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wagon-load of silks and precious
stones left at the mansions of those
who are, able to gratify every wish,"
remarks the Albany Herald.
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s. Work of the Orphans’ Homes during
e 1309.
h
u Most of the Homes have had a
,f very busy year. The Decatur Home
t- is putting up a new building for 30
more children. The Hapeville, Ga.,
h Industrial and other Homes need
r more room. . The Work Pay gifts,
a from the Homes observing it in the
s Southern States, amounted to near
e ly 150,000,00. This is a wonderful
" growth from $8,000,00 ten year ago.
, If any children are found needy any
where, will not friends write to the
e Orphans’ Homes at once so they may
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c Xmas is upon us. Let every one
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phans.
a IN MEMORY.
Q i
t Miss Alice Reed was born in the
year 1880, and on the Ist of Septem
ber, 1909 she was taken sick on
j Wednesday night at 1 o’clock and
i Thui-sday at 3 o’clock she lay a
3 i corpes.
n ■ She was a member of the Baptist
p church at Subligna and Mr. Ben
1 ' Hunt was her pastor at that time,
i I
I A precious one from us has gone
| A voice we loved is stilled
j A place is vacant in our home
Which can never be filled.
God in his wisdom has recalled
t The boon his love lias given,
And though the body slumbers here
The soul is safe in heaven.
S Written by a friend,
R. E. Wesbrooks.
in “Time is money.’’ This ought to
tn ' be cheering news to the man of leis
e, ' ure who has Christmas presents to
I buy and no ready cash.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1909.
“PROHIBITION THE REAL
I OBSTACLE TO REFORM.”
I i
(From Southern Fruit Grower.)
I Under the above heading in Pear
son’s Magazine for August appeared
an article by Rev. Wm. A. Wasson,
1 whom, the publishers state, is a cler
gyman of the Episcopal church. I
have long felt that there were many’
people opposed to the enectment of
temperance laws who are honest in
their convictions, and for this reas
on, I was indeed glad to be afforded
, the opportunity of reading an article
I which I hoped would be free from
prejudice, assaults tnd the other dis
agreable elements that are usually
characteristic of artclies dealing with
this subject. To begin aright, it was
my aim, as far as possible, to put
i myself in the author’s place of view
point and study it with much sym
| pathy. But scarcely does the reader
; launch before he is beset with sen
| tences and paragraphs which is at
' once convincing that the author has
I not only fired his gun at the objects
of prohibition, but has taken a wild
shot at the advocates of prohibition.
In fact they receive as many raps,
if not more than the “whys prohibi-
. tion fails to prohibit.”
He says almost at the beginning,
“But sober-minded people have no
faith in the professions and promises
of prohibitionists.” In this great
i United States, and particularly in
this beloved Southland, we wish to
say (for the benefit of Mr Wasson)
. that the element of population that
! advocate prohibition laws includes
i our college presidents, ministers
. teachers, business men, professional
I men, and the better element of the
, | laymen. While arrayed against pro
' | hibition includes the saloon bum, all
■ I the bad classes and those directly or
I j indirectly interested financially in the
sale of liquor, or property leased to
i I whiskey men. Asew —very few —
■ j are found, independently against pro
i hibition laws whom we regard as sub
! stantial business men, but for the
- lack of information, and the proper
conception of the gravity of the evils
arising from the open saloons, have
without much consideration, taken
sides with the whiskey element.
So when the writer referred to so
' | ber minded people having no faith in
’ i the professions and claims of prohi
i bitionists, he reflects on the charac
-1 I ters of the best, the brainiest and
1 most substantial citizenship that
ever existed in the United States of
- Americo, or elesewhere.
1 Again, he says, “In undertaking
• temperance reform work along any
line we must learn to be patient, and
to be modest in our expectations.
We must bear in mind that temper
ance reform is very largely a matter
of moral and social evolution.” This
is the broadest view, and the most
reasonable statement made by the
writer, what a pity that he cannot
stick to his belief as he proceeds
with his lengthy discussion For
while he says that we must learn to
} be patient, and also be modest in our
I expectations, just listen to what he
3 i says in reference to prohibition in
i the state of Georgid. down to date:
“Conditions kept going from bad
Ito w'orse, and before the laws had
i been on the statute books a year it
| was clearly evident to everybody
| that had even a half an eye, that
] prohibition in Georgia had broken
down.” Remember, we “should be
patient and modest in our expecta
tions.”
O, thou fickle author, indeed thou
art fickle, for even if that statement
had been true thou should have been
’ “patient and modest in thy expecta
tions.” It is sadly perplexing how
i “the breaking down of prohibition
laws in the state of Georgia” (?)
' should grieve a citizen, a minister of
the gospel, and he so remotely situ
ated. Because in some of the larg-
'er cities, there exists some locker
’ clubs, and an occasional “blind ti
ger” where alcoholic drinks can be
procured, this minister of the gospel
says “prohibition has broken down
in Georgia.”
We will not worry over the exist
ence of a few blind tigers. It is a
poor law affecting an unimportant
matter that is not violated, hence
the infringement of the prohibition
laws are contemplated when enacted.
Who says prohibition fails to pro
hibit? Thousands of lovers of their
bottle; those who dislike to be cut
off therefrom and this minister of
the gospel joins in the chorus, “pro
! hibition fails to prohibit."
Os course it fails to prohibit abso
lutely the use of intoxicants but
. then the fact that you eradicate or
I wrest your laws and your politics
from the clutches of the whiskey
men is in itself alone enough to
commend the adoption of statuary
prohibition laws in any and every
state. The common knowledge that
in these prohibition towns many sa
loon loafers who have heretofore
spent years in drinking, carousing,
while their families were miserable,
are now engaged in some legitimate
occupation, giving their attention and
their earnings to the support of their
families—l’ll tell you prohibition is
,a wonderful success.
You can’t deny it. It makes little
t
difference tvhat sort of law's you
> I have, stamping out or regulating the I
] sale of spirituous drinks, the “blind [
tiger” is going to exist. I have nev- ,
.i er know’n one temperance advocate
I ] who really claimed that prohibition
; would rid the country of “blind ti
. gers.” A great many people, driven
r by thirst since the enactment of pro
.; hibition laws, to seek the “blind
. j tigers” and discovered them, have
| erroneously' supposed that they
sprang up as a result of the enact
ment of such laws. It is true that
, we have a law against crime, and
among the many offences treated
covers a certain punishment for mur
. der.
We have a law against murder.
, “But let me tell you, it fails to pro
hibit.” Yes, it does, for murders are
committed every day. Why not re
peal this law because it fails to pro
, hibit? It covers exactly the same
points, and there is as much reason
in repealing it as there is in repeal
.: ing a prohibition law, because it fails
, to prohibit.
No, no, Mr. Minister, the people in
the state of Georgia are so pleased
with prohibition laws that they are
going to keep them intact. So don’t
sit up nights worrying over this
“horrifying condition” that exists in
’! Georgia (’)
, The minister .uvees some ridicu
lous statements, and here is a good
sample: “Nowhere and at no time
, in all its history has prohibition ac
complished a single one of its avow
objects.”
Speaking of some of the states that
, have recinded their prohibition law's
Ij in the past he becomes very kind-
hearted and says: "The people of
j these states adopted prohibition in
II good faith. They honestly and earn
. j estly desired to wipe out intemper
ance.”
Now, be fair, why don’t you say
the same thing, this nice thing, about ]
] the people of Georgia, Tennessee and j
Jof the other states? You will, won’t]
you, if they ever recind these laws |
. i they have placed upon their statua
, tory books? Then you will march
bravely up to the casket and instead ]
( of calling them an unfaithful people
and infidels, you will lay the follow- |
ing words upon the casket: “The |
people of these states adopted prohi- i
bition in good faith. They honestly
and earnestly desired to wipe out
intemperance.”
He speaks of prohibition in your
, own town. Did he lend you support
to enforcement of these laws, or did
. he use your pulpit or your letters in
. the press to arouse the people to in
surrection against them? He says
that “the saloon fills a legitimate so
cial need, and it is useless to make I
. an effort to abolish it without some I
, suitable institution be established as j
a substitute. That whatever will
, lighten and brighten and cheer the
lives of men will not be surrender
ed ”
The revised version of your last
( sentence, repeated is, “That what
. ever burdens and blights and damns
the lives of men should be abolish-
L cd.” You speak of the decent sa
loons! Wouldn’t it have been a treat
I if you had devoted enough space to
J have defined “the decent saloon!”
t : Whatever breeds crime, robs a man of
, his senses, which causes him to com
, mit things unbecoming and makes his
t life a Gehenna on earth, is impossi
, ble of decency. Lo, now for a de
scription, a definition of the decent
saloon. This minister speaks of
1 “prohibition being the greatest ob
, stacle to true temperance reform.
1 You can’t believe it.; your constitu
ents nod their heads in loving ap
, I proval when you make this remark,
( but they don’t believe it down deep
, in their hearts. If this is true why
f i don’t you level your gun and go as-
] ter game in the states where prohi
. ] bition does not exist? It certainly
. ] is not an obstacle in those states.
j The minister doesn’t stop here, but
, prescribes a remedy—the excise law.
j This limits the number of saloons in
, a town, and places the absolute au-
] thority in a governing board. But
- here, if this saloon business is legal,
t ] you have no right to say who shall
t I not engage in it, or limit the num
, ber. That is unfair, for if it is legit
x imate it should be classed and put
on the same basis as other business
enterprises. If it is right to put 11-
, quor in reach of the rich it is all
t wrong to put it out of reach of the
t poor. This you do by high license.
Many readers of this article will
wonder how much time and effort the
author of this article appearing in
, Pearson’s Magazine has given to hav- •
. ing excise laws enacted in the states.
5 This article weakens the strength
. o' the saloon element in every local
, ity where it is read. For we deal
. today with an intelligent, independ
. ent and fearless people, who are not
t influenced by unreasonable state
ments and arguments. And this pres
ent intelligent generation is determ
ined to stamp out one of the great
est licensed quasi legitimate institu
\ tions that has wrought more havoc
I to humanity than wars or pestilence
. —the open saloon.
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