The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-22

. c,vtc fife dominated by the saloons.
 vbtr,, have throtflea for years the e. forts to improve the city.
 .As proof that prohibition will not prohibit. we are cited tc somewhat an- cient history of the cxperience of eer- tain counties in Alabama. New condi- tions however, have arisen Behiud the movement today Is an educated public conscience. supported by the most thoughtful men Of the state zoe conservative business men of the coun- try in their rules eoncerning employ ing drinking men have for years been Advancing Ire interests of the cause.ss
 "Fhe ra3lroads are coming out in de- fense of existing statutes. One ot the leading railroads of the State haS within the last few weeks. issued 2 letter Of instrrction that wniskey shah not be shipped over it's lines into pre- hibitfon territory. To say that prohi- bitien has proved a failure is to mis- read the lesson of today Counties that tried prohibition and failed unosr old conditions retufh to 1t today with confidence insthe new era
 "Praetiealiy the @tiss ,s.oa South .as sSoas ~ is moving toward Wohfbition, ana v say that prohibition is . demonstrated failure is to brush aside the evidences Of the living presents ra
 aProhibition will doubtless net conn ptefely prohibit, but once the hold o9 l the saloon upon the. political Ike oI this. city has been looseped, MontSom- cry viii never go back to the conF- tions that obtain today.
 Free the Een in public Hfe from tna threats of the saloons that have Deen held over every public official Tor vears. let the saloon men themselves obmarve the law when enacted, and We xhaII see new Montgomery. strong and great in things that minister to me highest interests of human life. The speaker briefly replied 70 ,ne arwument that prohibition would in- h.ra business, referring to the con structiye value of the money now wasted in the saloons,
 "To enter upon such q reform as IS involved in this fsszse. will dcuptiess l reauire d readtMgtment of business m fe(esta. but on the part of those pest able to stand 1t. those who have gotteh rich at the expense of the hisnest m tTa then cited Ii number of instances in which prohibition had been tried. with the result of the advancement oi tha husiness interests of the commu- rItv amone them Meridian, Miss.,, which was never so prosperous as lO- day, and Atlanta. whose Mayor on tns ns evo of the closing Of saloons state9 that statistics showed that Atianta .ta'. 'nae never been so prosperous as When theg had prohibition some years ago.
 rho saloons have cost San Francisco many times more than the devastntton bv the aarthuuake. The corruptIon ot fnunicipaI life in st. Louis has cost that city vast sumS -
 Reference was then made to tne say ing to the State. city and county ih expenseg of government. and especial
 
 whose work is so greatly fnterIereu with by trafac in whiskey.
 .sThera is practically one saloon 10 avarv aoO people In Montgomery, These saloons are owned by compara- lively a small number or people. To close them will work a hardship up- on few people for time, but on those only best able to bear 1t. while Tor many years it's burdens have rested with almost crushing force upon the homes of Montgomery, and upon our, people m the county whose homes have been Tn constant peril from the mean negro made drunk on mean whtskey which IS just as mean whtskey whethes soia py a white man or a negro.
 "If urchibition does not carry, the county will still be dry, but what "a d dr-y county in a country penetrat, ed bv spIendid bikes. and with a wei citv sfn its center sending streams or iIo1,ors into the countryside to threat an tha dearest interests of every home. A negro hlied with mean whiskey is more a menace to Montgomery county than living seeing tigers turned looses
 .Alabama's largest and richest as- sets gre her sons and in their inter est we plead for the abolition or the saloon that has corrupted our politics wrecked the lives of thousanas or young men, destroyed the peace Of co,rntiess homes, and impoverished hum areds of women and children"
 Ana the papers are calling the es- tAened Mr Fairbanks Buttermilk cr,.a.I.a...is- nd Nra nreSuIne .AtS 'lce