The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-06
WHAT STATE PAPERS ARE SAYING
The Right Tln.e at Hood.

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 The Right Time at Hapd.
 Now don't wait until it is too late and say you are so sorry you can't vote Pay your poll tax nefore It IS Something Worse Needed. l Birmingham Ledger.
 Governor Mgoon Is in trouble in | Cuba, and some rascals will have 10 | be put In the penitentiary before there is any hope of any good government. Unanimous. | Birmingham Ledger. MT. Bryan has said one thing that comments him to all the wings of the | party. He says that if nominated he will not favor Senator Stone for head of the Campaign committes' S n They Would Break Into Them. Birmingham News.
 Bankers in some parts of Russia are thresteninE to close their institutions, wouldn't have an opportunity to plum der and loot so often as heretofore. E S$ < Bright Hopes for the New Year. Russellville hs passed one of the most prosperops years in her history and enters the new year with the brightest prospects of another year for great things in the way of upbuilding
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 What an Editor Representative Says. Scotsboro Citizen.
 The Legislature. ought to pass . compulsory school law. When Q man hasn't enough pride to send his children to school the State ought to take the matter up and become his guardian.
 A Trial Might Do Good. Birmingham News.
 The Illinois town ahat issued orders to the police to shoot at "mashers" who annoy women in the streets and at tempt to escape, probably thought that this class of excrescences could be dis- pensed with as easily as any other. E % Ss oily and Effective. Anniston Hot Blast, John D.. Rockefeller. says: 'The af- ternoon of his life is touching" So it Is: So were the forenoon and the felt the touch. soft and oily but ef- fective,
 Bis Money.
 A well known business man remarked to The Times this week that he firmly believed there was five hundred per cent more money in Florence today than a position to form a correct opinion on this subject.
 A Great Record. | Thomaston Post
 Not a single arrest In Thomston during the Christms festivities Is Q record of which we are proud and shows not cjiy the lawabiding char | nf Nxrt1ifn and hIonlx but also that a dispensary Is the right way to handle the, liquor question. proteetorute Rather Than Annexation. | If the business interests of Cuba de- mand an American protectorate 1t will | be given them. All our country wants | is Sl good excuse for policing the island. The alternative of a protectorate Is an- nexation, and, for our part we greatly prefer protectorate. g Ss %
 No One Can Tell. Mobile Herald
 There is no authoritative opinion on woman. One man knows no more | about her than another. Perhaps she | doesnt always know herself very well. that makes the woman. by any mems. | Some of the best women in the world have been deficient in all of these re- | spects Some of the worst women in mark
 $ g. B 1 Just Remembrance. Jones Valley (Birmingham) Times.
 We remonstrate again against the killing of people who have not been l convicted of crime. young negro was shot to death by an officer here in | this city this week, and not a protest has been heard. Now, if officers are | going to shoot criminals at their own sweet wills. what Is the use in main- | talnlnE court houses and court off1 - cers? Just appoint a set of men to ! do the killing and be done with 1t {. That Is about the way 1t Is done now.
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 Tillmun'S Wrong Talk. Bullock County Breeze.
 = Senator Tillman is about to outdo Wardaman on the negro issue. He says The South should. make 1t so hot for the negroes that they can't stay here Now we don't exactly agree with that Kind Of talk. The negro in the ne- gros place Is a very useful article. es- peclaliy about cotton picking and cook | Ing time. If cuffy was altogether gone. things might get SO hot that the
 HOOdlums of Both Races. Talladega Reporter.
 AS usual. most race rows are started by the hoodlums of one or both races Such facts are now admitted by the au- horities in Mississippi over the oc. iurrence there last week. And to tht credit of it's best white citizens, it is said they took the part of innocent l negroes. and actually stood between | them and danger. It is announced that