The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-09
From q National
PrOhibitiOniSt
Washington, D. c., Dec. 80, 1916.

washington, u u, Oec 81, 1910.
To the Editor Dawson News:
l was delighted to read your succint and
forceful editorial comments "On the Trail
of the Vets" The disappearance of six
thousand five hundred saloons, and one hun
dred and fifteen breweries is just natural
response to the great moral edict that the
people are sounding.
And the bugle call of moral sentiment
will not cease until all the saloons and brew
cries have been closed in response to this
ennobling munifcent movement. 1t really
seems that all schools and creeds are agree
ing that whiskey is the greatest and deadlest
enemy of mankind. When one takes clari-
fed view of the situation, looks calmly, dis
passionately and reasonably at the welfare
of the people, he can but conclude that the
best thing to do is to remove this menacing
and far-reaching monster far beyond any
possibility of its remotest opportunity to
any longer insert its poisonous fangs into
society
National prohibition is not any longer a
dream, it is not any longer a theory, and
the Whlskey question is not any longer a
local issue. 1t has advanced too far and
must now be treated from a national view
point The two great moves that are now
OF pertinent Specification that should receive
the undivided and immediate attention of
prohIbltlonists is the shipment of whiskey
from wet territory into dry states, and use
OF the mails by the whiskey dealers in nego-
tlatlng sales through the medium of CORE
spondence and circularzing.
These two ideas substantially and effect
lively enforced will so paralize the hands of
the whiskeyites that they will in my judg-
ment stack arms and voluntarily go out of
business This dry wave is not predicated
upon fanatlcal bigOtry or religious epostacy,
as the friends of John Barleycorn so stri-
IDENTITY insist, but. is planted upon sober
observations, upon the idea of self-preserva-
ton and the imperative law that all things
calculated to obscure and impede the way
and progress of society should be completely
and most positively put entirely out of the
WY. | am glad to herald to Georgia and
the country at large that Senators Hoke
Smith and Tom Hardwick are both in favor
of denying the whiskey people the use of the
mails and the freedom of interstate com
merce wherever such freedom takes them
into prohibition territories.
Senator Hoke Smith says that prohibition
is one of the most inviting themes of the
day, that you cannot limit yourself when,
you go to speak upon the all absorbing sub
ject of putting liquor beyond the reach of
man. That the question is so inspiring. it
suggests so many good things that as the
vision opens up before you, you discover
that the reasons in favor of exterminatine
this hydra-headed monster are inexhaust-
able. When the use of the mails are denied
the Whlskey dealers thereby cutting off the
correspondence between the producers and
consumers of liquor, declared Senator
Smith, they will soon get out of touch with
each other, the consumer will soon lose the
address of the whiskey firm and it will be
an easy matter for the desire for whiskey
to pass away when the party wanting it
hasn't the remOtest idea of where they can
get it.
The senator is firmly of the opinion that
with the right to sell in the dry states gone
and the use of the mails barred from the
manufacturers of Whiskey that the advocates
of the liquor interests will voluntarily furl
their tents and abandon the fight / am also
glad to state to the people of Georgia that
at this writing there are the brightest pros
poets for the brilliant triumph of the Shop
pard bill. Senator Hoke Smith is giving it
the benefit of his strong and powerful in
fuence The senator is opposed to grant
ing the District a referendum for voting on
the closing of the saloons here. He thinks
the people of the United States have not
only the constitutional right, but the moral
right to say whether or not whiskey should
be sold in the capital of a dry nation. He
is firmly of the opinion that the people of
! the District of Columbia should not be all
lowed to vote on any question, that the Dis
trict was set apart by the trainers of the
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the home of congress, the president of the
United States and his cabinet, the supreme
court, the chief justice and his associates.
and that the people coming into the District
to live come fully aware of this fact, come
| thoroughly cOnversant with the situation
surrounding Washington. Senator Smith is
unalterably opposed to making the District
of Columbia dumping ground for the junk
of the whiskey interests. He is positive in
the opinion that the effort to get referen-
dun is purely subterfuge upon the part of
the friends of the liquor interests because
the liquor people believe they could concen-
trate here a hybradized and Heterogeneous
element that would vote in favor of the bar
room, thereby giving prohibition nation q
whiskey-soaked capital through the open
barroom, spectacle too disgusting and too
utterly at variance with the moral progress
sive trend, such as we have today
! W. NJ. HAIRSTON.