The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-05-17
What the State Papers
Are Saying and Doing

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Are Saying and Doing
Too Rad.
| Mobile Herald.
In the general advance in every
thing else a huge calamity has been
| overlooked. Diamonds are higher.
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They Certainly should.
| Sylacsuga Advance.
Nearly all the co snties in the state
| are making their plans to accept the
states gift of $1,000 to help them
| build school houses. They should do
so.
1t is Sleeping.
Luverene Journal
We enquire for the benefit of the ov-
err taxed people of the state what has
been done with the $4,000. appropria-
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All She Can Get.
Our Mountain Home.
Several Alabama cities have fixed
the number of people they want by
1000. Talladega has no limit; she
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1t Surely Was.
AndeLisia News.
court has decided that the Alabama
legislature had no right to pass the
railroad laws and preliminary irjunc-
tion has been granted. The Legislature
Of 1907 was something of nice, fuzzy
peach.
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Good Advice.
Corrollton Alabamaian.
Make your school house attractive
! and comfortable and you will be paid a
thousand fold IN the ambition, pride,
and culture of your children.
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Birmingham Ledger.
The presidents new Southern whoop-
er7up is ex-senator Butler, of North
carolina. He can do as much as any
The republican vote is in two factions.
and no one man can control 1t as for
merly. - ' Aoi
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POlygamy of Course.
Union Springs Herald, 70.
A Missouri man is being prosecuted
Tor bigamy by seventeen wives. 1t
doesn't seem that bigamy is the right
word for that many wives. viii some
one give us the right word in this
case? We want to do whatever's right
about it.
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Perhaps SO.
Birmingham News.
An exchange compares the figures
showing how much larger salaries are
paid English than American judges 1t
Is also recalled that very much more
Justice is dispensed in the English than
in the American courts. In the lat
ter an avalanche Of technical law lar
Gely crowds Justice to the wall.
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Explaining 1t.
Mobile Item.
In Southern league ball playing. Bir-
mingham and Montgomery are tied for
last place, but as Birmingham has the
first call in the alphabet and geograph-
ically is little north of Montgomery,
the Capital City suffers in being tag
gee at the bottom of the percentage
column.
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OVerlOOks One Thing.
Birmingham News
The Western man who fears that the
population in the United States will
increase so rapidly as to make the food
problem serious within the next TWEEN
ty years evidently overlooked the way
in which railroad accidents, are remov-
ing many persons annually.
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A Compromise.
Birmingham Ledger.
Secretary Tafts mother says she
would rather see him on the Supreme
bench than to see him president. May
be we Democrats can get ccmpro-
mise and take the presidency and give
Mr. Taft the seat on the bench
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Bnd Condition.
Birmingham Ase-Herald.
The reactionaries who are to put Up
S., OO0, goo should first catch their hare.
They cannot make Foraker stand and
Fairbanks has gone to his farm to en-
Joy the passing snow storms, and they
are in a forlorn ana candidateless con-
dition
Good Platform.
Eufaula Times.
A Philadelphia paper suggests Henry
Watterson for President in a ticket
of fire and unlimited mint julip' That
away with the sale CT a part of the
ingredients that goes to make the
PLANK
Which Is Worst.
Alabama Courier.
San Francisco is now debating the
question which is the greater Gala
nifty all earthquake or street car
tramhle the past two weeks. 1t will
take wise jury to decide the cues
tion.
Turn About.
Dothan Siftings.
| : europe is growing very insistent on
having a government label on all our
! food products exported to those coun-
| tries, but what's the matter with our
demanding a government guarantee on
ali the titles they send over here?
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Cuts Both Ways.
| Marion standard.
The bird law is having rather a re-
toractive effect in some SECTIONS of the
| state. The farmers say they don't hunt
| much any way and if they are to be
| deprived from Killing game on their
| own lands which it suits them, they
| will not permit dude hunters to do so
! at any season. ana are banding them
| selves together tokprOhibit huting al
! together. They SAY II they can't be
| lord over their own premises, all the