The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-30
What fhe Sfofe Papers
 Are Saying and Dofng

Ices TaIk sad Mere Dashes.
 Waitsr wsiinian "announces" for the ,atsentieth time that he ,h is all ready eaSs If Walter would only make less an- nouncements and more dashes. wear ted public would reioics-
 NEsntgomery state Fair Is Up to the Jackson County Union News.
 The state fair is one of the educa- tional factors in the development of progressive agriculture which ,,,sot cansos of such fairs must ever keep before them the high Ideals and purposes which the fair is designed to serve
 And From Other states as We'll
 If The aouston Post was only par tially reliable. the following para graph might cause an exodus from oniy place s n the uDose world og where mint jnieps are in season s65 days in the year. minls hfty-two copper-lidded Sundays" This from the paper that melons annually and that every inhab- itant eats an eighty-fve pounder for breakfast.
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 A silly Performancs.
 Senator Joseph F. Johnston of Ala bama. rusnes Into print to assure all the world that Gov. Conner has no sc- rious notion to secede from the Amer ican Union. Senator Johnston could have saved his energy for something more important, and, besides his inter- view is a. needless reflection upon the intelligence and patriotism of Gov. Gsrsy foons a us knsw oat ne ment now in Alabama could not reach beyond the gate to the capitol grounds
 The Railroads and the People.
 The people are dependent upon the railroads and the railroads are de- pendent upon the people. One could not get along very well without the other. and both should be governed by a
 Probabiy we could exist as our great ancestors did without railroads. but no one now wants to go back to the primeval days when America was nrst
 Courts were established for the set clement of all disputed questions and individuals. have rights that should be respected. Any way. we do not think they should be declared outlaws while their cases are pending in court of justice.
 Recalls aS Bi4 of History. Mobile Herald
 Close students ofscurrent events will probably. have son.e faint recollection which has been in the Mobile papers since the. death of Constantin Kara lopoulos in this city last Saturday.
 Not great many years ago those names were flashed around the world when a member of Greek congress cor- responding to our national house of before the two assem- bled bodies of the national legislative body of Greece, delivered speech which made history. The eloquent the dead ccnstantin KaraiopouIos. and the speech he made on. that occasion was pronounced one of the greatest ef- forts of modern oratory Holding tho attention of his audience for five and iy style painted the woes of the Arr menians who were being tyrannized over by the Turks, their daughters maitreated, their sons cruelty tortured their homes laid waste. Tn an irresis- low countrymen to rise as did their fathers of old in thst same lEnd, fam. ed in the chronicles of warriors and the lays of poets, and go to the rescue of those Armenians.
 The Greeks arose and in battle mas unfortunate story of the war has been the worlds property for years.
 That one speech stamped Karalop- oulos as one of the great men os Greece aRF within a short time he had risen te ais present eminent position of secretary of state.
 Ik was he who sent the cable Ames- sages last Sunday to have his brother Constantine body shipped to his old home in Athens.