The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-05-18
GEORGIA CITIZEN SAYS 75%
OF PEOPLE ARE DIS
GUSTED
FOR LOCAL OPTION
Declares He Has Voted Prohi-
bition Ticket Many Years
favors Personal Shipments
Asserts State Is Laugh
ing Stock" of Nation

When bone dry" prohibition made
its appearance, those in close touch
with the situation predicted a reaction
and the recession of dry" legislation.
They pointed out that prohibitionists
did not want prohibition, and if COM
PEELED to live as they voted, would
become heartily Disguised with such
laws. Already there Is evidence that
their prediction is coming true. So at
least the following letter written to
the editor OF the Atlanta (Ga.) Con-
stitution would Indicate:
Editor Constitution: / have voted
the prohibition ticket for years and
years and have raised four boys who
have followed the same idea. l have
not drank a quart Of liquor in five
years, therefore / cannot be accused
of selfish motives In writing this ar
ticle. l desire to say that as a tax
=
that l, in common with, perhaps, at
least rs per cent of votes of Georgia,
am thoroughly Disguised with this
hasco now being perpetrated in At
lanta by those who were elected to
serve the state In passing law that
vii, never be upheld by public senti.
ment and one SO drastic that no one
will consider it seriously enough to
lend their efforts in unfolding it.
Now the object in using your
columns and in writing this letter fol
publication Is to start movement that
will spread like wildfire all over the
state to have passed at the next ses
sion OF the legislature-a legitimate
package law, similar to that of Florida
and leave each county to say whether
it wants liquor sold within it's borders
in other words, place the sale Of
whisky on the local option basis. Of
course, the details can be worked ou
by competent business men of the
general assembly. Now, in case the
incoming legislature does not care t
assume the entire responsibility, lie
them pass the law and allow the peo
pie to vote their convictions. No law
making body should deny the people
who elect them to vote on any suffice
as the present legislature has done
or refused to do.
Public Opposes "Bone Dry"
This movement totdo away with tn,
so-caled bone dry craze in the legis
lature OF Georgia is already under way
so ] want TO hear from every othe
citizen in the staterwho thinks as | do
Las have a law that commands tn
respect of all the, people and that will
be enforced. A law that is so drasti
that it will not countenance a mai
keeping anything in,his own home 70
his own use will not. stand, and shoul
not. Public opinion is at last law an,
every rightthinking, man well know
that public. opinion does not stand TO
this bone dry" fiasco.
| now call on every voter to join i
al effort to abolish this wildcat legis
lation and bring the state in good re
pute with the outside worldsas we
within its own borders
Let's hear from our people in tn
press and on the stump. Georgia
now being made the laughing stock G
the country on account of the effort
OF few drowning politicians who ar
trying to save themselves from sur
oblivion The same politicians vii
be we'll remembered iflthe opportunit
presents itself, and it will
have no criticism. to make OF on
governor. He has been a favorite G
mine lin two elections, and l only b(
fievetthat he was used by these polit
clans in calling this unnecessary Sc:
sion.
Very truly,
r. 7. ASKEW.