The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-10

saloons are better than many. rom any standpoint, and they will naturally asnn \ themselyes, if this Is true, why wouio not a Dispensary be a good thing. heh oncas vou get them to thinking or It, the victory Is won. . ,.,
 The taxing of the retailing Of intoxi- cants has always been favorite source of revenue for fiscal purposes. IL mus. he granted. as 1t has so often failed tnat the sale of liquor cannot be suppresseo' If YOU do not have it in the open saloons you have what Ia ten thousand tmes worse the blind tigers, wild cats etc: etc. where the boys under age can ge' whiskey, and the worst kind or wniskey' the same as any one else. while witn tne saloons you can in a measure keep tne sale to minors down. I say 1t must pc granted, therefore. that 1t cannot DC sup pressed; therefore. take the hrst step. taA 1t to the limit. which will rid you or the dives and low places. and give you oniy few of the hest saloons. thus reducing the enemy numerically, and Will educate your people up to the dispensary point.
 whiskey in Politics.
 To do this 1t takes council of consid- erable courage, or one that aas no poiiti- cal aspirations. for the whiskey question is in politics. and cuts considerable ice but though you are sure to array the whiskey people against you with high H. cense, I believe 1t to be good politics, for certainly the ma jority of the people In almost every community, though they may not want whlskey to go, want to see 1t regulated The majority and large ma jority of the people do not favor law lessness, and are against the dives, whicn they know are the nursing places or crime and disorder. They may not be at Ahs t.. <1f hi0h HrRnSp because they may think that 1t will be proh bitory, but as soon as they sec the results. the good results that are sure to arise from it. they will be with you. and a majority is all any man ought to want,
 have been Informed, I cannot say that 1t Is true, that we have the highest He cense in Attalla on saloons in the United States, with one exception, and that Is the same as ours. and l am sure had 1t been put to vote at the time we placed this license that the high license would have been overwhelmingly defeated, and I am sue now that 1t would receive an equally large vote in its favor. and am sure that we have three men there now in favor of the dlspensary to where there was one In favor of 1t year ago, or even six months ago. What 1t has accom- plished for Attalla, I am quite sure it will for every town in Alabama if only tried.
 In conclut ion, MT President, We have just crossed the thTeshhold of new cen- tury-it unfolds It's beauties and possibli- ties before us like a beautiful valley does to the tired wanderer, who has climbed the rugged mountain to feast his soul upon it's loveliness. He gazes with rap- tured eyes upon it's verdant fields and ripping streams. and nhales the frag- rance of It's flowers; and his heart swells like the heart of the songster on a May morning, who almost burst his throat in sladness and praise to the Great Jehovah. A century that will equal. aye. excel any three centuries of the past In the cen tury just passed. we have harnessed steam. we have chained the very light ming. and made 1t obey our will: we have circlei the very globe with steel and res cued and made fertile the very deserts. Great great Is man, and greatest of all is the American.
 Sees Great Possibilities.
 In the present century we will conquer, and control. the very ar; we will search out and explore the mysteries of the deep; we will get closer to God, by getting closer to nature. This grand young giant America will be girdled from north to south. from east to west by connections that will make New York and San Fran cisco Slamese twins and will join Cuba and the lakes as in an embrace of lovers. Last century we whirled over our God bless country on trains. and crossed its rivers on bridges. In the present century we will scorn the bridges and the tunnels. and will soar over the streams and the peaks in air-shIps, as upon the wings of an eagle.
 Let us not, then, Mir. President. throw any stone in front of this car of progress Rather let us bend our energies to cut loose from it's wheels all the weights of follies and mistakes of the centuries past. - - .------ -
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