Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-07

breakers and lawmakers. man who violates law is not it to make laws. A man who is dishonest is not fit to make laws to govern honest people. A man who is goddess and mean IS not fit to make laws to. govern upright, sober, intelligent people.
 The immortal Ben Hill said in his Att lanta Bush Arbor speech when I was boy that reconstruction had made the negro spring with one bound from the cornfelds of Georgia into the legis- lative halls of the state to make laws for a decent people"
 , man who sits about his hotel and laughs about the Hobbies and drinks whisky with the rabble and gambles with the vicious is less fit to make laws than the ignorant negro who sprang with one bound from the cotton patch to the capitol of Georgia.
 The legislative halls of the state should only be opened to upright, in- telligent citizens; open the doors of the chain gang for the other crowd.
 A model voter will vote as he prays. A man who thinks and prays in line with morals three hundred and sixty four days in the year and then votes for the candidate or the party on the three hundred and sixty-ffth day is lifting the morals of the country like the 'possum climbing the pole nine feet every day and falling back ten feet every night. The fellow who had figured a week on how long it would take the 'possum to climb to the top of the pole asked for another week in which to figure, and said he thought that he would have the 'possum in hell before the close of another week; so it is when they talk about lifting the stan- dard of our young men and morals of our country by putting bad men in office few more years and we will have it elevated to perdition.
 A model voter will shpn the little politician who is everlastingly on the go for office; he has contempt for the little office seeker that he cannot ex- press. He does not attend the political harangues of such and is not led astray by the sophistry and infammatory speeches of every stump-tailed poi- tician that comes along.
 He loves virtue and manhood and al- ways expresses his choice by his ballot.
 No man ought to be allowed to vote unless be can read and write the Eng, fish language intelligently and cor reetly, and no man ought to be al- lowed to cast ballot who has not lived in America twenty-one years.
 We who are born here cannot vote until we have been here twenty-one :. Is'i-J J-,siIou1u u foreigner HHve any advantage of the fellow born here as to time? We have got ten-year-old boys in our town who can vote more intelligently and with less harm and with less danger to the good of our country than nine-tenths of the foreign hordes who are casting their ballots annually in this country. Then the for eign, vicious element would not have such a pull on politicians
 asked a member of congress the other day when would congress take up this emigration question? He said: Whenever public sentiment forces congress to do it, and not before"
 The United States congress is like mule at bridge; you have to force him over, one hand pulling the line and the other using the whip. Qmean no offense to the mule in this com parison).
 A model voter is not afraid to scratch. As the saying goes, you can tell where the flea is on the boy if you will watch him scratch. When a model voter goes off to cast his ballot you can tell who 1t is that is not honest and upright on his ballot if you will watch him scratch.
 A model voter will vote for the best man irrespective of party wishes, ire spective of party lines, irrespective of party lash Yours, SAM P. JONES.