The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-28
CHALLENGES GLENN
ANTT-PROHIBITION WRITER WOULD
 ARGUE QUESTION.
George M. Harrison of Bainbridge. Ga, Sends to The Advertiser an Open Letter to Former
 Governor of North Carolina.

George M. Harrison of Bainbridge, Ga. who has gained some reputation as an anti-prohibition writer, has is- sued a challenge to former Governor R. B. Glenn of North Carolina, to meet him in public and discuss prohibition with him on Mr. Harrisons proposi- tion. that prohibition is "anti- Chris tian anti-Biblical and against human liberty" sF 73
 MT. Harrison sends his challenge to The Advertiser, because, as he ex- plains. he does not know the present address of Governor Glenn. MT. Harri- son is the author of a book entitled, "Jehovah's Controversy With Prohi- bition."
 He says in his letter:
 Hon. R. B. Glenn, ex-Governor North
 Carolina:
 My Dear Sir:-Not knowing where letter would reach you, and noting the clause contained In your speech, as reported in the Savannah papers, wherein you say, Those who oppose prohibition have no argument, but that which they call their argument, l will answer. The reasons they want whis- it. second. they have property that they want to rent to those who deal in It. etc.
 Now. sir. such statements are un- worthy so great and prominent a man as yourself. a very great injustice to millions of noble-hearted American citizens-showing that you are, per- haps, the master of only one side of the greatest question of the age, a question beside which the slavery issue of ,61-6'. that deluged our country with blood. Is a mere bubble upon the stream.
 No. sir. there are millions of good.
 naw-Ho have far loftier. deeper and broader thoughts upon the liquor ques- tion than you, or all other pro- hibitfon orators of the day have ever dreamed of. Therefore, we are not willing to longer submit that you. or they should become our guardians, and continue to attribute to us argu- ments that never eminated from our hearts-arg uments unworthy the true manh ood of the nation.
 There is nothing new in the doc Urine of prohibition, and nothing good save for man to apply the noble vir- tue of self-control. to his own personal life-which Is true temperance. but, when he is beside himself-possessed ; by a spirit of religious incompetence .intolcnance and bigotrN-moral and spiritual blindness, so to speak, as to force this doctrine upon millions of his fellowmen against their wish and de- sire, in defiance of their consctences and the divine rights granted to them by Almight ty God. 1 do not hesitate in saying. that 1t Is the most outrage ous breach of human rights ever at tempted upon free and intelligent na- tion, one that can never be accom- plished though contended for upon a hundred battlehelds. No, sir, the doc Urine that you and all other prohibi- ton leaders are advocating upon every stump and from almost every pulpit of this country-the great Catholic, Episcopal and Jewish excepted-of consigning more than half of our best and noblest citizenship to the chain gang" for differing with you upon a subject that Jehovah settled more than forty centuries ago. Is anti Christian, wholly destitute of a single spark of the spirit or teaching which you say you are following.
 Therefore, for the benefit of the great masses of our people, who have never heard but one side of this great ques- ton, I suggest that you meet me in public debate upon the following prop osition. viz:
 That the doctrine of prohibition is { anti Biblical, anti Christian. anti-Amer- lean. wholly unworthy the behalf and