The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-22

to say that the same interest manifested by your presence here tonight has been made apparent to me from all quarters of the state by reports which are constant ly being received at headquarters and by me personally. The people of Alabama are aroused as never before and it is for tunate for the state that this is so, for in the sway of certain elements in state 1t is occasionally brought front to front with a dire calamity.
 ''Our sister state, Tennessee, is an eX- ample of what party tyranny will do, es- peoially when dominated by the power of the saloon, as is being done by the poli- ticians now In control of this our own fair Alabama. In Tennessee, as in Ala hama the issue goes more deeply than the success of a given party, it is one that involves our moral existence. Under the name of democracy a certain clique is seeking to gain control in Alabama, backed by the liquor barons and the brewers of beer in the cities of St. Louis. Peoria, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Under the charm of party name they got control of Tennessee. and when
 a valiant knight sought to meet them in the fray he was shot down like a dog on the streets of Nashville. and the tool of the liquor interests interposed with his pardoning power Ito set the murderers or the marIyfed CdIHdCk Tree
 "There is a point beyond which the pa tience of a people will not go. and that
 point was reached in our sister state, and they threw the party name to the winds when they saw that it was being
 used for their ruin, and took steps to rid themselves of the curse. No grander spectacle of moral and yet peaceful hero-
 ism has ever been displayed than by the good people of Tennessee In Alabama,
 under precisely similar conditions, the barroom and brewery are seeking to en- act the same scenes. They are in the sad
 de in Alabama under the name of de-
 mocracy The only use these vicious elements of beer and whisky have for politics is to use it in the promotion of their fell interests. Tn one state they are of one party; in another they are of another. They lay hold of politics and
 hoodwin6 the people with the charm of political name, in order that they may
 ride into power and hold the reins of tyranny over brave and virtuous peo- pie. There is not a man within the sound | of my voice at this hour who does not | know this to be true. With fabulous wealth made from their deDasing poison they pdrchase the loyalty Of men in cer- 1 tain states, and there are those always
 for sale, promote them to office by the
 use of unlimited funds, and actually gain | control or state governments and sway
 them to the curse of the people. If it be- | comes necessary to turn an army of crim- l inas loose from the penitentiarY in or der to proptiate public favor with a base | and crininal class, then this is done. 1 If it Is necessary to assassnate the hero | of righteous cause. then they do this. 1 If it becomes necessary to extend par
 don to the murderers of the defenders | of the people they do not hesitate to do | that It is not the saloon on the cor l ner that is so much to be dreaded, but 1 ti,e saloon on the throne of politics. Un- | der the name of legends that are sacred ! to a people, under the rallY,ng cry of | borrowed terms such as personal liberty, local self government and party fealty, the saloon rides in royal splendor to the throne of power, and bids defiance to the protests Of the good people whom 1t has
 hoodwinked and bamboozled.
 When as a result of that bloody his torical tragedy, the French revolution that famous woman, Madame Roland vas led forth to death. looking on tlae statue of liberty. she exclaimed "O' { Liberty. Liberty. how many crimes are