The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08

A little later two very rough men ap preached the cabin. They entered, pull ing, their pistols from their pockets ant placing them upon the shelf and stack ing their guns in the corner, accostet the stranger in blunt, though not un civil manner. The traveller decided tha he had found the wrong house, that hi life would in all probability be takei before the morning. After plain sup Der, the. head of the family took. iron a shelf worn copy of the Bible ant said to the traveller {; My friend, it il
 our custom to have evening prayers il our home,'' and with this explanation he read passage from the Word. They kneeled together and offered a prayer The travellers fears all vanished. H, felt safe in a home where the Bible wal read and regarded. As long as it il
 the book of our nation and the guide o our people, we shall be safe. Our nex
 President will believe in our Bible
 In the third place, our next Presi dent will be moral man. When thu national conventions of both. partie. meet to nominate candidates for tn, presidency of the United States eaci convention will have in it, no doubt, { few immoral men. Some doubtless will be profane swearers some will bt gamblers-they will even bet on tn, man to be nominated few will pur chase and drink blind tiger liquor, ant few will cooperate in any nefariout scheme by which man could be nomi mated who would in no wise interfer, with the practices of themselves ant their cohorts. But no one will say that the general personnel of either great convention will be immoral. A larg, majority of them will be clean, noble upright, patriotic men-men} who be lieve in maintaining the honesty, so briety of our nation They will b, men who can be trusted to nominate l, man in each party whose honesty car be trusted whose sobriety can be relic, on, and whose high patriotic and mora purposes will be of such character as t, meet the emergencies of our nation il this great crisis of its history.
 In the fouth place, our next ,Presi dent will be man who will believe il the eighteenth amendment and in tn. enforcement not only of the prohibition law, but of all the laws of our nation By every test this nation has beer proven opposed to the liquor traffic Each state was tried out until ma JOrity of the states, by their own action prohibited the saloon. When men were put forward in these individual state. tor Congress and the Senate men were elected who opposed the open saloon
 and when the question was put before the nation the majority everywhert clearly demonstrated the fact that Amer lea IS opposed to the liquor traffic When; we consider the fact that, ac cording to the public statement of Gov ernor Pinchot of Pennsylvania a few uays ago, the Secretary of the Treasury married distiller's- daughter, and has himself been in the whisky business for 40 years and owned whisky until Hast March; and that this man has had the last word on the enforcement of the elghteenth amendment; and that Com, missioner Blair is known not to be a strong prohibitionist and with the pub. lie c~record to Attorney General Daugh. erty, we wonder how Commissioner Haynes has succeeded as we'll as he has With all these handicaps, the public press, the theatres and would-be hu. morous platform men have made tests at which the rabble has laughed; and propaganda has been put forward by other men like Dr. Nicholas Butler who some years ago, according to the authoritative statement of the Anti, Saloon league. married the daughter of liquor dealer, and has four brothers. in-law who have been convicted and served prison terms as bootleggers. All these things have somewhat misled the puDile, but after all, this nation is pro. h1bltion. and in the next presidential campaign the party leaers that think otherwise will be shown at the polls
 We have many disturbing problems confronting our nation and the picked men who will attend the two great ma. tlonal conventions will not fail to real, lze this. They will not in-this stormy season select a weather-beaten or in anywise defective craft to carry us across this stormy sea. The American nation may rely upon her picked citi. zens to give us man of high moral character; man of honesty and so. brlety who will face our problems with a clear head and a strong character and we shall still be prosperous as a nation. Let every thoughtful citizen LOOK to this end and work to this end LNP.ERSONATION OF