The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-19


 have wanted to write on several Sun others Of course the gentle reader nss been the sufferer but suffering has 10 give way to politeness-weil so does truth and best best brand of religion. How ever. there are varying degrees of polite ness and one has to be cautious. When in Rome. do as the Romans" is the cor rect thing. It is Quixotic (which is the polite description of weak -mindedness) to go Into new neighborhoods and attempt to fierce new and strange manners upon the people. . It is . big undertakings to m ocuiate far off strangers with our peace fui reiiEion.. and must be attended with some hszard as Dreadnaughts are request cd as precursors of the white winged Cos pei Whiskey and opium have been such potent supports of the Gospel talons with gunpowder. bullets and bayonets) that am surprised. sometimes. that our inteiii- gent ministers are 90 much opposed to drugs and the fiery"
 But. as 1t Is one of our boasted Southern traditions' not to drink liquor in the presence of the ladies the minis try must be excused, in part. for their op- position to drinking It must be com mendabie. though. to teach the. heathen how to drink. ss4 Of course. there is a heap of good money wasted in whisixey here at home that ought to % to the coffers of the church
  ins the heather and bringing them up in the nurture and etc"
 Perhaps more money would be chip ped in" for the heather if 1t weren't for a growing suspicion that the agency for the heather is becoming a little too ex- pensive. If the internal heather is so awful laxy and miserably poor. he ought to employ agents who are less liable to take the swell head and who are not so awfuliy inclined to fine clothes and good victuals.
 If the heathen could fix his agents commission so that they won't grow so sleek and fat and sassy it will be "an assurance most dear
 A reasonable commission, so as to keep his agent poor and tumble" will work wonders in keeping his nose out of other peoples business.
 Why, one of these sassy heather agents. living on the fat of the land and the rake off in the contributions, don't mind diagnosing my business till he knows more about. it than 'the man in the moon" and then tell me you ought to give thus and so, to the Lord"
 Ihave about concluded if the Lord wants to quarter the heather on me, all right but if He thinks to have me support agents He has undersized my mental ity. In these hard times all my money is needed at home for the benefit of our poor hard run bankers. for whose benefit our National Legislature is putting in double time The church and all char itable institutions should be enlisted In the Bankers cause. at this time. so that he can have a little cheap money for enjoyment.
 The .'church" is mighty bad against the PopuIists because the poor folks want the National; Legislature to issue Govern naent money for the dear people ana don't seem to care what the devil be- comes of. the poor bankers. I reccllect. just now, one Saint. high | in church circles" who felt constraineu to write q letter ITO the Breth- ren" not to vote for Kolb. Nov. the same Saint, who approved ,- or KoIb's taking off. is clamorinG against the desire of the poor to escape poor preaching on Sunday.
 cant diagnose the slippery conscience of the preacher who turns up his nose" at Sunday baseball while he has never ''broukht forth fruit. meet for repentance of pIous approval of wholesale perjury. really thought there is something rep rehensibIe in Sunday baseball but the s'saintiy' character of some of its oppcn- ents inclines me to revise my opinion good 'Christian minister. who has 'awinked at moral turpitude te the ex- tent of negIecting to keep unspotted rom the world" ought never to speak TOT a good cause. He inJures t. ~A
 There was Brother Adams who purified Populism by making some money and so- ing back to the "beggarly clements.
 I used to think Brother Adams was overdoing the thing in burning his arm Cd rnuch but he made glad. at last. by the honest confession that he mad been a. Democrat all the time.
 When a man confesses to that depravity 1t isn't hard to account for whole heap of things.
 Brother Adams used to be mighty bad about "octupusses and sich" and his ''praise was in all the churches. but after practicing Populism till he Iaid oy enough to become a tentacle himself. so to speak, he went back to Democracy and has given himself "to the full work of the gospel" I owe it to old acquaintance sake to suggest him as a delegate to Denver. perhaps. stallinRs should come first, since he introduced the boy orator" into the State, but Brother Adams should be the good second as. possibly he may have been at Omaha and ocala and. maybe 30.