Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-12
CHAT

In November Florida votes for aho
against statewide prohibition and 1 want
every Christian 10 pray for the success
OF the prohibition ticket. There is no
question OF Christian voting for whisky;
a. is a strong statement to make, but
who can say that a man who votes for
what causes trouble. ruins homes and
steals the honor OF men and women, is a
Christian7
We must be Christ-Iike to be Christians
and L want to know if any OF you can
imagine Christ voting for whisky and
when you do not cast q ballot for pro-
hibltion you are giving a vote against
It
After living in a city where the streets
are free from drunken men, where one
sidewalk is as clean as another, so Tar
as not offending ones eyes and nostris
with the fumes Of whisky or the sight OF
a barroom are concerned, IL struck me
forcIbIy what a cross the good people OF
Jacksonville have 10 bear. i declare TO
you that some OF the streets Of that
city reminded me OF Dante's Inferno. The
business portion is fairly reeSing with
barrooms and the walls are covered with
their signs. Sunday Is openly desecrat-
ed and gambling Is such cancer thal
AZ must be apparent TO ALL
A number OF the counties OF FLORIDA
are closed 10 the traffic and some Of the
more conservative think that the ngnt
for the state is little premature DO
not think So II God be for US VINO
can be against US? You who have been
reading the Old Testament this year know
how often God made Israel victorious by
using a handful against regiments. There
must be hard, common sense and good
courage combined 10 make any issue
success
There are a few facts that want
every reader OF this page TO take TO
themselves and il they have said that
prohibition old not prohibit want them
10 tell me why. IL such be the case me
whisky men are in so much OF hurry
over the issue? Doesn't your own good
sense tell you that If it did not do more
rood than even YOU ana I realize that
the whisky men would not spend mil
lions OF dollars figh ting it2 They are
too shrewd 10 throw money away fight
ing dummy.
Another question I want to ask you
IS. how can the revenue derived from
allowing IL TO be sold help any commu-
niryr Does the money flow into Its
tiIls from abroad or is II the money
pinched from the groceries, the clothing.
the money that should be in the bank for
n rainy day? Does renting house for
barroom ado to the value Of the one
. next door? Putting groceries, millinery
or shoes there might, but there never
was a barrOOFn that even that much help
ed anybody, but the man who was will
ing to sell his soul for silver. And you
NAV say what you please, but i know
from close observation that such money
never brings happiness God is not
Knocked and whose putteth the bottle to
his nsighbor's lips, whether he receives
money for the drink or not, is adding
10 his own doom
Some people think that when they fail
70 vote at all they are mighty smart
and have evaded the issue.
II there was a defective rail in a bridge
over q river and you failed to notify the
proper parties and the train crashed into
the river killing, scalding and manning
the passengers. could you satisfy your
conscience, or the courts of your neigh
borsi Judgment by saying that you did
not run the road. nor was il any Of your
business TO warn the authorities? When
there is to be an election and at the pri-
mary you vote for a man that you know
Is net in sympathy with the fight, or is
80 ''wishy-washy'' that he can be bought,
you are putting a defective rail where
there Is sure to be a wreck. God speed
the day when the men OF this country
viii have the backbone to say. IF my
party puts I'D a man devoid Of good prin-