The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-04

this does not furnish as flexible a sys- tenn as the town it answers existing conditions better than hard and fast rule either way for whole state
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 Victory For Temperance.
 Charleston News and Courier.
 The election in Alabama on Monday was attended by many remarkable incidents Women and children went to the polls and beseiged the voters to vote for the amendment without knowing what amendment meant and the prohibitionists worked with almost frantic enthusiasm for its adoption. uns vSisss of ss sss,s ss sst the s Of ance of the movement. and achieved one of the most remarkable victories in ahe politics Of the South, II is Conner has been buried 60 deep that there will be no political resurrection for him, and that of itself wouii be worth the fight that the responsible common sense in the administrator aof public affairs. The election will not hurt the cause of true temperance, sTt it wi make sas tbs hsiy people are not on one side of this tremendous question nor all the damn. ed on the other The old-fashtohed bar-room is dead in Alabama, and will never be restored. but the people of that state have pronounced final tu1g- ment upon the right of their iawmak- CTS to interfere with the private rights and individual liberty Of Its people.
 saloons Dfd Not Dominate. St. Louis Times-Dispatch.
 The significance of the vote lies in the fact that there is by no means dominating saloon elment in the state On the contrary. the moderates are In the majority in virtually every cons munity. The people have declared themselves in favor of statutory pro- hibition and under such regulation strong temperance sentiment has ruled the State, The present defeat hibitionists not content with local victories nor even with Legislative enactments. have demanded more than the people aTs wiling o to nros,, srahs sx what seemed to them an overwhelm- ing popular sentiment joined with the extremists and gave their aid to radi- bama the most drastic prohibition laws on record. and going further still, undertook to fix these laws in the very constitution itself
 Monday was the inevitable reaction against such extreme measures. While the prohibition doctrtnaires and the politicians went wsli' .hs ne people tried prohibition by loeal option and by state Legislation. They have had experience with both. They have weighed well the effects and the in ence and that reflection they have de- cided to keep regulation In their own hands. Such Is clearly the meaning of the vote on Monday.
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 Issue Clean Cut.
 There was another featare about this Alabama election which is rare the issue was clean-cpt. and entire ly free and disconnected from every other. Usually in elections the issues ed in voting for some things that they favor to vote for other things that they do not favor. In this Alabama election. however, there was but the upon the proposition to add, to the constitution of the state an amend. ment to forbid the manufacture ana sale of liquor. And this proposition was voted down so emphatically that no doubt remains as to what the people desire in the premises. Unlike many elections, 1t was not one section of the state going one was not the voters of the cities lined up on one side and the voters of the | country on the other But in almost l every county the majority was on the same side; the majority In some coup- | ties or precincts larger than in others | but in nearly every one the same re- suit. an emphatic "No" to the propo-
 So the long and bitter campaign has | ended and 1t is we'll that the result | was so decisive. This means that the question Is settled, and that tae wounds of the fight win be quickest l healed Had the result been less de. | cisive this verdict at the polls might not | have been accepted as final as must | now be the case. and Alabama ls " l be congratulated upon the result | +
 l A Foolish Attempt.
 New Haven Register. | The failure to pass the prohibition amendment in Alabama appears st | this distance to be the result ok at- | temptinr to force through by emotion | what was not backed by public senu- | ment Alabama is not ready Tor pro- | hibftion. Perhaps In a few years it | will be: perhaps not, But such sur | az Alabama has had over the matteE can't be without positive result | Too Hard And TOO Far. Charlotte Observer
 We don't wonder that the prohibit tfon amendment in Alabama was lost | bv an overwhelming majority. The people had been driven entirely too hard and too far.