The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-05-25
More Trouble for Us Fool DEM
OcratS i'm Georgia.


Therefore, we imported a Westerner a
perlpatetic philosopher named Eichelberger,
TO cooperate with our own matchless Bosh
Felder; and, following the lead of this Castor
and Pollux brotherhood, we drove out all
manner of tipple, including persimmon beer
homemade wine homemade peach-and-
honey home made cherry bounce, and home
made brandy cherries
To insure the rigidly righteous enforce
ment of the law, we authorized the minions
of the law to bust open the front door, search
grandfathers clock, and grandmothers frock,
and every other possible hiding place which
might secrete bug
But Coca-Cola was the Sacred Cow. Coca
Cola was the Holy of Holes Coca Cola
was the Boss Joss of the inner sanctuary; and
Asa Gambler was it's high priest and Saint
elmo Massengale was its herald, it's buge, its
clarion, its trumpet, its haut-boy, it's tom-tom,
its Grassland, and its torchlight procession.
Consequently, we Democrats, after having
abolished all drinks except Coca-Cola and
similar hog-wash, placed Saint Elmo in con-
troll of our machinery, external and internal.
His drink is the only drink that we are
allowed to drink unless we content ourselves
with red lemonade and pot-iquor-and the
State insists upon inspecting the pot.
His gentle hand, gentle but firm, holds our
external machinery; and so it happens that
we Democrats are bottled up, as it were, by
Saint Elmo and Coca-Cola.
That's one reason | suppose, that no Geor-
gia Democrat was allowed chance to vote
in Presidential primary, although the Bal
timore platform promised us that privilege.
Not single man in Georgia has voted for
the nomination of Woodrow Wilson, for
second term; yet, that noble patriot and truly
great statesman James r. Gray, heads the
Georgia delegation to the National convention.
See what too much Coca-Cola has done for
us already!
In the meantime Asa Gambler is buying
up all the earth, in and around Atlanta; and
if this thing keeps on Asa will be landlord
to us all, and we'll have to pay rent for the
air we breathe.
However, what I started out to do was to
call your attention to the way Saint Elmo
and near-sant Asa Gambler side-stepped the
Harrison Narcotic law-the terribly cruel and
useless law that inficts untold agony upon
unfortunates, and grossly insults euery hon
est doctor, apothecary, druggist, and phar-
Mo0ciSt.
In published address to the Drug trade
and to all who may be concerned in the
Public Health and Morals, j. Leyden White
of Washington, D. c., makes the following
statement:
The National Association of Retail Druggists
influenced certain changes, but there
passage that remained in the bill, and it is
in the law. 1t is to be found at the end of Section
8, the words being:
'"The provisions of this Act shall not apply to
decocanized cocoa leaves preparations made
therefrom, to other preparations of leaves
which do not contain cocaine"
This provision placed in the Harrison mar
cotic law solely for the benefit of the Coca-Cola
Company, of Atlanta, Georgia, for whom Mr.
Brokmeyer was, and to the best of my knowledge
Still is, attorney. 1t placed there with the
knowledge of DR.. Hamilton Wright, at the instiga-
ton and largely through the influence of MI