The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22
What the State Papers
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 Opelika Morning Post.
 The New Decatur Advertiser denies that Morgan County man shot al one of the balloons passing over that county. We don't blame The Adver- tiser. We would deny it too, If Lee County possessed a citizen who would do such thing as that.
 Southern Editors. Demopolis Fines lures and a short sketch of four noted Southern Democratic editors. Among them two are Alabama men, Hon. w ". Screws. the great and stalwart ed Barrett of The Age Herald.
 The Southern Poet.
 Greensboro Watchman
 For several years past The Mobile Register has been engaged in the com nendable undertaking of raising by subscription a sufficient amount to erect monument to the memory of Father Ryan. the poet priest of the Confectionery. It is passing strange that d more ready and generous re- ister's appeals in this behalf. Father Ryan was really great poet. and many of the most beautiful and sa- cred traditions of the old South are Those regarding the struggle of the Confederacy are not the only ones that entitie his memory to reverence, but he makes every subject he touches glow with the magic of his poetic .gee- nius. Their Story runneth Thus" is rare gem, and Is touchingly beauti- full and illustrative of the joys and sorrows of human life. It has been years since we read it. but the im- pression lasts to this good day. The Register is engaged in a praiseworthy undertaking and should have a more hearty response from the public at large.
 Appeal for Monument.
 Tuscaloosa Times Gazette.
 The Livingston people put up Con federate monument on their court house square that was not hopelessly expensive but very handsome and im- posing. It was put up by Tusca- loosa man, by the way. The best fea- ture of the monument Is that on it is carved the name of every man who went to the war from Sumter County. custom has prevailed in several other counties. Would not such q monument for Tuscaloosa be a most desirable thing? The good and patriotic women many years ago erected monument to the Confederate soldiers in the old cemetery, or Greenwood as it should be called. This monument ought to be in the city proper where every eye could see 1t constantly. A fitting mon- ument with every name engraved up- on 1t would be an enduring memorial that Tuscaloosa's soldiers deserve and it would be erected at a cost by no means prohibitive Could not the U. D. c. begin a campaign for this pur- day, of course, but begin now to raise funds for such a monument to be erected in the future.
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 Wishes Montgomery We'll Anyhow. Southern Argus.
 will we have a safe and sane 4th of July, or a noisy and murderous one? asks The Montgomery Advertiser. To which we beg to answer that may de- pend greatly upon how much money has been spent on high-topped church. es and the grand parsonages of high salaried preachers on the front ave- nues to the neglect of the alleys which are left as a part of the devils ex- an immense sum of money has been ex- pended within a few month on church building in Birmingham, while the mysterious killings of that beautiful burg. are not In the least diminished. which indicates where the churches flourish and the preachers fare best. his satanic majesty is enabled to get in his most formidable work. How ever, we trust that Montgomery VIII have a pleasant. peaceful 4th, and that the great showing in church building in Birmingham will be productive of the fruit of peace and good order on the same occasion.
 Great in Many Things. Randolph Star.
 The Montgomery Advertiser in an editorial in It's issue of June Is, re- garding the United States military school at West Point becomes patri- otic and says that West Point is to- day regarded as the greatest military school in the world" The average American believes we are greatest in everything, not only in military schools but in great universities. and. it Is al- most a certainty that we have the greatest trusts on earth, for what country can show anything to approach the Standard oil Company, or the steel corporation, or the great railroad ana other trusts, and then, too, some think we lead in the production or great trust busters" and as an. evil dehce of this claim read in the chron- icles of the acts of our rulers the story of the role played by our Teddy in this line Verify we lead the world in great things, and oft probably, when taking a perspective, our heads unavoidably become larger.