Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-10-09
PROHIBITION IN GEORGIA.
An Illicit DistiIIery To Every -Four
Hundred Voters.
HabituaI Drinkers Taking Their Toddles
According to Law Out of Qum Bot.
ties keptln Convenient "a
.AhNH Places. y y "a kAk
Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette.

Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette.
Atlanta, Ga, Sept. 25.-Prohibition
in Georgia is grim burlesque and the
figures are at hand to prove it. There
are los counties in the State that have
absolute prohibition and twelve others
that have partial prohibition, .eaving on
.ly seventeen whisky counties. The
internal revenue collector eollec,sn tax
of twenty-five dollars from retail liquor
dealers and issues the U. s., license to
such men as desire it without reference
to local laws. The payment OF the
twenty-five dollars clears the skirts of
the dealer so far as Federal laws are
concerned and makes him liable only to
State laws II he can dodge the State
law he escapes punishment. Now for
the figures. The United States issued
during the last fiscial year. 2,2SS retail
liquor license in Georgia, and the
records in the collectors Office in Attain
ia shows the facts. OF course, quite a
number OF licenses are held by, dealers
in the anti-prohihition counties, but a
great many are issued to men IN prohi-
bition counties. For instance, the pro-
hibition county of Pulaski, which his
not even so much asa good sized town
in it, takes twenty-three Federal Ii
censes to retail whisky. Barlow coun-
ty, the home of Evangelist Sam Jones,
takes FIVE. 1t has had prohibition for
some time. Hon. Thomas G. Cren-
shaw, internal revenue collector for the
State, went over the record with me to-
day, | find that since May /, 1886, the
United States has issued license to re-
tailers of whisky in the following prohi-
tion counties: Pulaski, Barker, Clarke
Monroe, Laurens, Carroll, Houston,
Gordon Dawson, DeKalb. Emanuel,
Lee, Columbia, Wilkinson, Charlton,
White, Clay .on, Coweta, Campbell,
Jackson, Fayette, Troup, Dodge, Doug,
lass, Cherokee, Dade, Clay, Dooly, Hart,
Crawford, Butts, Taliaierro, franklin,
Montgomery, Jcsper, Cobb, Milton,
Pike, Warren, Washington, Severn a,
Rabun. Monroe, Jones aud Ware.
In Clarke county, where the Sta-e
University is located, and where the
people proudly say the law is enforced,
there are seven men authorized by the
United States to sell liquor by re ii
and an Athens man tells me here are
fifteen blind tigers in that city, which
is the capital of the county. / make
no reference to the counties that have
adopted prohi bition lately s1d where
old licenses are still in force.
But to hurry along. There were ZIG
men convicted in the U. S., Coult in
the last fourteen molths, charged v.
violating the internal revenue Jaws, and
every one OF them hrs been turned out
of jail. Nota single one is in jail to-
day. Even two who were sent to the
ALBANY IN. W prison were released
on tecrnicalities. ia the last year 243
Illicit dist lle.ies were seized IN GEORGIA
and Collector Ccenshaw saws he cid
not get one; hird of aem. The officers
authorize me to say tha.. there are at
least eight hundred illicit distileries
in operation Ceofe.a, of one for
every four hundred vo ers in the 5 !, f.
The number OF iilici dis, lie is l.
creasing year by year, md it seen i'm
possible to suppress lem.
Paste this in your bat:
Two thousaud two hundred and
eiohty-e' ghS re .lers licensed.
Seven hundi d aud SIX cen distillers
c. otured and rel u.
Licenses ! .ced ov 'e Uni I'd S ~,
in neae' all tle nroi'i ! on cour :.
One EJtIe pro. . io1 tc,N 'rr-
Ia, 5, .asA.y- L.