The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-11
MR. GLAss's UTTERANCE.
Dr. ". B. CrumptOn says It Was ss
 Bold, Rad Stand.S Editor Frank p Claaas

Dr. w. B. CrumptOn Says It Was GA Editor Frank F. ha Giass: s'@n
 I was unayoidably absent from the city during the last few stirring days have been intensely interested in all that has been published. The condem- nation of the mob spirit at the Dexter Avenue meeting, I heartily endorse.
 read your two speeches. In the last, 1t seems to me, you lay yourself lowing: Nowhere in the Bible Is there commandment not to drink liquor and Christ Himself has taught its That is a strange utierance for a Christian man to make. Surely you must have taken the word of some of your anti-prohibition allies. without It is not one of the Ten Command ments. Nowhere does God say in so many. words, Thou shalt not drink H. quor," but from beginning to end the warning after warning against cul- tivating the taste for intoxicating drinks. See the oft repeated text that when 8 child; wine is a mocker. srong drink is raging; and whosoever Is de- ceived. thereby Is not wise"
 sorroT' who hath cOntsntions! Who without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine. Look thou not upon the wine when 1t Is red. when 1t giveth his color In the cup, when 1t moveth itself aright.. At last 1t biteth like serperSt warning be stronger? Could a com mand be plainer? Remember this is wine, the pure juice from the fruit of rnE nn n o 9Sdag ne m e .arSs asas sEGn the use of wine thus strongly, what shall His people not do or say in con demnation of the wretched stun made
 While discussing the prohibition lay. in building dedicated to the worship of God. in a city where wild mob of lay breakers the miniops hs of the iaw murder to cite Christ as an example in opposition to the prohibition laws. looks to me like bordering dangerously
 hate 10 write in this way, but you tOok boId bad stfmd at a.+ critical Sd said in reply in the paper.
 Bible and the example of Gods son has been applauded every hour of the day and night in the haunts of the law for the Bible or for the Christ, whose example you held up for their encour- agement In their work of ruin? But In the que sqSuestion.. Al, prohiDition laws. from Neal Dow's time to the present have been levelled. not at the individual drinker, but at the trafic. the one who sells 1t or gives 1t to. another. One may have as much. as hs. will for his own consumption; but when he seek { to sell or give. 1t to another, the law
 That Is the law Alabama has on its statute. books which the officers have not tried to enforce in five months which The Advertiser has said, in one breath. ought to be enforced, ana ir could be enforced. That is the law which the mob spirit says shall not bS enforced.
 The Law and Order League deserves and ought to have the sympathy of ev. cry law-abiding citizen in Montgomery
 The Advertiser. with all its greA' influence, ought to give these citizens whole hearted support; to do other. wise is to encourage the law breakers who will become bolder with every in. fraction of the law until life and prop erty will no longer be safe in our fail city.
 fhis is written. my brother, onl, from a stern sense of duty and not with any bitterness towards you.
 Respectfully yours,
 w R. CruTnpton,