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.

Seaborn Wright, the noted prohibit
lion leader of Rome, who not only put
tlr present State wide dry law on
tho Georgia statute books, but saws
he proposes to see 1t enforced, stopped
over in Atlanta last night on his way
.o South Georgia, where he begins
tomorrow night a whirlwind cam
paign for prohibition enforcement in
" that section.
MIR. Wright says Rome and Macon
both have been closed tight as a
drum" and that the various law en-
forcement leagues throughout the
State propose to keep hammering at
things until the State is made really
dry" from one end to the other
1--WE have the law to close Georgia
he have had it ever since the pres
ont law was enacted" said Mr..
Wright in the Kimball House lobby
hast night.
II have said all along, and I re-
peat now, that Georgia needs no ad-
ditonaI statutes. All 1t needs Is en-
forcement of the ones now on the
books. And that enforcement is forth
coming.
81 shall make some eight or ten
speeches during my tour now start
ing, and after Christmas l have ar
ranged schedule including 90 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 well 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-
gta 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 crossroads village" as he ex-
presses it, that he win 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-
ueCted 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"
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 1t would. How
ever, he said that, at5'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
chinery for the suppression of all vio-
lations of the prohibition law, wheth-
er that violation comes by way of a
club, so-called near beer saloon,
ollnd tiger or what not.
Leaves for Augusta.
Mr.. Wright left for Augusta at
midnight. His present tour will in
Guide at least the cities named, and
IT may be extended to cover several
more before 1t Is ended as at present
laid out.
He stated that there doubtless
would be a number of prohibition
speakers besides himself listed in the
campaign mapped after Christmas,
put that his individual program would
include not less than so speaking
dates, and might run to100. In the
latter event, it would cover four
months, at least.