The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-05
BirminSham's Horror \ of the Dread ScourSe

"s'death." odds boddikins." 'Hev-
 vings," or even 'sDoGgone it." The star eyed Goddess of Hope did not poise her
 wings and flee from Montgomery. But the men of Montgomery did something
 when they heard of the fell thing Bir-
 mingham had done. That they did. They snickered.
 Montgomery did entertain for one night, while he had the fever. a stran- ger and 8 wandered from Louisiana, but that has not torn up the town nor up- | set the plan of salvation. The Alabama River continues to run down stream and Joel Barnett continues to tell his jokes. notwithstanding the fact that three miles from the city the Louisiana lumberman, strong and hungry. sits in a wire cage and clamors for a porter house steak with Cleole sauce. It is barely possible that a mosquito bit Mir. Minnihett, the Louisiana gentle man who travels around with a case Of yellow fever and disturbs a town which
 had generously given him . pass to other places, before he developed the fever. This is possible. No man can | tell
 But then the Montgomery man can leave the bosom of his family and go | down to buy a bottle of paregoric for | the baby without being brought home, | five hours later on a shutter with a slung shot wound over the left ear | The Montgomery man can work over- time at night and start for home with the assurance that he will not meet two | perfect strangers with shiny pistols | and dark masks. who will take all his money and curse him because he did | not have more. And the Montgomery man can walk right straight up the sidewalks when he starts home at night. He does not have to cir9e out in the tc<~ ,-skA hA lA, | dark alley, nor does he have to dodge around every shadow he sees. Yes. | Montgomery is probably unfortunate, but some things have to be done in Bir- l mingham that do not have to be done in Montgomery.
 There are some queer things about Montgomery. For instance, a man can come in here and get job without having a committee walt on him and | tell him to get off the face of the earth. | And he can not only live through the week, but on Saturday he can go up and get his pay without having the rear
 of his anatomy filled with slugs and | buckshot by an impAlsive and impetu- ] ous union man. There's another queer thing about Montgomery. The train man can go back to flag train with out having ex-convtcts in greasy caps | rise up out of the darkness and take | his months salary and his open-faced l gold watch.
 The Montgomery man does not find 1t | necessary for the protection of his life, | his small change and his gold watch to go around with several pieces of small 1 artillery slowed away in his clothes It | may seem quite odd to Birmingham, but | 1t Is nevertheless true that MOntgom- l ery's streets are quite safe, in daylight
 or in darkness.
 Yes there are many queer things about Montgomery. Montgomery's city
 officials do not own Rabbit Foot" sa-
 looms. Police officers are not removed and transferred because they go into negro dives to preserve order. | How long since was 1t that the con-
 stituted law courts of Jefferson County | sentenced six of her citizens to hang
 on one day Certainly. Birmingham l should be credited for starting a reform
 that promises an amelioration of exist l ing conditions. If that rate Is kept up. | the law abiding man in Birmingham | can throw away his artillery or donate | it to the State.
 Yes, Montgomery has had its troubles. I But then 1t is so much cheaper to live | in Montgomery than in Birmingham. l Ones laundry bills are so much smaller. Birmingham quarantines Montgom- cry? Say. why should anybody for any
 reason want to go from Montgomery to l Birmingham?