Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-10-03
Georgia and Her Hypocracy.

| able shams in the history Of State leg
isiation has recently been accomplish
ed by Georgia.
Great stress has been laid upon the
fact and it is clothed with Importance,
since it tends to show the emotional
signs of the times, that Georgia has
jumped from local option to Prohibi-
ton. Now by law liquor cannot be
made, or sold or given away, and even
the drug stores are prohibited from
supplying TO the sick or the dying any
stimulant with the exception of pure
alcohol. If a physician finds that
champagne, now so frequently used in
the sick room and in hospitals, or
brandy is necessary the law demands
that the patient shall die rather than
the liquor prescription shall be filed at
the drug store.
The crafty politicians who are riding
into power and graft on the top wave
of this prohibition sentiment in the
South in their zeal even struck at the
religion of our Lord and Saviour, since
the law forbids the administration of
wine in the churches in connection
with the holy sacrament.
But how came Georgia to enact such
a sweeping interdict? There is always
one side to a story and this one has
two. To pass prohibition it had to be
based on race prejudice. Liquor was
too good for the 'nigger" and his fost-
er brother, the 'poor white trash"
Stop it, and "nigger'' crime against
womanhood will cease was the argu-
ment, and it caught the minds of emo
tional and thoughtless men and
women.
But Prohibition could not be passed
IN Georgia either on moral or temper
ance grounds which has been claimed
1t was only passed upon the promise
to rob the 'nigger" of his right to
vote. 1t passed one day by vote of
ten to one, and mark you the very
next day the legislature passed an act
DISTINGUISHING the negro. Here was a
questionable political deal and bar
gain that was manipulated by the poll
ticians both within and without the
church.
Now mark again the subsequent act
ion of this same Georgia legislature.
Within week following its hysterical
adoption of prohibition by vote en-
o1,,IN ,at
taxing every social club which dispen-
ses liquors to its members three hun
dred dollars
And the politicians now smile while
the deceived clergymen and his church
member who were used in the'drama to
rob the negro of his vote are measur.
ing the breadth and depth of their
bunco. But the hotels do not smile,
nor does the farmer who all his life has
been making his own peach brandy
which he drinks with the addition of
drop of honey.
Upon the first of January, 1908, the
bar of every hotel must be closed
even the rooms as to liquors, the drug
stores save rs to alcohol.
But around the corner, or at the
next cross-road will be the club. Home
life next year will not be known to
Georgia, in so far as the men are con-
cerned, and it will soon reach the club
life of the women.
How easy to form a club: Rent
room, charge each member fifty cents
for his key. He takes his friends, pays
for the drinks and afterwards divides
the expense. This is not gentlemanly,
but is the pace set by hypocrisy.
Every "wet" member of the legisla-
ture voted for the $4,000 club tax bill;
every "dry" member did likewise.
Why? Because they thought the
negroes could not form clubs and pay
a tax of $4,000. But we shall see!
In Georgia since 1866 they have ad-
vanced more than the white race
hence the jealousy, the persecution, a
States hypocracy.
"Puck" recently published a fine
cartoon on it's front page. 1t was the
fat man of Georgia, raised on his liquor
drinking to the lean man from Maine.
Georgia was imbibing from a bottle
marked "Lemon Phosphate, 1.-THE
man from Maine, tall, lean and lank,
was imbibing from a bottle marked
'Cold Tea" And thus hypocrisy
through the laws assailing personal
liberty, extends from Main to Georgia.
Adv.