The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-09

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the mad rush for gain to the sxciu-
sion Of every other moral oblfgatfon
that his noble boy has been swept in-
to ignomtny ana ruin By open cesspools
that might have been close4 or Wiped
| out Of existence hfhe proper co-opera-
tion and support had been given? They
are here and without question. yet for
some unaccountabls rscson the omcsrs
OF the law take no notice Of them.
Only just few nights ago. we are
Informed a great studd-poker game
| q am not prepared to say what kind
| OF game that II as never saw one)
was pulled on In dive not very far
from the sheriffs once. and .aimost
In hailing distance OF the. Chief Of
Polfce's once. and while II 10 said, IL
ran all night no interference was caus-
ed by either one of these ofiicers and
1t IL reported that this 10 not an In
frequent occurrence.
IF things exist, and II IL common
knowledge that they do, why 10 y that
| our ohicers cannot raid them and break
them UP. It IL done In other cities
Negro crap games are raided and
frequent arrests are made. so 1t ID
natural that citizens should enquire
why this DISCRIMINATION In crime? II
the law cannot be enforced with pres
ent officials in charge. they shouts
have the manhood to admit that they
are not equal to the emergency and
step down and out. II not. then steps
should 70 taken to yacate the offices
and put men In charge who will do
| their duty A. prescribed by law and
| under their oath of office.
This IL no individual fight for the
majesty of the law, but Il belongs to
every good citizen alike, ana II each
one would do what he feels In his
| heart to be his duty. and II we had
the same proportion of men enlisted
In this movement that we have Of the
good women, the task would be easy
and the burden light. and we would
show the comparatively few In
dividuals who have control. and want
to continue to control, that the
sovereign rights Of the fundamental
laws governing all Of our people must
be respected.
II we are to ever prosper as city.
and IL our property values increase as
they should. we must have O. law
abiding citizenship. II we ever scale
the heights Of good morals and excel
lent citizenship, we must measure. up
to what Is expected of men who are
| not afraid to do their duty regardless
of what It costs. We canrot afford to
be charged with having our community
filled with bad citizenship made up
Of good men. 50 let us be practical and
face the situation as 1t really Is and
deal with 1t as becometh men who are
| ready to espouse q righteous cause"
Nothing Of sensationalism itself was
wanting in the address Of A. r. Smith.
Of Union Springs. editor of The Bull
lock County Breeze. He took an In
ing off with q discussion OF the
Federal constitution and its relation
throughout its history to the liquor
| traffic. He made the point that no.
where at any time had the Constitu-
ton makers sanctioned the dram shop.
though once they recognized slavery.
But the part OF his speech which COM
manded most attention was Ills charge
that a millionaire brewer or brewers
from the East and Boston lawyer"
according to q Montgomery preacher.
| recently visited the State and In said
to have left behind q million dollars
| to get certain liquor bills through the
Legislature.
The speaker said that results may be
expected from this campaign OF iistill-
| ers and brewers and asked the audi
| ence to take notice. Then Mr.. Smith
| referred to the recent editorial of q
Birmingham newspaper crying down
| prohibition and declaring II o farce.
He said that the statements OF the
paper saying that prohibition was on q
decline in the Eastern and Middle
states was false.
| zs bob Jones speaks.
| Rev. Bob Jones was another speaker
at the meeting. He divided Montgom-
1 cry citixsnshsk into four cIasses.S One
IL small In numbers, who are trying
their level best to enforee the law. A
second IL very large In numbers who
are willing to see the law enforced.
but not willing much to help. The
| third class is those who are indiffer-
emit. ana had as soon leave the law go
| its own route. And the fourth class
came in for . severe attack from the
| speaker. They were the liquor men
| whom he designated repeatedly as
| small in number. but loud inN action.
| He warned against a majority yielding
to so small a crowd"
Another speaker was W. M. Craw-
| story Of intimidation OF the States
witnesses in this county in the liquor
cases. He told of how all the wit
nesses had received anonymous
threatening letters. and one had been
discharged from his job because he
| would not refrain from testifying.
Mr.. Crawford added in earnest man
ner that he would see, so long as he
had q dollar, that the men would not
suffer for the condition. He pleaded
| for good eitizens to go with the de-
| tectives into the places suspected of
selling liquor illegally and help make
cases against the proprietors.
Other warm speeches were made by
DR., Richard NJ. Smith and Jacob Pep
perman of Montgomery. the former
pleading for cooperation with the
Mayor, Chief of Police and Sheriff. the
latter directing his appeal to activity
at the polls at the next city election.
II was noticeable that neither the
mayor, the chief of police. the mem-
bers of the police commission nor the
sheriff was present though an urgent
invitation was issued to them.
Lee Holloway acted as chairman and
in the course of his remarks read. at
the request of Rev DR.. Crumpton.
some ideas of Judge 8. D. Weakley. of
Birmingham. about what would be
made into a bill to be presented to the
extra session of the Legislature. look
ing to the end Of the locker system.
The meeting was adjourned after
about two hours of speech.
Music at 'srhe Lions Head" today
20 r, o 10 1880 D. mn.
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