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nSW, rim, under tho Editorshipof
ii VIMJAK WALLACE SCREW8.
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> J. L. Boeotians. Circulation Manaser of Tho
Mentsomery Advertiser, beioa duly sworn.
The foretrolnir etatement of Tho Adver
tlsor*s circulation fpr tho Month of June.
—17, Is true nnd correct and complied alter
turns and spoiled copies have boon do
THE ADVERTISER CO,
J* If J. L. BOE8HAN&
». Circulation Manasor.
<|*»ra ta and subscribed before mo thin,
fl the ind day St July. 1617.
/ ”tBAL). wit F. LEE.
|f Ndtary Public, Montgomery Count^AJebama^
f A SUP BT THE OXNSOB.
j ■ The Bwh censor who work* with a
sHr>' Imtt u< ruthlMa hand, aooma to have boon
j&iS asleep on hlo Job wh*d ha permitted the ontor
.world to know that Genera! Von Hlndenburg
had Informed' the German pnblle that he did
not have men enough for another offensive
a»d that Germany must remain on the de
};•> tensive on her present tinea
sThis information will encourage the
, enemies of Germany and It may not have the
desired effect of quieting publio sentiment
In Germany. The purpose behind this an*
noun cement of Hlndenberg was to allay the
spirit of dissatisfaction and revolt. Pinched
by hunger and wearied by their burden, the
German people are demanding to know why
they oannet have peaoe and why. If their
sneakies will not allow them to have pesos,
the Gorman army cannot go out and win It.
In the general German ohmpalgn to allay
tbi spirit of revolt, Hlndenburg declares,
an Important element. This confirms the
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general stall lytd no Intention whatever
being driven Into an offensive against the
Russians. The general staff was perfectly
content for the two armies facing each other
"to remain quiet. The unexpected successful
attack of General Kornllorff upset Germany's
plans and Germany's calculations and Ger
many on os again had to rush forward and
gave Austria. Austria now Is almost as near
a oollapss as Russia la The victorious Rus
sians invading Austrian territory formed a
deadly menace to the weak and tottering
Bmpira No matter what- plans Hlndenburg
gad the staff had In mind, their duty before
them was dear. It had to rush German
armies to the help of Austria and this army
aow has delivered a deadly thrust Into the
regions of Ternopol. Because of that thrust,
Russia Is In a disorderly retreat and the end
of the retreat cannot yet be foreseen.
-< But the German general staff wants no
more territory In the east. It has now more
territory east and west than It can well de
fend, but what It does want to do is to do all
possible damage to the Russian army and It
has delivered the army In that one sector a
deadly blow. What effect the new turn of
^affairs on solidifying sentiment cannot clear
ly be predicted but recent indications are
that this new German offensive has dona
more to unite Russia than anything that has
happened since the Revolution.
In the meanwhile we hear day after day
reports from Berlin of "violent and unremit
. ting artillery fire In Flandera" It la signifi
cant that no word of this has come from
* Farts or London. But Berlin has for the
past flvs days reported the heaviest of artil
lery attacks in Flanders. Naturally the outer
world Is expecting another savage thrust by
the British, but the first news of It Is yet
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PARTISAN BLUNDERING.
Apparently more anxious to handicap and
embarrass the President of the United States
than to handicap and embarrass the Emperor
of Germany, partisan croups in Concress are
determined to force the Issue raised by the
proposal to create a joint Congressional com
mittee on war expendlturea House Repub
licans are llnlnc up to this end. No doubt
they hare some Democratic sympathy from
amonc that croup of statesmen who do not
approve o'f the war or the President.
. There are too many committees and comf'
missions In Washington now for the good of
the country, or for the good of the war pro
gram. Congressional supervision of the
Executive branch of the government, espoe-.
tally In wartime when common sense and
human experience dictate that the position
of the Executive branch of the government
phould be strengthened rather than weak
ened, la not only fundamentally absurd, but
to offensive. The President 'Is justly in
dignant at the threat .to harass him In the
management of the war. The provision will
be stricken out, but It Is doing mischief by
delaying the food control measure.
“Committee government la a conspicuous
failure In Russia In war time. -It has been a
failure la war, time in this country. It will
fall again, If tried—especially when It comes
put of partisan motlvsa
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TEX T ABCWXLL TO THB ALA
BAMA BBIOAD1.
tli* Alabama Brigade, eomprielng all Of tki
men which the state has enter arm* and
w^loh will be all of the troepe that Alabama
will have In the war aa dlatlnotly State
troopa, will leava far their (Inal training in
America for M^con hr Auguet the fifteenth.
Thar mar leave earlier. Their gglag depende
entlrelr upon the camp conatructlon at Maeon
which atartad at the afcme time that the
Montgomery mobltlaatlop camp tec the Ohle
troopa waa begun.
No man can ear when the Alabama troopa
can leave for France. The War Department
doea not ltaelt know when the erdera whl
be laaued to leave for Franca The departure
of the Alabamlana. from Macon to the front
will depend upon the available tonnage which
will be at the dlapoaal of the National Guard
for Ita tranafer for- the laat atagea of train
ing In Franca But when the Alabama
Brigade haa left Montgomery It haa left for
the front It haa left Montgomery not te
return until peaca haa been declared.
The Brigade haa been ordered out for a
general parade and review by the Oevernor
In Montgomery on Saturday. It will be the
laat military apectacle afforded the people of
Alabama by lta.. own troopa The oocaalon
will furnlah the opportunity for the frlende
and relatlvea of the Alabama troopa to come
to Montgomery to'Bee the proud dlaplay of
the Stataa’ own military power and to "hid
farewell to the Individual aoldlera. Doubt
laaa thla opportunity for aaelng the boya
from their home town under arma for the laat
time will appeal to'thouaanda of Alabamlana
who are proud Of the patriotic ahow mada
by their young men. '
The display moreover will be a splendid
epectaole. In that one line there will be
mere than six thousand troops under arms.
They will be equipped with the latest modern
arms and supplies tor Infantry and cavalry.
They will In truth, as many of the officers-of
the Brigade believe, be fit and ready now
for any service to which they may be called.
Alabama may be parJoned for Its feeling of
pride In which our people believe that the
Alabama Brigade Is the best trained, the
most fit and the best equipped National
Guard troops In the' United States. They
have been In continuous service and In sys
tematic training since June the llth, lilt.
They have been drilled, trained and hardened
by duty on the Mexican border. They have
been taught the military art In long weeks
Mn camp In Montgomery. They have hard*
ened themselves by marching hundreds of
miles up and down the hills of Alabama. If
there are any other troops which have re
ceived so thorough a training The Advertiser
does not know of them.
We simply believe that the Alabama
Brigade tn parade will present the finest and-'
best trained body of troops In America Out
side of the regular army. Montgomery on
this day will give herself over to this speo
tacular farewell to the Alabama soldiers.
The city urges all who are Interested In the
welfare of the men and officers of ths
Brigade to come to Montgomery on Saturday
and to cheer the boys on their way. It will
be an ooeaatou of Interest, of spectacular
features and of a certain solemnity for what
the next year or the next two years may
hold In store for the gallant young men of
Alabama, no seer can prophesy. We should
on Saturday make them feel that the affe£^
tlons of their home people are with them no
matter where they go or through what ad
ventures they may peas.
POOR BELGIUM I
"Belgium !■ actually ilarrtni to death—
starving stubbornly and gallantly, even de
fiantly, but dying,” wrltea a Waahlngton
correspondent. The greateet crime In his
tory—the murder of a nation by hunger—
Is now in progress,” he adds- The facta:
Due to German submarine attacks upon
merchant ships, the ration now dispensed by
the relief commission amounts to “one-halt
of the amount of food necessary to keep an
Idle man barely alive.” Over 1,000,000 Bel
gians reoetve practically no other food. Re
1 cently there was a strike In Belgium. The
strikers did not walk out for better wages
or shorter hours. They struck because they
were too weak to wbrk!
It Is one of the most cold-blooded crimes
! ever committed In all the annals of bumap
history. . It did not require the admission of
Germany that It was a' crime for the world
to know that It was a murderous thing the
Germans did to Belgium; but nonetheless we
have that admission, known to all the world,
but fit to reproduce now and again aa a re
minder to the Inspired warriors who are
struggling against the fiendish authors of
the present Belgium. Here It Is, out ef
Bethmann-Hollweg, until recently the Im
perial Chancellor of Germany:
“The wrong—I speak openly gentlemen!—
the wrong we have done Belgium will be
righted when our military ends are accom
plished.”
To which words, reproduced In The Louis
ville Courier-Journal, Colonel Henry Watter
son makes the following stirring retort:
The "wrong" will be "righted,” but by
the Allies, not by the Huns. It will be
"righted” when Berlin Is occupied by
Allied forces, Vienna an Allied outpost,
the Stars and Stripes of America floating
over the Vaterland from the Rhine and
the Elbe to the far Bavarian Alps—the
Hohenzollern and the Hapsburg crushed
to earth never to hope again—their
riches confiscated, applied first of all to
the relief of Belgium! Nor this the
worst; for we shall never be satlefled
until Wilhelm, Hindenberg and the
Crown Prince are put to work upon a
seriee of rock piles In and about Lou
vain and Liege, Von Tirpitz, Mlchaells
and Raventlow leading a chain gang
through the streets of Antwerp and
Brussels. Then It will be "righted," and
only then, for It has been ordained
God In the sanctuaries of Heaven, the
decrees of the Almighty, as even Kaisers
shall learn, true and righteous alto
gather.
The nations have struck the harp
«* mercy and the song of Hope bursts
forth. The angels sing It, and the atars
In thetr courses loin the refrain. The
Christian world, upon the cross of Christ
—by the blood of the murdered Innocents
—yea. the spotless soul of Edith Cavell!
—has sworn reprisal and redress—In the
name of the Virgin Mary, the sword, the
power and the glory of the Lord of
Hosts—ameat
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To which oil luot-mtadod faftt mdat w
“AmonP” yot again. —
Outrage, robbory and murder kayo eolorod
the trail of Oorman armloo whyrorer tkor
hare boon. No othor army, military force,
•root or amalU known to modarn klatory baa
boan oo ~afflclonf*. In tho daotroatlon and
maltreatment Of tho weak, thalnaoaont and
tho holplooa aa tho, Oormaa armloo kayo
prorod thomaolvoa to bo. ,, ' Zi\
koldloro noror fought In a heller eauao
than tho Alltod ootdloro who aro flghtlag
agalnot thla thing 'called Oormaa Autocracy.
tHX LOWNDES COUNTY LYNCH
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Nothin* can be aald In extenuation of the
shocking offense against law and order osm
mltted by Lowndes oounty parties between
Letohatchie and Haynevllle, when two young
negroes, brothers, met death at the hands ot
a mob. It Is altogether one of the most pro
voking and distressing examples of lawless
ness ever recorded In the lynching history
of Alabama.
Why were the negroes lynchad? They had
not committed the "usual crim.e" Thar had
not oommltted murder. They haA not drawn
blood’from anyone. They had committed no
capital offense. The worst'that they did.
from.the meagre Information obtainable, was
the holding up of a farmer'at the point of
pistols near Letohatchie. Later reports Indi
cate th^t while driving a fractious mule, the
two negroes ran Into the farmer. Words
passed and pistols were drawn, probably bv
both parties, but no Shota were "exchanged.
Apparently the negroes In this episode were
aggressive and Menacing; but they didn't
shoot. Apparently, too,' Bam ^ and Will
Powell, the negroes, were "undesirable char
acters." guilty of several minor, but ag
gravating offenses.
The negroSa had committed offenses Justi
fying their arrest .and trial. They were ar
rested. put In the Montgomery oounty Jail
and were on their way to the HaynevAle
Jail In the hands of the‘deputy sheriffs and
In due time would have been tried and pre
sumably, convicted: but their .trial was not
to Iff The prisoners were set upon by a
mob and plain.
. The eltlsens of Lowndes who have the good
name of their oounty at heart can do noth
ing less than to bring the forces of Justice
to bear upon the men guilty of this deplor
able wrong against eoclety-^-agalnst the
State of Alabama.
In other years. Lowndes suffered from law
lessnesa along with many other Alafiams
counties, but In late years conditions In
Lowndes have shown a decided Improvement
to the credit of her good eltlsens, a circum
stance which makes this sudden and notable
lapse from the course of rectitude the more
surprising and lamentable.
The Advertiser, whloh condemns lynoh law
at home and abroad, though ever ready to
defend Alabama from \njust attack from all
aowges, holds this latest episode tn lawless
nesspp to the nubile view In the hope that
the law-abiding and. Just-minded folk of
Lowndes county will act promptly and de
cisively to mitigate this blot upo« Its name
by dealing with th* guilty as the law says
they should b* dealt With. Lowndes cannot
afford to ignore this challenge thrown at
her feet by her law breaker^..
MARKETING THE NEW OKOP.
The Advertiser la more and more Impressed
with the necessity of supplying certain end
assured markets for the great food drops of
this year and for the extension of aid In
marketing to the fanners who have grown
this crop. We believe that It Is a duty of our
people, particularly of the bankers, mill men
and merchants to adYlso with the farmers
and to give them assistance In marketing the
huge crop of this year.
It Is unnecessary to remind the business
Interests In an agricultural city like Mont
gomery and In all the small towns of our
territory that oyr farmers have been strik
ing out on new lines They have been
growing crops that they have never grown
before and they are going to be called upon
to eell crops such as they never sold be
fore. In many Instances unless they are'
helped, farmers will find It harder to sell
these new crops than It Is to grow them.
The amount of corn, velvet beane and pea
nute which wly be put upon the market In
the next few weeks cannot be estimated. It
Isteafe to say, however, that the total will
be a staggering amount. Now our business
men who are more experienced In financial
mattere can In a very unselfish way, help the
farmers of the country In a material way
and the country during the war. In assisting
In the distribution of these crope. The ques
tion has a double aspect. Our business Inter
ests are concerned In seeing that their farm
ers are satisfied In growing food crops and
they have a patriotic duty In seeing that
these food crops are properly distributed and
not left to rqt In the fields and In poor barns.
The Advertiser wishes that there was some
definite program that It could outline by
which the farmers cotlld be aseured of a mar
ket as certain as the cotton market. Unfor
tunately thle le not to be dona Every com
munity has Its own problems and we believe,
frankly, that It la the duty of the Intelligent
bankers and merchants and mill men to grap
ple with thhlr own local problems and to
see that their farmer customers have a
profitable market for the new crops which
they are growing this year.
Writers of Istters to the editor are re
quested to be patient If their communica
tions do not always appear Immediately upon
their receipt by The Advertiser. "First
come, first served," Is a necessary policy,
particularly at this time when so much'In
terest Is taken by the citizens of Montgom
ery county In the three mill tax election.
The Advertiser receives a large number of
letters dally. Lack of space makes It Im
practicable to publish all acceptable com
munications received every day; but. these
letters will be published in their turn.
The President has a quaint way of firing
a man and making the discharged sand feel
complimented that the President had singled
him out from among an other public serv
ants to receive the axe.
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limmiio root parties.
Editor The Advertiser:
A few <*ri ego my attention wu called to
numeroua irlmmllii parties given at various
bathing pools about the city, and by the
younger set and at which the automobiles are
used for dressing rooms. Have the parents
realised what may be the outcome of thlsT
Should not the mothers take a little time oft,
go out and see the conditions which prevail
at these swimming pool gatherings? In brief,
I believe the practice la such that tt calls for.
some action.
ONE INTERESTED.
HR, BOBBIE THINKS PEOPLE SHOULD
MAKE THE SACRIFICE.
Montgomery. Ala.. July 14, ltlT. •
Editor The-Advertiser: ,
Wo favor the tht-ee-mlll tax for our
'schools, although it-means a sacrifice to us
of more than one thousand dollars per year
In lncreaaed taxes, yet Our family this year
will not have a child In the publto schools.
We believe the.very first.consideration Is
the education of our children, and If we did
not willingly make the necessary sacrifices
to properly educate them, we would not ful
fit our duty as good citlsens. No country
Is better than Its people: and a country's
greatest asset, therefore. Is Its children: who
will tomorrow be Its citlsens.
Our country Is making now a supremo
effort to overthrow German autocracy and tp
save the %^rl&, by giving thousands upon
thousands of the very flower of our young
manhood, how much more necessary then la
It that our children of today be better trained
physically and better educated, both mental
ly and morally, to meet the heavy' burdens
of all kinds, which-will grow heavier and
heavier as grim war exacts Its toll.
Are we so'selfish that we must deprlvo
these children of the money necessary to
educate them by evading the sacrifices by
saying: "Now Is not the opportune timer*
I have never seen any great progressive
movement put through that did not dill for.
some sacrifice on the part of some good peo
ple. and which further did not meet with the
opposition of some selfish folks. To my
mind, no greater Investment of both time
and money can now be made than In the edu
cation of every child In our city and county.
Growth of the South.
The eyes of the world are on the 8outh.
I quoth from an editorial In The New Tork
Commercial of July ZSrd:
"After the Civil War ended, the Southern
8tates remained for twenty years the poor
house of America. Since then they have
progressed, and now they are likely to be
come hte richest portion of the United States,
so far as the production of real wealth Is con
cerned. After the war broke out in 1114,
their prospects were clouded by the fall in
the price of cotton and the stagnation of
their Industries. Today they are richer than
ever, and the world Is more .dependent on the
South for cotton than ever before. At the
same time the South has become less depen
dent upon Its cotton and Is learning to di
versify Its crops so that Its people will not
have to buy food from other parts of the
United States. • • • Southern cotton mills
are mailing large pronts and declaring Urge
dividend! while accumulating eurplusee to
tide them over dull yearn Iron, steel, and
coal, now produced largely In the South, are
now selling at prices that have advanced
relatively more than cotton. • • • More than
half of the petroleum of the United States
now comes from wells In the South. Zino
and ■sulphur mining and grain growing are
equally profitable.
"The shock which the South received In
the fall of 1914 has become a blessing. AU
classes of the people are saving money aa
they never did before, and are Investing It
In local enterprises and public Improvements
which will Insure large production and
active trkde In years to come. The South has
learned 'not 'to wait and not to depend en
tirely’,\tppp cotton. If It stleke to this wise
policy; tlve people will cease to be hewers
of wood and drawers of water for the textile
manufacturers of Europe."
TnV negroes are gone from our farms, but
the^ lands are not going to lie Idle.
White' people are coAilng to take them.
TheuMeestock Industry Is moving South. Be
cause/ a-few people who cannot see beyond
the troubles of today, appeal to our selfish
ness, are we going to deprive our children
of an absolutely necessary education, and
are we in eonsequence thereof, going to see
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than brushed aside, Into aorvlla positions, in
the Land of our Fathara
. RICttARD M. HOBBIE.
MR. MORITS «H DIVISION OV TUB TOTO.
Editor The Advertiser:
I notice your argument! and reasons for
postponing the three mill tax, election, not
that you are against the yix. per so, but
against the tax at the present time. I am
for the three mill tax and also In favor of
It this year, but will oppose It for entirely
different reasons than youra if our City and
County Boards of Education cannot agree on
n stated distribution of the lltt,Ml raised
by this tax. '
1 have never known any tax to be levied
for government, paving, school or other pur*
poses, but what some citizens were opposed
to It. aI believe the consent of the taxed
should rule, and I believe the benefits of.
these taxes should be distributed according
to the best interests qf all, and not to one
section as against the other, but where it is
most needed.
For many years I was connected with our
city schools and later with our city govern
ment and from that experience am led to be!
lieve that our City Commissioners are ap
propriating to the city schools as much as j
they can and are able to do, out of the cur- ,
rent revenues, and whilst It is not enpugh to '
equip add conduct our schools properly, there j
Is no other way, as I see It. except .to raise
the needed funds by this three mill tax: but
in raising It .we should have some sssurance
that we will receive at least half of the
amount (although contributing about Id per
cent of the taxes) so that our own city sys
tem will not be crippled.
May Force Raise City Tax Rate,
Our City Commissioners have done more
than their part by reason of certain promises
and guarantees to the government in bring
ing the divisional camp or cantonment to our
city. This may mean $50,000 to 1100,000
liability on the part of the city, and unless
It receives Increased licenses and taxes, will
be under the necessity of raising the city
tax rate from f 1.125 to 11.15, or Issuing
bonda There Is no possible chance of our
schools getting more than the present ap
propriation. and If we don't raise the special
school tax this year, as there is a serious
prospect of our schools getting less next
year from the city, our schools will suffer.
I heard Mr. Weir In an address to the min
isters on Monday, plead for unity and service
—and I would add, sacrifice. What we need
now' Is all three of these attributes amongst
our people, our school boarda and our City
Commissioners. The people always have
been,, and always will be wilting to malm
sacrifices in behalf of education, and are gut
in favor of postponing a good causa
Our County and City Boards of. Education
should be a unit in trying to do the greatest
good, be lust and equitable in the handling
and distribution of school funds, so that
county will receive Its lust shara and city
will not suffer by sacrificing too much for
county.
I would suggest that as there are several
matters to fie considered, both in the present
and future, as to the respective needs and
necessities of the schools in city and county,
that the two boards get together and meet
with the City Commissioners and arrive at a
solution of some equitable plan of distribu
tion satisfactory to all. It can be a “gentle
man’s agreement." Then can both boarda
and the City Commissioners be of service to
this community.
C F. MORITZ,
Ex-Member of the City Sehool Board.
PROFITABLE DISCUSSION.
Editor Tho Advertiser:
The attention Invited hr Governor O’Neal,
to the need of a new Constitution for Ala
bama. Is of prime Importance. He die-'
charges a public service of great value In
which few are able to vie with him. He
should be encouraged In persistent pursuit
of his views and arguments. They are sound
and Irresistible.
This question Is of deeper complication
than legislative consent to the calling of a
Convention. •
The first stqp In the process Is ths election
of.A Leglsature In ISIS. 1
The Supreme Court, In the St. Clair Court
House case, 1*04, saddles a determining In
fluence upon a Constitutional Convention, fa
the character of the prior enabling act of
the Legislature.
The enabling act. under this decree of the
Court, in large measure does limit the sphere
of the Convention and presorlbee necessarily
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the character of the product, the Constitution
In poese.
It la law and we map hot put It In Question -
here. A - latent constitutional principle,
nevertheless, la put at Issue by It. We, the
people of Alabama In convention assembled,
by this decree, are liable to a higher power,
to-wlt, The Legislature. That Is running the
mill by the water that has passed.
Let that academic question rest We need
a Legislature elected In lilt.
"" “Drafting” Dio Legislature, we need a. new*
Constitution at once. That being true, we '
cannot possibly write one without the con--;
sent of the legislature to be eleoted neat
year. ■ • r t- : • -:’p
We cannot produm a Convention equal to
the part of writing the Constitution the
State needs unless we shall elect a Legisla
ture in 1111 competent to write an enabling
act.
The situation la complex, intricate and
pregnant. What kind of Constitutional Cog^
ventton would assemble, on call by the direct’
action of the present LegislatureT What
kind of new Constitution wouig the Influence
of this Legislature, under the view ef the
deoree of the Court, come from a Conven
tion If assembled by It!
> In every county, the best men should de
termine to come to the Legislature. Buch
must be voluntary, individual action on their
Part. The county convention would bring
them Into the public service but the primary
Is a-mask. frojn which they hide, at the pub-,
lie cost . * _ , ...
Will not competent cltisens come Into the
Legislature? •
We are confronted with tqn million men,
the pride of the land, drafted from a glass
V>wl. for Indefinite and. Indescribable war.
Will not the press and the bltlsenshlp draft
a Legislature for Alabama?
ALABAMA, ' ,
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AGAINST THB SLACKERS.
July St, lltt'j ,
Editor The Advertiser: • '; ^ » vr
, Our country has three great enemies. They
are 'Slackers, pacifists and an 11-prepared
netsera. if I were to express jny full opinion
of them, censor would not let this article go
through the mall, and It wouldn't allow any
paper to print It either.
Each slacker should get ten years da the
penitentiary and hard labor to boot. The
pacifists and antl-preparednessers should be
sent Immediate!} to the war sons, and should
be put where the fighting Is fiercest.
We have stood slander and Insult from
Germany long enough. We’ve let Oermany
slap us In the face long enough without
slapping back, and we're going to slap back
now, and htird enough to Jar Wilhelm Hohen- ’
zollern and his emipre quite a bit.
As I have said, slackers, pacifists pnd antl
preparednessers ore three of our greatest
enemies. ' \*'J,
As soon as President Wilson gets a board
nailed on to the fence of preparedness, along
come the Pacifists and they pull it olL.
Tours truly, ,
DAVID W. W. FULLER, JS.
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Equality. Ala., July *1. 1»1T. > J
I Editor The Advertiser: . • »
; I wm a sympathetic reader of your oil* •
. torlals last spring when you wereperalstSnCe
ly urging the merohants to prerali on the
farmers to raise more, corn and velvet beans.
I agreed with you In ^every respect that
"Alabama must feed herself," and I urged
6very one of my customers to cut down thet|F
cotton crop and raise all the foodstuff they *
possibly could. In many Instances I made It
a condition precedent to my furnishing a
man that he should diversify his crop.
The farmers throughout this section have
all acted-upon this advice, and I can eafaly
say that never was there such a corn crop
made In this country as will be made thts{
time. In addition there will be thousand^
of tons of velvet beans, peanuts and peas.
We have done our part up here and U Is now
up to the wholesale grocery men of Mont*.
Bomery to provide a market for the surplus
crop. I would like to see you take this mat*
ter up with them through the columns dt
your paper, and get things In order at once. ,
If this market Is provided, we will undoubt-1
edly experience an era of unprecedented pros*
parity. , * . * .-Xi-'-h
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