The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-03
LAWRENCE'S PLANS
LEAGUE sUPERrN-
 PENDENT IN MONT@oMERY.
oeganazation win Vigorously Fight for Pnnsage of Anti Skipping, Six osClock Closing and Liquor
 License Measures.

Three measures are going to be viz orounly fought for by the anti-saloon 1eAxue at the coming session or the lexasiature, according to Superintend- New Exchange Hotel last evening.
 These are the anti-shipping bill the nix o'clock closing bill and the code amendment referring to the issuing of licenses. In addition to these there win in all probability be bill in txodnced that will require that all prescriptions that are issued by phy, sicians for whiskey, on Sunday. shall be limited in amount to four ounces. and that the prescription shall spe- c1fy just what is the particular com- plalnt for which the whiskey is pre- acribed.
 The first fight is to be made to have the antt-shipping bill taken off the negative calendar of the senate and made law. It will be argued by the anti-saloon people that where com munitx has voted for prohibition that this particular community should be protected from the shipping into that territory by common carriers of liquor.
 This bill Is more familiarly known nS the Jug bill." and similar measures have been adopted by nearly all of the Southern States. Claim is made by the anti-saloon people that prohibition laws are, to a certain extent made in- operative by permitting jugs of whis- key to be carried into the prescribed territory. They argue that the people have decided by vote that whiskey shall not be sold in their community and that this expressed wish Is set at naught by allowing the carriers to carry on the trade
 As regards the six o'clock closing bill MT. Lawrence says he anticipates no dificulty in having this bill pass 41< satisfied. says -Ar. Lawrence that much of the present evil that Is brought about by the liquor trafic occurs after that hour in the evening and that a prohibitive measure of this kind will have a salutory effect in all parts of the state. There are but three cities in the state that will op- pose this. according to the superin- tendent of the anti-saloon league Birmingham. Montgomery and Mobile, although he Is Of the opinion that the first mentioned city will not make any strong vote against 1t.
 The code amendment with reference to licenses is aimed at putting a stop to the Issuing of licenses for a saloon in residential district. At the pres ent time it is necessary for an appli- cant for such license to obtain the signatures to his petition of twenty xreeholders. Under the proposed change 1t will be necessary for him to have as signers twenty-f five electors. This petition will then have to be post cd in public place which will give to those in the district an opportunity to file counter petition.
 Mir. Lawrence says that his league will be in a position to show that in many places in Alabama these petit Ions under the present law have been signed by negroes. and that saloons hn hshed in many residential districts much against the wish of the voters.
 Asked as to whether any special steps were to be taken with regard to Montgomery county Mir. Lawrence said that there was none that he knew of. antt-saloon league goes into a county to stir up these questions. he said. but this Is not the case. We wait until a community expresses a desire for our help and then we give them all the aid fin our power.
 T see that the Rev. Robert Jones is to visit Montgomery in September" i" his visit here will do as much toward closing saloons in Montgomery as any, one can do. He has had wonderful success in this direction in other places he has visited and there is every req son to believe the same success will at- tend his. visit here.
 It is only a question of a very short time. anyhow. when saloons will go out or existence in all parts of Alabama. It Is not the temperance people who are the strongest in this movement, although they are doing their share. But the business. people are the ones who are awakening to the fact that the saloon is an evil in the community and they are largely influencing the members Of the legislature"