The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-18

in this Southern country. In the nrst place. you have one of the anest cti- mates in the world. climate that is % favorabie that you can work all the time if you wxnt to. There is not e month in the year when you cannot nnd souiething to do. I mean if you waat to work. That is . great advantaee.
 secnne of you, know have poor land. but you know if you own land in this country you own the rain and the sunshine that so with 1t. We have plenty of rain and plenty of sunshine here In the South. Out West where It is dry they sell you land for es an acre and then charge you t2o more for the water you need to make any thing grow on it. Here you not only get the land cheap but you get the water for nothing.
 DO not yield to the temptation of leaving the land. of leaving these beautiful country districts and going into the cities. Why. think of the happy, the successful, the independent life you lead out here upon this land and in this beautiful climate. Com pare it with the cramped. miserable. and sometimes starving life that many of our people live in the large cities. like Montgomery, Atlanta, Baltimore, New York and Boston. You are many times better on. and many times more Independent than they are. And you should consider and take advantage of the tremendous opportunities that your life here offers you.
 "rhere is another thing I wish to speak of. We have prohibition in many parts of the South now. We have 1t in this State and hope we will soon have 1t in every other South ern State. There is no class of people going to he so benefited by the clos- Ing of the saloons as the people of our race. For that reason, if for no other just because we are going to get the greatest benefit from that law which closes the saloons: we should % do our part in seeing that the law is enfore- ed. Every one of you can help enforce that law. You can do it in the first place by refusing to patronize blind
 tigers' You can do it In the second place by persuading your friends and neighbors not to patronizes them. :.
 'Tf you know of whiskey being sold illegally in any part of the South re- port 1t to the sheriff or to the proper conntv ofaciaI whoever he Is. We ell should be in favor of closing these baI rooms and blind tigers and we should be in favor of keeping them closed. aIn conclusion, I want to urge you when you come here again next year that you will take advantage of the lessons you will hear here today. and
 I shall be able to see the results oi
 what you have learned today in better | farms, in the possession of lands, in
 the character of the schools, and in the
 character of your lives. In every re'
 spect, we hope to be able to note great CT improvements next year even thar
 we have noted this year"
 eve must raise more than . living The razor back pig turned loose In the woods will make a living. If we doa''
 do better than that what is the diner ence between us and the razor bacf pig7 We want to get rid of the razoi back farmers. Sir Harry Johnston. tnt great African traveller said that, in al his experience, he had never seen the colored people living so well as IF
 Macon county. have often beer begged by colored men in the Norti but never in the South. Nothing hal happened in the South since enamel patton of so much value to us as th' closing of the bar rooms. l want tn' cclored people of the South to tak' hold and do their part in this grea | work. Don't hide anybody who il | breaking this law. Get rel of the whis
 key sellers call upon the preach ers. especially. Let the world kneN we are in favor of prohibition and tha
 we will do all we can to make 1t ef fective.''
 After Dr. Washington had concluded
 his address the conference took ul and discussed tho following questions l. How we can succeed in koepinl
 our women, who are not engaged il business, ofe the streets and from th' | public places where they have no busi 1 ne8s?
 1 2. How have we succeeded In i'm proving the moral and church life fl | our community
 8. How can the farmer succeed fl
 helping to enforce the prohibition law throughout the State?
 {. How have we succeeded in length
 eninE the school term in our com
 munity9