The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-05
AN APPEAL ron PROHIBITION.
Woman Claims Women Are
Against the saloon.


Dorchester, Ca, Jan. 4.-Editor Morning
News: Some of your writer's believe that
local option is better than state prohibit
ton, and believe that the majority of
Chatham county would vote to keep the
saloons on their streets and roads. and
that they >ught to have them there, if they
want them. There are two sides to a sub
ject. VIII you print the other side?
Many men want the saloons. But what
of the women--nearly all the women
who don't want the saloons? Have they
any reasons for their opposition. which
men are bound to respect? Have their
mothers, sisters, wives and daughters,
and sweethearts. any feeling about it,
which men are bound to regard, before
their self-indulgence? And what of the
sons the growing boys-the clerks, the
cashiers, the motormen, the engineers, the
captains, the sailors, the conductors, etc,
whose superiors say ought not to frequent
the saloons? What wisdom is there in OBJ
jecting, yet insist by law in placing these
social, pleasurabe perilous temptations
in their path? If the saloon is not good
for the son, how is it good for the father?
If not good for the employees, how is IL
good for the employer? If not a good
thing, why have it?
Permit me to assert that the majority
of the people of Chatham county do not
want the saloons. There are more people
deeply interested in the case than the
pleasure-seeking, self-indulgent men. Wo-
men are as important people to the county
and city as the men; and being so, they
have as much right to be heard, and de-
eide for their own welfare, as the men;
their interests in matters of danger and
suffering, and in matters of peace and
have a g To @ g.
sented in law. as the self-indulgence of
men. Men talk and write as tho women
were nobodies to be thought
of; as tho the needs and
wishes of women against saloons, are
too trivial to be regarded: as though i'm
perilled and suffering women, well known
on every street and road, have no COM
plant against the saloons, which men are
bound to respect. If with the prohibition
lists in the county, the women people
could, as against the saloon, vote for their
own protection, since the men will not
protect them from the dangers and heart
breaks suffered from the saloons, it would
be seen on which side the majority of the
people of Chatham county stands. Allow
them the plebiscite just once.
If the men of Chatham county will not
forego their selfish indulgence to protect
their own helpless women and children
from the perils, vice and curse of the sa-
looms, IL may Dee there are good men
enough in the state of Georgia to exercise
the right the law can give them to pro-
tect the women and children even of Chat
ham county by destroying, in spite of the
selfish men the saloons they are happy in,
though ashamed to have their women and
children with them. Then, if there should
be officers and men, in Chatham county, to
encourage and protect a sneak traffic in
whisky, or openly resist the law in lawless
defiance of oaths, or threaten violence to
the officers of the state, be the dishonor
and responsibility of all the consequences,
on their own heads. J. T. H. w.