The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-10
Letters to The Editor
JUDGH LEES CHARGE.

Some Gsdsaeni Lawyer. Clsi,n that He
 Gave Correct I.terpEets'iesn,; tss, Editor The Advertiser:
 Lee to the grand M M jury @ in in the City Court of 9adsden. in which he advised the jury that doniestic wine and biask- berry cordial can be made at home, CIT cult Judge 1nxer. Judge Disque, Soiie- itor Boykin. of the City Court of Gads- den. Congressman Burnett ". T. Nurphree, Mayor. of the law firm Of Burnett b,, Hood and Mnrphree, Judge % Biackwood. Motley and other ldw. CTS or the 0adsden bar, say that Judge Lee was not mistaken in his view of
 Judge Lee said substantially, the word used in the proposed amendment and the Fuller law is manufacture aau while that word. in It's strictest sense, means. to make with the hands,. in It's legal and commercial sense. II does not mean that the farmer who makes with his hands butter and cheese from the milk of cows for home consump- tion. or who converts his cattle Into for sale, Is manufacturer; or that a woman who grows cotton. picks it. takes the seed therefrom. cards and hands makes fish lines. plow lines. well ropes or cloth out of the thread. Tor her own or family use, and not for sale, Ia manufactures in the legal or com mercial sense I'm which the word man. ufacturer Is used in the laws referred to. i
 While neither of the named classes of cases are manufacturers in the legal sense. the mill man who purchases cot ton and makes Ash lines. blow lines, well ropes or cloth for sale Is a man. ufacturer in legal and commercial sense. =
 a recognized standard legal authority for defining the meaning of manufac- ture and manufactrer. And charged the grand jury not to return indict. ments in eases where the proof showed that domestic wine was made. from grapes grown by the maker and kept and used Ly him only for home con- sumption and not for sale or distrtbu- tion. That this was not manufactur- ing wine in the legal sense, and that the word manufacture in the said laws did not apply to this class of gooCs. And the same rule obtained in the case of blackberry and other cordials.
 High Price of Cotton.
 Editor The Advertiser:
 Ginners report, October II, reported ginning during August and September. 2.600,0 900 bales. Has half. onethird or one-fourth been picked? If 0ne-third we have not s.000.000 bales. I have just returned from Oklahoma and Arkansas. Tennessee and Mississippi;
 
 In the cotton fields. The cotton had in September been picked over and now In October it was being picked again. In front of the pickers 1t will make 200 pickers it was blank. Not another pound will be gathered this year. talked with many farmers from Texas Eilo said Texas was % nearly through to get a bale J. A: Paulk, an old and reliable planter of Union Springs wrote me September 27 that the best lands in Bullock County would take ten acres twenty-five acres to maks bale. Bull lock would make only one and half bales to the blow. Ordinarily we make eight bales o to the P1oW w,,rdna During eo1s ths $l per pound, because it was scarce. It will take 14,00o.oe0 bales of Ameri- can cotton to run all the spindles full SRe SsesR ean an' we sI furnish t nsa ths year. England exports In cotton goods annually over $500 100000 worth. and America only s5o.ooo,ooo in cotton fariff she won't allow any foreign goods to come in, but forces us 100. .o00.00 people to buy from the gang at 100 per cent. profit and our Senators help voted and worked for high tariff in lumber swhen they knew that there were only Ioo lumber mills in Alabama, mostly owned bye the truet ana z,VVO,VUV poor Alabamians wanted cheap lumber. Voted for hish tsEsg !es ir9n and ,S9si s9sl owns all the coal and iron. They stood Idly by and let Payne tax bagging and ties 100 per cent. and voted to let the yankees have his twine to tie his grain free. Mr. Bryan very pithil yremarked In Texas that Jour Senators reminded him of a man who lived in a horse stealing country. He says. Gents. I am opposed to stealing horses, but if you win steal horses. steal me a good saddle !horse .Ys Mir. AIdrich. am against high tariff. but if you will have high tariff give us high lumber, coal and iron. Even MT. Taft. a Yankee, says 1t Is outrageous and ran his pen through Senator Senator Johnstons ms, high o,a lum; Is can't stop her spindses because sLo.- 100000 people are fed through her spin ing merchant urged his customers to sell at 10 cents. That cotton is now being delivered 5000 or 1000 miles distant. Cotton will have to be sold. Then hold the balance and we can get our price, 15 cents. It Is worth 1t, and demand 1t. E. Napier.