Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-13

than IL saloons running in full blast,
but the dispensary in Rome, unless
right sentiment shall be built up and
maintained about it, will soon descend
to the level of the Athens dispensary,
or deeper still, to the depths of the
South Carolina dispensary. can see
how good men can vote for DISPENSE
ry in preference to IL saloons AS I
said to them in Rome one vicicps dog
tied inside of a building is a thousand
times better than thirteen hungry IT,
gers turned loose on the streets. The
dog chained in the room during the
day time and locked up in dungeon
after shutdown. Now said, gentlemen.
instead of advertising your liquor and
publishing your liquor, advertise the
fact that you have got a vicious dog
chained in your dispensary and that he
will bite, and you advise nobody TO go
in there, but say to them, If you viii go
in you will be bit just like thousands OF
others have been bit by that vicious an
imal.. 1 am in favor of a dispensary
rather than the open saloon, but we
don't want any dispensary in dry
counties and dry towns. There are as
many blind tigers lowering around the
dispensary as ever set up in dry towns.
The blind tiger in the dispensary town
does business at night after the dis
pensary closes.
There will be blind tigers any and
everywhere that dirty scoundreIs live
to sell whisky and dirty vagabonds live
to buy it. I am proud 70 say that the
Rome dispensary, so far, has been well
managed, and so long as 1t is well
managed it can never do a land Office
business. The management of dispen-
sary has got to hold it up or it viii
drag them down. Human philosophy
tells US, take the lesser of two evils;
divine philosophy tells US, take neither.
/ have always contended that q saloon
run decently. by a respectable man.
was a much more dangerous place for
our boys than bum saloon run by an
old bum. It is a question in my mind
how far Christianity can go in its con-
troll and management of the sale Of IL
.quor, of bawdy houses, or gambling
hells, without being particeps criminis
to the devilment done by them. Sup
pose Christianity takes charge OF every
gambling hell in America and guaran-
tees a fair deal and advertises to the
boys, come in, you shan't be swim
died in this game: you shall lose your
money in a decent way"
The Baptists turn their members out
for gearing up with the dispensary, as
a rule. Methodists sneak and skulk
from under by saying, there is no law
in the church to handle them for ne
offence. No church has all the good IN
the world in it. AS Methodist. say
the Methodjsts head the procession on
doctrine, but am sorry to say some
other churches seem to be ahead Of us
on discipline, and believe the Meth
odist church is the only church that
publishes and circulates a. discipline.
The dispensary sells the same kind OF
liquor the saloon does, and when a
man is tanked UP on dispensary or sa-
loon liquor he is ready for anything
the devil wants DONE
Do you know, Mr.. Editor. that there
is some serious talk about bringing on
an issue in Atlanta, supplanting the
saloons there with a dispensary.
There's a lot Of folks in Atlanta and
all over this state that want to de-
throne the liquor power in Georgia.
and when you cut the head on of the
saloons you cut the tail of the liquor
power, and that puts them in the
woods in fly time. But If the liquor
power we're dethroned in Georgia what
would the Democrats do for campaign
money in a tight race against Seab
Wright, or Hines, or Guerry2
And the Georgia legislature is to
visit valdosta again this week. Boys
let the memories Of the former visit
weigh heavily upon you. Don't get
drunk nor cut nor shoot. 1t is no cred
It to you, gentlemen. to get drunk on q
trip. 1t reflects upon your decency II.
It doesn't upon your intelligence. but
If you do get drunk and misbehave.
you have this consolation. you have
precedent for such conduct.
Yours truly.
SAM P. JONES
Gainesville, Ga, Nov. s. 1902.
many barbecues and entertainments
for? Who makes up the committees
of the house? Houston is mad. He