The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-08-10
FOURTEEN LIQUOR LICENSE.
mug MANY HELD IN THRILL
rpov FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
oroI Hundred More Federal Than
state License in Existence.
some Interesting Facts.

&0lflt AHlCA
Mr. A J. Hughes contributes an
...,.os+ing article on the liquor bust
s in Georgia to the Wesleyan
CHRISTIAN Advocate. The existence of
(.~rrsan federal license for the sale of
i,aa,r in Terrell county is explained
=, the fact that these license
,ror4 issued before the dispensary
oo+ went into effect the first of last
January. They were held by the rlen
who we're in the saloon business in this
oonntv last year, and were issued in
InIv 1897, for one year and expired
+ba first of July this year. Mr..
INCHES article is as follows:
Mr. FDIToR-It is business-like to
+oLa an inventory at least once year
And As every man, woman and child
IN Georgia is consenting or unWill-
ioo mariner in the liquor traffic, and as
T. TiIl he quite interesting to many of
Tour readers, I desire to give through
vOUr COLUMNS UHS plCoChU oC1OC VI OIC
iiouor business in Georgia.
From Official and other reliable sOurc-
os find tnat 1--WE have 739 'drunker
ies'' in Georgia. This includes ID that
are miss-named dispensaries. 1t also
inciudes the wholesale trade, a
number of quart establishments and
five druggists.
All of these, except nine of the So
called dispensaries which we will no.
tcp in another article, are in the fol-
lowing named 80 counties:
Baldwin, Baker, Banks, Bibb,
Brooks Calhoun, Chatham, Chattooga,
ColouitU. Coweta, Dade, Decatur,
Dougherty, Floyd, Fulton, Glynn,
irwin. Lee, Lowndes, Macon, McIn-
tosh Muscogee, Pickens, Pulaski,
Quitman, Randolph, Richmond Sum
ter, TaHaferro, Thomas, Wilcox,
Wilkes.
The internal revenue books show
that .432 parties in Georgia have IL
cense from the United States govern
ment to sell liquor, and 1885 of them
are in the above named 81 'wet" coun-
ties, and the remaining 247 are in the
following named 56 counties:
Appling ,, Berrien 2, Bulloch 4,
Bryan j, Camden /, Campbell /, Car
roll Cherokee ,, Clark s, Clinch l
Clay /, Cobb 3, Coffee l, DeKalb l,
Dooy Il, Douglas 2, Early 4, Ebert 4,
Emanuel t, tayette 2, Green 3, Gilmer
lGOrdon l, Habersham 2, Harris 2,
Henry ,, Jackson Z, Jasper 3, johnson
/, Lawens 6, Liberty l, Madison u,
Meriwether 10, Miller ,, Milton l,
Mitchell ,, Monroe Z, Montgomery II,
Morgan 3, Newton Z, Oglethorpe 4,
Pike >, Rabun l, Screven Z, Spalding g.
Stewart ,, Tattnall %, Terrell IA,
Troup -, Epson 5,Walker L, Walton
y, Washington /, Worth 2.
Eight Of these So counties have II So
called >pensaries, and in addition to
theIr dispensaries they have % federal
permits to sell liquor.
This gives us 40 "Wet'' counties. and
they have the 739 state license to sell
liquor, and ,224 of the ,432 L. S. Ii
CenSe granted to sell liquors in the
State. While IS of the 'dry" counties
nave the remaining POS L. S. license,
~ dry counties have not a single
federal license. The general govern
meht license nearly twice as many to
sen liquor in Georgia as the state: and
~ liquor counties have the lions share,
WhIle IS dry" counties have not one.
FarJ OF these license granted by the
government tOsell liquor are to sell
aicohoi Tor medical purposes, but most
vi Uhe bJ3 that have not a state Ii
cFnSe are "blindtigers" and as may be
seen, most of them are about liquor
VeA,eFs under cover of the legallaed
The nefarious traffic pays the 40
towns IN the 30 counties $255, 800. to
@nigu IS to be added at least $4,000,
PTong 10 the II towns that have the IA
"nnaIIeQ dispensaries.
-. Ihe Comp reports the
...4DoH tax paid the state in 1897 to be
e!L-,f'2, The ,432 gin-mills in Geor-
ga pay the y. S. government for IL
cense S34 800,
oo( Ioi ga consumes annually over 100,-
wv barrels of beer, on which we have
oeeh paying 100000 revenue, and
"o" We are to pay 5000, 900 on the same
AMOUNT OF beer. TOal this is to be add
MI, NJ ~ cents revenue on every gallon of
, "i'iiiSAey sold IN the state. All of which
WIZ" WILL approximate a million dollars a
MAR ma; Ihe dIaboliC traffic pays for the
KY KY HeSe OF robbing us of millions of
o WARS Wrecking many of our homes
nIo ueoauchlng thousands of our peo-
IN E,0, some OF us are unwilling partners
sb;, "uu uolng all we can to get out
SAie wicked ruinOns hue;paee E