The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-24
BLIND TIGERS: HOW TO
DECREASE THE OUTPUT


Editor Dawson News: Mourning
over the poor drunkard-like mourn
ing over any other criminal-haS
never reformed one, and being one
OF the few whom Holy Writ exclude;
finally from everlasting life l take
it that he is one of the worst Of
criminals, for the man who kills
takes but one life, while If he be a
father the drunkard hands his appe-
tite and its consequences down the
ages. have in mind family OF
/ whom the fathers OF four genera
lions have been drunkards, thus
great-grandsire, grandsire, sire and
son. All of the sons children from
this inherited tendency have rheu-
| matism produced by alcoholism-as
/ physician, who knows them, said,
/ Gone to seed" And the state has
at last awaked to the fact and the
amended Georgia law makes it a
penal offense to be drunk anywhere
save in the privacy OF ones own
room. Now, the negro has been in
this and in other crimes the scape-
goat of the white man to his own
and the white mans hurt long
enough. Let the municipal authori-
ties give every white man hailed be-
fore them for drunkenness the full
limit on the streets and bind him
over to the state courts for the state
offense, and then let the state courts
give him a changing sentence, and
being drunk will become mighty I'M
popular in Georgia, for the amended
statute says Il give the language
10 OIL
This section shall not be construed
to affect the powers delegated to
municipal corporations to pass by
laws to punish drunkenness or dis
orderly conduct within their limits.
Cut off the patron of the blind
tiger and the blind tiger will cease
to exist. And punish the patron and
he will lay aside his false sense of
of honor about giving the name of
the man who sold him his dope"
And when the dealer is caught give
him (for he will be white mani the
full limit of the LAWN the chain
gang twelve months, in Jail six
months and 1000 fine, and negroes
will fear and quit Recently, and
this was not in Albany nor Dawson,
the special agent of corporation
found and turned over to chief of
police case of liquor and asked him |
to make case, and hear his excuse: |
He is white man and has wife |
and children" Does his having |
wife and children give him license to
prey through crime on other mems |
wives and children? The mayor of
the town who boosted that such |
- wi fn
earn that turning off one cheap man
and hiring another of the same cal
Der, at the same starvation wages,
because a competent man would cost
more, and because the one hired was
zin to a county commissioner and
Indebted to one, and had kinsmen
who were a political power in the
is not going to cure the
disease nor wipe out the stain on the
Cheap men are going to
lct cheap. Good men-competent
nen-are going to cost more than
S75 per month to risk their lives and
equations to wipe out crime in
place, where political
pull" has for so long shielded her
guilty ones. Until Cuthbert gets
his truth thoroughly soaked into her
lide by a few more murders
rhine will become pestilence, and
he best class will shun her and her
property values will show what good
men seeking the best investments
eek-safety to lives and property by
he fear of well executed law. For
hough | was born within her Dor
lers and my best efforts have been
want for bor 1InbuiIdino Vot in OTV
opinion, by her lawless-
less she is inviting the good people
within her borders to emigrate and
he good people without to stay with
tut.
am done. May God help men
worn to execute the law to live up
o their Oaths. A. P. RIVES.
Cuthbert, Ga, Jan, 22nd, 1913.