The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-11
Great Enthusiasm Is
 Displayed.
COLLECTION OF $1,66o.50
 TAKEN UP AT MEETING
Crowd of Men Present Estimated
 at Over 1,5O0.
Sensational Charges Made, which Speakers Said They Could substan- tiate-Committee Appoiated TO
 Take charge es Campaign.

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 Advocates of prohibition led by c. c. Miles. Brooks Lawrence. superintend- ent of the Anti-saloon League of Alabama. and the Rev. Bob Jones, who hrst started active work on proiiibi- ton, raised the sum of s1.s6o 50 last night as starter for prohibition cam paign fund for Montgomery County.
 Fully 1,500 men were assembled In the Auditorium to consider the important question of pro- the movement, and to start active work with a full organization. STOCKS Lawrence was the speaker of the evening. He told those assembled ,ha wnat arguments against prohibition coming light. and showed their funda- mental fallacy He said that the conn ing fight is not a fight against indi- Tsr TTisuuads; put against the salodns Ihroughout his speech he was freouent- ly interrupted by continued cheering. Ine meeting was presided over bv G. G. Miles, who later was made chair man of the Prohibition Campaign Com mittee. pr. O., c. McGehee, pastor of the Court Street % Methodist Church opened the meeting with prayer, after wnlcn MT. Miles arose and stated the purpose of the. meeting. He said:
 he question of prohibition Is forced n~ ty' since 1t is all around us ana now on us. But why prohibition? i? Here's the reason, go over the records or the courts and you will find that so per cent of the crime committed is due to drinking. These facts answer the question. It Is a question of high CT manhood. More men of a higber type of manhood"
 MT. Lawrence said that the prohf- nition sentiment in the city and county IS not sudden outbreak of d popular movement. but that the uues- ton has been smoldering in the city Tor some times The fight is on, and ws expect to carry the county to the highest slceess. but we ne sd eiood men ' 70 light for Nss lie said. MT. Miles then introduced Mir. Jones ax a mar, who has been heard or and has ba2u heard by Montgomerians. s-
 Montgomery is. to have the hardest light for prohibition that has ever stirred the voters of the county if the meeting of 1,500 men, which was held at the Auditorium last night Is any indication. Great enthusfasna was shown in the continued cheers of the audience when any sentiment was brought strongly to the front by the speakers. sf charges ever made about conditions existing in Montgomery were made by the speakers of the occasion. Charges to which the speakers said they could produce the proof were told to the amazed voters who were present.
 Bob Jones Speaks.
 MT. Jones arose and said that this is going to be the hardest fight that he has ever been in. and that he would like to read a telegram he had just received to the effect that Lowndes County had gone dry by 150 major ity. The audience cheered the in- formation for some time.
 When the cheers subsided and the speaker could be again heard, he an hounced that The Montgomery Journal had come out strong on the side of prohibition, and he was again cheered. He provoked more cheers from the au- dtence when he announced that Eff you want to get in the band wagon that you, too. had better join the side of prohibition"
 The speaker continued by announc- ing that there are only two elements in the fight: the whiskey element and the prohibition element. He told who composed both parties. To the whis- key element he placed the brewers. saloon-keepers, hariots and a few business men who belonged to the church who are too stingy to belong to the side of right--they might loose q dollar. To the prohibition element he ascribed every Christian in the county. There was a third class. he said. those on the fence. who told both sides that they are for them.
 Many people say. that prohibition will do no good, and that people who want whiskey will get 1t anyhow" the speaker continued, but l believe that the country will soon be SO regulated that you can't get drink anywhere. i"
 The Whlskey business is dishonest, anyhow" said Mir. Jones' You go in- to store and you get value received You don't get your dollars worth merely stuff that is injurious at the time and certainly at the end. The people of this county are tired of hav- ing their politics dominated by the whiskey clement"
 (The speaker was interrupted here by cheers of the audience).
 ''It is a social question and 1t is a. moral question that must be answered at once." Mir. Jones said. and GalIed for a division of the audience on the question. And as the audience divided with cheers for prohibition. the speak CT closed his remarks with Thank God. there are so many in favor of the movement.
 Mir. Miles then introduced Brooks Lawrence, whom most of the audi ence had already had sufficient intro auction 10 as state Superlntendent or the Anti-Saloon League. Mir. Law renee arose and spoke upon the argu- ments which advocates of prohibition will hear during the fight. He said that he had been in about twenty-three fights and that the same arguments would be advanced here eas had been done in other places.
 One of the favoTite arguments. he said, Is that grass will grow in the streets. blind tigers will be operated and there will be many empty stores if prohibition is carried in the county. Montgomery is soaked with whiskey," he said. and 1t couldn't be worse if you had a million blind tigers in the city with whiskey dripping from every tail of them.
 Places of Debauchery.
 This Is not a conflict between man and man. continued MT Lawrence. but 8 conflict between the Kingdom of heaven and hell. Which side are you dghting for, I have the facts and