Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-10
FOES SAY
LAW VIOLATION
MUST STOP
War Declared on Locker Clubs
and Near-Beer Saloons at
Big Mass Meeting.

who are charged with the enforce
ment of the prohibition law.
AT the so-caled Legitimate clubs
these violations are in general con-
fined to sales TO members or their
guests, They are not any the LEGS
violations OF the law, and this state
ment is sustained by judicial de-
crees.
~ Every Glass Lswless"
Private barkecpers violate the Law
in even more fragrant measure and
openly sell liquor to an customers
who comply with the fimsy regu.a-
lions that are designed solely to fur
nish excuses for the avoidance of Of
ticial intervention.
"Bvery keg Of beer thai is brewed
under corporate charters and every
glass that il sold in a saloon is equal
" lawless. and the shame of II is aE-
gravated by the ridiculous pretext
that calls the beer some name IN
lonown to the Law.
THE officials now in office appar-
entity are not courageous to the ax-
tent that they will carry out the letter
Of the law and thus do the peoples
Will When the voters register their
win, not only in passing prohibitory
laws but in the choosing Of public Of
ficials, then and then only, viii the
sale Of liquor cease In Geo-'gia.
Il warn YOU that no remedy tJr
the evils complained Of will be ef-
fective that does not begin with IN
end TO the near-beer saloons and the
bogus cuba
Resolutions Adopted.
Other speakers were t. + VII
lisms, Or. George W Young ana ).
b. Richards Here are the resolu-
tons
Resolved. first, That It is the sense
of this mass meeting that these fla
grant and persistent violations Of the
4 law should be denounced as both
criminal and reasonable, and worthy
bf eXecration by all law-abidiuE peo-
pie, and that every possible legal step
should be taken to restrain and pun
ish all individual violators Of these
laws, and, as WELL the responsible or
culpable representatives OF all organi-
cations or corporations engaged in
the sale of Intoxicating liquors, or in
the Illegal dispensing of the same.
Resolved, second That this meeting
hereby calls upon the police authori-
ties Of the city to undertake the most
searching inquiry into the charges
that many locker clubs and other So
oial organizations are Systematically
violating the prohibition laws OF the
State. and that sales Of liquor are
being made openly on the streets.
The attention OF the present Grand
Jury of Fulton County Is also called
60 these charges. which are Of COM
( mon currency on the streets and else
where, In this connection we cite
Z with Endorsement the judicial charge
& of Hon. Benjamin II. Hiu II the Su-
5 perior Court namely, that IL is no.
: an Individual opinion or prejudice
s that is TO determine the officer of the
& law or the responsible citizen as to
, his attitude OF action but the majesty
Z of the law itself All men charged
{ with authority must exhaust that au-
! thority before the bar OF their own
] consCienCcs, and in the Judgment OF
all Just and upright men. Wet set 1t
forth not only as our own conviction
: but as an axiom, proven principle
of Justice that there can not be
law for the Coufessedly criminal ele-
meuts of societ and another for the
self-aT praised respectable offender
The latter are the more dangerous,
BY far. of the two II the fabric Of
our social order is IN any real danger,
IL Is from men who hold themselves
superior 10 law and claim Immunity
BY reason Of this or that social ac-
cident We call for a strict enforce
+ ment of law without regard to class,
\ condition social or commercial acci-
dent.
Committee Meets Tuesday.
Resolved. third, That it be ordered
= by this meeting that a committee Of
rs or more 10 be known as the law
4 enforcement committee OF Atlanta"
I be Immediately formed TO take In
hand the execution OF the plans here
in outlined, and chat as the contin-
nous and perpCtuatiuE represen-
! native of this mass meeting, The said
committee is hereby authorized to
F. employ legal cauusel and use all legal
and eEitimats means to abate and
stop the lawless acts herein com