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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-20
Uncle sam, Pickpocket.


 The spectacle of a pickpocket Gov ernment is novel and interesting. and to see the representatives of a nation with billion-dollar income rummag- ing in the overcoAts of travellers and turning up the lining of their hats to look for cigars and toilet accessories. brings to the patriotic breast a thrill of pride. That the $220.000.0 900 or thereabouts which the receipts of the Port of New York contribute annually to the national revenues does not rep resent the entire collectable duty upon articles brought into this country has often been alleged, It is known that for years past passengers on ocean steamships, both immigrants and re- turning Americans, have been snug gling in foreign manufactured goods, to the detriment of our protected in- dustries. Our own law abiding citi- zens have been particular offenders. Tooth brushes have been purchased abroad to the detriment of the pork packing and bristle trades. Foreign erupted pumice stone has played havoc with our spice industries. Shines. pro- duced at low rates in Europe, have been imported upon domestic shoes. This had to stop.
 It would have ceased long ago but for a peculiar and inexplicable squeam- ishness on the part of previous Coilec- tors of the Port. They did not like to instruct customs officials to .frisk" passengers systematically, or. to shake out each individual garment in wo- mems trunks--as though the feelings of resentment engendered thus were to be weighed against the discovery of something taxable. They did not know that for an American to travel abroad was proof positive of crookedness.
 It is the custom to issue to relatives and friends of returning travellers per- mits. obtainable at the customs office, which admit them to the pier at which the vessel is to dock. bright mind has aptly reasoned that many of these are nothing more nor less than con- federates that go to meet women snug glers who have returned in the steer age under pretext of being their hus- bands or other relatives and receive from them and secrete about their own persons Parisian gowns jewelry. works of art, consignments of Oriental rugs. foreign-built yachts and many such articles of dutiable character.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-20
SENATOR REESE ON
 MAPLEyHiLLE MEE TING
Report Was Correct Bat 1t Did Not Go
 Far Enoagh <

Far Enough Editor The Advertiser:
 The report in your paper of the lIth Of portion of the remarks made by me at Maplesville in the joint debate on last Saturday. Is somewhat mis- leading, and does me an injustice. am sure however, that 1t IS entireiy Is reasonably correct. but my position on the question or the amendment is entirely reversed by omission m your report: l have no fault or complaint trespass on your courtesy or columns but for the fact of the statement in your report that was the recognized leader in the Senate chamber when the amendment disc ussion was up. and that an admission from me is one of the strongest arguments for the de- feat of the amendmet yet offered dur ing the campaign. and that the re- admission that the sancity of the home stands.
 This is not my position. nor the 'asen Tbs e the Ss f5 rs tho sHa, since the adjournment of the Senate have delivered in public any utter ance on this question. consumed occasion endeavorinT sq to maintain my opinion that the amendment in its present phraseology does not permit violation or invasion of the nome. nor any law prohibiting the keeping of liquor there for lawful purposes. Af. ter making this position, as thought, clear, II stated that in the light of all the discussion that has been had on Section 2. that if I had the drafting of this section, should eliminate any question as to the home by expressly excepting 1t. as was done In the pro- htbitfon statutes, but, that at the time of the discussion of this question on the floor of the Senate, 1t was opposed by Senators who were able lawyers, men of patriotism and intelligence, and I heard no argument from them at that time that Section would permit an invasion of the home. Were the sections so drawn, of course the anti amenders would have been without even the excuse for claiming that the home could be invaded under 1t. My own opinion as lawyer, which en- deavored to make as clear as I could on that occasion. in the short time al- lowed me, is that the ado,ticn of Sec ton will not authorize or justify the Legislature in passing law to prohibit the Keeping of liquor (excepf for unlawful purposes) in the home. As the purpose of this letter Is merely to correctly state my position on the question, I think 1t hardy fair to tres pass further on your courtesy to make an argument against the position winch you occupy and have a perfect right to maintain
 Respetfullv.
 Heny F. Reese
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-20
nv zAcH We(3HEE.

London. oct. ls--Good roads! what magnificent roads! To know Britain and the adyantsges its people enj,y. them, It is necessary to contemplate roads. Most of the reading public and some of the travelling public in Amer- way wa % that 2" in Europe there are better roads than in America. and that the roads of this island are maeadamizea. But the general idea is that Tar pack yonder the Romans or some other sucn imperialists by despotic power chained the lower classes together, put armeu taskmasters. oyer them. and made them SoS SoS ,srs Srsna soass ssswsy ss woad
 and hence these same roads are goou until this day. being :, just like they were when the Romans or whoever IL
 Now, shove that Idea into the back part Of your imagination. and let me tell you something about the progress of this stagnant country with respect
 Tn the first place, when you run across the word "macadam" used with reference to British reads, don't in any ling of crushed rock about twelve feet wide on some of -thA roads you know, which forms a good hard bed Tor the mud tSR osa And S dSn toct os
 of bridge through the mud. Not only the maln roads. mind you ana aiso; nSusv pvt practically every mSnWayf anu pyWays even the lanes which lead off into the woods, fields and pastures. in England is paved < with the very pest. and smoothest macadam, not In the middle of the. road, but from fence to fence and there is always a fence--with an ample and carefully kept footpath. or sidewalk. from four to eight feet wide. Sometimes the sidewalk Is gravel, bur it Is never allowed to get in such con dition that 1t will get muddy aiter 2
 nore than the hard smooth, billiard table surface of the main or vehicle
 And who built them and who keeps them up? The government--local gov ernment, you understand-and the people pay the tax.
 Far out In Ireland l stopped my bicycle at an old farmers wi1S d1Sr bin dma He had a farm of some twenty acres, and he found the taxes heavy. He complained of the heavy taxes wnicn he had to pay the government, whlcn amounted to s7.50 year. l mentioned the roads as one of the large Items Q. government expense. "Oh,' said ne at once, we have to keep our roads up.. little further on down that roadg Fully three miles from any town or village I saw a man sweeping the road, collecting the dust and trash ana hauling 1t away, just as they do m the city of Washington. That was Ire, land. you know. It IS the custom raads a. clean as well as smooth. People are kicking about the automobiles cutting up their roads That gives another Idea of the high standard of excel fence in roads demanded by the puoiic'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-20

Our esteemed Alabama contemporary. The Montgomery Advertiser. is evil hibition amendment to the constitution is ratified 1t will no longer be safe to make even persimmon beer in that state.--Albany Herald.
 Under a strict construction of the now. even though the Governor has promised to pardon those who may be convicted of violating his law If the amendment is adopted and fully car rfed out we do not know that 1t will be safe in Alabama to even talk about beer or wine or anything else that is good to drink. Prudent people will perhaps reflect that the Governors promises in this regard are no more to pledged himself in favor of local 'op- lion. And we do not believe that Ala bamians will put it in the power of a future legislature to do more harm than even the present body has done. if they think the people by the adop- ton of the amendment have given them license to go to any length of injustice and intolerance that can be devised or imagined. What has already been done ought to open the eyes of all intelligent voters and turn them against the attempt to render Alabama a greater object of pity, if not con tempt than she now is. There is limit to human compliance in promises.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-20
who can keep silent for them until II shall be the time to speak.
Montros. propo-itio..

bffmingnam Age-Herald.
 Alabama's "old Guard" opposing the constitutional amendment. is made up chiefly of distinguished men, who are permanently out of politics, but who furnish splendid examples of pa trfotisfn and moral courage. The rati- ncatfon of the amendment would be regarded by these brave men and thoushtful Alabamians as )th ng snort of calamity, Col. Hillary A. He. bert, who has shed great iustre on Alabama and who is recognized today as one of the strongest statesmen the South nas ever had in submitting his objec- tions to the proposed amendment, speaks in tone of alarm that should cause every liberty-loving citizen to ponder we'll and work with all his might to prevent its adoption and to overthrow an intolerant political ring
 ITO my mind this proposition is as monstrous as was the action of radi- calls. who, In Congress. took advantage of the passions and prcjudices of the war to force through the Fifteenth Amendment, giving universal suffrage to the negro.'
 Monstrous Is a strong word, but who knows better than Colonel Herbert, battle-scarred soldier, and resolute leader in the dread days of reconstruc- ton and carpetbag vi1lainy? Yes. 1t is monstrous and freemen are aroused as they have not been before in many a long year.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-20
Two From TalInpOOsn.

Alexander City outlook.
 The daily papers are full of the great battles between the giant pennan- win uers CPittsburg and Detroit of the National and American baseball lea Ktes That reminds us of the pres euce of two home boys upon this series for tine international championship, hoth of whom have become baseball writers and authorities of nati0n1l rep utation. We refer to Bozeman Bulger now of The New York World, and Will Ir'milton of The New Orleans Item ' rss than ten years ago both were do- in work on lO@al weeklies--pu ger a t his nome in Da1eville and Hamilton. only q lad. doing case work on The outlook and occasionally writing To- calls and baseball dope" East Ala hama is proud of these sons who have become specialists in the snoring de- rartments of leading metropolitan pa- ners.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-20
"rhe Top of the Morning"


 There is a beauty in the old Hibern- ian greeting that wishes one "the top of the morning" which few of us are able to comprehend. For we are so very tardy in daylight saving. and only by force of accident or necessity have most of us who do understand discov- cred the ectsacy of the dayspring and the sunrise.
 The mornings prime, with it's fresh, sweet hours of tonic breezes and un- tainted air, the invigoration of body and spirit. the impulse to start with the birth of the day to do all things well until the sundown brings its rest and happy reverie and depths of in- communicable dreams"-if you go a. walking in "the top of the morning." ready to be guided by nature. all these wholesome influences will come to you. and every hundred yards of the way will find you stepping out more jaunt- fly and with lighter heart.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-20
VICTORY IN SIGHT.
Mir. Lively writes of south Alabama
 Conditions.

| Editor The Advertiser:
 expect to preach Tuesday night ai Evergreen. From there I will go to be at Elba the 23rd. 24th and 18th at Enterprise 26th, at Dothan 27th, al Troy 2Sth. and in Montgomery at the church i1 a. m, 29th. and at the court house at 8 D. nl., night. write this that 1t may be known where I will be Things are fine for us in South Ala bama. The amendment men tell us that the reason why the country is against them is because the people are ignorant. We would say that where virtue, patriotism and ignorance is bliss. 1t is folly to be wise. From what I have seen. Mir. O'Neal Is more gentleman say that Mfr. Weakley's name was very appropriate indeed When man has no facts, no law, nc evidence, he has to paw the ground and below. feel greatly encouraged from the outlook, and on the 29th of November, I feel quite sure, the ob- sequfes of the enemy of freedom will be performed with great glee and joy, and we may be able to sing:
 'Hark. from the tomhs a doleful sound,
 My ears attend the cry"
 \ Ye Weakley men. come view the Where you must shortly lie."
 hope to have a letter prepared to- wards the latter part of the campaign.
 Yours for the success of the cause of right and freedom,
 Oct. IS, 1909.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-20
MAGAZINE IS MERGED.
EverybOdy's is Taken over by Butt feriek.

New York, Oct. 19.--The stock of the Ridgway Company publishers of Everybody's Magazine, will be taken over by the Butterick Publishing Com pany and the capital of the latter concern will be increased from SIP 2.00O,- GOO to s15,000,000 to allow the con solidation.
 Approval of this proposed increase in capital stock was voted today by the stockholders of the Butterick Com- pany.
 The Ridgway stockholders will re- ceive Butterick stock on the basis of three shares of Butteriek for one of Ridgway.
 Erman J. Ridgway, it was announced. will remain in charge of Everybody's s Magazine, which eventually may be printed in the Butterick plant.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-20
Zach kcGhee Writes of
 Trade and Tariff in EnQkdnd

they want them so smooth that they are, too good even for automobiles, I which. they say. suck up the dust
 sh sh ns nas sra oas and 0as oa.sn sgs % sssaa sSas making rough places. All of our roads used to be as smooth as bfi- Hard table. said q genHtissp,ana ne z who was these abominable motor ears tore them to pieces" My! myp thought.
 what must they have been if they wsres better than they actually are ., The. ,s. people pay,I say: for keeping that there seems to be iitsle Kicking on the road tax. That Is, on the road tax especially: They are. Kicking. abont such a determination to make the 'earls and the dukes" pay taxes on thefr unused land. adequate idea of the amount of taxes pays for roads. The roads are nn .. requiring that they shall be kept In good condition, and the various smunt- cipaiities. counties and districts nave various regulations and various rates: differing not widely from the way roads are kept up in our country.
 1t is more difficult. in a Driel ac- count to give an adegnats . idea or |. ths is so entirely different from anything Tn oirr own country. But the ruling prin- cipIe is that all taxes for local pur- noses are based on rents. A man who pays, say $400 year rent must pay a certain per cent--or so many shili- ings in the pound, as they put Ito the government. Taxes are. therefore: termed rates" The rates vary. ol course. in different localities. from 2 to ' shiilings in the pound. A certain portion of this is set aside for roads. Tn addition to this every man wnoss income Is more than t50 pounds t$13bl pays an income tax; that is. If he has no children And they pay this tax in this country, too: the tax collectors. like government. officials generally are most efficient and dutiful
 On the whole the taxes are con- sidered burdensonne. The government must, however. have even more money will not stand much more of an increase in rates" the eearls and the dukes" and the landlords must be taxed. and the tax on inheritance must be in- creased; else. there must be some duties on imports which will in eff feet be a protective tariff. That is the question now before the country. and on which, the impression now IS, there will be a general election early in the next year. A
 One of the uses for more money de- manded by the government. or rather one of the demands which would in- crease the rates, is to improve the roads. These people are not content that there shall be any flaws In their roads anywhere in the Unite4 King dom There Is no backward step TO be taken in this respect. and there Is to be no neglect.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-20

The Montgomery Advertiser shows that the saloon people or Alabama vot- ed for Governor Conner Tn 1908 against Dr. R. M. Cunningham. If that's true there has been lots of private self kicking going on in Alabama during the past twelve months. Comer aseems to have seen another light which he apparently regarded as politically more potential at this tifne.--Chatdtanoog ga Times
 And The Advertiser had it down cor rectly. They voted for Conner in the primary because they had faith in his pledges for local option. They have found that they were deceived and thousands of them would like to have the aid of kicking machines to do the work for. them as they feel they de- serve to have it done.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-20
Politics Gone Mad

Chattanooga, Times.
 Governor Conner of Alahama has just given an inglorious manifestation of politics gone mad. He has staked his ambition on the carrying out of the extreme folly of embodying untried and therefore iI-advtsed prohibition laws in the State Constitution, and in the frenzy of his zeal he has demonstrated the very unfitness of the laws he ad- yocates. It appears that under the drastic laws passed by the Legislature under his whip 1t is unlawful for housewives to make any kind of wine or brew even for their domestic use a proposition so monstrous and so ab- solutely destructive of personal iib- erty that a general revolt against the breaking out. Obviously alarmed over the public rebuke threatening, he has openly announced that if under that law anybody should be found guilty of making wine for home use. ne would at once pardon him or her. In this there Is at once an admission that the law prescribes a wrong-fatally SO and that likewise he. as Governor, would promptly violate 1t by removing the penalty through executive elem ency.
 This Governor may not know 1t, but he bases his promise to annul that feature of the law he does not approve on precisely the same ground, the "bootlegger" the blind tiger" and the illicit retailer do, and which is that these laws Sc ak to destroy the liberty of the citizen. The principle involved is precisely the same in each case; if one is not a violation the other is not. Laws must bear alike upon all. and no expediency can justify infrac- tion in one instance and condemn it in aother. Governor Corners attitude il- iustrates exactly what Is meant by the power of community sentiment because of which arises the difficulty bordering on impossibility. officers encounter in attempting to enforce a law the ma 1ority do not approve. Officers are slow to arrest persons for offenses the public would pardon, as officers in Ala tama would likewise be slow to do in case of persons making wine for do- mesti" use and whom the Governor nrprnisaS bafOrabapd n na FdOn
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-20
One-Armed Hero .

Mobile Daily Item.
 Much has been said about the "One-
 Armed Hero of Henry" ex-Governor W. C. Oates. He was one of the prom
 inent figures at the great gathering in Montgomery on the 18th. day of September. when 5000 Alabamians, | representing every one of the sixty
 seven counties. went on record as
 against change in the constitution of
 the State. It has, time and again,
 been charged by the amendists that
 those present and representing the ing in the interest of the liquor peo- pie. It has been charged that the
 three ex-Governors were placed in of- flee through the influences or efforts of the liquor interests.
 It were idIe to refute such fragrant statement on the part of the opposi-
 tion. but the charge continues to be
 that such charges should be refuted. When William C. Oates returned from
 the front minus an arm, did he leave
 that member on bloody battlef field
 There is no need for reply to the ques- | tion. When he was time and again honored by the whole people of Ala | bama by being given high preferment, was it the liquor interests who did 1t :? | If so, then that interest looked well and made splendid selection. When | the Spanish-Ameri,a an war was on. did l the powers at Washington call upon | Governor Oates, give him the stars of | brigadier- general because he was | aligned with the liquor interests? No, | it was a tribute to his bravery at q time when men showed their real | worth and at time when leaders of
 men were needed to defend the honor of the flag.
 If there be in all Alabama one Con- federate veteran who does not de- nounce the charge against exGov- ernor Oates, then he is not true vete-
 ran. As to the venerable and beloved
 Cobb, the peerless Jelks, there is no
 need for defence, the same as in the
 case of oates. The amendists are in-
 turing their cause by such charges,
 and yet in their blindness, they t.i
 not shift. They will see the error of
 ir way in the final count of the bal
 lots.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-20
A ,Nexicon Girl Was The
 Only Woman EUer Lynched

Bryant joined in the appeal. But hs had seen the fate of her two cham pions, and so left Juanita to her fate. The crowd voted that she must die by hanging.
 The gallows was built upon the bridge spanning the Tuba. and con- sisted of a narrow plank under a cross-beam over the edge of the bridge The woman had ddessed her. self carefully in white. Her black hair was neatly coiied and braided. On her head she wore mans hat lent by one of her friends. She was grave but annoyed. She ascended the scaffold with firm step. and taking off her hat with a quick whirl or her wrist sent it to It's owner in the crowd Her hands were quickly bound. She bowed to the throng, and said clearly: "Addios. mes amigos" A mo- ment later her body swung in the air.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-20
south to Build Roads.

Eight hundred miles of improved roads are to be undertaken by the Southern Appalachian Good Roads As sociation. Of these 300 miles are to be in North Carolina. Poor roads are said to cost that State $lo,o0o,00O a year
 An enormous number of tourists go to the Southern Appalachian region, but because of the poorness of the highways in general they see but small portion of it. The great system of roadways now proposed is planned to make that wonderful region one of the most attractive in all the world.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-20
Loan office a "DisorderIy House.''

AIi CCh Iod
 In State vs. Martin, recently decid- ed by the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals. where an indictment against the prisoner, who was mana ger Of the Lean Company of Trenton. was found charging him with the keeping of a disorderly house. it was said that "it must be accepted that any place in which illegel practices are habitually carried on is a disor- derly house."
 The court of last resort further said Nor do we think the sugges- tion sound that the taking of usury is not unlawful because the statute does not prohibit the borrower from paying 1t. If 1t is, then the sale of liquor without a license is not unlawful, all though prohibited by the statute, for there Is nothing in the statute which imposes any penalty on a person who purchases liquor from an unlicensed vender or which forbids any one from so purchasing"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-20
stays Carter Claim.

Washington. october 19-The Su- preme court of the United States today issued an order staying proceedings in the United States circuit court for the Northern district of Illinois in the matter of the application of Captain Oberlin M. Carter for the allowance of further counsel fees in the govern ments suit against him for the restoration of the funds alleged to have been procured by him through defa lea tion