Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-29

Mans inhumanity to man makes
countless thousands mourn has oeeh
quoted many. many times. ana lhhu-
manity should be one of the stumbling
blocks parents should teach their chill
dren to avoid. Liberty Is fine tang
so long as the exercise of personal H.
erty does not infringe on anothers-
But IL you will notice, IL is generahS
the thoroughly selfish man or woman
who is forever calling on the world TO
defend liberty.
IL hurts me TO read so many letters
from people saying that whisky is worse
in Georgia today than before II was
voted out. There are men who are
taking the money that rightfully be-
longs 10 their families and sending II
on for whisky. God pity them and
their families. 1 pray But every COM
munity is not that way. There are
many homes that are made comfortable
or being paid for with the money that
would be spent for whisky IL IL were
in easy reach. man sat on the seat
in front Of me last week. we'll clothed
and prosperous looking who said to the
man across the aisle, This is the sort
OF day TO drive a man into a bar
room. I did not vote to send them out
of Georgia. but I'd vote to keep them
out for I've nearly paid for a home
since they. have been out man is
a fool TO send of for the stun that
makes a william OF himself and sufferers
OF his wife and children"
Don't say YOU are for prohibition and
turn right around and give your cow
ardly neighbor. husband or son, IL he
Is hunting for an excuse. a good one by
saying. There is more whisky drunk
now than two years ago"
Let this great fact be yours: There
Is 100000 in Georgia to fight prohibit
tion. Would the whisky men throw
good money away IL they were selling
as much whisky as they did when they
were here? II they are selling more by
being out Of the state, it's common sense
to say they would keep still and con-
tinue 10 ship it in
II a man had a fine pasture and hts
neighbor's cows got in where the fence
was bad. the unprincipled neighbor rejoic-
ing over the fact that he was making a
good thing out Of that pasture. would
the farmer whine and say, 1T wouldn't
be any worse IL I had no fence and
straightway tear IL all DOWN. Not a bit.
n he had a thimbleful OF brains he would
hunt the bad places and fix them up.
and then use a shotgun on the ring lead
er that got in after the fence was fixed.
That's what common sense dictates for
whisky as well as cattle. Hunt the weak
places I'm the law that lets whisky In the
state and fix them right Then IL IL comes
IN see that the law is enforced
II you are winking at blind tigers you
are not much better than the blind tiger.
and a coward TO boot. for you are afraid
10 report II. Sooner or later right will
triumph and God is going TO get rid OF
the obstructionist. whether they sell the
stun or keep still and let it be sold. II
there were a den OF thieves. or snakes IN
your community you would soon find men
enough 10 get rid of that menace, and A
blind tiger il both. for the men who rua
a steal regulations. homes and health.
while the stuff sold ''biteth like a serpent
end stingeth like an adder"
How many OF you who read these lines
really pray even once a day? 1 don't
mean merely Cabling through the Lords
PRAYER Ike children say "Ickery dickery
dock" but how many OF you have ever
taken that great prayer and senteuce by
sentence thought OF its meaning? Can you
ssy Thy kingdom come thy will be
done" and not lend your influence toward
doing Gods will?
Think about this, pray over il, and
above all things remember the woe that
God calls down on the one who putteth
the bottle TO his neighbor's lips
Faithfully yours.
LIZZIE o. THOMAS.