The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-06-16

to devote oneself to cleansing the fountains
from qohich mast 12oa0 pure, high-mjnded citi-
genSh5p. There isn't the slightest doubt that
the use of intoxicating liquors, pernlclous
drugs and various hurtful drinks is sapping
the very foundations of society. The vital
statistics upon this subject are simply horrl-
BILE Even the children are becoming addicted
to the use of demoralizing beverages. In the
United States Government Report on Home
Life in America, facts are published which
are so appalling that the Government sup
pressed the report. From any of the Home
Missions Societies, Liberty Lacquer could OBJ
tain information which ought to shock him
to the profound realization of the Importance
of doing Just such work as he insultngly con-
dennis in the women and the little preachers.
Would to God that there were ten times-a
thousand times las many women and little
preachers toiling and battling with all their
might to drive out of every community those
agencies which are undermining our social
fabric.
Liberty Lacquer says:
''The people love whiskey, and they need it, for
consumption and rheumatism and snake bite and
they are going to have it. You can't get the men
who buy it from the tigers to tell it. They will
not swear against those fellows, and ought not to
do So They have to swear they won't tell it be-
fore they buy it, and would you have these
men tell lies after they have got it,"
One could almost believe that Liberty
Lacquer is a Prohibitionist HIMSELF and that
his article is written in a spirit of profound
irony. There is room for suspicion that he
has burlesqued the whiskey side of the case
in order that it might provoke derision and
condemnation
Nobody but hopeless fanatic would con-
denim the citizen who keeps In his house pure
brandy or pure whiskey, or beer, or wine All
sensible men recognize the fact, that such
liquors have their legitimate uses. [ haven't
the slightest hesitation in saying that | keep
such things in my home, and they are used
when they are needed. [ make no secret of
it; and [ do not admit anybody's right to
question my privileges in the matter But 1t
must be obvious to everybody that the saloon,
where the loafng habit and the treating habit
and the excessive use of whiskey are inevita-
BILE, Is an institution qchicb does not harmon
5ge qcith schools and churches. The bar-room
undoes the work of the mother, the father,
the school-teacher, and the minister of the
Gospel. No good thing eUer came out Of q
d0ggery. Its presence in a community is an
unmitigated evil No Christian, civilized
community ought to tolerate it. 1t is to the
homes of that community what the snake is
to the unwary pedestrian No bad man aoas
ever changed into a good one, by the bar
room. On the contrary, it has been the ruin
of innumerable good men; and has beaten the
light cut Of the N0es Of millions Of good
eOonoen.
Talk about protecting the blind tiger?
ANY man. white or black, who will deliberate
ly set out to violate the law and to peddle rot
gut whiskey from some hidden lair is an out
law whom the community ought to seize and
severely punish. In the first place, no man
ever qOt from q blind tiQer aCbiSkeQ that aUas