The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-10
WhiSkey Distribution.

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partaker of other mems sins"-Bi-
BILE. The Fite in the judiciary and
the Seab Wright of the forum have
rung the changes on the great sin
of the express companies in being
the purYeyors and chief agencies for
the increase in blind tigers in prohi-
bition territory, and this after the
legislatures have made ''the common
carriers the only legal deliverers
Of intoxicating liquors to the con-
sumner. Yet the rules of the express
| companies and their partners, the
railroads, absolutely forbid the sOlic-
itation and, beyond the selling Of
money orders, the filling out or as
sistance in filling out of any order
or in any manner acting either as
agent for the person ordering or the
party from whom the whiskey is Or
dered. But the rural mail carrier,
| the postmaster and the private man
! is not hedged about with any such
restriction, and this is where the
whiskey distribution is largely done.
| To illustrate, there is not an ex-
press agent nor a freight agent who
has not received offers of commission
| from whiskey houses at every place
where it may be legally sold to act
as agent, and the offers contain this
| clause. We give you a number,
which is on record in our office, and
on all orders which you send in just
| insert this number and every thirty
days we will remit either in goods
such as you may select from our
stock or in cash, and will allow you
| ten per cent for all moneys sent
| through you and we will pay the
money order fee and postage" At an
! express office recently when the ne
gro came for his liquor he put dime
in the window. On being asked what
| it was for he replied: Mr.. (naming
well known prohibition mail car
rier) charged me ten cents for MAX
| ing out my order for me, and |
| thought | would have to pay you that
much for delivering" His money
was returned to him, when he vol
unteered the information that Mr..
-- kept stamped envelopes and
blank whiskey orders from a we'll
known Girard whiskey house and
used these, and I'VE don't have to
pay any postage; just ten cents for
having the order made out HAY
ing received last year 25 stamped en-
yelopes from this same house and
the same number of blank orders
with the above offer of commission
could not doubt there was something
in the negrO's assertion. Those sent
to me were placed in the envelopes
and the rural mail carrier by my
place mailed them that day
since which time requests from
| that house have quit coming to me-
| Now the remedy: Let congress place
| mail carriers and pOstmasters under
| the same restrictions as railroad and
| express agents as to filling out Or
ders, let the legislature make it par
! ticeps criminis for any one to fill out
or assist in any way any one save
! himself in ordering intoXicants with
the same penalty for the assistance
rendered as though he had actually
! delivered the whiskey to the pur-
sehaser and one sOurce-the most
dangerous and the hardest to unearth
| under the present law-Win be Splk-
! ed. There is not an illiterate in any
county in the state who is not known
! to some prOhibitionist and these are
| the ones that in getting intoXicants
| become most dangerous to the com
munity, and these are the sources
| through which their supplies come.
| But law enforcement Of this must
come through work by the citizens.
| There are not enough officers to keep
down crime. There must be a revival
| of civic righteousness that Will give
US Jury commissioners who sympa-
| thiZe with enforcement of all law
| and not Just such law as suits Them
and who will see to it that no open
violator of any law is on the jury
lists. 1t will take work, nerve and
faces set like flint to accomplish this
or any other reform. Men who
promise to reform to please the
preacher and tread Gods courts
thinking to feel God and men are
not needed as jury commissioners
nor as jurors-either grand or traV-
erse-but men who every day do
their duty as it comes before them
whose voice is not heard in the
streets only, but who dare to do
right in the face of opposition and
persecution by "the scribes and Phar-
asees'' of the day. who love the
praise of men and make bread their
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in the synagogue, and to be proclaim
ed of the rabble Rabbi No church
nor county has a monopoly of this
class, but it permeates all. You will
find them among the stewards and
Sunday school superintendent of the
Methodists, the elders and deacons
in the Presbyterians, the vestrymen
in the Episcopalian, the vestrymen in
the Catholic and the deacOns Of the
Baptists-they are in the cities, the
towns, the villages and the country
But the men who live right are in
the majority in all the places named,
but are not seen and especially not
heard at the quartely conferences,
the fifth Sunday meetings, etc. They
are like Mrs. Gray, too busy getting
up the preachers salary and paying
| taxes for the country to have time to
make speeches. These are the ones
that need to be aroused, For to him
that knoweth to do good and dOeth
! it not to him is sin" Very respect
| f,,Il1- AMIR EW D PTVFS