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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
THE FARMERS MULE

Will Catch Fits Being Driven in
Quest of Whisky at Night.
They say that they want to stop
the negro from coming to town and
driving the mules.
Should prohibition be forced upon
us that same mule will be driven, and
often will be slipped at night to
drive to some "tiger," or to Albany
for the accustomed pint or quart.
When the Terrell county denizen
goes to other towns for his whisky he
goes there also for other merchan-
disc to the hurt of the merchant at
home He will carry there much of
the cotton and other produce which
should find a market nearer home.
Again, it is highly probable that much
of our labor, already scarce, will seek
pastures greener, where he can get
his bottle easier
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
THE ONES 1T WOULD HIT HARD
The Man Who Owns Few Acres of Land and . MI,
That Can Always Be Seen, and Not the One Who
Has Merchandise Stocks and Bonds

before casting your ballot for pro-
,;hition, an experiment already
eorrd greatly wanting in good re-
.,,1+s wherever tried, consider Sc
niousIv what such conditions in Ter
.or county would mean to you. Now,
$40 have a county the peer of any
=, any southern state. Property has
increased in value by leaps and
sounds during the last few years.
The prosperity of the county is on
tho tongue of every Georgian. The
,ooraI status of it's people has i'm
vowed greatly and steadily. Educa-
ptionaI interest has advanced wonder
fnIly and the cause of temperance,
- mite of the croakers' dictum to
The contrary, is thousand per cent.
hove that of a quarter of a century
400 Just at this juncture even the
gentleman' who is singing the i'm
9ginary praise of prohibition would
searcely think of offering you for
Tonr property what he would have
nnhesitatingly given you before this
agitation. Try him!
should the dispensary go, as was
shown in the last issue of this paper,
the property tax would double, thrib
Me or quadruple. The man paying
s1OO now would in all probability
then pay $500 to the taxgather, and
we unhesitatingly assert that the
morals of the county would be hurt
rather than helped.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
WHO STARTED IT?
The Facts About the Negro Being
Brought Into the Dispen-
sarY Election.

1t is noticed the prohibitionists
have become suddenly alarmed be-
cause, forsooth, the friends of the dis
pensary have not discouraged the ne
gro in his desire to register and eXer-
else his suffrage in this fight which
they have precipitated. They seem to
have very quickly forgotten that they
it were who first approached MIR.
Cuffy." when they were fearful they
would not succeed in getting up the
needed number of names on their
petition to induce the ordinary to
call an election. They forget that
they delivered to at least two negroes
that petition that they might solicit
from among their fellows signers of
the same They forget that Brother
Smith met with them out in the
country, and made them a speech
urging them to assist in the over
throw of the dispensary, and in the
bringing about of prohibition. Why,
then. is it not as fair for the goose
as for the gander?" If he who
thinks the county will be best OF
under prohibition can afford to So
licit the aid of the negro in thus
affecting the commonwealth why is
it not equally allowable to him who
conscientiously differs on this most
vital question to at least not deter
the negro from casting his ballot
with the dispensary advocate? There
is an old and oft referred to jewel
known as Consistency. "
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
Views Of Eminent Ministers.

threats, cursing; but | saw no pro-
motion of meekness among Chris
tians or repentance among sinners.
The contest was long and the fruits
were bitter Long did it take to
teach the sober part of the commu-
nifty simple truth.
DIR. HOWARD Crosby: "Prohi-
bition throws wide open the flood
gates of vice. An imperative law
is no law at all There is the UNI
licensed vice which feels it's tempo
rary freedom and is prepared to
make the most of it. Is prohibition
imperative? The statistics show
that it is. There is no prohibition
in Maine. There never was in any
state which adopted it. The main
effects of prohibition, where tried,
are poor liquor, large prices for 1t,
an increase of the inmates of lunatic
asylums, poverty for the farmer and
system of semi-thieverys and de-
Iberate falsehood on the part OF the
inhabitants and transients, which UNI
fit them for prayer and church-go-
ing"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
SELLS A GOOD ARTICLE.

In the county of Thomas, the nome
of Brother Roddenberry, there are
1872 United States licensed whisky
dealers. A certain drummer not
very long since remarked to COM
nonion as they were aboard a train
going from valdosta to Thomasyil ile
fbat better whisky could be had IN
T Tho on SUNDAY than in Val
dosta on Monday. The companion
had just expressed the regret tn Ina 7
he had forgotten to supply simself
with a quart for the next day CSun-
dav4 before departing from the wet
town. as brownsville was SAID 10
he he dry" one. Thus the story
goes with the so-called prohipltlon
towns.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
FROM FOUR DIRECTIONS DAILY
A Flood of Whskey VIII Be. Brought to Dawson by
Eight Trains if the Dspensary Is Voted Out.

Should prohibition prevail the
eight trains reaching Dawson daily
from cities in four directions SELL
ing whisky legally would come laden
with bottles and jugs for the indi-
vidual drinkers and the numerous
blind tigers to follow. The above
cities, Macon, Americas, Columbus,
Montgomery, Eufaula and Albany,
will all reap harvest of Terrell
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30

TO make the comparison more in
structive, it must be remembered
that the percentage of negroes who
drink is greater than that of whites.
The percentage of illiteracy among
the negroes is also greater. The
records of the criminal courts of
South Carolina show that the negroes
have much less regard for the laws
of the land than the whites. South
Carolina has 782,321 negroes, while
the total of the other three states
cited is but 1920, as follows Kan
sas, 52,005; Maine, 1919; Massa-
chusetts, 31,974
Prohibition Kansas, with 10000
more population than South Carroll
ma and less than one-fifteenth as
many negroes, had nearly six times
as many retail liquor dealers, more
than seven times as many wholesale
liquor dealers, about seven times as
many retail dealers in malt liquors
and nearly eleven times as many
wholesale dealers in malt liquors
Prohibition Maine, with about half
the population of South Carolina and
practically no negroes, had about
twice as many retail liquor dealers,
five times as many wholesale liquor
dealers, nearly ten times as many re-
tail dealers in malt liquors and near
ly four times as many wholesale deal
ers in malt liquors.
In the face of these official figures
how can il longer be contended that
prohibition prohibits? The test of
nraptica1 results ig ALI in favor Of
the dispensary.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
BUSINESS FOR REVENUE MAN

In conversation a few days age a
United States revenue official made
the statement that there are at this
time 100 cases against blind tigers
in the county of McDuffie, and that
besides there are there 100 revenue
licenses in force, making in that sin
ole prohibition county 200 liquor
dealers at this time. The statement
u, ~ also made that 80 revenue IL
censes have just been placed in the
midst of our neighbor, Cuth pert.
And still they say that prohibition
nrOhibitsi
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30

Again, who is it who wouId foo,
most keenly this tax Increase
would it be the man with his
thousands of cash, his stocks ond
bonds? No, it would fall to the LOT
OF the poor man, and to the mediocre
IN hnance-to the man who owns but
a home, farm, or other visible
property which cannot be put ont Of
sight or sworn off. He it is who
would bear this burden of increased
taxation; he it is who would suffer
most from the slump in propertv
values that would certainly follow
the tax increase. y
Think of another feature Te II
not true that the cost of living bae
In every way greatly increased in re-
cent years? Your mule or your
morse cannot be had except at two
or three times the cost of a dozen
years ago. Your negro laborer. costs
you three times what he did four
years ago, and does less work for
the increased wages. Your food and
your clothing cost in the same in
creased proportion.
Are you now, in the face of all
these startling facts, going to de-
liberately drive yourself farther to-
wards the haunts of poverty by
forcing on our great county a con
dition that has proven everywhere
positive farce? Can you afford it?
Hardly!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
DISPENSARY AND PROHI-
BITION STATES COMPARED
Wet South Carolina Is Dry as Bone in Comparison
With the Prohibition States of Kansas and Maine
Facts Worth Considering
BY Rev G. B. wilmer in Atlanta journal.

The South Carolina dispensary
system is similar to the Gothenburg,
with an important difference. There
is governmental control, with the
elimination of the element of private
profit, but no liquor is allowed to be
drunk on the premises of the place
of sale Nothing less than a certain
quantity is sold, and it must be taken
away. Mr.. W. o. Tatum, state COM
sioner, makes the following claims,
based on the statistics for the year
1890: In Maine, with population
of GOA ,466, there were 95S retail
liquor dealers, IA wholesale liquor
dealers, 408 retail dealers in malt
liquors and 81 wholesale dealers in
malt liquors. In Kansas, with a pop
lation of 1,470,49 there were 2,822
retail liquor dealers, % wholesale
liquor dealers, 303 retail dealers in
malt liquors and 107 wholesale deal
ers.
In Massachusetts, with a popula-
ton of 2,S05,346, there were 4,S9S
retail liquor dealers, 215 wholesale
liquor dealers, 1914 retail dealers in
malt liquors, and 400 wholesale deal
ers in malt liquors.
In South Carolina with a popula-
ton of 1,340,316, there were 400 re-
tail liquor dealers, three wholesale
liquor dealers, A retail dealers in
malt liquors, and 10 wholesale deal
ers in malt liquors; 113 of the re-
tail liquor dealers, two of the whole
sale liquor dealers, and all of the
wholesale dealers in malt liquors
were state officials selling according
to law. The others were Illicit deal
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30

THOMAS JEFFERSON: "Our leg
islators are not sufficiently appTised
of the rightful limits of their power;
that their true office is to declare
and enforce only our natural rights
and duties, and take none of them
from us. No man has natural right
to commit aggression on the equal
rights of another; and this is all
from which the law ought to restrain
him: every man is under the natural
duty of contributing to the necessl-
ties of society, and this is all the laws
ought to enforce on him; and no man
having a natural right to be the
Judge between himself and another,
it is his natural duty to submit 10
the umpirage of an impartial thlru,
When the laws have declared ana
enforced all this they have tulnlleo
their functions, and the idea is quite
unfOunded that on entering lnto SO,
ciety we give up any natural right
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: prohibit
ton will work great injury to the
cause of temperance. 1t is a species
of intemperance within itself, for 1t
goes beyond the bounds Of reason
in that it attempts to control man
appetite by legislation, and in max
ing crimes out of things that are not
crimes A prohibition law strikes
a blow at the very principles on
which our government was founded
I have always been found laborln9
to protect the weaker classes from
the stronger, and l never can give
my consent to such law as you pro
pose to enact. Until my tongue shall
besilenced in death | will continue
to fight for the rights of men.
SAMUEL J. TILDEN: 1T is no
part of the duty of the state TO CO.
cree the individual man, except So
far as his conduct may affect others
not remotely and consequentlal!y'
but by violating rights which legls-
latiOn can recognize and undertake
to protect. The opposite principe
leaves no room for individual reason
and conscience, trusts nothing 70
self-culture, and substitutes the Wis
dom of the senate and assembly lor
the plan of moral government or
dained by Providence. The WHORE
progress of society consists in learn.
ing how to attain by the Independent
action or voluntary association Oh III.
dividuals those objects which are aC
nrst attempted only through INC
agency of government and in lessen
ing the sphere of legislation ana en,
larging that of the individual reaSon
and conscience"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30

county dollars, thus being built up
at the expense of Dawson and Terrell
county.
Whisky is sold on all sides of Ter
rell county, as in Dougherty, Lee,
Sumter Webster, and in counties
but little farther away, as in Bibb,
Muscogee and Barbour county, Ala.
Can we afford to contribute to the
Golfers of these counties to the hurt
in all ways of Terrell?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
Prominent Men on Prohibition.

lie treasury, coupled with severe pen
alties for illicit sales, has provided
the most efficient check upon the
abuse of the liquor traffic. In many
respects the question is a sumptuary
one; the laws attempting to estab-
lish sumptuary regulations become
inquisitorial and impossible of exc
cution, so that in those communities
of this country where they have been
enacted they have either aggravated
the evil where intended to prevent,
or have fallen into contempt and
uselessness, and been repealed.
JEFFERSON DAVIS THAT it
(intemperance) is at the root OF
many social disorders is conceded;
but then the question arises, what IS
the appropriate remedy, and what
the present necessity? To destroy
individual liberty and moral respon-
sibility would be to eradicate one
evil by the substitution OF another.
The abuse and not the use of slim
ulants, it must be confessed, is the
evil to be remedied. | might appeal
TO men not as old as myself to sus-
tain the assertion that the convivial
use of intoxicants and the occur
renee of drunkenness had become
less FREQUENT within the last twenty
years than it was before. The re-
fining influence of education and
Christianity may be credited with
this result. Why not allow these
blessed handmaidens of virtue and
morality to continue unembarrassed
their civilizing work?
COLONEL GEORGE E. WARiNG;
eff anything has been proved by a
third of a century of prohibition 1t
is that it does not prohibit. 1t pre-
vents the regulation of the hquor
traffic and the collection OF pubic
revenue. It does not prevent the eX-
cessive and demoraliZing use OF llq-
nor in open and eXultant violation
of law. No fair view can be taken
of the situation without bearing con,
stantly in mind that this is a Ianu
of absolute religious freedom; tnaI
one has as much legal right to be
lieve one thing as another or to be-
lieve nothing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30
THEY WANT HIM, TOO.

II is noticed that the prohibltion-
lists are exceedingly anxious TO use
tho negro in furthering their idea OF
+hinos They are losing no oppor-
unity to argue the question win
~ sum' and are having stated meetings
I ntIti' him The dispensary advocates
have had not single meetlng' anu dn
viii not. we are sure; put VIII ue-
nend on a brief statement OF Iacts
TO him as chance gives the opPorOuni-
tv. Be consistent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30

The fight is whipped. 1t is now
ooncaded that the dispensary VIII
U UGno nv the white vote. 1t IS only
a question as to the size OIL inc -"
jority.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30

THOMAS F. BAYARD: $50 Jar
as my experience goes, a Well-res u
lated system of license WHEREBY Ies-
enue is largely brought into the pun
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30

4 negro preacher, paid by the bar
keepers of Albany , 4as I neem g
DaWson making prohibition speecleS'
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30

REV. DIR. LEONARD BACON:
I'm the long run the operation, or
the moderativeness of this law
maine prohibitory law lis as mis-
chievous as it's pretensions are dis
honest, it's arguments fallacious and
it's title fraudulent. The doom OF
failure is written in the very struct-
ure Of it, contrived, as it is, to work
with the utmost friction and annoy
ance, with perversions abhorrent to
all our traditions of freedom, for
secret information and domiciliatory
visitation and search"
DIR. LEONARD WELLINGTON:
II bear my solemn testimony, and
say that though / have seen frequent
attempts | never knew any good to
come from such legislation. | have
seen men exasperated by it, but
never reformed. So it has ever been,
and so it will ever be, until Nature
itself is changed / was in Connect
cut when attempts were made to en-
force such law. l saw hypocrisy,
power, passion, haughtiness, indigna-
ton, force, resistance to commands,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-30

outh Carolina dispensary ers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-15
KANSAS RUBBER COMPANY
One Has Been Chartered to Do Bust
Ness Here.

Kansas now has a rubber company
the first rubber company to be es-
tablished in the state, so far as known
The new company was granted 9
charter this morning by the charter
600, and its headquarters are Olathe
The purposes of the company are to
manufacture all kinds of rubber ar
ticles. Old rubber will be gathered
into the factory and reworked into
new articles. So far as can be
learned, the company does not expect
to raise any rubber in Kansas al
though rubber is a commodity which
is often produced in large Quantities
when the occasion warrants
The following is a list of the people
interested in the new 100000 rubber
concern: George Huff. Charles OFT,
w. D. Morrison. J. w. Breyfogie, 1. d.
Hibner. A. G.. Carpenter. Ed Ripley,
r. P. MacClement, w. S. Speer.
Other charters granted this morn
ing were as follows: ne"
Dodge Bryan lumber Co, Parsons,
$15,D0OEJ y FooHTf.
Baldwin Shirt Co., Parsons, $4,000.
Farmers Mutual Tel. Co., Osawat-
omie, $10,000er far3
Belvue State bank. Belvue. $4,000.
Farmers Grain. and Mere Co,
Penalosa, $4,000.
National Chemical Co., Caney,
$4,000.
First Baptist church, Mcdonald.
Grand Council of Fraternal Order
of Honor, Lawrence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-15
MRS. M'HENRY ARRESTED
With Her Appearance in Winfield an
Old Charge Is Resurrected.

Winfeld-Mrs. Myra McHenry ar
rived in town again Tuesday after
noon and was imme diately arrested on
an old charge, that of destroying a
whisky advertising poster. This act
occurred near the South Winfield sta
tlon last spring, since which time she
has not been back here. Having read
in the Courier that she would be ar
rested on her return here, she wrote
this paper that she would come back
as soon as she finished the tour she
then had in view. She g1eefully in
formed us that she had just destroyed
sixteen whisky posters in Wichita and
was going to keep it up.
When she reached Winfield Tues
day afternoon she at once hunted up
the officers to make her presence
known. Constable Ed Coats had the
warrant. issued the day the poster
was destroyed. She was taken before
Justice Earhart and trial set. Sid
Cure went on her bail for her appear
ance. and Sol Smith was retained as
her attorney.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-15

| 1t was a strong appeal. 1t was one
that made the Deacon smack his lips,
| but he needed not That circular was
taking up all his attention The pres
fdent Of the Honest Joe" mine had
figured, ont that am n with ten thou
sand dollars worth of stock would clear
more hard cash in one year in divid-
ends than the owner of five hundred
acres of cabbage could in ten. He had
almost decided on selling a second COW
when Mrs. Dolby was heard from
again,
When Mrs. Edwards had told me
about the hard cider 1 thought 1 should
die on the spot, but held on to my
self and says I:
lis there anything else?'"
There is says she.
Then tell it before 1 co.
Can you stand IL p -
"T'll try to-
"And then, Samuel she told me the
worst of all. She said that there was a
fakir in town the other day selling
something in bottles to prolong human
life by twenty years. 1t was fifty cents
a bottle. and she don't believe it was
anything more than peppermint es
sence, but up you walks and lays down
a dollar for two bottles and says to
Mr.. Jones' who was there that you
proposed to outlive your old woman
by forty years. I've smelt the pepper
claimed that you put some in holler-
tooth. Samuel look me IN the eye and
tell me whether Mrs. Edwards lied or
not. I want to know before leave
this world eff tears
Mr.. Dolby didn't turn and look her
in the eye. He didn't even turn enough
for her to observe that he was blush
ing. The president of the Honest
Joe" was winding up his circular by
admonishing his readers to write him
that day-that evening-that hour. be-
fore those fourteen hundred million
tons of copper could turn into Chicago
embalmed beef. and he was mentally
figuring on what price he could get for
his two cows and horse.
"You didn't refer to me as Mrs. Dol
by. or your wife or Rachel" sobbed
the woman on the lounge. but as the
old woman You didn't care how soon
1 died. but you wanted to live forty
years after mel 1 asked you for ten
cents that day and you couldn't spare
it, and yet you walk up and lay down
a dollar for the. life-prolonger! oh
Deacon
But it ended there. A neighbor
came IN 20 borrow coffee for break
fast, and Mrs. Dolby rolled Off the
lounge and ran to get it. and when
the Deacon got ready to wind the clock
she was saying to the other woman
that her health was never so we'll. and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-15
A SANTA FE WRECK.
Cars i'm the Ditch Near Conway But
No One Seriously injured.

McPherson-The Santa Fes east
bound passenger train, due here at
noon, is in the ditch about a half mile
west of Conway While the wreck
was of a dangerous nature none of the
fifty passengers on board was serious
ly hurt although a number were badly
shaken up.
A spreading rail was thought to
have been the cause of the accident.
The train was nearing Conway and at
the time was going only at the rate of
about ten miles an hour. Had it been
going at full speed the damage would
have been much greater and 1t is
probable that lives would have been
lost. Telephone messages from Con-
way state that the baggage car, smok-
er and chair car are all in the ditch,
parts of the cars in the mud up to the
windows. About fifty rails were torn