The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-01-30
PROHIBITIONS lawful RESULTS"
Interests
Try to Run Homes and Government Without Saloons

spondence)-The lawful results" of the Prohbi-
ton policy pile up upon Atlanta with appalling
force. This morning the police court adjourned
at five minutes past nine having had exactly five
cases to deal with. Last night when the big red
bird" stockade wagon rolled away from the po-
lice station bearing four lonely prisoners to the
stockade to work out their fines, the main prison
department was left absolutely empty.
The shades of night had already fallen before
another arrest had been made and the prison
had received another occupant
The matron's ward was also empty and this
situation still prevails today in that department
Across in the police station annex in which is
situated the juvenile ward, two little negro boys
were confined at the time the main prison was
empty.
This has never before been known in the his
tory of the police station.
Contrast it with the records at the police sta
ton almost any time during 1907.
Not infrequently the station was packed to
suffocation with unfortunates, a very large per-
centage of whom were there through drinking
whisky The fact that not prisoner was in the
station this morning is pretty good argument
as to the effects of Prohibition.
The number of arrests has been falling off
steadily since January 1. 1t is not presumed
that such conditions will prevail at the station
all the time as exist Saturday, but the wonderful
moral improvement is apparent, and every one
believes that it will continue under prevailing
conditions
Tonight's Georgian will say editorally,
menting upon this occurrence:
The question which played so important and
so insistent part in the recent Prohibition cam
paign, docs Prohibition prohibit?' has been an
swered in the affirmative For the first time since
cells of the city prison were empty of offenders
on Friday afternoon. Not transgressor of the
law was in evidence when the prison doors were
opened on Friday afternoon.
The significance of such an occurrence must
impress itself upon every man and woman IN
Georgia who is familiar with the previous crlml-
nal records of the city.
No clearer, more definite and convincing proof
of this assertion could be found than the absence
on Friday-for the first time in its history-of
all criminals at the Atlanta police barracks
The Atlanta Journal which, it will be ren1en-
bered, fought the enactment of the Prohibition
law ito the last ditch" in leading double
column, editorially says:
Every cell door at police headquarters stood
wide open yesterday. For the first time since
the establishment of that house of detention
there not prisoner within its portals.
The officers in charge could scarcely realize
the new and strange condition, and tor city OF a
hundred and twenty-five thousand inhabitants it
was indeed a remarkable record 1t comes as
climax to the gradual diminution in the number
of arrests, which began Immediately upon the
advent of the Prohibition regime
There can be no possible qualification to the
qualification which the whole community feels
at this state of affairs and it is earnestly hoped
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