The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-11-28

SAYS DISPENSARY is DOOMED
mo QUESTION is EVER SETTLED
UNTIL IT'S SETTLED RIGHT"

This Writer Declares That Indiffer-
ence of People and TechnicaIities
Will Not Always Save
the Institution.
Editor of The News: 1t is a trite
saying, but true, that "a question is
never settled until it is settled
right" So in spite of petty techni-
callities and deplorable Indifference
on the part of some who should be
most deeply interested in driving
dispensaries out of Terrell county
the fight is still on, and as sure
as the sun shines whiskey must go.
The victory that is coming will not
be brought about by fanatics or en-
thusiasts, but by the conservative,
thinking men and women of the
community.
Some time the people here are go
ing to wake up to the fact that the
eyes of the whole state are upon
them. Then the church members,
seeing themselves as others see
| them" will realize the inconsistency
of tolerating an evil that is wreck
| ing the homes of some of our best
people and debauching a weak and
helpless race right at our own doors
in order to pay taxes that they may
have more money to send missiona-
ries to the Cubans, the Cinnamon
and the African on his native heath.
They are going to remember the
fidelity of the negroes of the south
during the dark days of the sixties,
when the husbands and fathers were
at the front and the black man stood
guard for the protection of helpless
women and children against every
evil. Every thinking person knows
that whiskey, more than any other
cause, has brought about the awful
conditions now existing. 1t has
changed an humble, peaceable, work
ing class into shiftless, vicious
|
to our very civilization.
No matter how we may argue in
favor of dispensaries cold facts
speak for themselves, and prove
that for every one made drunk by
open barrooms the dispensary puts
two in the gutter" and fearfully in
creases crime.
Some glad day the business men
of Dawson and Bronwood and Herod
are going to take their eyes off their
ledgers long enough to give some
thought to this question, and they
will blush with shame that they have
so long builded with blood. They
are going to take time to study con-
ditions in Georgia, and when they
see the thrift and prosperity OF
scores of towns and cities that have
| long since put themselves on the
side of decency they will be morti-
| fed that they were ever so ignorat
as to contend that getting rid of
! WQlSK6y uldhSS uStu IOWA' liz
| temperance map puts us in the dark
est corner of the state. We are
marching under a black flag keeping
step to the signs and means of
broken hearted women and helpless
children, which we vainly try to
drown by singing pious hymns. But
! let no one be dismayed; better day
is coming. The shouts of victory
| from Buena Vista and ValdOsta and
other progressive towns that have re-
Gently triumphed over the forces of
evil tell of a mighty wave of tenn
perance sentiment that is sweeping
over the state. When our people
once realize the filth and wretched-
ness around their own doors they
are going to get very busy, and no
matter what is costs, or how disa-
greeable the task, they are going to
tear down the black flag of death
and destruction and unfurl over our
fair city the white banner of peace
upon which shall be inscribed, For
God and home and native land
CONSERVATIVE.
Dawson. Ga, Nov %.