Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-10-10
ENFORCE | Nv 6
AF TER THEY HAVE
ENACTED

prohibition forces in Georgia will not
rest content with the enactment 'os
prohibition laws by the legislature at
the forthcoming extra session, but will
exert their influence in an organized
and systtmatic way to secure the
enforcement of those laws, is the new
and important angle that appears to
be developing in the prohibition situa
tion.
Indication of such a movement is
contained in statement given out in
Atlanta Saturday by E. G. Galloway,
one of the best known business men OF
the city, president of ten large and i'm
portant business enterprises, a sue
cessful financier and manufacturer,
and an active supporter of the prohibi-
tion bills now pending in the legisla-
ture.
"The friends of prohibition are going
to look after the laws that Governor
Harris has made possible" says MIR.
Galloway, who gives the governor high
praise for including the bills in his
call for the extra session.
Mr.. Calloways statement follows:
Governor Harris has put prohibi-
tion in his call for the extra session OF
the legislature. He has done wha:
every man who knows him and apprc-
ciates his high character as a Christ
ian man knew he would do. The gov
ernor early recognized the utterly un-
fair treatment which the friends of
prohibition received in the legislature
He knew that a vast majority of the
eoeple want the present prohibition
laws strengthened. He knew the leg
islature stood ready to enact the peo-
pies will into law. And when he, with
his democratic instincts, traditions and
training saw how impossible it was for
the people to secure enactment, be-
cause a few slick politicians had got
their hands on the throat of the legis-
lative organization, he made I'D his
mind that the people should not be
outraged by his consent, approval o.
cooperation
The friends of the liquor traffic
talked business, rents and og<er tlrely
aspects of the traffic to the
governor, but they could not prevail on
the staunch old democrats to perceiy.
the justice of allowing a few men, by
political trickery, to disfranchise the
vast majority of the best people OF
Georgia.
Every known method was employed !
to influence the governor to leave pro-
hibition out of the call, but not one
of his nuferous callers was able to ex-
plain to him why the liquor interest
or any other interest should be al
lowed to take away from the represen.
tatives of the people, sent to the leg
ures which they regarded as import
ant to the public welfare.
"The governor may be slow in max
ing up his mind, sometimes, and he !
sometimes changes it for good reason.
as other men of wide experience have
done, gut there is one great comfort
about his method of reaching conclu-
sion; and that is that he tries to find /
out what is right and acts accord !
ingly.
mo man has occupied the governors
chair in all its history who made "a
more sincere effort to determine what
was right and best for all the people
than does Governor Harris.
Il am thoroughly convinced that he
to see that whatever prohibi
lion laws are enacted by the legislature
shall not become a dead letter through |
anw organized histolity to the en-
forcement of law on the part of the
law-breaking liquor traffic.
Nobody knows better than the gov,
ernor that the people of Georgia want !
prohibition that prohibits; and he