The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-12-14
NOOMMUNIUATED.
Rev Carpenter set Right.


Rev Carpenter set Right.
EDITOR News: In the so.calIad ruo
nlOltion contest now going on in Terrell
county many things are being said bv
nose who were formerly bitter whisky
ana oarro9m advocates, but who
now, mirabie dictu, are professed pro,
hl0ltlon workers, that are without anv
foundation in fact. But of ali prat;llnos
being sent abroad through the cnnn.
try the various insinuations and allago-
lions being made against and regaraing
the motives of the Rev. Mr., Carpenter
are the most infamous. No more Cody
man nor purer christian gentle
man lives than he. aud all
statements made rejecting on hie
good name and character are simnIv
infamous and false. To illustrate. The
North Carolina missionary and fapatic
stated publicly among other equally false
statements regarding him in his
harangue at Herod last Monday NIGHT
that Mr.. Carpenter was at that time in
Ia "son talking for the disper sary and
whisky. He knew when he made this
statement that it was utterly false. Mr.
Carpenter not only did not make such
meeting referred to. His position in
this contest is both sensible and manly.
He realizes that the love and fear of God
alone can lessen sin of any nature. be.
lleves the present restriction is a proper
solution of the question at issue. and
has the good judgment to leave the bust
ness affairs of Terrell county in the
hands of its intelligent citizens, believ-
ing that they will love God, fear Him
aGd keep His commandments
J. G. DEAN.
Dawson, Ga, Dec. 10, 1898.
Oispensary VS.. Prohibition.
EDITOR News: AS the prohibition
question is soon to be voted on by the
qualified voters of the county, l propose
to give some reasons why the people
should vote to keep the dispensary.
l. 1t is the true solution of the whisky
question.
2. 1t reduces the consumption of
liquor and drunkenness.
3. 1t keeps down lawlessness and the
cost OF courts in the prosecution of vio-
lators of the law.
A. IL will keep down illicit distilling
and blind tigers, which will surely be if
local prohibition is adopted.
D. 1t brings revenue to the county
and helps to relieve the burden of taxa
ton, which is depressing the tax PAYERS
L could give various other reasons to
sustain my position, but it is not neces-
sary. There is not a dispensary in the
state that has not proved a blessing
morally to the people of the county
where it is situated. only Call atten-
ton to one to prove my assertion. 1t is
known that the Athens dispensary. was
the creation of the christian, temperance
people of Clark county. Prohibition
had been tried there for six years and
tell short of prohibiting the Sale and
drinking Of whiskey. The temperance
| people of the county established a dis
pensary there, and it has proved a noble
work for the cause of temperance, good
order and good morals in that communi-
| ty. The records of the county shO that
there was more disorder and drunkenness
| during the six yers of prohibition than
when it had barrOoTs, and the same
records show that since the establish
ment of the dispensary there has been
| less disorder aud drunkenness and crime
than in any other period OF the county 5
| history.
When the old toperS made in the times
of barroOms and local prohibition will
have died out we will have none, unless
they are imported, as the dispensaly will
not raise new crop. have seen bar
| rooms tried, seen prohibition tried, seen
dispensares tried, and beyond all ques-
| ton the dispensary Is the best solution
| yet suggested OF the whisky question
1t is not easy to formulate method reg
ulating the whisky traffic which will sat
| isfT all classes, but there is a middle
fground on which all can meet with reas
Ona6la satisfaction and where the cOndi-
tons will not be intolerable to any except
the extremists of both sides. Laws are
not made to satisfy extremists, but to
make life agreeable to the great mass OF
the people. Whisky is sold in every CONS
munity on the globe, lawfully or unlaw-
| fully, and as We can't rid community
OF 1T, and as it is here and rere TO stay,
is it not our duty to do all in our power
to make it as harmless as possible?
We have established a diSpensary as
an experiment for that purpose; then
give it fair and impartial trial before
undertaking to vote it out. Il has al
ready wrought wonderful changes in the
way Of sobrietY and morals, and ere long
will prove a blessing TO the county and
towns tar beyond expectations. Let us
| hold fast TO that which is good, not for
! saking The substance for the shadow.
/ BUsTCUs.
Terrell county Ca, Dec. y.
| n.