The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-05-07
What the State Papers
Are Saying and Doing

Amended Proposition.
Birmingham Age-Herald.
osition is to have Mr.. Bryan nominate
Mr.. Roosevelt with the understanding
that the former is to be the latter's un-
derstudy until 1912. =
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About ON a Par.
Mobile Herald.
Much growing in the papers about
the collapse of the Honduras lottery.
Yet the stock exchanges aredoing bus
mess at their old stands.
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Bus His Arm Will BE I'm a Sling.
Birmingham Age-Herald.
John w. Gates may saunter into
Wall Street again some day when the
Wall Streeters are not looking.
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Signs of Prosperity.
Eufaula Times.
In Alabama banks are becoming al
being ten in Geneva county, one of the
smallest in population in the state.
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still Popular With Era.
Fort Payne Journal.
Some one has discovered that three
of the five jurors who voted to acquit
Thaw, were .baldheaded. From which
it appears that Evelyn still makes
hit with the bald-headed row.
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Taft the Ablest.
Dadeville Courier.
Taft. Foraker and Fairbanks are all
busy talking and planning for the
1908 campaign. Each hopes to head
his party but 1t seems now that the
honor will be Tafts He is one of the
very ablest men in the republican
party.
Game Law ViOIaters.
Florence Herald.
The first victim of the new game
a in T.aIdprda1o county ia linn Sn1it h
colored, who brought two wild ducks
to town, killed in violation of the re-
Gently enacted law. The arrest was
made by Game Warden Jesse Dawdy,
and resulted in a fine of SIS.
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Need the Strong Hand.
Birmingham News
When the Filipinos are allowed
semblance of self-government there
will be an opportunity to demonstrate
whether they can transact public bus
mess WITHOUT balling up things SO pit
iably as did the Cuban breed with APP
petites for political pie.
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Something Like II.
Huntsville Mercury.
The Birmingham papers publish an
incident where a negro knocked
young lady down on the streets. grab
bed her purse. and was chased several
S9Ses by Ghef Wsen the
begin to assist in the arrest of crimi-
nails of their own color there will be
less crime among them.
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Must Have Competent Head.
Hartford Times Herald:
The only way for a farmer to keep
up his farm is to live on It himself,
white man to keep up and have 1t
stipulated to keep buildings. etc, in
repair, for no farm without being
looked after can get along without
competent tenant.
Migrants.
Birmingham Ledger
There are dozens of loafers in the
doggeries who do not get pulled as
Migrants. There are dozens of black
men who do not work, have no proper
ty, yet live. A man who has no In
come and who does not work Is SO
asked to explain where his living
comes from. A man lives on his own
earnings or the earnings of some one
else.
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The People Pay Ii.
Alexander City outlook.
Governor Conner is out in a defense
of the law taxing foreign corporations
lending money to Alabamians for the
development of the state, which law
was enacted at his instance: 1t seems
fact that Alabamians must bear these
burdens of extra taxation and must
paw every cent imposed upon capital
coming into the state to be used for
development of their resources.
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A Little Hanging.
The Roanoke Ledger advocates the
Offering of a standing reward of
81 900 by the state for the arrest and
conviction of any person who kills
an officer in the discharge of his duty
That's not so bad, but what we want
his a few men hung who take the life
Of their Fellow man, There is too
much leniency shown men who violate
the laws and that is one of the rea-
sons for so much crime,
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Two Ugly Affairs.
Roanoke Ledger.
Both birmingham and Montgomery
recently reported ugly affairs in their
criminal records lat week. In the
former city deputy sheriff and a
constable engaged in a shooting scrape
in the heart Of the city near midday
Unfortunately they missed each other
and wounded a young lady. In the
law-making seats of the state strikers
resorted to the despicahle method of
blowing up street cars with dynamite.
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Good Proposition.
Tuscumbia Dispatch.
The Farmers Union is considering
the establishment of a school in Mem
phis to teach the grading of cotton. We
believe this would he a wise undertake
ing Every farmer should he prepared
grade his cot