The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-04
F. E. Johnstone & Co. Cotton Merchants and Exporters :.
 Cotton Bought in Alabama and Mississippi Branch Offices Troy and Dothan. Ala and Jackson Miss

 the main ignorant. profiigate and pre- disposed to lswiessness and crime, that the Iiuuor traffic obtains its greatest revenue. 1t is the negro who chiefly constitutes the loafer. the vagrant and the criminal. It is from the negro race that the great criminal class comes. which produces, in a great measure. the necessity for the existence and maintenance of our criminal tribunals. It is the negro who main iy fills our jails and penitentiaries. It l is be whose brain is fired by the liquor poison, clothed in raiment calculated | to arouse his bestial passions, that is being dispensed by establishments that now seek a continued existence by | your grace
 '.Is 1t a wonder that the intoxicated | negro is a menace to the manhood and | womanhood of our country? Is 1t strange that. under existing condi- l tions. there are those among us. re- siding upon farms and in the suburbs of Cur city. who feel anxious for the personal safety of those near and dear I to them.
 For Safety of Women.
 "The future security of our women and children of our homes and our l firesides. as well as our future pros- perity. depends upon the advancement of the ignorant negro to the end or his becoming obedient to law; and this end can be accomplished only by the \ placing of wise limitations and restric- I tions upon his inclination towards | licentiousness and lawlessness.
 "A more wholesome restraint could | not be devised than the removal, as far as possible, from him of the chief l inciting cause of all licentiousness and lawlessness. And this cause Is un- Questionably liquor.
 "Prohibition Is legal barrier to it's sale and distribution. and insofar as | it effectuates decrease of the traffic, 1t decreases the lnwlessness or the negro and is promotive of his obedience to constituted authority thus dimin- ishing the perils to which, Pt present we, as people. are subjected.
 "To the same extent tdat prohibition restricts his opportunity to. obtain liquor. to that extent he becomes a lmore useful and trustworthy laborer and citizen: and to that extent our material prosperity Is subserved.
 Already his presence. under exist ing conditions. has driven from tn z plantations in this county the white
 man and his family. And so long s-
 Iiquor dives in this city are permitted 4 to deal out to him poisonous liquors that incite death and destruction, this depopuiation of the plantations will continue.
 "The responsibility Ter ms Iutufs conduct imperiling the security of our lives our homes and firesides, our women. our tranquility. order, happi-
 ness and prosperity, rests upon the
 white man of this county. To the
 white man is committed heir sacred keeping and preservation.
 'tTIe can destroy them by voting in the approaching election for the con- tinued existence of the fiercest and
 bitterest foe. He can make this Capi.
 tai City. the pride of the state. the
 rendezvous for outcasts driven from other counties by recent elections; or he can strike down the arch enemy of
 morality, decency and prosperity. "'Strike for your altars and your fires. 4. :
 God. and your natfveslandY There was enthusiastic applause af. ter Judge Tysonss address and he wal
 interrupted time and again during fts
 delivery by the salvos of the audi ence.
 America" was sung by the audience between the address of Judge Tyson and that of Mir. Wright. whe followed Address of 1Er. WriGhf. Mir. Wright disciaimed at the outset being temperance lecturer" but salc that he sometimes went to neighborine States to assist their people in achiev- Ing what had been accomplished in Georgia at the last meeting of thu