The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-29
MUCH ACTIVITY is BEING MANI
FESTED BY TEMPERANCE
LEADERS OF THE STATE.
A Statement Has Been Issued and
Movement Is On. Prohibition Law
Can BE Repealed at Amy Ses-
-, ~ flnn L n1riCInf
sion of the Legislature.

sion of the Legislature.
That the prohibitionists will take
an active part in the approaching
campaign for the election of repre-
sentatives in the upper and lower
souses of the general assembly is evil
denced by the activity of the tenn
perance people in all parts of the
state.
According to local prohibitionist
candidates for both the senate and
the house in Terrell county will be
asked to publicly express their views
on this issue before the campaign
grows very old. The representative
of the county in the present legisla-
ture voted for the bill that is now
a law.
While the prohibition law is Sup
posed to be effective for two years,
at least, it can be repealed at any
session of the legislature, and the
prohibitiOnists are not blind to this
IdCI, dCCOIulHS " IcJOI u II OIIl va
rious sections of the state, and the
prohibition fight is to be renewed in
the coming state primary for mem
bers of the general assembly, the
prohis to fight for a prohibition leg
islature so as to keep the state dry,
and the ants to fight for an anti
prohibition lawmaking body 50 as to
make the state wet" again.
That the fight to bring back liquor
into the state will come on sooner
than was generally anticipated now
seems assured. At least the leading
prohibitionists believe so, and they
have been keeping tab on the en-
envy, so to speak,
]. B. Richards, associate superin-
tendent of the Anti-Saloon League,
makes the following statement in
regard to the activity of the league
in the coming primary election in
the state, and it is significant in
view of the reported activity of the
opposition in this great question
which has revolutioniZed conditions
in the state and seems to be sweep
ing over the south.
His statement follows
Now that the saloons have been
abolished and prohibition is effective
in Georgia the chief work of our or
ganization VIII be to see that the
proper legislature-One of prohibi-
ton sentiments elected this sum-
mer
Our hardest work is yet to be
done. We do not want it to be in
Georgia as it has been i'll other states,
and by that | mean the annulment
of the prohibition laws by another
legislature. After every great public
movement has succeeded people be-
gin to find flaws, to scott at the good
it has accomplished, and to cry for
a return of the old order of things.
Then the liquor interests get busy.
They endeavor, by various means, to
influence the public mind and create
an adverse sentiment. They make
mountains out of mole-hills. Even
now these interests are hard at work,
and it behooves us to also get busy.
"Our only hope is to elect pro-
hibition legislature. Wherever the
Anti-Saloon League is represented
effort will be made to see that only
the proper person, one who repre-
sents the desire and sentiment OF
the church-going and law-abiding
people of the community, is sent to
the capitol If we become careless
and negligent at this late date our
work of the past will have accom-
plished naught. J. B. RICHARDS.