The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-28

and with their groans the mines of Siberia are filled at the present day.
 T do not blame them from running away from the statutes"
 Relates Personal Experiences.
 MT. Bowie here related story. He said;
 "The other day Emma, a servant, turned up i'll. Finally. she sent her sister for some whisky. My wife gave the girl enough to stimulate the sick.
 T asked my wife if she knew what she was doing.
 Yes she replied, T am sending Emma some whisky
 But do you know what else you are doing? And she replied that she was do- ing nothing other than sending Emma some whisky
 'I then informed her that she was be- coming a criminal, and that she was sub 1ect to a fine of $500 and to term of im- prisonment.
 T do not believe that such laws ex- ist,' she exclaimed.
 1T then read her the Fuller bill. I fur thermote explained that while Governor Conner might pardon her. could render her no assistance at all because did not vote for the chief executive of the state.
 My wife then said that she was be- ginning to understand the debate between two little boys, one of Alabama and the other of Mississippi, as to which of these states is the greater The story goes that it soon became evident that the Alabama boy was getting the better of the argu- ment. Then the Mississippi boy, having happy thought, declared that there were more people in the Mississippi asylum than in the Alabama asylum.
 Ah! but there is a reason,' said the Alabama boy. You send your crazy folks to an asylum. We send ours to the leg islature.''"
 Character of Men Aligned
 MT. Bowie here discussed the charge made by certain newspapers and others that those opposing the amendment are of evil natures and habits.
 'The other day. he said, 'I overheard conversation between two Birmingham lawyers One of them-a 2x4-was telling the other that he was in favor of the amendment because of the fact that all the whisky men were against it.
 I am opposed to the amendment the those who are narrow between the eyes are for it.
 T am just from the hills of old Gle burne. There I spoke to 700 people I found there the women and children against the amendment. There are thou sands of others in the country and in the cities.
 There are thousands of the good wom- en and children who know the proposi- ton Is snare and a cheat to perpetuate discredited political dynasty in this state.
 Many preachers who, mistaking the amendment for prohibition. entered the light early are regretting that fact.
 Many politicians, having misread their hands, Jumped on the band wagon. Hav- ing seen the seats behind them unoc- cupied they would be glad to get down. But the voters have seen them and are preparing to bury them in oblivion "A prominent minister in Birmingham recently told me to have writetn and pub lished-The Old Time Religon'-not the new-Is Good Enough For Me 'They say the distillers are with us There were never but five dstillers in Alabama, and they have moved away
 "They say the whisky men are with us. There were never but 1900 in the state. Many of them have moved away But if all cast votes against the amend ment there would not be enough to count-perhaps 11a per cent of the total vote.
 T don't know anything about the blind tiger proprietors. Perhaps the writers of editorials and others who make charges know these better than I. I have never patronized one, and some of the amend ment people, l know of my own knowl- edge, have. One man of Talladega came to my office some days ago to remon- strate with me for opposing the amend ment. He was so drunk that it was necessary for me to hold him to save him from probable injury.
 'I do not know the gamblers, nor how they will vote. Perhaps the writer of cer- tain editorials knows these men. l do not.
 Seriously, it Is the last desperate re- course of defeated men that they place such stuff before the intelligence Of the state"
 Compares Herbert and Fucker. MT Bowie here made some comparison.
 He referred to Col. Hilary A. Herbert as one of the men worthy to rank with the great sons of Alabama who lie buried in Selma, William King. vice president of the United States. and John T. Mor- gan and Edmund Winston Pettus He referred to Gen. E. w. Rucker stating that the general was admired for his virtue his good qualities and his abil- ity to make money. "A wife who had joined her husband
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