The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15

 retary, and she is fully acquainted with her husbands real condition.
 MT. Cleveland has remained at his home in Princeton all summer. The Cleveland children have been at Mrs Cleveand's New Hampshire home with
 
 was in a failing condition and that abuse or maltreatment did not pro- duce death. However, you might in vestigate the matter.
 These are the matters that l was in- structed to bring to your attention in order that you might lay before the grand jury of your county. Very truly yours.
 (Signed1 JBRE c. KING,
 Chairman.
 .oronbition Campaign.
 The prohibition fight reach ed almost white heat here today. In this morn ing's issue of the Times-Gazette ap- peared quite an extensive card from Hon. Frank $. Moody, in which he out lined his views on the subject and ex- plained why he was opposed to prohi- bition at this time.
 The article was absolutely free from any sort of attack on all who thought from him, and in a logical manner set out the arguments against the measure as a law at this time MT. Moody showed how that the bill which has been passed for this county, if it should become a law. would pro- hibit the use of wine for sacramental purposes, would render any man giving a member of his family a drink of whisky a violator of the law, and that a physician could not prescribe any a mount for a patient.
 He also called attention to the very severe penalties that would be imposed under the law on any violator of it. MT. Moody stated further that it was his idea that a progressive temperance as carried out in progressive features of the dispensary law was the best and most feasible method of controlling the whisky evil.
 He called attention to the mistake which many 1rohibitionists make in chasing the mere drinking of whisky as crime per SC and in the class with murder, theft, etc. He closed with the statement that it pained him to differ with many of lis friends in the matter and urging that all be tolerant and governed by what apepared to him as the wiset and best method of handling the problem.
 The Rev. MT. Wasson Talks.
 This afternoon at o'clock, the Rev. s. E. Wasson, after giving notice, answered MT Moody's card before a large audience gathered in the county court house. The crowd was almost entirely of the prohibi ton persuasion and the speaker received a great amount of applause throughout his address. He discussed the origin of law from the beginning to civic and economic ideas, and argued that it had always been the legal establishment of the rule of right and prohibition of wrong.
 MT. Wasson quoted statistics the state of Kansas, and stated that prohbi ton had been a great benefactor to that state. In aswering MT. Moody's objec- ton to the stringency of the law he stated that such a law was the only kind that could prohibit and that he was that much more in favor of 1t; that it would be impossible to enforce the dispensary law, that 1t could be too easily evaded; that the new law was a subterfuge to hide some of the profits of the dispen- sary by paying it out in additional sal aries; that the profits from the dispen- sary here had been increasing each year and that 1t required great deal of brass on the part of any man to speak of the the dispensary system as progressive tenn perance.
 MT. Wasson make a good deal of sport of this expression, as used by MT. Moody, and provoked a good deal of laughter from the crowd. He wound up by stat ing that he was for prohibition because 1t was right, and that no man yho was an honest man and good citizen could afford to vote against what was right.
 Mir. Wassons crowd was thoroughly in sympathy with him, and applause was frequent throughout the speech. This has fairly launched the campaign and 1t promises to be quite heated one in this country. There was some attempt made to have MT. Moody present and have division of time. so that he might answer what Mir Wasson might have to say. However, 1t seems that this plan was not carried out, and Mir. Wasson was the sole speaker on the occasion.