The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-07

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 kept on the farmers of this country was
 that they participated several years | ago in putting it on them, eo-operated
 with some lawyers and other gentlemen
 here in the Legislature who put it on
 them. I deny the justification of that l proposition. If they are to be pun
 ished for cooperating with the lawyers
 and other men here in putting this tax
 on them, they certainly have paid the
 penalty by paying about million and
 a half dollars, and certainly ought to | be excused from now on. Why, it is I unreasonable. 1 can remind you of an
 instance that happened about 1869.
 when was boy, which it reminds me l of. There were a lot of lawyers and | blacksmiths and a few ignorant farm | CTS in my county, who opposed the thim- ble skein wagon, saying it was ridicu- | lous, and stated that 1t would pull the l oxen and mules heads off going down | hill. Gaughter). And this proposition
 of wanting to keep the burden on the people to pay the tax on guano because | they participated or co-operated here with a few ignorant lawyers and a few | Ignorant farmers who put it on them, \ is simply ridiculous and out of place, l and there is no sense in it. Now, the gentleman who just preceded me says he wants to double the bet in order that he may get some of it. I told him | in a brief way the other day that he l ought to have understood it, but I will be a little plainer today. I will tell
 the gentleman a fact about his guano-
 well. will not call them guano schools; 1 will call them complete fertilizer
 guano schools. I want to tell you that | they will not benefit us. When he gets them established in his county, the | barefooted boys and girls he is talking about
 Mir. Greer-win you allow an inter- ruption?
 MT. Pearce-when I am at leasure. Oaughter). I will answer the gentle l man.
 MT. Greer-I would like to inform the gentleman that did not use the term
 barefooted boys and girls. That is all | ready copyrighted, and I never infringe | upon the rights of my friends. MT. Pearce-You will have to excuse me, if you did not use it. Now, I can tell you, gentlemen, the facts. The 1 school Is located in Hamilton, ten miles from my house, and so far as am con- cerned, in my honest judgment, I do not believe they have ever had a man there who knew anything more about farming than two years old bird nest. I do not, and I regret to use a plain language as this is about an in- stitution that Is in my own county. was told by man who come here, Captain Hamilton, last year and saw Governor Oates and the Legislature in order to get that school located there. and he reaped a great deal of benefit out of 1t (and he was mighty good man), by selling the land around there. was told by him no longer than last year that the last session before this they actually had a magic-lantern show master there for a school teacher to teach children in an agricultural way. tell my authority. I have never been in the school, because I could see as much and learn as much as there was in there by passing along the road.
 I am a sort of one-horse farmer and a pretty good judge. I can see the ef- forts of agricultural people, and the class of people that patronize the school and see the results of the students from it. Now, I want to tell you what is a fact. The brightest, smartest stu dents they have had there, gentlemen, have hunted around to find out the po- litical parties that had the most ap- pointive power, and has affiliated with with them in getting appointments at Washington and around over the coun- try. l do not say it to reflect anything unkind on the people that come out in the country to teach school, but l am inclined to believe from what l see about it that it was rather the neglect ed students that did not reach so high and stand SO well with the managers of the school, they would send out over the country to deal out brains in job lots to people who were paying the tax on guano That was about the way it was.
 The President-The time of the gen. tleman has expired.
 Mr deGraffenreid-I move the time of the gentleman be extended.
 MT. Heflin (Chambers)-Mr. Presi- dent
 Mr. Fitts CTuscaloosa)-I move a sus- pension of the rules
 MT. Greer (Calhoun)-I rise to point of order The Chair had already rec ognized the gentleman from Chambers.
 The President-The point is well taken and the gentleman from Cham bers has the floor.
 MT. He1in-I think we have consupl- ed a good deal of the time of the Con- vention discussing this resolution. favor a resolution something on the line of Mr. Morrisette's resolution, put the gentleman's from Calhouns resolu- ton think wild. I think that one or the finest pieces of mechanism in the great workshop of the world Is the ta- ble. It supports the white scroll of the stenographer day by day, where he takes down the wise sayings and pom derous arguments of the delegates on this floor. I am told that Thomas Jef- ferson used the table upon which ne wrote the Declaration of Independence, and from that good day to this the table has been useful as well as orna- mental but, MT. President, l would sing the praises of that invisible 1gura- five table that has it's place in the rules of this Convention. It is the tempo rary, and oft-t times the everlasting rest ing place of mighty amendments, strong resolutions, and well-bullt sec tions. I have seen delegates smile olt- times when that table was mentioned in connection with a motion, and nave seen others tremble as does the gentle man from Calhoun at the mere mention of its name. I have seen lofty ideas or distinguished delegates start mantled in splendid language towards a place in the Constitution, and I have seen this ghostlv old table rise up midway be- tween the idea and the Constitution. and seize it in ghoulish glee and Jay 1t upOn itself Mir. President, Of all the resolutions that have been introduced in this Convention, do think that the resolution of the gentleman from Cal hound is entitled to special place upon this table, and. as a friend to this ta- ble. I move that the resolution of the gentleman from Calhoun and the gen tleman from MariOn-these amend