The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-01
Editor The Advertiser:

Editor The Advertiser:
 Tn all this hurly- burly about rail-
 roads and Governors l haven't hearo anything from the Anti-Saloon League
 brethren. I certainly will not be gull
 tv of the impropriety of accusing them
 of thinking, and saying nothing.
 feel sure they are all good men If they
 arc not deceived in themselves. Iney
 enlist my sympathy to renlarkaotte t
 degree in that 1t is hard 70 malhtaitI l II the character of ProhlpitlohisI na
 Democrat at the same time. l once
 heard of a deacon who fell into the
 business of sewing machine agenI anu r l became uneasy about sns tmSet cv wa s ahout to be exemplified right In the
 very citadel of Final Perseverance, You see, I thought there was an lhr comnatibiIity. After so long time l
 got the ear of the man who was Lur-
 nishing the machines and team: WItI
 a great deal of religious treploatlon |
 took up the matter ot thls pnopoina. pdr H,s. {.
 tional interest in the agent and toio
 inc principal that l doubted the pfor priety of this particular agency, tbe
 man to maintain, at once, the character of sewing machine agent ana !s BaPSiy' SHr
 deacon. "Good Lord!, said he. IS mr.
 Blank deacon? ,n fSn ?af,rmatlTe A GT % the man. as
 sg in a soliloquy, said. My GodP' And
 then he told me the agent was maln-
 taining one character, Tor. sa,o ne;
 Hhe's a devil of a good agent. And
 sn bv piece-meal. I'm having to sup
 scribe to the doctrine of Apostacy, ny NY
 ohservation is that the Anti-Saloon
 aS hSemocrat very well-and that's why
 if Is improper to charge them with
 thinking. , , 0ooA Man
 feel a delicacy in taking, the initiative
 ts noIitica They might inaugurate
 some needed reforms. But, this might
 require the tax of thought; No suhe he
 SsGSiEsa sn9Sgs Food think. %an The eoui ferment of mind mind might generate self-resppeSet
 and work the loss of a vote t9 the e
 Party" It's fearful thing Sn1 Wnen h d
 comes seif-respecting. Though I'm all at sea about excellence in men. know that the contemplation or per-,
 patetic sanctity pains me awfuiiy anq
 | rim from 1t as from plague. l
 don't want to "catch" it. Once in my live I met a man whose only opJect in going about seemed to come rom a desire to exhibit his unadulterated denravitv About that time it was my misfortune to know man (lI ll s os lawful to call him a man) who seemed to take a mean delight in paraolng III hts caI iiherty of thought and speech, con ouered for the people by the Popullsts ts. I began to contrast the eEponehts ol extremes. My treedom ol eAplSSSSiE. -. confne. to the ears of the depraved Tel low he made me a call and told me wlth tbe seriousness of low breath and me noinfs that if he lever heard or me aeain comparing him with that d-9 sneak he'd whip h-ll out Of me. then began an Investigation among the neigbhors and found 1t to be the gen ara7 oninion that the only way to test tbe exceilency of the two gentlemen m question would be to put em Tn DIE and shake, and give the palm 70 @ Ine one first coming out. As the test was impracticable the prize yet hangs m
 When I was boy knew one man who, in the matter of pants, was an | exceptIon. I suppose, now, ne Was baneing on to an old fashion. HIS l hreeches were different from anythins 1 oe tbe kind I had ever seen. For tns
 fife of me, I couldn't see how he gol | into lem. They weren't ike olo | Gs,yoes's coat in the matter of button, S,,s, I thought q was boyl- thal | may be so, he had got em on WLons g,,i.ls | Eut when I got rear view | lou.,. t a. tine same innocency of buttons tners ~ hin front. went away snJ ItrowfuI for my young lns s, Twas wrestling with the problem oL hov ,s that man got into those trouseE., D nI v, Il BiIi Armstrong (the friend or my s. si sVss s' ! told me he had'seen efn ana stpliS1 x. es Il and that they were D0lly pASeSsaitSs SeSat- with d dap to 'em and reserved ,sse asso A gether for the righteous, nave siH1S 4 <. &iearned that these pants were S~lAS'