The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-17
SANDERS SCOUTS IDEA OF DANGER Says Second Section Will Not
 Invade Homes. REFERS TO HOMEMADE LIQUORS Addresses Enthusiastic Audience at
 Court House. Bitter Esnmity to Governor Conner Evident in speech of Athens Law yer. Former Railroad
 Cemmissioner.
 

Therefore, he declared. 1t could bear no danger to the keeping of liquor in the homes for private consumption. A person, he said. under the amend ment may purchase liquor outside of the state. and store 1t in his home. for his private use and for the usage of ordinary social intercourse, with out fear of legal restrictions or con- stftutional abridgement. that legisla- lures would have no right to prevent it.
 Section two. he said. refers to "afore- said" liquors. that Is. liquors manu- factured and sold." which are. prohi- bited by the first section. It has no application, according to his construc- tion. to liquors bought out of the state. because, If 1t had. he said. there was the Federal interstate commerce statute to render it ineffective. The argument of Mir. Sanders on this. line was new; 1t was the first declaration of the campaign that legislatures hereafter would have no right, if the amendment Is adopted, to invade the homes with their pro- hibition.
 Mir Sanders, a former member of the railroad commission. a bitter political enemy of Governor Conner to which enmity he referred several times in his speech last highways introduced to the audience at the court house by General John W. A. Sanford. of Montgomery.
 The audience was almost exclusively made up of friends of the amendment 1s4 people in all. The appluase, what 1t lacked in volume, compensated in zeal. It was an ardent audience. and wave after wave of handclapping. enthusiastic though meagre. punctua- ted a brilliant peroration at two-sec- ond intervals.
 Hits at Local Option.
 General Sanford, in his introduction, declared that the theory of local op- ton with the county unit is fallaci- ous: that the state is the smallest unit with sovereign power; that state- wide prohibition is the only logi- cal and safe prohibition; that local option talk of the talk of enemies of prohibition. Local option. and not the amendment, was the burden of Gen. erai Sanford's short speech. MT Sanders, worn by speaking of tie past few days. spoke st the first upon his enmity toward the Cover nor. to prove that his issue is not a political one. He put it on the lines morality, of eternal prohibition Or the return of the saloons He spoke of the danger of dispen- saries
 "Dispensaries do more to ruin genu- inc prohibition sentiment than any other thing" he said. "The revenue derived from them makes municipal operation so easy that they are hard to abolish"
 Against 1t At First.
 -Na the amendment unwise when 1t was lature's action.
 T believe that it would have been better to test the laws we have, to strengthen the weak places. to repeal the darstic provisions before stamp ing them forever on the books with the amendment But when 1t was passed, I was impelled, believing that the result of its defeat would be to endanger prohibition, to endorse 1t. A lawyer can't always try his case on pleadings as he would wish." he said.
 He made a classification of the op. ponents of prohibition as: first, those who say it win violate the inalienable rights of freemen. and that 1t is sump- tuary; second. that it will take away the revenue derived from liquor, and
 
 do not not want it rendered incon- venient to get drink.
 The speaker said he would answer them.
 No InaIienabIe Rights. There are no inalienable rights In this country" he declared, in answer ing the first. Rights are relative. ' He read and referred to various de- cisions of Supreme Courts among them an opinion of the late Chief Justice Mcclellan of Alabama. to show that there were no inalienable rights protecting the sale of liquor.
 "rhe courts recognize the traffic as contraband," he said. And legisla- ton Is harmful only when It prohibit; harmless things.
 "As to its hurting business he con tinued. T have never seen Montgomery so live looking as 1t is now"
 He declared that values in Birming- ham were greater now than ever be- fore, and said that. from the report oi the Chamber of Commerce Secretary growth of the city Is more consistent and rapid under prohibition than be- fore. He here dwelt upon the beneh- cent effects of prohibition.
 Amendment Clear Cut.
 He took up, at this juncture. the pro- posed amendment He declared that il means nothing more than. what 1t says that 1t is clear cut with nothing hid den, and has no kangaroo effect as had been claimed.
 He declared that the prohibition against manufacture of liquor has no application to home made wines or cor diais. but to liquor manufactured for sale"
 He took up the second section, with his explanation that 1t will not affect Iiuuors bought in other States. He said that it is aimed at soft drink stands and locker clubs.
 Tt will not abridge any rights" he cried, "but it will set many bond slave free" And the audience ap- plauded.
 TT we. who are disposed to put the lid on in Alabama and blot out the liouor traffic" he declared. "are not standing for the safety of the homes. for what are we standing?"
 Search and Seizure,
 Mir. Sanders broached the subject of the search and seizure laws. He said that search warrant laws have been on inc statute books of the State for gen erations. The only difference in the new laws from the old. he said. was that the old laws demanded an accu- rate description of the articles for which the search is desired. while the new laws demand only the specifica- tion, "prohibited liquors"
 Mir Sanders struck a popular chord when he told them that there is no law to keen the citizen of Alabama from keeping liquor in his house and from serving it to his friends, any number