The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-10

ing thus trapped, or seduced from
the faith.
Men who are proof against sa-
tan S snares as individuals will run
with multitude to do evil" and do
thlngS as members of a body or cit
lzens OF a community which as an
individual they would scorn Church
es have needed money and wanted
1t so BADLY that to obtain it thew
have resOrted to schemes which were
an insult to God. So cities have
raised money in ways which their
respectable citizens as individuals in
their own business would despise.
The love Of money, with the
many foolish and hurtful lusts which
it engenders, was the rOot-sin out
of which grew the ancient gladia-
torial entertainments, a gigantic evil
which debased society in it's tastes
to the level of beacts.
The love of money is the root
out of which grew the whole gamb-
ling evil, drowning men in perdi-
ton.
The love of money is the root
which produced the slave trade, one
of the darkest blots on human his
tory, a result of which is the en-
barrassing and perpleXing evil of
dense multitude of negroes in our
midst, who being out of place are
restless, and the cause of restless
ness.
THE love of money is the root of
the whiskey evil, piercing the innO-
cent with sorrow and drowning the
guilty in perdition Settle this once
for all; no man, city or county is
selling whiskey for the sake of NOR
ais or religion. Bishop Potter tried
to, and the whole whiskey crowd
Joined with the church in laughing
him into confusion, and his ridicu
lous saloon out of existence. The
thing is too absurd. Were the rev.
enue taken away of course no SEN
sible man would vote for it. The
revenue is the only thing under
heaven which can be said for it.
Nov, the only right view to take
of any problem is that of God s
word, and according to it, to
get money for yourself or city
through the whiskey traffic is wrong.
You would scOrn a proposition to
make your own living that way.
There is no difference. Whiskey and
negroes are the two serious prob
lens with us. The negroes make
the whiskey problem as bad as 1t
is, and whiskey makes the race
problem far more serious. We can
not get rid of the negroes; we can
get rid of the whiskey. 1t is our
duty to the whites and the negroes
never to sell any more whiskey to
the latter.
eve had better be religious and
let God lead us, or we will get our
selves in bad fix. Here we were
abusing a candidate because he
owned an interest in the most ele-
CANT bar in Georgia, and we all the
time running a whiskey house for
whites and negroes alike. Let God
lead. and don't be ensnared to be-
lieve there will be more drinking
without a dispensary than with It.
There would not be as many mats,
coats, plows, mules, or anything else
purchased if they had to be pur-
chased as blind tiger liquor IS.
Don't let satan fool you into belleV-
ing that it is religious or moral Tor
us to send out every Saturday nj
teen hundred or two thousand DOT
ties of whiskey to curse lives, max
ing men beasts, and turning homes
into bells, and then come to church
next day to sing "All Hail the
Power of Jesus Name.
.'There is hope for us if we will
be religious in everything.
IF you are not Christian be.
come one now. Get on Gods side OF
every question. It will mean all to
Won in this world, and in the world
to come"