The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-16
Indiana Governor Greeted By Large Audience At Jeff
 ferson Last Night
coy. COMER INTRODUCES
 HIM IN BRIEF ADDRESS
Indianian Says He Hates Liquor Traffic For Its Corrupting ln- fluence and Its Debauch-
 ing Effects.

last night Governor Hanly was the chief speaker at the meeting held at the Jet- ferson in the interest of law and order. His address was pronounced one of the finest of it's character ever delivered in Birmingham and his appeal for a might fer effort for the enforcement of the law was received with the deepest apprecia- tion of his audience. With touches of both .pathos and humor and eloquent at all times, the address was greatly en- joyed by the enthusiastic hearers.
 Gov. B. B. Conner was present and upon being introduced by R. M. Goodal1 he discussed interestingly matters of local interest. The Governor stated that in travelling over the state he has found that the people everywhere are aroused on the question of the manner of obser- vance of the law.
 To illustrate remarks which followed the Governor told story which he said he heard at Dothan. He said he was stop ping at a little hotel kept by a farmer and that drummer was sitting on the porch He related that when dinner was ready the old farmer came out and rang a big bell announcing that the meal was IT, readiness. He then told of the char acteristic of a hound to whine when bell or whistle is sounded and he stated that when the farmer hotelkeeper rang the bell an old hound on the porch start ed to whining, whereupon the drummer turned around, looked at him and re- marked, What are you whining about? You don't have to eat the dinner'
 Governor Conner went on to state that the question is often asked why we are whining. That hound at Dothan had to eat the scraps of the dinner about which the drummer was joking, and we are placed in the same position with re- gard to the law
 'If all the disorders were consumed by the men who cause them it would be dif- ferent, but in many instances the inno- cent suffer- The Governor then related several incidents which have come to his notice during his incumbency.
 Speaking of the special session of the legislature, the Governor stated that it would be called soon enough and that when it was called near beer will mean
 
 will mean penitentiary." He strongly con- demned the fashionable clubs where liquor is sold and said that they inflicted upon a prohibition city the most evil in- fluences.
 Introduces Governor HanIy.
 Governor Conner then made short speech of introduction, stating that Gov ernor Hanly really needed no introduc- tin in Alabama, after which the speak CT was presented to the audience. Gov ernor Hanly opened his address with a. few preliminary remarks, after which he spoke in part as follows:
 .I count it a privilege to be here in the cause which your governor has set out, cause that seems to represent principles fundamental to the welfare of a nation.
 ''As we look backward we realize that 133 years ago our fathers founded in the new world a new nation, and under peril ous circumstances, courageous men as they were, they builded nation In such a manner as to challenge the courage of the bravest. They were less than 100000
 
 men whose wealth was such that they needed neither treasurer nor treasury. But today, after 133 years, the 100000 men have grown to more than 90,0000O0, and the wealth of the new nation is counted at S12O,0o0, ,O00, 900. The nameless people of then have become the most po- tential of all the world.
 But the pity of it all Here in this great nation this country which has be- come one of the foremost on the globe, founded under the most trying circum- stances and founded so well, there are men who will insist that liberty Is license. I pause to say that liberty Is no such thing. License Is liberty only to the jungle, to the assassin. Our fathers died to esetablish no such liberty as that They knew that liberty could exist only when. regulated by law, and they wove a fabric which stands peerless among the nations, and hear me, he who premeditatedly puts his hand upon the law is the enemy of his country, whether he Is beggar or the millionaire president of powerful corporation.
 But the feeling that liberty is license has grown, and the consequences have made themselves manifest. In the last 10 years you have seen good many finan- cial institutions go to the wall, not be- cause of the financial condition of the country, but in majority of instances because some man has broken the law.
 'I make no war upon the railroads. I know their value. They are arteries through which there runs a domestic commerce infinitely greater, more power full and more essential than any foreign commerce. but they have exercised pow CTS which they would not dare use were they not public utilities. And finally the state and nation have laid hands upon them and the change is coming.
 War On Law Breakers.
 T make my war upon those who break the laws of the country, and now I come to what see to be the most wicked force in the nation-the organized liquor traffic in America. There is no other trust like it. It is cunning and resourceful. It touches the affairs of many It knows no law, human or divine. It has no religion but that of greed. It has no pity that avarice does not strangle.
 You people of Alabama have gone far, and what you have done has been an in- spiration to the nation. But here as