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

saaborn Wright, the noted prohibi-
lion leader of Rome, who not only put
me present State wide dry" law on
The Georgia statute books, but says
| he oronoses to see 1t enforced, stopped
over m Atlanta last night on his way
n South Georgia, where he begins
tomorrow night a whirlwind cam
| nsign for prohibition enforcement in
that section.
Mr. Wright says Rome and Macon
both have been closed tight as a
Grum and that the various law en-
forcenent leagues throughout the
state propose to keep hammering at
things until the State is made really
"drv" from one end to the other.
I'VE have the law to close Georgia
he have had it ever since the pres
ant law was enacted said Mr..
Wright IN the Kimball House lobby
last night.
II have said all along, and I re-
peat now, that Georgia needs no ad-
ditional statutes. All 1t needs Is en-
forcement of the ones now on the
books. And that enforcement is forth
coming.
II shall make some eight or ten
speeches during my tour now start
1NR, anu dlI6E OSIlL lSlIueS nave dT =
ranged a schedule including so Geor-
gia towns I propose to speak In, and
/ may run this list to 100 or more
before get through"
Must Obey Law.
People may as we'll understand
now as any other time that the law
abiding citizens of Georgia propose
to see the prohibition law enforced.
We have the law, and 1t shall be
obeyed!-
Mr.. Wright begins his South Geor-
gla campaign in Augusta Tomorrow
night. From Augusta he goes to Sa-
vannah, and then to Fitzgerald,
valdosta, cambridge. Townsville,
Moultrie and Americas.
After Christmas his long speaking
tour starts in North Georgia and
sweeps the State clean. There is moi
a roads village" as he ex-
presses it, 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
ion Of Georgia. He did not say that
his present work is in no way con-
nected with the Anti Saloon Leagues
campaign, but he would not say that
it is
. The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union really is the pioneer in
the work Of making Georgia dry I"
said Mr.. Wright, although it never
has received full and complete credit
for that, as II should. II is the grand
est Of all temperance organizations"
Silent on Crusade Here.
II was stated unofficially at one
Ffyla hot
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, he said that, at present, at
least, the Atlanta movement is in no
way associated with himself.
mr.. Wright says Rome, his home
town, Is free Of all locker clubs and
near-beer 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
Sehinery for the suppression Of all vio-
latlons OF the prohibition law, wheth-
er that violation comes by way of a
C!qo' so-called near beer saloon,
bind tiger" or what not
Leaves for Augusta.
Mf, Wright left for Augusta at
midnight, His present tour will in
ciude at least the cities named, and
II may be extended to cover several
nor before it is ended as at present
ne stated that there doubtless
wouid be number Of prohibition
breakers besides himself listed in the
campaign mapped after Christmas,
nut mat his Individual program would
d a,.luue not less than so speaking
dstes, and might run to1Oo In tbe
latter event, it would cover four
months at least.