The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-22
CUNNINGHAM CHIEF SPEAKER AT B|JOU Lawrence Asks for Money tor
 Blob County Fight CARMICHAEL ALSO SPEAK <, EnsIey Doctor Says He Was Local op- tionst Until Ten Days Ago-Peo-
 pie Should Be Masters of
 Constitution.
CARMICHAEL ALSO SPEAK

largely attended mass meeting held yesterday afternoon at the BiJou Tn the interest of the amendment was addressed by Dr. R. M. Cunningham, former lieu tenant governor of Alabama, Speaker A. H. Carmichael of the house of repre- sentatives, and the Rev. Brooks Law renee. Mrs. w. c. Sibley, prominent local member of the Woman's Christian Temperance union, was heard in an ap- peal to those in favor of the amendment to wear the white badges adopted as em- blems. Mrs. sibley was loudly applaud ed, the men of the audience rising in body to their feet when she was intro- duced.
 MT. Lawrence delivered his usual ex- hortation while the collection was In prog ress, stating in all earnessness that the amendment would surely be adopted by a decisive majority. He issued call for more money, asserting that for post age alone s2O00 had been disbursed from amendment headquarters. He told of a .rousing meeting of local travelling men held Saturday night at the Chamber or Commerce, at which he said 100 men were present, all afire with zeal for the cause He stated that of some 200 Birmingham travelling men 165 would vote for the adoption of the amendment and S5 against. He called special attention to the fact that money was needed to carry on the campaign in Bibb county, where they are sowing the seeds of anarchy"
 pr. Cunningham Introduced.
 J. o. Thompson. who acted as chair man for the occasion, in a few words in- troduced pr. Cunningham, who was on arising presented with bouquet of chry- santhemums from the students of the Birmingham Medical college.
 The former lieutenant governor stated that until 10 days ago he has been on the wrong side of the question. The chief reason he gave for favoring the amend ment. aside from his conviction that 1t was right, he said. was the fact that he had always been an advocate of local option. He added that when, however, the Montgomery convention of anti amendists came out for statewide pro- hibition, he decided that he might as well join his "old gang" the women and children, and work for the measure.
 In beginning his argument the speaker presented his proof that alcohol, or whis- ky. is an evil, as shown by personal ex- perience. observation, experience of oth- CTS. recorded facts of history and dis coveries of science. The logical ques- tion following this proof was, as ne said, is prohibition as means or doing away with alcohol, good or bad. The four motives of human action he out lined as being principle, policy, selfish ness and prejudice, and stated that his address was delivered only to those who were controlled by the first-named mo- tive.
 The five classes of thinking men he gave as devotees of optimism, pessimism. epicuriansm, opportunism and ethics, stating that amendists should belong to the latter class. There are three classes, he said, of those who oppose prohibition: Those who don't believe alcohol to be a bad thing; those who don't believe prohibition can be effective and those "who don't give continental what harm alcohol does to the human race so long as it puts money in their pockets
 The Amendment Discussed.
 In discussing the amendment Dr. Gun ningham began by reciting the first sec ton and declaring that 1t contains noth- ing more nor less than prohibition. Sec tion 2, he stated, stands for nothing more than the enforcement of the law. "The law is thing of which we are not afraid. but which we love and honor.'' Al to