Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-18
A COLUMHAIl or CLIPPINGS
No Liauor-And The Outcome.

pie who want their occasional drink,
and who have been watching the re-
suits Of the steadily increasing dry
laws of the country have been thinking
seriously of just what the outcome
of rigid prohibition laws will be.
Because a person believes in pro-
hibition is no reason why he should
not look the question of prohibition
and its results squarely in the face,
and answer as far as possible the
perplexing questions that "bone-dry"
laws, enforced bring up. A real pro-
hibitionist who truly wants to do his
fallowman a service should consider
the effects of prohibition from all an.
giles. Every sensible man knows that
he. as well as his brother, is better
off without the use of alcohol. He al
sc knows that the best way to keep
man from drinking is to keep the
drink away from him But, and it
is big but, too, is the man who de-
sires a certain amount of stimulant
going to submit to the law that alb
solutely makes it impossible for him
to get this stimulant?
A large percentage of the grown
men of these United States nave for
ali time past, and, according to all
angles of human nature, will in all
future time, demanded and had a GER
tain amount of stimulant in the way
Of alcohol as evidenced in the city
of Atlanta today Georgia is the
bone-dryest" state in the union, so
far as the laws go, and Atlanta is
looked upon as being the dryest city
in the South, and on top of this, At
lanta is filled with soldiers who are
supposed to have the most rigid regu-
lation thrown around them by the
army rules, and yet in the face of
all these distractions placed in the
way of taking drink here is no diff
ficulty about man getting a drink"
III the city of Atlanta whenever he
cells like it. The Journal-Herald
would not guarantee that the stuff he
inks is whisky, neither would it
guarantee the price of the stuff, but
i drink" he wants, drink" he gets,
hit in the city of Atlanta-30O miles
from Jacksonville. OF course, 80 per
cent of the liquor sold in Atlanta
does not come from Jacksonville, and
never saw a distillery, but how the
10 per cent gets into Atlanta no one
knows by the mystery" man. 1t is
easy to guess where the other 80 per
cent comes from, because it is very
evident that it is made right nm the
city of Atlanta out of the rankest
poisons known IN chemistry, and this
p nat brings on one of the serious
questions that "bone-dry" laws bring
on.
The great question that these facts
bring out are, will the American peo-
pie ever become accustomed to alb
staining entirely from artificial slim
ulants? Again if the people will not
submit to being deprived of alcohol
il some form, would it not be better
to allow pure drink, like beer, con-
tanning small amount of alcohol sold
under the strictest regulation?
Inc Journal-Herald would not at
tempt to answer these questions at
this time. While it is true that the
Journal-Herald has answered them for
years to its own satisfaction by say
ing that humanity is best served by
the absolute prohibition of alcohol in
any form, recent experience has de-
monstrated to us that this question has
not been answered to the satisfaction
OF the public, and that it still remains
to be answered by the friends of pro-
hibition Weycross Herald-Journal.