The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-21
WHAT STATE PAPERS
 ARE SAYING

No Wonder. Bullock County Breeze. preachers. Alter the average preacher has tackled Atlanta for a while. he Is generally about ready to take to the woods.
 Improvements Pay. Tuscaloosa Times-GaZette. Improvements have beneficial ef- feet on business-there's not business front that will not find 1t to be a pay ing thing.
 A True Bill. Gadsden Times News. Those alleged Democratic papers which, are loudly shouting that Grover Cleveland is not Democrat. must have peculiar ideas of what constitutes pure Democracy.
 Build .he School House. -i' Alexander City Outlook.
 With the States increased aid to the schools is no reason that the inditid- ual should not do his part. For in- stance, Alexander City sfould be proud and patriotic enough to build modern school houuse.
 Such Is Fame. Birmingham Ledger.
 There is little debate on as to where Aaron Burr was captured--at St. Stephens or Mcintosh. The old records say he was arrested near St. Stephens. That gives the decision to both sides. Burr was arrested for wanting to do what Sam Houston and others did and got monuments for doing a few years later. Such Hs fame. a
 Pay Your Poll Tax. NOrthport Breeze.
 Now that taxpaying time has como again, the newspapers over the State have taken up the refrain: Pay your poll tax" From all that has been said it seems to us that every man who has a reasonable conception of the value of the ballot would pay this little school tax and qualify himself for vot- ing.
 Should Put It To the End. Clarke County Democrat.
 The Circuit judges show commend able zeal and activity in efforts to hunt tiger whisky. No members of the com munity are doing more harm than these whisky dealers. They are nerv- ing the pistol and its nloody Worn a ana ity and vice. Every good man should strive to stop the eyil *
 Government Control. Goodwater Enterprise. CT functions. anI leave the industrial field clear for individual enterurise and industry Why not insist on government ownership of stsSl sirmH mills ., cotton taefor. railroads, telegraphs and telephones? May the time never coma when the people of this country, and especially Rack to the old landmarks Down with the tariff and trusts. -
 < t Long Staple Cotton. Centreville Press.
 A bale of long staple cotton raised by MT. c: J. James was recently ship ped by one of cur local buyers and brought sixteen cents per pound in the market MT. James lives just beyond Jamesvile on the Marion doad. Sever al of our farmers have lately taken to experimenting with the staple cotton, and if they can find what chemical ele- ment is needed to be furnished to our soil to make it produce as much per acre as the Louisiana and Mississippi staple lands, the raising of staple cot ton will undoubtedly nt prove profitable
 Protecting Game. Union Springs Herald
 over in Dallas County the sports men have organized for the purpose Of protecting their game. They seem hunting out of season It is on!y 2 quesion of a short time before all of the counties in the State will md It necessary to have their game laws r.gidly enforced if they are to have any game at all. Even hero in Bullock it ia reported that quail are being shot every day. It should not be so.
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 Furnishing Law Breakers. TuskcGee News. ~
 Never in the recent history or Ma con County were so many true bills found by d grand jury, and never be- fore were so many white men indlct- ed and convicted. And the fact oi tho business is that nearly every one Of those white men is, in the main' .t ialf- lv good citizen. But owing to the general Ioosencss in the punishmen or crime and the feeble protests or good men against lawlcssness, they easily drftcd into almost open vlolatlohs. First some of them ordered liquor as an accommodation for their customers; then the prott 1" the stun tempted them and almost hefor4 they kneW u, they had United States revenue incense and were defying the state laws, But we hc ne that this costly experience VIII prcve the end of .ho iangerois bus- | in@sS inr every man .n tho county