The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-17

classes of men, blended into one He who trusts in his own goodness--ab- sence of glaring. outbreaking iniquity. He seemed to have served his father faithfully. V %. The outward acts of . seIf-righteous man may be moro con- sistent than the deeds of . penitent publican.
 He mistook the nature of Gods Kingdom. It is all of grace. It 10 in fellowship with God. What one may have does not decrease our possessions. Gods salvation is not narrow and failing spring for which we must was 6ne calf when the father was ready to give all?
 It is type of the ungenerous and narrow-minded bigot. The elder brother returns to the house and hears music and dancing. Instead of rush. ing into that home with joyful heart. that the lost brother was found he sulkily asks what 1t means. He has no joy in the feast. He does not like to see joy in others. He undertakes to rebuke his father. and charges him with partiality and injustice. He had not given him "a kid to make merry with his friends" when in fact all was his. He proceeds to abuse his brother. He declines to call him brother" He Is thy son." He has spent his sub. stance with harlots. He has no faith in his repentances day. He Is made miserable by others self founded joy; he hes . face of gloom for the midday of happines; he even charged God with partiality in saving anybody else than himself; he Is ready to sheer when the prodigals come back and say. Tt will not last"
 He is the type of the man of ill-tem- per. Temper Is a splendid thing when curbed. when put under control; but chronic ill-temper Is one of the worst of curses. He was angry and would not so in." What a position 1t put him in--outside his own door, In the gloom and darkness and danger of the night
 How often has such ili-temper made us take positions which are foolish but we have not the courage and sweetness of disposition to retract. It spoiis our happiness. He was angry outside. and life's Ills we could bear if we were sweeter in temper! It is better to whistle than to whine, and the whistle will drive the whine out.
 He spoiled the happiness of others; the father who had just gained a lost son. the shame-faced prodigal might have wished he never had come home. 4 VI nays shnoI0 olhhGtb WoutQ come nome if we were gladder to see them.
 Mir. Little's peroration was eloquent. He likened the angry elder brother to the bigot who would not enter the sanctuary of God, who, by his self righteousness and ill-temper, stood out in darkness and sin.
 ''The doors of heaven open outward ly," concluded the minister, and are shut only by the bigot himself"
 lfr. Smith Speaks.
 A representative gathering of the cotton growers of Dallas County this afternoon heard an address by D. D. smith of South Carolina, financial rep- resentative of the Southern Cotton Growers' Association. After the ad- dress of Mir. Smith 1t was announoea that business meeting of the Dallas County planters will be held in this city at an early date at which aIle- glance to the Southern Association is assured. ss,@sf ~
 MT. Smith came to Selma to address the planters at the instance of Com- missioner of Agriculture Poole ana in- cidentaiiy to explain the purpose of the Southern Association. About 100 of the most prominent men in the vIcin- ity Of this city assembled at the court house to hear Mir. Smith,
 MT. Smith made an impressive and earnest appeal to the-plhnters to re- auee the acreage of their cotton, to unite against the powerful specuiators and to hold their product until the de- mand brought good prices.
 Tt Is a shame to the southIars m said Mir. Smith, that 1t has a monop- oiy In the greatest product and ataple III the world and citizens without tho brains and enterprisu to control if
 He severely scored the Southern planter. whom, he said was a soft snap" to the specuiator at the North. :. He eontrasted the Southern planter 10 the Northern planter and said that 1t was only question of time before the Southerner would realize that he is losing by his own non-aggressiveness and would rise to be the equal of the brainy capitalist who is now deriving the only profit from the great cotton production of the South. There can never be competition to cotton as n world staple and necessity, said MT. Smith. and with organized etfort and a reduction in acreage the Southern planters could practically get their own price.
 Mr. Smith illustrated with the cot toE statistics of the past few years how it would more greatly benefit the producers to grow crop of 10000, 900 bales than a crop of 1S.0oo.00o. He re- minded the audience of the great de- mand for cotton year ago when the manufacturers had to have ttA staple and paid IT cents a pound for 1t. He said that he attributed that condition of affairs to Providence impressing on the Southern people the wealth and ad- vantages they possess if they would cultivate f. t
 After Mir. Smith concluded W. 1T. Seymour, President of the Alabama Cotton Growers Association, made a short address.
 Will Have Two Trials.
 Gus Gray, white man, has been tried once on the charge of assault and battery before a justice of the peace and tomorrow morning he will have to answer to the same charge in Police Court.
 Justice Avery has heen summoned to appear and 1t will be shown how Gray was tried and fined $l for an offense committed in the city. It is said that Gray went before the justice, pleaded guilty and accepted the nomi- nal fine, the complainants in the case not being given an opportunity to tes- tify against him. Gray. a young white man, is charged with assaulting two lads about 12 years old.
 The trial tomorrow morning may