The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-02-03
LOCALIZED EVlLS--NO. 80 .
(written for the News-Democrat.,
BY JOHN DANNER


The following pathetic account Of
"legalization Of evils" is copied from
the Southern Star, paper published
in Atlanta, Ca, and as we have the
same kind of experience in Ohio under
the Dow tax law, it is quite appropri-
ate to copy this thrilling account.
SHE TOOK HER PA HOME,
'It was nine o'clock at night, Bit
terly cold and the winds whistled
around the police barracks at Atlanta.
Hardly a person was on the street 1t
was so bleak and cold.
The officers at the barracks had
gathered around the warm heater
telling their experiences in the past
when little, gentle rap was heard
on the door.
Come in" cried the call officer.
There was a silence for a moment
and the rap was repeated again.
For heavens sake tell whoever II
is to come out Of the cold,' called the
station sergeant.
Then an effort was made to open the
door but it failed and then for the
third time the tap on the door was re-
peated and the call man jumped up
and opened the door.
Out in the cold. on the stone steps
stood tinney little girl. She was
thinly clad although it was freezing
outside. Her thin brown hair clung
in damp shreds about her pale fore
head.
"Great God" exclaimed the officer,
come in little girl and get warm"
The child shuddered either from
fright or cold and slowly walked in:o
the office.
What do you want?" asked the as
tonished sergeant.
Isis papa here?" said the child
her eyes filling with tears.
your papa" said the sergeant,
who is your papa and why do you
think he is in such a place as this?"
Brushing away the tears the child
replied in trembling voice: Mamma
said tonight that papa, was sick and
the police had him. So l came here
to find him. Is he here?"
The little one then gave the name
of her father and the sergeant found
that he was docketed as being drunk.
He called the turnkey and asked him
to see IL the man had sobered up.
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was sober enough to go home.
Then let him out" said the kind
hearted officer, "and give him a copy
of charges. It's not business but the
little girl shall have her papa"
The man came out haggard and
weak from the effects of his spree.
The child ran with a glad cry into his
arms and kissed him again and again.
Mama told me you were sick"
she said, 'and have come to take you
home"
The man made no reply. His hands
trembled as he tried to smooth back
| his brown hair. In silence he passed
from the barracks with his trusting,
loving little girl.
IF that man doesn't reform and let
this be his last drunk" remarked the
station sergeant, "he is made Of
stone"
This Is only one of thousands Of
sad cases that are chronicled by our
daily press each year. We think that
voters have hearts of stone when they
allow such things to exist Let us as
loyal Christian citizens awake and say
by our ballots that the saloons will
go from Atlanta the State Of Georgia
and the Nation and there will be no
more debauchery, crime or misery
caused by the hellish traffic which
should be forever outlawed, and which
is every year running hundreds of
thousands of homes and sending
thousands to drunkards' graves"
Every ballot cast for the Dow tax
party. or any other form of legaliza-
tiop of the liquor traffic In Ohio, Is a
consent to carry on this great curse
in our state and nation. Vote only
for the suppression of the traffic