| Show n H Georgians Would Die For Prohibition Cause Special Correspondence ance Feb WASHINGTON W think Oeo Georgia Ii ao mach better off under UDder that I 1 gladly my heats blood and aIMI Ole right then daere rath rather er r then than aes tIl the law ro pealed Y Yee a and nd I know many men In Georgia eo who feel Jut just that way ay Mat about It I honestly believe It would take tak a revolution to put the Ibe open saloon alooD bastIn back bast In the tate date In th these stirring words word Mis MarY anY Harris Harrl Armour ot of Eastman 0 Oe WId wide widely ly I known throughout the 00 country sa a groat areat speaker and aDd temperance advocat tt told The Tha Womans DalI Dally her ller personal teel feeling about the prohibition In her ber stales tat To sit lit and d talk Ik with Mrs Armour I la to toh h rt rl of t her r absolute lion bon Ity and and d second that prohibition S la a suttee from every evry t WIleD When she said she was waa to lay down her life Ufe It If need be beto to order to keep Geor Georgia in ID the cIr dry no man could have doubted t tb t every word and more Jt It Is II got tare to understand 4 why her work bas baa been es ao successful every everywhere v where whon Slight of build yet her ber eve every bespeaks tremendous vital torce forer IN GEORGIA II e a In Georgia continued Mra Mr Armour I ear are not Dot who ad advance van an argument at to Ute the con contrary the rec recd open to the ey eyes ot of eel every peak convincingly than thu anything I could DOuld po possibly say ay Even newspapers that fought this tho prohibitory law havo been to come com out frankly and say AY to tta the people or of 00 Georgia that tb the police statistics en I 0 over the Ibe state show how a distinct diminution of crime ot of every enry tNt that bUildIng opera operations lion have ban sab Increased that the poor malt has money to spend for the feces neen of IU end ADd provide decently for h hie family Instead of sp lUll hie w wages a It at tile the saloon and that the moral tOIle tame I Is immeasurably higher And u these newspapers have maa many other things to A say alon along similar lines Georgia b bas been ly Ian alan UM do But even 11 the theare they are nonplussed and arc ar looking about for new naw lea I to perpetrate upon the country Georgia is fa more u uon on the ot ROW now than ever before beron The e are not peeping down our way tile the S Issue Ie the lived thing we have haI Why lar I have more engagements to talk prohibition In that safely atly pro than I can pot poe 1 der to nothing of making trips triP to the D aI capItal and elsewhere Tb peo people p eo do not want m me to ta leave tate state but they are a as much aa tallu In sewing Wa laptan to 10 d dry NEAR BEER BIDER SALOONS I I do not there I e a moral mat m In Geo who is III not a demist by Any number or of men meD who were not a year r ago have ba turned beel and ad will not Dot senate fence nance even a saloon By the way 7 tho those places soon lOOn will be b In ID the Ibe Ibee mm e as the old barrooms And IIII tb the liquor men ln have bave lied about tham top Th The I Is the tbt way they worked It H In III Georgia the they would tell ue th that t was Wall not more harmful than t water that It ft con contained tallied no alcohol whatever etc Itc Then they thoy would go 0 outside of the state tata ud and tan II the people of 01 the country that near r I e frightful duff that It a making drunk drunkards a ards rd ot of our young men And that Georgians permIt the Ibe stun to lie be sold without the least opposition Per Personally I never nover hay have bad any D faith in III the claim of the liquor men II that Is III harmless We very I shortly leashed t that aU or of It contains I alcohol and some ae much as t 1 per rent nt The con consequence I Ii that bUll ban died dd of towns town In tile the stale WIll not countenance a II r JoInt a they are Even Evon men who ho wore were opposed to prohIbition a year c ago aro now are an among amonI the tho opponent of th these joint Join SITUATION TODAY Without the tho slightest hesitation I Ican Icar car can say y that there is I more talk In n Georgia tod today then at u any time In our history unless It be tile the Iw few days immediately preceding the of the prohIbitory law b by the legislature As A I 1 expect toJ to stand and before the J judg ment br bar ot of Gal some BOme day daF and give ve ac account count ot of the doo deeds la done In tb this bod body I Iy Isay say y these theM thin things in ID all II candor to a Ut those who want tu to know the truth tuUt about prohibition In eo No man who knows know the situation then and uti I Is bon eat elt In h his statements will QI seriously at t tempt to deny what I say And I am inure nore than willing to mist an any man before Ute the on t this lieu ue for t r make no statements the ca not ot b bi wholly FIGURa LIE LUD Nero Here I Ii a COlIC concrete p of what h his done for q OM of our cl cities tie Until prohibition eons Macon had always Iway been bellO burdened with a float ing In debt In December 1107 Mason Macon curried a net ht indebtedness of 1710 A year later bater In spite of the panic the debt hr had been wiped out and Dd th the city treasury had on hand a balance balanc of Macon Maron started the year r 1100 C i ith h a balance ot of more mOn than 1700 IT t to t the h credit ot of the Iba city Other concrete of the benefit or of prohibition be ba quoted The fat fact that Macon had bad a floating debt ever shoe 1111 a l became a city and d II now IW hat haa a splendid balan balance 0 on hand which probably will not be even touch ed durin during I 1000 a mat and atilt satisfy any reasoning person Morally Morall I a so Inc 1111 proved that there I b no 0 wilb tb the old regime resme The re ant L mayoralty O campaign In Atlan Atenta roved a t dou candidate I Sir Mr Mad Mad dos walked Into the of office I ber beu ause lie be au supported by the moral hot only ot of Adana but ot of th the entire Stele Eve the he napa It did not fIt ur ibis contest for tor I the h of Ir dung over ovar lb alt ally or of A As slate president ot of lb W M I T t l I still 1 out eat OtIl Id order orde Ib svery Hury white la is the he state tt lIln lung upon pon them to fast Ud and pry pray n Ie Ion day and telling t them that Ih r ul If elected Iet dl d II nace Krae the city the stale L and d nation rh people pl ot of Atlanta UI en n warching rhin the t art and fr for I nave saw such a It amounted tu to a moral oral If lute I is another evidence ot or t r Iliac Mural tone I Is Cure re loo fir ur tb within I lb h bord is 0 of the I taw tale laM ItO w fa be learned east ore une of et them waa Ili Ih r of thu t xhi h II I o n I I punished ua III lion say J I 1 bave bay contended that xu u fur Of ell all of thine 11 Ina au our fair Ir women Yo Yo will read what whal a tie we 1 bat I I b when tit dY sw h tJ a lit In It h hear rt or of Ihu Ihn illy Ill lu 10 II a 1 11 II lbs 1111 1 n u hut am m ON th la W were M MI I n hinge fret nr Ih the crime ul m against Inot iron In Ipe IN 11 RIME It II wee 1 n dl u ery illy and n nIh Iii Ih pia were rt the tot Mal fIt of In I tn in Ile h r rord alma hw Iii it de dc det sad t II at I pI Irn ern III 11 city elty nn I rd II with x Ih pr Ir ear r Of I w h n II U t h hI line I purly I nIn th Ih In Inn but bill buth billI h re III Ih rr hu haa ti ii I On 1 no n I 1 11 ba err to In ml ll II report of the I It tor nr mar staled ted unit 1 for Ih the II 1111 hind III n Inc II ot f oldest Idt It could lul II roi hr 1 f aln 1111 mAn hail had n II killed or r hod t I n of hA hav ra killed hl hll man ro rn r rJ who are Ith county u this Ihl mA mAm may I seem m remarkable I tho thus who t nw II If conditions It I is a Being Belli has a Ir Irr large sport pon including a great rat r rugh IT molly low foreigners and nd murd whiles have been rr uno among Oy s a few fw murders were reported an Ing fa falU lU JUST T PACT of farm n have told me ma mathAt thAt t they And aDd labor o much more mon r re they under And that ret get far more mor work out of men menA A shoe mon loon the ether dy day told m mare that hr Iro hoea who to are are now r foot footwear would p pay they wear t and nd he Si and is as Ir If h he would could put flut In now The Theae Sam Am of Rd good that hI have In their hom homes mAny things i durin 1 th the IIa were utterly ot or flit th saloon they used to toor In Ind Instead leac w t joint of taking In In 10 stead d or taking hem like this class of 01 negroes at arc children They will So money montY tOn Iho ItS make mak it II the rut fast as they In the tun tune te teon e eon them she saloon loon wa turner It 5 ot t street on every very for tur It getting Now they are money ny while I worth that not Georgia Glola are arl ProhibItion I of Iba II all In afraid 01 I can candidly that In of at a w more prohibition that I Is than ball ever vr I had saying a great aret deal This la III th the truth bout In and many moro might be 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