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4 And what has been accomplished other than the changing of the place of manufacture and sale of their products to other States? Not one day since they were forced to close up by law. but that beers, wines and whiskeys, have been coming into Georgia in enormous quantities. Thus while we are not prohibiting the sale of liquors, the object we sought to accomplish, we are suc ceeding in destroying many sources of revenue and rendering some of the very best of our citizens quite incapable of earning a sufficiency of the necessaries of life. Be it remembered, also, that at least 90 per cent of the “blind tiger” goods, wholly impure usually cost from 50 to 100 per cent more than the pure una dultercd article, that does least harm. And the worst part of it all is. that so many thousands who were formerly satisfied with beer or wine are now rapidly forming the habit for stronger drinks. Against the Biblical injunction prohibition is put ting the bottle to its neighbor’s nose. Instead of assisting num to destroy their appe tite for strong drink, our law is only increasing in numbers and intensity the desire for it. Instead of raising up men of courage, vigor and power our law is very materially assisting us to raise up a large and increasing number of drunkards. Thus in the two things we set out to do: Prohibit the sale of alcoholic liquors—decrease drunkenness we have simply stumped our toes and fell down ! The proper thing Io do right now is to get up and move on ! Rotation of Circuit Judiciary Remedy for Increas ing Lawlessness in the South. There is but one wav to make life safe and that * is to give it protection. There is no other way to make property safe ex cept to give it protect ion. ’When life is cheap, property is cheap. When Itfe is dear, property is dear. A progressive step in giving life and property that protection which will make both dear shall have been taken when we change our laws regulat ing the circuit judiciary and rotate them. This plan, in successful operation in South Caro lina for a number of years, has demontsrated its usefulness and proven the wisdom of its framers. Blect the judges by the people? Yes, but remove them as far as possible from the influences that poli tics does have and will continue to have upon their actions in court, so long as they are allowed to sit where they receive their commissions. The reasons for this are very plain and not far to seek: A judge is a human being, of the same flesh and blood, and love ami hate as the rest of us. He is not going to do anything that will give pain to himself. The unfavorable sentiment of the people, which it is often necessary to stir up, will give him pain. Therefore, as a rule, no judge is at all likely to do that which will excite the unfavorable sentiment of the people. THE REASON Is there an honest, sensible man or woman in the South that does not feel the need for a more string ent and rigid enforcement of our criminal laws’ If any, let them speak. Os all the State bank failures in Georgia in the last ten years, in which through criminal means mil lions of‘dollars have been lost to depositors, not a single instance can be called to mind where the offi cer or clerk guilty of crime has been made to suffer any penalty therefor. Not so with the National banks. Suicide is about the only means of escaping the swift and definate punishment meted out to those guilty of violating the laws under which these institutions are operated. And what is the result? National banks are multiplying: State banks are diminishing. These two facts are significant and carry their own lesson. If you believe in States’ rights, if you love State institutions, if you would preserve each of these, you must protect them by enforcing the law, which makes their operation for the welfare of all, possible. A recent decision by a Georgia Superior Court judge will serve to show to some extent the perni cious effect of politics upon the acts of our judges and what result such acts have upon the confidence people place in the enforcement of law for the pro tection of life and property. Against the sworn testimony of eye witnesses of unimpeachable character this judge, who in the race for re-election is opposed by a very able man whose honesty and strength of character strongly appeals to the intelligent and law-abiding element, turned loose two of the lowest types of criminals that live to disgrace human society. lie is one of a kind who believes in capital punishment only where the people do not complain for want of offences that justify it, and fixes his decisions to suit the prevailing senti ment in the localities where he sits, lie is a dis grace to the office he desecrates, a breeder of mobs and the real bear in the human life and property stock market of Southwestern Georgia. The day after his decision three humble farmers from the locality in which the men he freed com mitted the murder, offered their little homes, land, stock, and timber at half price in order to get away and spare themselves the awful death that they be lieve await them at the hands of the freed criminals as a result of their testimony at the trial. Free the judiciary of politics and you will put good men in office. Put good men in office, and you will give value to your life and property. Refuse to do it and you will see a spread of lawlessness you never saw before, a slump in the human life and property stock market unequaled in our whole his torv of more than 150 years. The rotation of the circuit judiciary is a fine remedy for the increase of lawlessness in the South. Ike Cribb and the Rest of Shinburnally. Senator of South Carolina, who likes a good joke almost as much or more than a rough and tumble, knock-down-and-drag-out joint-debate, while acting as captain of the Klu Klux, had the novel ex perience of performing a ceremony that married a man to a man. The senator, then only 21 years of age, stopped for supper in a country village, near which he and his raiders were doing some work for the good of their country. He was made acquainted with the