The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-01
NEW YORK is SEEING THINGS
THERE Is TALK OF MAKING THE
GREAT METROPOLIS DRY.
Is Regarded as More Terrible Than
the Blast of Gabriels Horn, and
Has Set the Town a-Quaking.

Has SET the IOhu
New Workers are seeing things at
night, says a New York dispatch.
All M and down that thoroughfare
which Gothamites love to call the
"Great White Way" the "Rialto,
ar dear old Broadway" there lies
chill the dread of an awful fate i'm
nending. Were the judgment day at
hand Broadway would laugh and
ouaff its wine and jest at eternity,
INT the thing that has set New York
TO quaking is much more terrible
than the blast of Gabriel's horn.
There is talk of making the metropo-
lis dry"
One-halt of the territory of the
limited States proper has prohibition;
one-third of the people live under
laws which forbid the sale of intoxi-
eating liquor. Now it is announced
that the full prohibition strength the
country over is to be concentrated
in an effort to dry up New York.
IT is any wonder New Workers are in
. manic? Is it any wonder that at
each feast in the lobster belt there
is a skeleton? The popping OF
champagne cork falls on nervous ears
like the crack of doom, and laughter
is a mockery. The men and women
whose nights are given up to revel,
who have consecrated themselves to
high living and low thinking, are
nlunged into dark, dark despair.
The sun-if by chance they see the
sun-has not it's wonted brightness,
and even the lights they love so we'll
do not glow as they did before the
threat of this dire calamity came to
hang over the city like a pail.
A Brave Show.
They make brave show of be-
lieving that New York-'little old
New York could never be sub
merged by the temperance wave that
is sweeping the country, but they
fear it just the same. The action
of Police Commissioner Bingham in
putting the ban on concerts and all
other forms of public entertainment
on Sunday has set them thinking
If this be possible, they are forced
to ask themselves, why not prohibl-
ton?
Two years ago, even a year ago.
talk of prohibiting the sale of liquor
in New York would have been
thought too poor a jest for notice.
There is a popular supposition that
New Workers know little of what is
going on in the country west of the
Hudson, but this prohibition wave is
something that could not escape
them. It's possibilities were too ter
rible. They have heard of it's sue
cess at the south, especially in Ken
lucky and Tennessee, two states
where they had supposed everybody
was either engaged in the making
or the drinking of whiskey and it
has come home to them that even
New York may not be invulnerable.
The People Are Sober.
It is not probable, however, that
the men and women habitues of up
per Broadway will come in for seri-
GUS consideration when judgment
finally is passed on the question of
prohibition for the greater city. The
great bulk of New York's population
is made up of sober, Industrious,
home-loving people, just as sober, in
dustrious, home-loving people make
up the bulk of the population of any
other American city. Sobriety,
though, does not necessarily mean
total abstinence, and of abstinence
there probably is less in New York
than elsewhere in the United States,
with the possible exception of Chi
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