The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-09
SIDEWALK PENClLINGS
Pettifamnern Are ronaensned.

FetSAt9MHeTN Are ConaeMmed. the American bar is inercenary in its motives, owing to the disclosures m Castellane divorce proceedings, want to correct such an impression, sald well known Montgomery lawyer yes
 'I read in this mornings accounts that it is alleged the sensational di- vorce case, now attracting the atten- machinations Of aHn an American lawyer, whose object was to obtain a big fee. don't know whether this IS true, ana haven't examined into it, but. If it pe arraigned because one American law yer has violated the ethics of the pro- fession. There is no use indicatins the nnnlberiess honest. diligent LAisn- .I.- fuf lawyers in this country, who are constantly trying to live up to the ethics and highest principles of tne professions because one man mas not
 1T am opposed to an idea going abroad that American lawyers are set of pettifoSgers whose sole op5ect is to wiring the dollar from his client regardless of results.
 These lawyers of Paris, who have so charged the American bar, should be informed from the. proper source that the best element of our legal pror fssso Sest psinoDs s ss1st Us eRys eayihns prsaces
 Editor BrAmpmm on Mob Spirit.
 Governor 5elkw yesterday received letter from Editor M. M Brannans ot The Geneva Reaper on the race qnes- tion and the mob spirit of lynch law, m which that gentleman expresses himseii foreibly on tlse question, and ofEers new suggestion az to ths -dnant,s maannsr oa theory which might be made an ex- pertinent" |" He suggests that every person upon reaching the age or 21s support the Federai Constitution. the penalty for mobs to be the same as treason. On this point Editor Grammar says:
 the State, I'd society, to civilization. No other violators ok the law nneIiace #. By their Attractions they merely inxlte It's punishment and suceuEnb to it. The law succunab 10 if. And the sentiment which rebukes the law for seeking to modest tho mob for lynching a negro brute horrible rapist, makes the law all but powerless to deal with the mob. Bruttsh and horrible, Indeed, are the crimes of the mob,s victims, but the mob in passing the judgment of execu- ton upon them. passes It alike upon the law. and law and victims nang side by side from the same limb.
 With the oath of citizenship, the definition of mob violence as treason or anarchy, and with adequate penalties TOT the SANtes the SQlAty tO1AA oG ettt& for such crime, and not. as now, mere- ly for hanging a brutal rapist.
 What more there may be in the stg- gestion of condition precedent to cit- assume something from analogy. You have probably noticed that man who would ga lie like a son-of- gun on- hand will tell an altogether different story when put upon oath. And this IS So with otherwise reputable citizens. Again. all public officials are required to make such oath. Yet the duty or the citizen Is as sacred as the duty of the official. Why not make them all official citizens. or make them citizens oficialIy. formally, solemnly, at the le-
 Tt would be an impressive function. and could not fail to impart a high and lasting sense of the dignity and responsibility of civic association.
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 Wires Torn Away by storm.
 ''The public does not realize" said an oficiaI of the telephone company, ''the immense amount of damage done 10 the telephone and telegraph wires wires by the storm that visited the Gulf coast several weeks ago.
 "As a matter of fact the companies have not yet recovered from the dis aster. We had to rebuild % oyer thirty the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. In this thirty miles not more than i've poles weran left standing and this meant that8the wires were in q tan
 8 Since the storm both the telephone and the telegraph companies have had large forces of men in that section
 'Tn addition to the handicap on the service given. to the public the repairs have cost tine companies large sums of money"
 Lieutenant Noble J. Wiley. of the 9th United States Infantry, who Is ill of yellow fever in Havana, Cuba is convaleseing and is now regarded as in Montgomery yesterday from Gen eral Bell, the commanding officer in Cuba said: 'Lieutenant Wiley is bet ter The report is that he Is doing well. He has no fever and his pulse is going to normal"
 Hon. G. T. McElderry of Tallade- ga Is in town, accompanied by his '' - & @ %
 Or. J. B. Purdy Of Birmingham spent last night in Montgomery.
 Mir. John Proctor Mills has returned from a visit to Birmingham.
 Mir. J. N. Pittman of Camp Hlll spent last night In Montgomery,
 Mir. John ". Cooke Of Birmingham was in town last night.
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 MT John Adams of The Ozark Star was in town yesterday,
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 MT. Charles seheussler of Lafayette is visiting the city;
 Hon, George II. Parker of cullman is at the Exchange.
 Mir. l.. H. Boykin of Glennville is visiting the city
 Capt; George H. Dent of Eufaula is in the city.
 MT. S. R. BOykin of Scale is fin -'-''' g &
 MT. c; H. Warren of Georgiana is " ~ :s g %
 Mir. S. Deming of Evergreen Is in Montgomery.
 BRYAN AND ROOSEVELT. VIII They Lead the Opposing Forces.