The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-22
THE PASSING THRONC
speaking of Politics.

III 1 speaking of Politics. "One thing Mondays election with l its wholesale list of candidates oid nothing else" said an old politiclan | yesterday was to emphasize the value l of advertising. Just look how app | parently easy the old ttiners,TSFatkea q off with the goods. especially m Itl' the Yes sir" he went on. people pe- | come so familiar; with a name by see | ing 1t on each succeeding election bal sonaa S5 f9st aeaessinted Saes 1se With ana have sort of an interest in its owner, ano unless they have something against him when voting time comes, they run 1 Weli, I know this fellow. I'll just vote for him for one;' and in he goes. Why, IT know a case in an adjoining state, where two men practically lived ana names were on every ballot Tor years; Tn the course of time they died and each had q political heir, but the sons sIS Sea nO had tns and dihs' ss s erSs ' xG inG of opposition. The sons Of the two old veterans won out with such sur prising majorities that the other side | investigated a bit with the result that 1t was found that thousands of people had voted tor the boys under the im- pression that they were still voting Tor
 SThst was exactly the situation in the Bryan-Johnson race in this state: The voters in the back counties had never heard of anybody running when Sani they fsn came @ to the presidentiai sec tion of the ticket and saw there was a contest between Bryan and Johnson they thought Johnson was Bryan's Re- Swede fro mthe northwest got right then was a plenty. That's the whole story. It's over and nobody. is kick | ing but want to say that if the situa- ton had been thoroughly understood Johnson would have carried Alabama 1 easily"
 Tn. vals. s; ef 6lg2Ie. mist. s% sald aOs sGe msPohSnt ar in SIc ss Conner story in this mornings Advertiser about the dollar that started around a boarding house table and paid off eight dollars in debts and Inside ot three minutes landed back in the pocket of the man who started 1t, put me to thinking, on the subject of credit ana ana its relation to the, business of the
 Now when the man oo1Snf a job ., he continued, complains about hard something mss lns "rh or rent ao him soSBdse em- phatically declares that we nave no hard times; that We can't have, for the reason that we made as good crops last year as we ever make Hhd got as much for them, and that we have just as much money as we ever-nad for the simple reason that We nave not lost or destroyed any of 1t, This Is all absolutely true and as an argument makes the man out of a job and with no money to pay the house rent with feel as if he ought to be sent up a is just as sound and decidedly more susceptible of immediate and practical proof than that of the landlord.
 They are both right as far as they go, but the trouble is the simple ques- ton of credit and this important fact they both overlook. When you cripple credit you disable business, and that s all there is to 1t. The politicians. de= nothing to do with the existing busi- ness depression when the fact is they have had all to do with it. TheF threats of confiscation. taxation, regulation and reductions of earnings have practically paralyzed industrial credit, and incidentally commercial credit, and the result Is that the coun- try has been staggered with credit panic; and experience has taught that credit panic hurts just as badly as
 "The thing for the fellow out of a job and the man with the house to rent to do is to get busy around voting places and retire the big stick politi- clans and this will restore confidence and confidence will restore credit and credit will restore the prosperity that our natural and logical condition en- titles us to be enjoying this very oay'
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 Education By Ear,
 This thing of education on. is,;not ehos,, SG it right" remarked an observant mar
 "Elueidate a line or two" replied a friend. it tooK ali m could do to deliver the word tuberculosis without scratches and scars on its surface, and even re- gently, since 1t has become so popular I have thought seriously of sending il to Teddy and having 1t pruned dowr to convenient proportions but sir, since that exhibition in the Old Baptis' children shooting that Krag Jorgen. sen word Into each others faces like 1t was a pop gun pellet of street slang think I will develop 1t by starting me correspondence school Of Education BS Ear"
 home is in Eufaula and business home in Birmingham. is at the Exchange The former Governor stopped over CT route from Eufaula to Birmingham tt transact business.
 Judge A H. Alston of Clayton anc Hon. s. D. Bloch. of Camden. were among the well known public men 1T the city yesterday.
 Hon. John C. Eyster. of New Deca- tur, registered at the Exchange yes terday. He says that the Decaturs anc all their neighbors are too busy adding to the wealth of the world to play politics
 MT. John F. Proctor, of Scottsboro v,as another prominent North Ala. l barnian mixing with his capital friends yesterday
 Mir. NJ j. Lee of Elba. Mir. A. F Lee of Eufaula and MT. T. H. DeLoach of Demopolis, are guests of the Summers
 Mir c. W Darden, of oneonta was a visitor in Montgomery yesterday
 
 Mir. J. W standford, a leading citi- zen of Clanton was among the Ex-