The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-11
ROAST FOR
 ADVERTISER Mrs. Mamie Curtis Gets
 Personal. \ SEVERELY ARRAIGNs PAPER Says It Doesn't Know First Prin-
 ciples of Truth. Female Prohibition Speaker Devotes Large share of Her Address. to Paper, which, She Says, Doesn't Know she Is In Town.

Mrs. Mamie Curtis. who has been speaking for the cause of prohibition for several weeks past, yesterday aft ernoon at the Montgomery Theatre de- livered another of her emotional appeals for her cause.
 She also took occasion to again pay her respects to The Advertiser in no uncertain terms,i saying that The Ad- vertiser did not know the first princi- ples of accuracy and truth, that it did not quote respectable persons, and, finally that while they treferring to the liquor dealers), can buy The Ad- vertiser, they cannot buy men," with emphasis on the last word.
 Throughout her lecture she was fre- quently cheered by the audience of men, women and children which se- verely taxed the seating capacity of the theatre. When the lecturer finally called upon those who would go out on the streets and work for the cause of prohibition to stand up. the great audi ence arose en Inasse and cheered for some minutes. 4 The Birmingham slogan of the w. c. T. u. in their fight in Birmingham was introduced at the lecture. It is set to the tune of Bringing in the
 
 "Montgomery's going dry. Montgomery's going dry; Pass around the watchword, Montgomery's going dry" J. Lee Holloway presided over the meeting and introduced Mrs. Curtis as. having come from Morgan county fresh from a prohibition victory there, and in Montgomery.
 Mrs. Curtis took the text of her lec- ture from Ezekiel xvi:2O, in which the terrible sacrifices to the god "Moloch" were compared with the terrible results of the liquor trade. "The difference is that the Amorites sacSificed the body to a strange god, both the body and the soul to a strange \ god. In comparison the Amorite Is the better Of the two" "The race problem depends on the solution of the liquor traffic." declared the lectufer, who drew a picture of the negro when liquor was denied to him before the war and the conditions which exist since he has been given liquor.
 She told of her first experience in seeing bar room. saying that she saw white man and a negro making love to each other in front of the bar, both of them drunk. "Is 1t q small wonder,
 
 equality at the bar he is now demands ing that he receive 1t in our homes?' Tells of The Advertiser. IL was at this point that Mrs. Curtis branched out into her invective against The Advertiser
 If men come out in the newspaper and tell lies for the liquor traffic. they'll do anything under the sun. | wof iiSedi iii . new sDapsf ofiice for just one month, but in that month learn ed that the first lesson was to be ac- curate and truthful. The Advertiser hasn't learned this first lesson
 Why, The Advertiser doesn't know I'm in town but l am telling them that am and will meet 'em anywhere with any weapon that they chose. Of course I mean a literary weapon. tongue or pen"
 Picking up a Friday issue of The Ad- vertiser, in which she called attention to an article from Denisoh. Tex, she said:
 truth, and I've come to put the lie to everything they say. live eight miles from Dennison, in Sherman, and they print this statement-lreads stats- mentO
 Now. wouldn't advise anyone to read The Advertiser, if 1t was right, but since there are men in the audi onC9 WHO VIII pEOLCck IAi6 II HcCCbbhEyt advise you to read that article from Dennison, just to show you what kind of liar there Is in this town.
 Here's another article from Temple. Tex Why, The Advertiser don't quote respectable persons. Here are some af- fdavits from respectable persons" which she then read, referring to the prosperity of her town of sherman and of Dennison-
 "I dare, double dare The Advertise CT to put these affidavits in the paper"
 "I did not go into featuring over the country on prohibition in order to save the men-would that man was the only sufferer for the terrible habit--but I came to save the women and the child