Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1910-05-05
A GOOD MANS REPLY.
Would That All Whisky Circulars
Meet This Same Fate.

concern at Chattanooga. which
wish to have you publish in the
columns Of your valuable paper
if YOU think it worth while.
For modcsty's sake you viii.
withhold the name Of the firm.
Yours for complete prohibition
IL. b. NESMITH. p. VI.
The letter is as follows:
Dear Sir: Yours Of recent
date to hand. in which You ask
me for list Of names Of the pa
irons Of this office. if | can give
them without conflicting with the
poStof1icc laws. and if | could not
to please give your letter to some
friend that can. for which YOU Of
fer to pay me in cash or a ship
mcnt OF goods. etc.
| have given You the courtescy
to read and re-read your letter
very carefully. and only ask that
Won give my reply the same cour-
tcSv that | did yours.
No, cannot furnish YOU the
names because it is a violation of
the postal laws and it is also
against u noble law that read in
another code Of laws. that reads
like this:
We unto him that giveth his
neighbor drink; that puttest thy
bottle to him. and makest him
drunken. also that you mayest
look on their nakedness. Thou
are filled with shame for glory;
drink thou also; and let thy fore
skin be uncovered; the cup Of the
Lord S right hand shall be turned
unto thee, and shammul spewing
shall be on thy glory"
Again this law book speaks in
no uncertain terms when its asks
the following weighty questions:
WHO hath woe? Who hath sor-
row? Who hath babblings? Who
hath wounds without cause? Who
hath redness Of eyes? They that
tarry long at the wine: they go
to seek mixed wine. Look not
thou upon the wine when it is
red; when it giveth it's color in
the cup; when it moveth its self
Alright. AT last it biteth like a
serpent and stingeth like an adj
der. "
And | have seen so much of
the 'redness" of the eyes. and
heard 50 much Of the babbIings "
that | cannot dare to asst them in
getting more Of the stuff that will
make a repetition Of these evils.
Nor thieves, nor covetous,
nor drunkards. shall inherit the
kingdom Of God. " OF course,
drinking strong drinks makes
drunkards, and ne who selsI it
hel ps them to be drunkards,
hence helps them to be barred
from from the kingdom of God,
and the happiness Of heaven. |
believe my own dear mother is in
heaven, and | have no cause to
doubt yours is. or will be there.
| hope to enfer there, would be
lad of your acceptance in that
glorious kingdom; how then
"0nld | do thing that would
bring woe uon myself. and be-
bar others Of entrance there?
For while they be folden to-
gether as thorns, and while they
are drunken as drunkards, they
shall be devoured as stubbIe full
~ dry"
Q, how could you and [ endure
to see the devouring of our prec-
.ious loved ones; yea, of our
friends as we'll No. canot send
the names, neither can | give your
letter to someone who will with |
Iont violatinti the laws referred to
above.
| believe you are a gentleman,
for your letter has the ring of in
ltelligence, but, My dear sir, your
business is destructive Of good
moral, peace, prosperity and hap
piness. Many the tears shed by
loving mothers. devoted wives and
dependent little children because
of the stuff which you sell; many
the noble young man and young
woman. too, that are east down
and ruined, the criminals that 90
to the prisons and to the scaffold ;
Yea. that 90 down to hell. because
| # Yourself and others that sell
| drink that pOiSonS the mind.
wrecks the body. and dethrones
reason.
My apNeal to Won rs n fellow.
man. and as one that loves the
~oul of man Is TO abandon This no