Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-28
LOCAL OPTION VS.. PROHIBITION

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The people this State have in the Dec
say their ballots they do not believe Local
Option and that they do believe that morally or financially
three candidates for Governor Pope Brown the peoples cand
Wide Prohibition Judge Russell for Local option
Brown nothing But thisis not of men but ISSUE
you prohibition prevail and the spent for meat Hour
personal consideration aside and vote for the candidate
who elected Wide Prohibition, the Hon. Pope
Brown of Hawknsve give you full account of Local
Option Dspnsay sales of whiske These figures were got
by good christian of Hawknsve being resident
Pulaski that time of these copies fell into my hands
give this publication full w. Harrel Douglas Ga
| PULASKI COUNTY?
Everybody admits that liquor evil But say that
dspensa the best control The main argument Tor the
dspensays and therefore reduces the
taxes Hawknsve Dspensary Pulaski
county, To tell whether business must how much
brings find how much costs to run in the long rum The
Dspensay Pulaski last year. l9O3 $9OOO as It's
part of the profit money that Pulaski got out of
Hawnsve Despnsary directly indirectly Now what does
dpensay Pulaski county? There is than six times as
much liquor with dspensary whoutt How do know ths
Because the the Southern Express Company show
that for the year year prohibition Pulaski that
less thousand dollars worth liquor shipped into Hawk
nsv the records OF the Southern Express Company snow
that for the year 1900 year prohibition in Pulaski county less
than worth liquor shipped into Cochran
Now much liquor does Hawkinsvlle sell? The amount
their sales the printed statements but figure
from profits which $1800000 last divided between
town county they cleared 10 after paying all expenses
they sold $8OOOO0 they made 20 cent on their
liquor they have sold $9OOOOOO they made 70 per cent they
must have sold S7200O00 Let's Compare little
year 1900 the last of prohibition not more than
Thousand Dollars worth of Liquor sold in Pulaski county
For the 1903 third of the dspensa less than
Seventy thousand dollars worth liquor sold Pulaski con
y Which better spend Fifteen Thousand Dollars for liquor or to
spend Seventy Two Thousand dars Let every contentious citizen
answer the question his ballot Il liquor drinking in country
under prohibition evil then the penay has increased that
evil at least six times 5OOOO0 worth of liquor makes for the
county 100000 what does cost the county, cost the county more
than 100000 O handle the increase of crime
cost county year 1900 the last of prohibition
prisoners $64259 cost the county in the year 1898 the
second the dspensa to board her prisoners S6 cost
this county $500 per Superior court This does not
include incurred by parties attending courher time and e
pene while awknsv the time lost their by their hands
and teams establishment the dpenary the number Of
true bills grand has then doubled At $500
per day for Superior how much viii cost this county try this
which has with the dspensar The trouble is
that while city Hawknsve half the profits OF the
pensay the Pulaski bears the entire burden OF the cost
which the dispensary brings about
The dispensay gallon liquor Reddick Donaldson last
Christmas $500 out county so for its share of the
profits this liquor Donaldson got drunk and killed an
negro His occupied days of last Superior court at $500
per day. pending in the Supreme court and that
grants trial this 5000 will OF course haVeto be re-
peated making $780, and the meantime the taxpayers have
paying board in the Jail since last December at Sl25O per
month For profit the has paid nearly thou
sand dollars of this fifty not yet How many such
cases will take to use UP $4,000 which Pulaski County for
the dispenary the records of the Clerks office at
A Govt House will chow enob of inst such cases to Use I'D all Pulaski
gets from the dspensary
If prosperous made bankrupt good ruined in
health young tempted from sobriet and industry
dissipation and cmef this is loss to the community then there
charge the dspensay Prohibition was never so
popular Kansas the end of the fiscal twenty EIGHT
without eghtyseven had no insane
inmates and ffou had feeble minded inmates sevenone count
les had no convcts penientay htsx had prisoners the
ffvo had no prisoners their county
as and sixteen counties without prisoner serving sentence IN
any institution
Let's give Georgia thirty trial under prohibition Govern
or and she'll accomplish results equal her Kansas
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