The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-25
Moody and Bowie cp-
 pose Amendment. !. LARGE AUDIENCE PRESENT
SsPoIitical Parsons" Scored for Their
 Activity.
ysrner Congressmsn and Pioneer Pro- ABitionist Urge voters ef CsI- s houn Not to support Po-
 nucai Movement.
nYHARRY N. AYERS.

Anniston. Sept. 24.--(Special)-Wiln Elbert D. wiIlett. presiding and the Circuit Court room of the Calhoun County Court House well filled. the campaign against the proposed prohi- bition amendment to the Constitution was launched here today at noon.
 The speakers were Frank 2. Moody. of Tuscaloosa, and Sydney J. Bowie of RirminRham and their addresses were considered different from any that have yet been delivered in that they undertook to meet the arguments of the amenders with their own thunder. MT. Bowie quoted the statement that while the anti-amenders are working and speaking against the proposed amendment many of them are taking the Keeley cure, and this was consid. cred to be directly in line with the argument of MT. Moody that men who undertake to reform others should first reform themselves.
 Mir. Moody expressed strong disap- proval of the so-called political par. son.r and stated that their ciasifica- tion of all anti-amenders as support CTS of liquor and allies with liquor in. terests suggested the remark of Christ to his enemies: "You call me a wine bibber. friend of publicans and sim pers."
 Good men. he said. are more likely to go to extremes than bad men and as an instance of this he cited the crucifixion of stephen by Jewish ec- ciesiastics. one of whom was Paul who said. 'iet your moderation be known to all men"
 He cited the experience of the South American republics where constitutions have been made and abolished. altered and amended so often that every new one is considered merely as contri- button to the Iifsrature of the day.
 sheuid Avoid Extremes.
 We should avoid this extrsf1&" he said.
 Mr. Bowie in his argument undertook to meet the allegation that there is no politics in the present campaign and that the Anti Saloon League has noth- ing to do with the church propsr. He uuoted from an official oiN an of the Anti-Saloon League in which the Ma tional Secretary, writing in that paper, praises the Georgia local option law as being truly American and truly Demo- cratic and, quoting another article by . California writer, he snowed where the Anti-Saloon League originated in the church and where that writer states that the Leagues fight against liquor will never be successful until the ma. Sority of its members are willing to temporarily leave their party and sup. port League candidates.
 MT. Bowie emphasized the quoted statement that effective League work means constant lobbying of members in the Legislature, "and an acquaint- auce with political means and political tricks"
 Referring to the statement of Judge weakley that the nastment of the proposed amendment V ould not prohib- 1t citizens of Alabama from keeping whiskey in their homes, he cited the fact that the League keeps constant paid lobby at Washington in an effort 10 secure the passage of a law prey,& t. ing Che shipment of whiskey into dry territory from other States where 1t is
 aesar of AlAbama.s
 Referring to Brooks Lawrence as the Czar of the League in Alabama he quoted a Swiss writer who said "Un- happy Is that land on whose judgment seat the stranger sits"
 MT. Bowie enumerated fourteen or ~ fifteen States where prohibition has been tried and proven a failure. The provisions of the Fuller bill, which he said creates government by injuncti n, abrogates the right of trial by jus - changes a presumption of innocence to that of guilt and does away with the sanctity of the home. They have been tried in other States arii have been re- jected.
 Aava AalnN Nuaa fta afzIs have been forced upon them by mi- noritv in the statutory form for a time.s he said, ''but they will not have such A condition of taings maintained by putting these provisions into the constitution."
 If. as Judge Weakley says. the pro- nosed amendment prohibits keeping of whiskey only in soft drink stands. Mir. Bowie said he wondered why Judge WaakIey did not specify this point He daclared that under the amendment the Legislature has the power to repeal all laws, but has no power to adopt sub stitutes in their place and Mir. Bowie denied the fact that It w'n take a three-fifths vutG in the Legislature to repeal She measure ana the further fact that the pc ople will not vote as readily aftsr c tlm del.beration as they will now under excitement
 Conner Is Denounced.
 Mir. Bowie strongly denounced the administration for forcing the election for the amendment upon the people at this time. He stated that had they waited fifteen months logger. allow ing the large number of delinquent voters to pay their poll tax and vote on the proposition. the public schools of the State would have received over half a million dollars. And 1t was only through fear of the defeat of their cause that the amenders called the $ electio ntn the time limit
 The first prohibition laws Governor Conner. acknowledged to De failure. he said. and any laws which will not stand test for fifteen months should not be put in the Constitution,
 oBth speeches were received with much enthusiasm.