Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-16
WRIGHT STOPS
HERE IN FRESH
RAID ON VETS
Prohibition Leader to Open Long
Spsakig Campaign in Augusta
and Sweep State.

osaborn Wright, the noted prohibit
Hon loader Of Rome, who not only put
.r. present State-w wide dry" law on
III. Georgia statute books, but says
.-. .rauoses TO see it enforced, stopped
- .,.r in Atlanta last night on his way
south Georgia, where he begins
3o-norrow night a whirlwind cam
ngtgn for prohibition enforcement in
.Aat section
Mr. Wright says Rome and Macon
bo-h have been closed tight as
drum and that the various law en-
forcement leagues throughout the
state propose to keep hammering at
tb,ngs until the State is made really
"drv" from one end to the other.
we have the law to close Georgia
he have had it ever since the pres
,n- law was enacted" said Mr..
Wright in the Kimball House lobby
last night.
neat now. that Georgia needs no ad-
5itIoral statutes. All 1t needs Is en-
forcemert of the ones now on the
BOOKS And that enforcement is forth
coming.
q shall make some eight or ten
speeches during my tour now start
ing and after Christmas I have ar
ranged a schedule including SO Geor-
g1a towns l propose to speak in, and
may run this list to 100 or more
before I get through"
Must Obey Law.
People may as we'll understand
now as any other time that the law
ebiding citizens of Georgia propose
to see the prohibition law enforced.
We have the law, and 1t shall be
pbeved'"
, MIR Wright begins his South Geor-
gia campaign in Augusta tomorrow
night. From Augusta he goes to Sa-
, yannah. and then to Fitzgerald
Valdosta- cambridge, Townsville,
Noultrie and Americas.
After Christmas his long speaking
Z tour starts in North Georgia and
e. sweeps the State clean. There is not
, a crossroads village" as he ex-
, presses il, that he will overlook
. Mr.. Wright says he is working in
cooperation with, and more or less
directly under the direction of, the
Woman's Christian Temperance I'm
..u of Georgia He did not say that
his present work is in no way con-
nerted with the Anti Saloon Leagues
CAMPAIGN but he would not say that
it s.
ne NOmanS CHRISTIAN temper
aure Union really is the pioneer in
the work Of making Georgia dry +"
said Mr.. Wright, although 1t never
has received full and complete credit
for that as 1t should. II is the grand
est Of all temperance organizations"
Silent on Crusade Here,
1t was stated unofficially at one
time that Mr.. Wright would take a
leading part in the present effort to
put the lid on" in Atlanta, but the
famous prohibition leader would not
talk Of that crusade.
He said that the effort to put At
lanta into the really dry" column in
Georgia ought to succeed. and he ex-
pressed no doubt that it would How
ever ne said that, at present, at
least, the Atlanta movement Is in no
way associated with himself.
hr. Wright says Rome, his home
town, is free Of all locker clubs and
near-oeer saloons, and declares that
never again will there be one of
either operated there. He states that
the law as enacted by the Legislature.
coupled with recent decision of the
courts of review, place in the hands
OF sincere prohibitionists perfect ma
chinery for the suppression of all vio-
Iatlons OF the prohibition law, wheth-
er that violation comes by way of a
cub so-called near-beer saloon,
blind tiger or what not.
Leaves for Augusta.
Mr., Wright left for Augusta at
midnight His present tour will In
GIude at least the cities named, and
IL may be extended to cover several
more before it is ended as at present
laid out -
lie stated that there doubtless
would be a number of prohibition
speakers besides himself listed in the
campaign mapped after Christmas,
put mat his individual program would
incluue not less than so speaking
1 Iates and might run to100. In the
1aLser event, it would cover four