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
Bib Mass Meeting.
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"ho are charged with the enforce
nent OF the prohibition law.
IA the so-called Legitimate cguaN
these violations are I'm general con
fined to sales 90 members or their
guests. They are not any lie Iess
violations Of the Law, and tuis state
ment IS sustained 10y Judicial a.-
rrees
Every Glass Lawless
Private baISteepers violate the law
IN even more fragrant measure and
'penir sell liquor 10 all customers
who comply with the tiimsy regu'a-
ions thai are designed solely TO fun
uish excuses for the avoidance of Of
fetal Intervention.
Every kee Of beer that is brew ed
Under corporate charters and every
glass that is sold in saloon is equal
~ lawless, and the shame Of il is ag-
sravated by the ridiculous pretcxt
bat calls the beer some name an
known to the law.
The officials now i'm office appar-
emily are not Courageous to the eN-
tent that they VIII carry out the letter
~ the law and thus do the peoples
viii When the voters register their
Will, not only in passing prohibitory
avs but in the choosing OF public Of
acials then and then only viii the
sale Of liquor cease in Georgia.
"a 6 TO-
lie evils complained OF win be ef-
fectiye that does not begin with. IN
end to the near beer saloons and the
bogus clubs"
Resolutions Adopted.
Other speakers were L. Y. VII
Jams Or. George w Young and >.
g. Richards. Here are the resou-
tons:
Resolved first That il is the sense
of this mass meeting that these ma
grant and persistent violations of the
law should be denounced as both
criminal and reasonable, and worthy
Of eXecration by all law abiding peo-
pie, and that every possible legal step
should be taken TO restrain aud pun
ish al individual violators of these
avs, and, as Well, the responsible or
lulpable representative of all organi-
the sale of intoxicating liquors, or in
he 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
hat many locker clubs and other So
cial organizations are systematically
Violating the prohibition laws of the
State. auG TIA. sales of liquor are
being made openly on the streets.
The attention Of the present Grand
Jury of Fulton County is also called
20 these charges. which are of COM
uion currency on the streets and else
where. In this connection we cite
with Endorsement the judicial charge
OF Hon. Benjamin H. Hill, of the Su-
perior Court namely, that il is not
an individual opinion or prejudice
that is to determine the officer Of the
law or the responsible citizen as to
his attitude or action. but the majesty
IF the law itself All men charged
with authority must exhaust that au-
lholity before the bar OF their own
uonsciences and In the judgment Of
an Just and upright men. Wet set it
forth not only as our own conviction,
but as au axiom, a proven principle
II Justice that there can not be a
law for the confessedly criminal ele-
uents of society and another Tor the
self-appraised respectable offender.
The latter are the more dangerous,
by far, of the two. If the fabric of
our social order is in any real danger,
B, is from men who hold themselves
superior TO law and claim immunity
hy reason of this or that social ac-
.ident. We sall for a strict enforce
luent Of law without regard to class
ondition social or commercial acct
dent.
Committee Meets Tuesday
Resolved. third, That it be ordered
by this meeting that a committee OF
IS, or more to be known as the law
enforcement committee of Atlanta,
be Immediately formed to take in
hand the execution of the plans here
Ia outlined. and that as the contin-
nous and -perpetuating represen-
atiNe OF this mass meeting the sale
committee IS hereby authorized 4
employ legal caunsel and use all lesa
and legitimate means to abate anC
stop the lawless acts herein com
panied Of. both by procuring restrain
ing orders from the courts and by
such other legal processes as may APP
pear 10 be best calculated to accom-
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