The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-17
TAKES HAND IN OUR SCRAP
A RANDOLPH CITIZEN ADVISES
THE PEOPLE OF TERRELL.
Mr.. Monroe Stevens Wants Our Dis
pensaries Closed. His Views on
the Evils of IntOXicants.

the ENllS OF
Editor of The Dawson News: FER
nit me in behalf of an overwhelming
majority of the voters, and very
nearly all of the good women, OF
Randolph county to protest against
the people of Terrell county persist
ing in running dispensaries.
You are our friends and neigh
bors, and are doing US incalculaole
harm, the extent of which will never
be known this side Of eternity.
Here is our grievance: The Ter
rell dispensaries are helping to
make drunkards of our boys; they
are demoralizing our labor; they are
debauching our citizens; they are
prostituting our churches, and they
are driving our women and children
to want.
It is to be hoped that the forego-
ing are sufficient reasons why we
should ask Terrell to desist. How
ever, there is one other that | will
give. There is a class of men in our
midst that whenever they drink in
toxicants their animal passions are
aroused, and they are transformed
into brutes. Our women and girls
are sometimes unavOidably left at
the mercy of these terrible creatures.
This is true, and it makes no differ
ence whether the intoxicants were
furnished by a blind tiger, a bar
room or a dispensary.
1t is said that 95 per cent of the
uncomfortable crimes committed up
on our white women and girls are
caused from the criminal being UNI
der the stimulating effects OF an in
toXicant. Whether this is true or
not, there is no doubt that intoXi-
cants are the cause of most OF the
assaults made on our white women
and girls. There appears to be no
doubt that all such creatures who
are not drunk are mOnOmaniacs, and
intOxicants are the cause of it.
We have just had an object les
son in Atlanta. If | have read the
paper Understandings intoXicants
have caused a dozen or more white
women and girls to be assaulted
during the last two mOnths-fOur OF
them in one day. Under the demon
alizing effects of intoXicants one
white woman was scared to death;
several white men were killed;
about fifteen innocent negroes were
killed, and thousands of dollars
spent to quell the row.
| am not a prophet, nor the son
of a prophet, but in my opinion the
late disturbance in Atlanta is very
tame affair to what we may see and
expect, not only in Georgia, but all
over the south, in less time than an
other decade if the sale Of intoXi-
cants is not stopped.
My friend, Mr.. Mercer, tells you
that he will make some improve
ments in the law regulating your
dispensaries. That is very com
mendable in Mr.. Mercer, but he can
not have a law passed requiring your
dispensaries to sell an intoXicant that
will not arouse the very worst pas
sions of a certain element in our
midst, thereby jeopardizing the safe
ty of our women and girls. Neither
can Mr. Mercer have law passed
that your dispensary must sell intoX-
icants that will not infame the an
CRY passions of a mob when one Of
our women or precious girls has been
assaulted.
Men of Terrell, in behalf of the
good white women and girls of Ran
dolph, and for the sake of your wives
and precious daughters, permit me
to beg that you will put this mon
ster evil from your midst.
MONROE STEVENS.
Shellman, Ga.
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