The Austin Statesman. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 192, Ed. 1 Friday, July 21, 1911 Page: 6 of 10
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THE AUSTIN DAILY STATEMAN, FRIDAY MORNING, JUDY 21, 1911
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The following is a letter which was issued and mailed by H. M. Duboise for the Augusta
Ministers’ Association and Henry S. Jones, Secretary of the Law Enforcement League of
Augusta, published in the Golden Age, edited and published by Willis D. Upshaw, and mailed
to every member of the present Legislature of the State of Georgia:
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“Honorable Sir—The Protestant Ministers’ Association of Augusta, compris-
ing practically all the evangelical churches of the city, together with the Rich-
mond county law enforcement committee, which latter organization originated
from the call of more than three thousand voters of the city of Augusta for a law
and order movement, beg leave to address you on an urgent and important
matter. We agree fully with the sentiment addressed in Governor Brown’s
message recently submitted to your honorable body that ’Law enforcement is
the bedrock of civilization.’ The. constituencies which we represent the best,
and we believe a majority of the people fn this city and county are constantly
annoyed and outraged and their highest ideals most flagrantly disregarded. •
The State’s laws against the civilization are continually imperiled by reason
of a sale of intoxicating liquors. And the particular line of lawlessness, for it
can not be otherwise properly characterized, is surely undermining respect
for all our laws especially those meant to prevent extortion, gambling, social
evil and murder. Who can not see this is either venally or politically blinded.
So nearly absolute is the disregard of the State Law against liquor selling that the power of the local
police is no longer invoked against it, and juries have contemptuously refused to return verdicts
against the offenders where the evidence has been as point blank as truth itself. Nor is the local
shame and disorder resulting from the unbridled reign of liquor lawlessness in Augusta, and in at
least the other important centers in eastern Georgia, the worst of this sad case. The unrestrained
distribution of liquor from these centers has flooded the counties of eastern and southeastern Georgia
so that the situation in many of the small towns is only less deplorable than if they maintained whisky
dives of their own. Travel on many of the railways leading out of these centers has come to be at-
tended by a certain and constant peril on account of the ease and persistency with which drink is
distributed to bibulous and drunken visitors.**
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Briggs, George Waverley. The Austin Statesman. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 192, Ed. 1 Friday, July 21, 1911, newspaper, July 21, 1911; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1533580/m1/6/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .