The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-05

preferring to endure in silence rather than court notoriety.
 The statement put forth by the wo- men of Cincinnati shows n horrible condition of social Fife. and possibly other cities are almost UT quite as bad Is there no adequats remedy?
 
 SOME STRANGE DELIvERANCEs.
 Things are happening In Alabama calculated to make the real honest minded prohibitionist grieve. We mean those who are not up to their elbows for politics and office. The Judge of the City Court of Gads- den instructed the grand jury Of that court in effect not to indict for the making "of wine or cordial from grapes or black berries for home con- sumption" In the same charge he said. T also give 1t as my opinion. although I am not so clear upon this point. that a man can manufacture corn whiskey for his own use. with out violating the law" Under the terms of the weakley- Fuller bill any enemy of man or woman could and in many cases would get up a case of arrest for manufacture of wine or cor dial on the charge of its not being flor home consumption" If anybody wants to get tangled up with Uncle Sam let him make "corn whiskey for his own use." without going through the formality of complying with Unit ed States law and he will rue the day he undertook to make "corn whiskey for his own use"
 That the search could be made of homes for the home made wine or cor dial on charge of being for sale is demonstrated now in the beginning of this agitation. The most fragrant case of search, however. did not in- clude the home, but the streets of the city of Birmingham. where upon information, of a bystander that va lises. which belonged to ladies con- tained whiskey for sale, were seized. broken open, and the contents scat tered on the sidewalk. There was no truth in the charge. Can Russian des- potism go further and all, under the authority of the weakley- Fuller bill.
 The amendment people are holding up the Etowah judges charge in tri- umph as something to be proud of. but they withhold the fact that even lf his construction of the law is cor rect tand other judges hold to the contrary, search of the home upon malicious or other information can still be made. All the forms of law as to seizure and search can be com- piled with and still the whole trans action be based upon enmity. malice and all uncharitableness We do not see how real prohibitionists can take any comfort from this Etowah judic- ial statement.
 This Etowah case Is nothing in com- parison with the deliverance of the man who essays to be the Great Mo gull of all prohibition and amendment measures. Last Saturday in his tour of Fillmore county Governor Conner, in- stead Of making the hearts of real glad. became almost an advance agent of the whiskey seller. It is one of the stereotype cries of the amendment speakers that their movement is for the purity of home and for good morals. yet their great apostle proclaims that you can make your homes veritable store houses of liquor and have all the country side come In and get glorioulsy drunk. What does Brother Weakley think of such an argument as that while he is protesting earnest desire not only to prevent its use in Alabama, but to enact laws forbidding its entry into the State. Why in Talladega last Sat urday he made @ similar argument almost in the same words. Veri- Iy the amendists are hard push ed for argument when their lead CTS contend that all the liquor that can be bought by a man can be taken to his home and used to de- bauch his friends and neighbors. It does not look as if they are so much prohibitionists as they profess to be. Such an argument as that made by Governor Conner in Elmore, if made by an opponent of the amendment, would be denounced as in the interest of whiskey and whiskey sellers. So we are coming to the point that 1t is claimed by some amendment leaders that the weakley-F Fuller laws are not so prohibitive as they are pictured That is a queer sort of argument for alleged prohibitionists to make and shows that they are like drowning men, catching at straws.