The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-28
Alabama Democracy should Awaken

Alabama Democracy should Awaken.
Walker County News
One of the cardinal planks of the
acknowledgements Party, reconstruct
ed. promulgated and declared at the
Cincinnati Convention in 1880, and new
er to this day annulled, or abridged. is
this:
mo SUMMARY laws. Separation of
the Church and the State" y
as follows:
"sumptuary laws or regulations are
such as restrain or limit the expenses
of citizens in apparel, food. furniture.
etc. Sumtuary laws are abridgements
OF liberty and Of every difficult execu-
ton"
Ignoring Democratic doctrine, setting
aside the edicts Of the great party, the
Alabama Legislature, elected by the
Democracy of this State to enact laws
permitted and endorsed by Democratic
principles. is attempting to force upon
the people of this State sumtuary
w-prohibition--by ENGRAVING 1t up
on Alabama's constitution and thereby
perpetuating an experimental and un-
tried law antagonistic to the very es-
sence of Democracy.
That a protest is raised by the rock
ribbed Democracy of Alabama need not
be surprise to any intelligent man .
The spirit and faith Of the fathers Of
Democracy still survives in this State
a state which suffered for years under
the bGneful influence of mongrel poll
tical mis-government; and finally ex-
tricated itself from SUCH ENHANCEMENT.
This spirit OF true Democracy does not
intend, IL in its power to prevent, now
to permit the State to drift away and
be plunged into arr abyss prepared for
1t by those who seek to unite church
and State and to feed upon the politi-
cal cess-pool of the purified conglom-
GRAFTON.
Alabamians are a patient people.
They may have suffered themselves to
be moved close to the mouth OF this
yawning gulf; their ship of State may
approach the verge of the precipice.
beneath which apears this gulf of de-
spond; but they will not suffer them.
selves to be swallowed up. They will
never submit without resentment to
the States falling into the hands Of q
set of political renegades from the
faith of the fathers of Democracy.
The call for a conference of conser-
vative Democrats, who love the State
and the great principles of Democracy
is timely; and The News lends is en-
dorsement to the movement with the
hope that the people of Alabama may
be fully awakened to the danger which
confronts them in this effort by the
Alabama "Duena" to make FOOD Tor
politicians and a plaything of the con-
The Democracy of Alabama recog-
nizes as essential to the welfare of the
State and the protection of the church
in the performance Of their great func-
lions, entire separation of the two.
T. Temperance is good always and COM
mendable. Temperance in what we do,
what we eat and what we drink. In
temperance 10 abhorent. Radicalism
Is dangerous. Incorporate and radi-
cal legislation have left In their wake
loss, sorrow and degradation. BY
these, nations have crumbled, ana by
these the, church has experienced sea-
sons of disturbance that threatened de-
struction. BY these. our, social fabric
has more than once been tattered and
the autonomy of State narrowly es-
capped obIiteration.
Symetrical grand, edifying, uplift-
ing and protecting stand the State and
the Church, established separately by
divine authority and by human procla-
nation each to perform its function
pleasing to the Almighty and beneficial
to man. Not to amalgamate for the
qualification of political ambition.