The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-11-05
Letters to The Editor;
On. wooDs REPLIES.

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His Answer to .Another Preacher In
Politics.
Editor The Advertiser: &
To 30 much OF your editorial OF yes.
terday as betrayed . vicious temper
and q deposition to make the writer
appear a. Z slanderer. and faisifer, l
ther than to Indignantly deny the truth
Of such charges, and to challenge your.
self or anyone else 10 point out sin
gle false statement or Islander 10 my
opinion that some OF the antt-prohibi-
tion papers would get as much as $685.
o00 this year for whiskey ADVERTISE
snss sd no. sss the sss go Of sSe
vertiser viii get that much this very
what 1t got last year, but as you con-
about $4,000 last year / shall not need
70 prove II. More than that. you told
me. over the phone. that not only did
you receive some thousands for such
ss amount wa. not i%ics e large anal anal
you also admitted that In principle one
dollar was the same as million. Am
statement declaring that The Advsr-
liquor interests Tor advertising whis-
Key ! would accept u, and would apol..
such thing. This offer you declined.
And II WAS q most Significant fact that
In your very savage editorial you did
much soa e MSsReyy your aSw
would bring you this year. Your. coli
umns are loaded daily with such adver-
fisemeuts. assumed that you are paid
is my SANDER wherein have 1 mis-.
represented The Advertiser? firiniy
believe your paper. Will get al least
$4,000 for Advertising whiskey In 1909.
II you will deny that statement. and
tell W about how much you will get,
III accept your Ggures as correct. and
II ! have Wronged you III make
/ regret very much to have to drive
sleep from your eyes and slumber from
your eyeiids. by being so very naughty
as to preach sermons that you consider
political" for Fl sometimes suspect
break all Of the Ten commandmentsl
than to preach 2 single political SER
mon" The trouble with The Adver-
sermon r. sheS the people, aa
are told that the open saloon is a DOOR
way to hell. That sacred" concern
must not be condemned by the preach
excused from Getting my Ideals Of Bib
lical preaching from the columns tlst
are loaded with advertisements OF whis-
key ana beer from Cincinnati. Pensaco-
Seminary In which ] was trained that
Il was the preachers duty to denounced
and condemn from the pulpit every
usage. habit and principle that the BIZ
Bile taught was wrong and hurtful to
men. / was taught that every habit,
custom and principle that builds up
righteousness and advances the cause
OF good morals. religion and national
honor / was bound to preach and ad-
vocate regardless of the bowls ami
groans and threats OF the gangs OF
aw-breakers aud llberuf1es who might
not like such preaching. / defy you Or
any other man to take my opelika SER
mon and dnd In 1t one word OF politics.
] took as my text Exodus XXI, Is and
20, which tells Of the OK that cores
men and women to death. and what
should be done to the men who keep
such beasts and allow them to mangle
people to death. took my stand on
OF that text and applied 1t fairly. and
without any straining to the salooni
and illustrated my applications Of the
obvious truths with the known facts of
the truth Of God. and the very worst
thing you can say about that sermon is
that II hit the nall on the, head and
drove II home.
against me the men of good character
who are opposed to the amendment.
Your attempt Is grossly unjust to me.
for have never said or believed that
opposition to the amendment and pro-
hibition makes man a reprohate. I
can easily understand that a man may
be the sworn enemy of drunkenness
and vice and yet prefer other me thods
of dealing with those evils than those
happen to favor. ! am confident that
q few of the best men in Alabama are
going 10 vote against the amendment.
/ am confident they WIN make mis-
take In doing so. and l am profoundly
sorry they take that view. But can
respect any man who hates in his heart
ALI the vices and evils of the saloon and
only opposes prohibition bee ause he
honestly believes that Is not the wisest
way to deal with this problem. ! deny
that / am narrow or uncharitable or
"fanHttcal," as you seem to love to
designate men of my convictions; but /
regard the modern saloon as the most
gigantic evil the world ever saw. and
God helping me. I am going to fight 1t
until ] die.
You tell me l ought to be ashamed OF
my sermon; but ! think Mr.. F. P.
Glass needs to be deeply ashamed of
having tried to make a minister of the
gospel a liar and sianderer merely be-
cause he has preached a faithful SER
mon against the saloon and its cohorts.
Show me just one fa(sehood or SANDER
/ uttered and I'll make the fullest apol-
ogy and not repeat II: but don't expect
me to he frightened into silence by saw
age editoriaia---I am not built mat way.
Very truly yours for prohibition and
the amendment
Neander NJ. WoodA