The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-21
WALKER PERCY AND
 PlNCKARD TELL OF
 DANGER TO COUNTY
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I would like to do. My ideas are undi-
 gested and half baked, and it is hardly
 the right thing for man having given so little study to the subject to take up the
 time of the audience. Nor have I been in
 the campaign long enough to acquire the enthusiasm and ardor which is being dis
 played in this controversy. I have never
 had occasion 10 consider a problem which
 Is more yexing than the one the voters
 will have a chance to vote on next week.
 There is a wide difference of opinion
 among our citizenship to what action
 to take on thk matter It is question
 which unbiaI>d and unselfsh citizens can
 but view with a certain amount of em-
 barrassment.r l want to talk to the non-
 partisan on this proposition for that Is
 what I am. l have no interest in any sa-
 loon 1 own no building in which a saloon
 is located nor do I receive any benefit in
 any way from a saloon. l do not know whether prohibition is going to win or not
 but that won't deter me from saying what am going to say on this subject. We are
 here as friends and fellow citizens, with
 just one interest at heart, the welfare
 of our community. am glad the discus
 sion has been on broad lines, free from personalities and bitterness.
 Lining Up.
 NONf llnlDS Inelli up. on tIt bition side there are preachers and
 church leaders. I mean by church lead CTS men whose work is along minis terial lines and who in their interest
 for our moral welfare never consider anything but extermination of evil. For
 those of our people who believe that prohibition will be for the good of the commonwealth I have great respect. Yet I believe that ministers, while all xpas- artn ct pI Sft n fo
 lack a view of the practical business side of the situation. Then added to their number is the professional poli- tician. I believe the greatest curse of the south has been the demagoGue- that variety of statesman who thinks first, last and all the time of that job he hopes to get. It is the familiar type-the man who acts not as he be- | lieves, not as he thinks he believes. ! but acts on what he thinks is the win ming creed. I am not for promoting the purple faced, bloated, jumping-in the band dwagon politician. He's out for winning office-he doesn't care for the question.
 There is another type-the great body of our fellow citizens whose bal lot is going to solve this immediat te question; men who have no political 1 ambition in considering this question but who are trying to find out what is the best and wisest course to pursue. About Alcohol.
 We all recognize the far-reaching and detrimental effect of the use of alcohol. l don't believe there Is q thoughtful. fair minded man. even If he be engaged in the sale of whisky. but believes that if whisky could be entirely destroyed it would be the best thing to do. Before me are promi- nent men engaged in the sale of whisky whom l am sure believe that if the use of it could be prevented it would be the great thing to do. If you could wipe from this earth the use of alco- hol-if it could be done in any way-I wouldn't be deterred in my purpose to wipe it out.
 .'There are many men who in think ing how they are going to vote are going to be embarras ssed by the bought that if whisky could be abolished it should be. The evil is one which has afflicted humanity ever since the birth of Christ and no doubt long before that time. The sale of whisky results in economic waste. results in degrada-