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The Peoples State BankOF OPELOUSAS. LA.

BEGAN BUSINESS SEPTEMBER 9, 1895.GROWTH:

SURPLUS AND UNDIVIDED PROFITS. DEPOSITS.

March 31, 1896....... .........$ 5,518.02................$ 56,308.98March 30, 1901 .......... 17,383.02 ........................ 141,224.17March 29, 1906......................... 41,300.22. ......... 274,245.16March 16, 1907....................... 53,625.01 ................. 395,200.54

Capital, paid in ........................$16,300.00. .Surplus and Undivided Profits ............ 53,625.01Amount paid in Dividends............. 28,525.00

Accounts and Collections Solicited.DAVID ROOS, President. J. J. PERRODIN, Cashier.

St. Lary Coetta Ol CeOpelousas, Louillana.

COFTTOW 8 MHB&ALA~~lT) -UE'CTLLS.

A Cheap and Economical feed for stock.--From this date Cash must accompany all orders.

See H.W.Perry & Co.For Watches, Hand Painted China, Clocks,

Cut Glass, Jewelry, Silverware.

~ Fine Watch Repairing A Specialty-+Corner Main and North Streets, Opelousas, La.

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ALEXANDRIA STEAl MABBLE WORKS?E. M. HENNING, Proprietor.

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--NOTICE-We will have for sale, ready for delivery, Oct. 1st, 1909

250 Bushels Shelled of the Famous

I "Shaws Improved Corn"At $2.50 per bushel, our price.

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REV. LAMBERT LEE-TURES ON PROWIB.

Manager of the State Atil Saltean iLiae Addresses eed Crwd at lethedlst Charch.

STATE - WIDE PROHIBITION.l t Ala th he LeageL , Accordnla g to Ir.

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o) Sccess l eed.

An interesting lecture was deliveredat the Methodist church Sundaymorning by Rev. Lambert, Superin-tendent of the Anti-Saloon Leagp ofthe State of Louisiana. Rev. Lam-bert is an eloquent speaker, clear andforceful and one that holds the at-tention of his hearers and impressesthem by his sincerity of manner. Heemploys none of the vituperativelanguage usually dealt in by somespeakers of this league, but all of hiscriticisms are on a high plane andcan not be construed as an attack onany individual.

Rev. Lambert opened his lectureby reading from the 22nd chapter ofSt. Mathews which says, "Renderunto Caeser the things which areCaeser's, and uito God the thingsthat are God's." This was the an-swer of Christ to a delegation com-posed of the Pharisees and Herodians,when they asked him whether it wasright for them to pay tribute untoCaeser. They were endeavoring toget Christ tangled up in his talks, ormaking him contradict some. of hisformer teachings, when tbiy *eivedthe above reply.

The subject of the lecture was"Christian Citizenship" and Rev.Lambert had no trouble in holdingthe attention of his audience. Therewas a good representative crowd outfor the morning service. He spokeof how the devil got in his work,which was first by making friendswith you and then getting you to seethings his way, and that the samemethod was employed by politiciansof today. "Whenever a fellow comesand pats you on the back telitpg youwhat a fine fellow you are, you canjust make sure that he has some-thing up his sleeve."

"Christian citizenship must ema-nate from a heart that has beentouched by God, qualifying him for tthe responsibilities of life. Wbuld Ithat we had more preachers that Iwould preach good citizenship fromtheir pulpits, making men realize the agreat responsibilities that rests upon ithem. I dare say that there are men ahere that will curse me before to-morrow, but let them curse, whatdoes it amount to? We are fightinga great battle for principle and wehave the word of God on our side. t

"The most colossal blunder that aour Government ever made, was thelegalizing of the liquor trasfc, mak-ing it lawful for a man to sell to hisfellow men that which will only serve eto degrade him. Whenever you hear ea fellow kicking about prohibitionir Sthe enforcement of the ~libit~filaw,it is for one of iwo reasons,either he wants the liquor that is be-.ing sold or expects to derive some tbenefit in money from the sale of the o

liquor.,"I want to commend your minister

here for the stand that he has takenin the fight here. You will hear mensay that a preacher has no businessin politics; by what rule do they fig-ure that a man gives up his right asa citizen when he enters the ministry?For my part they must get a littlemore religion in them before I shallallow them to dictate to me as tohow I shall preach or how I shallvote."

He paid a passing reference tosome of the New Orleans papers, ac-cusing them of fighting for the liquorcrowd and Marse Hy. Waterson ofthe Louisville Courier Journal camein for his share of attention.

"You are not the only people'thathate blind tigers, we have themright there in our city of New Or-leans, there being something likeseventeen or eighteen hundred li-censes paid for saloons and about2300 revenue licenses for the city.What are those other revenue licensesfor? Certainly not for the pleasureof paying it only.

"The saloons are doing their bestto destroy every church in the landfor they realize in them their greatest;enemy, but this great wave that issweeping the country is graduallybreaking their power in politics."

He quoted Supt. Baker of the Na-tional Anti-Saloon League as havingsaid in a speech in Birmingham, that"There is not a city in the UnitedStates of 50,000 or more populationthat is not controled by the liquormen in the government of its afairs."The liquor traffic is responsible forall of. the grafting in ourlarger-cities

and the. overnment. They' get con-trol of the city officers, the parishofficers and State officers and when.

ever they say move, why they move.

He touched upon the Gay-Shattucklaw, saying that there were some ad-mirable points about it, but how theywere fought around. and the law notmnforced. "Some few days ago inNew Orleans I saw a little fellow

)nter a saloon with a can and emergewith a can of beer, and this in viola-

,ion of the law and with the know-edge of the officers. If you call;heir attention to it they will say.

, we ean't stop that thing.'."The idea of an officer of the law

;hat has a particle of manhood aboutiim, saying that he is powerless to

nforce the law. The same officers;hat fail to enforce the prohibitionaw, would not enforce a regulation

aw."A blind tiger is a peculiar animal,"aid Rev. Lambert, "some are black,

ocme are white; sometimes a man.ometimes a woman. Where does hetay? He stays only where he is

lMowed to stay. If yon have anyere, it is because they are allowedo stay here. I am going to repeatstatement here that I have made in1I my speeches over the State, andhat is, 'That an officer that will not !

uforce the prohibition law, will not 4uforce any other law that-is on thei_

tatute botks.'i

"The reason that most of our of- 4cers do not do their duty, is becaase ahe people that put them in ofte iac r

i and leave them. to face tbc mulic

alone as soon as they are electedr You should stand bpck of your offoiers

i and let them know that you are witl

i them in the enforcement of the law.'

He recited a little incident in a-town of this State. When ther(S delivering a lecture, he was told that

the town was full of blind tigers

S"Well," I said, "why don't you geiafter your chief of police and yourtown council and have them to serthat the officers enforce the lawiWell I was told that the town wasnot incorporated. I asked who ap-pointed those officers with buttons ortheir coats. 'They are deputy SheritffsWell, said I, why. don't you appeal tothe Sheriff? 'Will do no good,' wassaid. Well, I believe in making afriend out of a fellow instead of anenemy, so I told them to try it, toget up a petition and send it to theSheriff. They did it, containing thesignatures of very near the entiretown. Well, Mr. Sheriff sent wordthat he would be in town to seeabout it on a certain day; well, ofcourse the day he arrived, everything was shut tight. It wasn't longbefore things were running again,Well, I told them there was anotherrecourse, to write to Gov. Sanders.I don't know that Gov. Sanders is anySaint as far as religion goes, but heis a good sort.of a fellow, has a goodface and besides is a good politician.Well, I don't know what they wrotehim, or what he wrote the Sheriff, orif he wrote at all, but Ido khow thatthe Sheriff got busy and it wasn'tlong before every' blind tiger wasshut as tight as could be and thatthey are still shat tight."He touched upon the affair in Opel-

ousas and said that Opelousas hadbeen pretty widely advertised alongwith some of her citizens, but that itwas the wrong kind of advertising.He regretted to see-tat the Clarion

bad published the editorial from theChicago American, as every oneknows that this is a whiskey paper ineery respect, and he cited some of thethings that were untrue in the article.

"I am glad to see that you all havehad Judge Y'Neal sent here as yourJudge. He .i a .good one and onethat will do you good work." Said hewas told ,that he ad a good GranJury for the comaing term.

He then dwelt for a few minuteson the organisation of y te League,said that it was organised some fouryears' ago, and that he had charge ofthe work since January." "At thenext session of the legislature weshall endeavor to have .the looseplaces in the present law tightenedand look towards the better enforce-ment of the prohibition laws. Youwill find as many blind tigers in wetterritory as in dry territory so it isnot prohibition that brings on blindtigers.

"Some papers seek to lead the pub-lic to believe that the wave of Pro-hibition is receding, but the figuresdon't show it. Last year we closed

as average of 33 saloons per day, andup to July lIst of this year we wereclos~ang rthem atthe rate of 45 perday. Does thisa look like it is dyingout? The Anti Saloon League isnothing but a combination of the

churches and the people to fight thiss great evil, and you will find at

churches enlisted in the ranks. Onour board of directors you will fndsuch staunch Catholics as the Priestat Marksville and Mr. Chappuis ofCrowley."

Mr. Lambert wished it distinctlyunderstood that he was not sayinganything here that he has not said Isother speeches in the State, or thathe had come here for any particularpurpose, but that it was a regulanLeague visit, and that he had askedRev. Turner to allow ,him to comeand speak here.

At the night meeting Mr. Lambertfalked principally of the work of theLeague in this and other States.Told of the methods employed, andwhat the saloon men have done toofeet their work.

Said that the future plan in thisState is to get elections in the wetparishes, which seems to be a hardjob on account of the Police Jurysystem that you have. I think thatthe Parishes of Ouachita, Lafayetteand Madison will go dry as soon asvoted upon. Louisiana will be a dryState by 1913," said Mr. Lambert.

In an interview with the keporterhe said, "I wish you would have pub-lished a statement, correcting theimpression that Dr. Baer of theNational League in his speech de-livered in Spokane, Washington, de-nounced the Y. M. C. A. That hedid this is absolutely false, and Dr.Baker denied it in a dispatch to theAssociated Press, but they paid noattention to him."

The Audit Fad.

The Abbeville Meridional quite cor-rectly says;

The -taxpayers and citizens ofCrowley are just now regaling them-selves with the report of the affairsof the city council as handed out byan expert auditor. It is a very la-minous document, occupying severalpages of the Signal and its costwould mow down a lot of weeds andclean out a few miles of ditcheswhich are sadly needed. This is theprice, however, of a fad. These an-ditor's reports. are ab out as useful asa wheel on-a.wagon tongue. To theaverage citizen they are as intelligi-ble as the cuneiform characters on anEgyptian obelisk. In the impressivelanguage of the bald eagle of thewind-swept prairies, "Sic transitgloria Crowleyii, t'ell with the cost."

The Mossback.

A mossback, gentle reader, is across between the fifth century andthe flfteenth. He is found in fossil-ized form in nearly every city in theUnited States, and still lives. Heraises his rents, detests a boom, lovesto have other people bear all thetaxes, hates to have a new enter-prise, dispises anything which smacksof progress and won't help a news-paper boom its own town. There areseveral varieties o.f mossback, butnone of much use to a town. Theyare as the drones to a hive of beesand ita the industrious bees, the livebusiness man should avoid thesedrones, and paltrone0 e those who arean advantage to the place they re-side in.-Jacksao Independent.

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