The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-09


 S1as issued the following ringing address to the white people of the County:
 To the White People of Montgomery | SACounty:
 ohr next Monday the 11th day of this | month you will be called on to vote al been held in Alabama since 1861. Over forty years have passed since then Empires have besn overthrown. MeE and l manners have changed with the passing time. seen more variations in the lives of men and nations than Methusaleh in his nine hundredth year ever dreamed or But two principles have remained invio- Southern white men. One, that. for all time. the supremacy of the white race shall prevail in the South. The other an unalterable disgust and loathing of races, and all the iegr ldations it implies and the determination to resist, to the last extreme, any attacks on these prin- ciples, however yelled and guarded. Principles Never Change.
 Ideas of mere policy and expediency vary with change of environments, A nutable principle is moral paradox. Worse than this. 1t Is a moral monstros- jty. He must be thoughtless man in- deed who has lived for forty-ive years in this country and who has not been the disintegration of race pride and ,pu- rfty in this country. A racial crime the natural and inevitable result of social equality between the white and black races, which men forty years ago could not name without a shudder, is now fre- auentiy mentioned in Southern newspa- pers and actually approved of in scue Northern journals, and tolerated by oth- CTS. ER
 Vice is a monster of such hideous mein, That to be hated needs but to be seen. But seen too oft. familiar with its face, We first pity: then endure. and then em-
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 These lines are old indeed. The truths they utter are as old as wisdom itself. oneus plant@the Fifteenth % A%endment a ss pt's to the Constitution of the United States, which the dread of Federal bayonets caused to be transpianted, in its most tutlon of the State, as as section ss of the Bill of Rights. The Convention of 1901 repudiated this vile thing and the Con- stitution which will De submitted to you of 1t. Vote for the new Constitution and future legislatures of this State may act free of the bonds of that vice. Vote against it and for all time, negroes. no may hold political offices over you and be allowed to vote at every election with out any lawful restriction. Those op- posed to ratification would have it 50. and their arguments necessarily urge the white people of this State to follow them and return to the foul days of negro rule which smirched the fair name of Ala oama n, in the rseonstruction 1Se dau days; y,.,.s. they feel that denial to he honest Igno- rant honesty frequently results in as much injury as willful wrong. In law and morals every man is concl lsively pre- gal consequences of his acts and words, One man at least has seen this logical corseauenee. Colonel Brewer has an r''manhood Suffrage" that he believed in negroes voting and what of the others?
 Noscitur Sociis.
 We know man by the company he keeps. We can judge of a mans act and doings by the kind and character of the people who applaud him. Who are they ents of the new Constitution? These same negroes. who, in the "Reconstruc- tion Days, hcwled appr obation of Stro- bach and others when they reviled and And the successors In republicanism of Strobach and others you so well remem- Der, they applaud. What have the true white, men of the South in common with these? Come out from among them. o. My people They have drawn the ''cOlor line again. Can any white man, know ing this, hesitate tO stand where only the white men stand. The opponents of the
 
 men by saying that the registrars res quired in the suffrage plan of the new Constitution might exclude white men at their discretion. Could such registrars nave any greater power than those who now act as such? Will any registrar dare exclude any white man, save crim- inal from registering? The statement Is an absurditv on it's face. A man who has by 1t. on the very day of writing this. a circular has been issued by the negroes conforming the new Constitution be- cause 1t disfranchises the negro, and calling on that race to work with our white opponents to defeat white supre- | macy. Behold what allies are associated with the opponents of ratification! state, county and Municipal Taxation dMniisnrte,presentations. maiiciously or, ig- norantly made. seem to be the stock in ' ade or the opponents of the new Con- | stitution They have consistently stated | that the rate of county taxation could. | poses should the new Constitution be adopted. The limit of county taxation is fixed So,s.,,ei st oO cents on the s1oo. Under the old taxation for building and repairing | roads. bridges and other special country | purposes Under the new Constitution an | al absolute s9 limit is fixed for such purposes by our opponents that the new Constitu- 1 ton provides that the county may make | 2 special assessment of not more than 10 cents on the slOo. But this can only be done when the proposed rate (with the above linliD. the time it is to con unue and the purposes thereof shall have been submitted to tho qualified voters of the county, and voted for by three-hfths of those voting at such cleo tion; but the rate of such special tax shall not increase the rate of taxation, State and county combined, in any one year, to more than BPS on each Sio0 | of taxable property. See how the plain 1 statement of indubitable facts puts them | wao misrepresents us to blush! The | furthermore. cannot impose | this school tax without the vote of a |