The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-06-21
How Will The Voters OF Georgia Meet These
Facts.

Strong drink jinges the burglars keys,
whets the assassin S blade, kindles the incen
darys torch, incites crime, provides violence
fomentS strife, fills jailS and penitentiares,
sends its victims to the galIowS, and Their
souls to nell.
1t scorcheS, scatheS, burns, blackens, cor
rodeS and consumes all it touches.
1t invadeS every community and demands
tribute from our homes. 1t lieth in ambush
to delude and destroy our young men.
The open saloon is a menace to our civili-
cation. 1t is an open appeal to the man,
who is trying to reform, to indulge again.
1t is like great devil fish with grasping
suckers reaching out to draw in and crush It's
victims.
No one can begin to sum up the evils and
vilianies of the saloon. Who can paint a
picture of drunkard's home? VINO can
soundthe depth of the wife'S misery or the
Widows woe? Who can describe the DESC
Iation lowering over the orphaned children?
Who can picture the prison bars, the felen s
cell, the CHASTITY gallows2
Its history is ona of shame, cruelty and
corruption; of disease, death and damnation.
one si~kenS at the thought of trying to de-
scribe the effects of the liquor traffic upon the
career O1 men and women, undermining as ii
does, the health, happiness AMI character of
all.
What does it amount to? one of our ex-
changes puts it thus: Give thousand sui
cideS, 10, 900 murderers, 90 900 fallen girls,
100, 900 paupers, 200, 900 feeble minded per-
sons, 3 900 murdered wives, 40 900 widow
ed mothers, 100, 900 orphaned children, 100,
900 insane, LOG, 900 criminals. Besides these
items, 100 700 drunkards die annually, 100,
900 boys take their places. WhisKey costs
nearly 1900 900 900 in cash and untold
crimes, misery, woe, want, weeping, waiIing
war, disease, degradation, destruction, death ,
riot, revelry, and ruin.
Reader, if rhe tenth of this terrible picture
of the saloon business be true, can yea IS q
rational intelligent being go to the polls and
by your vote, continue its existence?
Viii you be party to a pushes, Which is
. so corrup1ing, SO ruinouS, and 50 Gamnable,
by casting a vote to continue it?
Arise quickly, o Christian voter, and come
out from this iniquitous partners nip, which is
throwing around your own soul part guilt for
every broken heart, every ruined home, every
wrecked life, which but for the curse of the
saloon might have the joy Of peace AID hap
piness that is apparently your own
''An old saloon keeper, when rem onstrated
with for inveighing the boys into MS ifell hole,
replied: ooh! it is beezeness, beezeness
the old drinkers will soon all be dead, and
where will beezeneSs be, if don't get the
boys?"
One out of every five young men of land
are drafted annually to fill up the ranks of
the depleted army Of drunkards,
At meeting of the STAGE Liquor Dealers
of Ohio last year, one Of the speakers said:
'Men who drink liquor, like others, will die,
and if there is no new appetite created, our
counters will be empty as will be our Golfers.
our children viii 60 hungry, or we must
change cur business for some other more re-
munerative."
The open field for the creation Of appetite is
among the boys. After men have grown ana
their habits are formed tn;y rarely ever
charge in this regard. 1t will be needtli.
therefore, that missionary work be done
among tine boys and make this suggestion,
gentlemen, that nickels expended in treats to
the boys now will return in dollars to our
tills after the appetite has been formed.
Above all things create appetite"
Citizens. of Georgia have you any boys for
these muruer mills2 Then stop, think, con-
slider how you vote For as sure as there
isa God in Heaven when you vote wet you
on nands with these murdererS in their mel
lisa business.
How are you going to vote brother.
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