The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-04
WHAT STATE PAPERS
 ARE SAYING

Try Branding. Pine Belt News. .tt. t. It looks like the time would come when diplomats would have to be la beled like other canned goods. 3s < Se More Time Needed. Opelika News.
 Time has proven clearly that twelve and e half days per year for legbla- ton Is not sufficient all9Wanee1 9, a TOT ,a < # 5S The Sad End. Anniston Hot. Blast. The Presidents simplified spelling did not last long enough for anyone to get accustomed to 1t. If so soon twas done for, then wonder what twas begun for
 Hard To Keep Count. PAnniston Hot Blast. , It is reported that another revolu- tion Is threatened in Venezueia' Iney are so Frequent in that mart of the | to keep the count straight. a $ 5S Two Ways Of Looking At It. | Selma Journal.
 Perhaps the Secretary of the Treas ury is right in saying that this country | is too prosperous. It is too prosper. ous at the top and struggling too hard to make both ends meet at the bottom
 
 Presidential Message Clerk. Ashville Aegis.
 Congress should elect a Presidential message clerk at salary of about ing magnitude and importance of this | interesting feature of the administra- tion. and also an assistant 1t required % SS SS Get Rid Of Illiteracy. Birmingham AgeHerald Not a dollar of taxation should be stricken off while the State Is full oi | people who cannot read and write not dollar. This should become the basic plank of every devoted Alabamiar who loves his State too well to be VIII ing to have it become known as tho most illiterate state of the union.
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 Wants a Dog Law. Moulton Advertiser. If we had Oood dog law we WoulC have more goats. more goat skins, moro goat butter and more goat mllk-W' would have more sheep, more mutton and more wool. In view of these ex we shall expect Grandma to use he 1 influence when the Legislature meet | to have one passed.
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 The september storm.
 The recent storm did little damag to Mobile. sc little that business mel are heard to mention 1t but very sel  post in chronology. visitor to n city would never have the slightest idei that storm had struck Mobile. Busi ness has in no wise been injured. an' the river front is today even more ac tive than before the storm
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 Gives More Than Value Received. Collinsville Courier.
 A newspaper is In no sense chill of charity as a great many seem | think We are working all the tim and ana in in calling for the support of tn community we ask for no more tha in all fairness belongs to us. Patron ize and help your paper as you wonl @ you. and not as an act of charity.
 Destroyer of Man. Huntsville Democrat.
 cial success from her dispensary liquo sales in two days before Christmas. O Saturday, December 22. and Monday the 24th the amount realized was owe s46O0 and $2.544 worth was sold Christ mas eve. Without the awful soci1 drinking" that dispensaries are said [ stop, $2,544 worth of the stuff Is brett bad on the pious men who swear of and drink alone"
 A Good Outlook.
 There There is nothing apparent in the ma tcrial situation that should cause tn least alarm. If the speculators an "captains of industr''" can be held dow to a proper appreciation of their rt sponsibility and held in check by sa utory laws conscientiously enforce there is every reason tc feel that ou mate rial prosperity may continue fC many years to come and that ot wealth may he rapidly increased unt we shall become the worlds banker an draw tribute from other lands.
 ;s < * \ Northern Bern Mans Remedy Andalusia News. Al,
 IL wouldn't take the editor or tn newspaper a week to solve thls plsl carrying problem among the black rac We would establish whipping posts every county seat and where neg was convicted of carrying conceattt weapons and could not pay sooa sll [ fine. he would be whipped untli couldn't snap a trigger-wohuh hro Mo |. a gun, if he met one in the roau. . might not cure the negro or plsIol lo . ing. but it is worth tr"ing . @ # S The Right View Of kt' 2 i'STIi This editor does not belong to tn I class who is so afraid Of spending i little of the public moneys that V would compel the Governor of our Sta \ to continue to lodge in Montgome ] boarding houses or live in a rent