Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-04
"CHAMP1oN SHOT OF GEORGIA, 1884,"

"CHAMPIox SHOT or GEORGIA, 1884"
The winning club is to hold this medal,
subject to challenge from any club in the
State, for one year after the tournament,
the holder to decide the date and place of
contest. and the challenging club to pay
for clay pigeons for the teams. Any club
winning the medal the greatest number
Of times within a year shall keep it per-
manenty. The teams will be called
to the score in the order
designated by the Executive Committee,
each team to remain until the score is
finished. Each contestant is to shoot at
five single pigeons before he leaves the
score, or in double at 8 and 2double rises.
The right and left judges to be appointed
on the ground, and they selecting the
referee.
About twenty-five clubs have been in
vIted to participate in the contest and
there is every indication that at least
fifteen clubs will send teams. Georgia
will be represented by about ten teams.
An appeal to the Citizens of Savannah
One hundred and eight years ago the
Declaration of American Independence
was proclaimed. The ringing of the old
Liberty bell told us we were free from
England's yoke of bondage and oppres-
sion. 1t declared that no power had
right to fix a duty on us which was not
only unjust in its relations to a young
colony, but would be a shame to glorious
manhood to bear it. And promptly did
our forefathers respond to what they con-
sidered their duty.
How gladly did the people take up the
refrain (Of Patrick Henry's-"Give me
liberty or give me death!") and watt it
from mountain to valley, from the cold re-
gions of the North to the sunny cline of
the South, from the Atlantic to the Paci-
fic! We know the result Of that cry be-
cause 1t helped TO give us liberty.
Now we wish to call your attention to a
greater call than Patrick Henry's-it is
one that should arrest the fathers eve;
son; one to gladden. the mothers heart;
one that will bring back the roses to the
cheeks Of the poor wife who percbance is
now pale and haggard from fear and want.
1t is-let this the anniversary of the De-
claratiOn of Independence be the begin
ming of your forsakal of the wine cup or
strong drink. England wished to make
us subversiye to her laws. Strong drink
makes u.s. England tried to deal unjust
" with US. Strong drink not only deals
unjustly with US but rObs our families.
England wished to keep from us our lib
ertY! Strong drink binds us in slavery
more cruel than death. England, it was
thought, was our greatest enemy; but it
is not so. Strong drink is the greatest
enemy of mankind. 1t is a hydra-headed
monster that will crush us in its power.
1t makes us greater slaves than ever
worked a galley. 1t throws around us a
fatal coil from which there is hardly any
escape, and eventually not only kills us,
but does the same office for our mothers,
sisters, fathers, brothers, friends and
loved ones.
Let US awake, then, to a sense of the
duty imposed upon us by this gigantic
crime OF crimes, this demon of our land.
To-day is day of national rejoicing. Let
us make it the anniversary of a resolve to
never handle or taste it again, but to
Danish this insidiOus monster from our
persons, our counters and our homes.
Dear young ladies, your sex suffers the
greatest. As you take your husbands
name at the altar do you think that the
glass of wine you handed him at your
reception would cause him to become
drunkard, and consequently cause you to
suffer the agony of broken heart. and
I'LL an untimely grave? You are mans |
help-mate. Then help him on to life of
sobriety. You can do it; will yOug Per-
haps you may like little wine. Do you
know it is like the serpent, which, though |
manship may vet escape and cause great |
harm ere caught, and imprisoned again? |
We appeal to everything in your noble |
womanhood, in your chaste character, in |
your virtue. and grandness of conception, |
when we ask you to shun as you would !
death, the giving to one something that |
may be worse than living death to you. |
Dear ministers of God, we would espe- |
cially ask you to use every known effort |
in your power to Danish this evil from our /
midst. Let mercantile and professional /
men, as well as mechanics, artisans, /
tradesmen and laborers, women and chill /
dren, say, like Patrick Henry, "Give me /
liberty or give me DEATH" and that their |
cry may be heard and answered by a roll /
of enthusiasm that through God will |
cleanse our land from the leprous stain
that now blots Its fair bosom is our prayer.
Respectfully,
SAVANNAH LODGE No. 500, 1. o. of G.. t.