The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-11-20


effective. and We have suf1cisnt NUM-
Der Of them and they are OF sufhcient
volume. If-they are not immortal as
they stand, they do not lack that quail
lily because they are too BRIEF.
THE last Legislature gave us local
option. and then State-wide prohibi-
ton and afterwards the Carmichael
bill. and then the Fuller bill, then a
smelling bill. believe theyxcail II !.
All of this by one Legislature which
moved my magnificent friend, Senator
Moody. one Of the spirited
men have ever known In pubic life.
a matchless Cnristian gentlemen and
scholar. and the father Of temperance,
In heavens name was II not enough
for one timer.
Governor felix's. abiding to the war
of the Crusaders. said: when the
Saracen was not near. they fought
each other for positions OF conse-
quence. mark you, they fought each
other for positions OF consequence and
Importance in their holy army.
Conner - Unhorsed.
These new crusaders are doing that
now. They are lighting each other for
After weeks OF effort, they have un-
norsed. so he admits or says, one OF
their most potent oficers, without
whom they would have been no fight
for this empty sepulchre OF goodness
They punched, and they punched him
the great chieftain, until he went
over. They say he Is dead. dc
not know; maybe he Is playing pos
sum-
.But the older crusaders. failing to
capture the empty tomb with their
IN rufn he of
plicity and innocence of their women
and children. and marched them. at
one time 100000 strong. to the shores
OF the Mediterranean, leaving their
pitfful ashes the plaything of the
wave of the sea. After the years, the
warriors returned to their devastated
country their cold. chilly and naked
hearthstones, bringing back part
only of what they had carried away.
They brought no empty sepulchre. only
broken battle axes and the blood of
their fellows on their torn and bleed
ing garments. The older crusades
were undertaken in sheer Ignorance.
I am afraid the one we now contend
with was conceived in sheer wicked
ness. - 49,
what will these latter day crusa-
ders in their fight of emptiness get.
think you? I will tell you. They
will bring home broken battle axes,
and the blood OF their fellows on their
sacred and soiled robes, leaving in
their path wounds unhealing and UNI
heaIable. The politicians who invent
ed this monstrous, and unnecessary,
and outrageous fight. did wicked
thing.
Women with Defenders.
These new crusaders weary one
They assume so much. They stand
for temperance, they say, and we for
whiskey. They repeat and re-repeat
that we stand for whiskey. 1t does
not seem to matter to them that 1t is
not true. They set themselves up as
the guardians of the women and the
children. We wish them to under
stand that there gre as many--or more
~ say more good women marching
with us than with them. know
what company I am keeping. The
best women / know in the world are
against the amendment. These male
crusaders began the fight by consign-
ing all the opposition to perdition.
They drew their sacred robes about
their pious persons and passed on the
other side. They are getting over IL.
They now admit. II you press them.
that we have some good men among
us. The average common sense. every
day man, despises a campaign of
can't
ssThe sweetest language In the Great
Book is the Publican's prayer. and
this fellow who had his reward has
few followers In the amenders camp.
1t is an army unanimously given over
to every superior virtue. When a
great feast Is spread, as spoken In a
celebrated parable in holy witt, they
will tramp IN to get the high seats.
and II the Lord of the Feast allow,
they will take them Thank God for
the Lord of the Feast! He must be
the final arbiter OF our pfaces at the
tablet"