light
- — - - * te haunts
| largely
from the rani districts of our country,
and from that vast army of worklngarom-
cn. where we find the young girl* jniorly
paid ami befet with temptations. We ran
—* —out at one fell blow what Kip-
Southern Dry Goods & Shoe Co.,
(Incorporat.d)
PIERCE’S BUSY DEPARTMENT STORE.
60 Mrietfi Street. Opposite Pnt Office.
E. PIERCE, Pr.ild.nL
oroi, nut we can ana snoani pro.
young girls of Gcorgln, the future
of toe state, and thns start the
' n sound morality.
In the world, but we can and should pro.
tect the youn— — *- —
mothers of *
battle for n
One hundred sml fifty years ago, Black*
stone, citing the law on this subject, snld:
"The eoqeeV —* * —
child under
it ‘ ‘
she Is I neaps We o f Jt 4 r __
ton." and Georgia still holdn to this old
Knglish taw, for lu Georgia today the nge
nuent Is ten years. As I underttnu
Wooten's sge of consent bill ml*
tbh age to eighteen yenrs, which t* a wise
‘ Just measure. Son
states bare a
At this
should
; at sixteen years a glr
the ino»t Impressionable age,
fiuenced, and led by her emotions,
ago she Is not considered eOtnpo
convey sway her property, neither
she lie considered mentally fit to
of her virtue.
A fact worthy of note Is that In Colo
rado, Idaho. Utah sml Wyoming, the four
states where eromen enjoy political equal
ity with the men, the ago of consent Is
eighteen years. K. ANZfi.