The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-25
COME DOWN zACCHEUs.

COME DOWN ZACCHEUS.
 The Bessemer Workman admits that 1t is up in the air on the Constitution mat ter, and intimates pretty strongly that it Intends to stay there. If we have not misjudged our contemporary, the main cause of it's position lies in the fact that the new instrument failed to pave the way or provide the machinery by which a new county could be formed. If the paper has other grounds of objection, they are of minor importance. compared to this, which is local entirely.
 The Advertiser contended all the time for a smaller area for counties, and we yet think that the 6O0-square mile mini mum is too large. but that matter is set tied, for the present, and We can see no good to come of discussing it further. We do not at all admit that the Convention did a most damnable wrong," as The Workman charges to the region of which Bessemer is the centre, or to any other section of the State specially. If 1t had gone into the business of making new counties, its work would have been end less. and confusion worse confounded" would have marked every day and hour of it's existence. There would have been claims and demands from all parts of the State, and 1t would have been practically impossible to reconcile all the conflicting interests.
 The Advertiser certainly could have no objection to a new county with Bessemer
 fN temporary that it's disappointment over it's crushed hopes Is not a good and valid reason for fighting the new Constitution. There are plenty of reasons why 1t is preferable to the old one, and The Work man should support it because 1t Is bet ter. It is seldom that we mortals get all we want in this uncertain world. and sometimes We don't get what we think we ought to have, but in the language of the poet
 Why should a man always be growlin' at life,
 With a mug full of sorrow and woe? When we can't get everything that we think is coming to us. shall we obstinately refuse the good that lies within our reach? That isn't the best way to get through life, and by following such a course a man is bound to travel a rocky road through what is at best rather hard world. The Workman must know that the new Constitution has many points of excellence which are lacking in the old one, and which commend it to the people of today as the other was com mended to the people of a quarter of century ago.
 The Workman is to some extent the or gan and the defender of the workingmen of Alabama, and especially of the thous- ands of white toilers in it's own busy vicinage. Those men deserve the best that can be had, and the success of the new Constitution means as much to the white laboring man as 1t does to tho Nfortunate ones who can live on the labor of others.
 As for the new county. that will come, not only in the mineral region, but in other sections. The new Constitution provides machinery for It's own amend the 6OO-square mile limit will not long be satisfactory to the people of Alabama. With increase of population and wealth, will come a demand for more easily ac- cessible county towns, and the people will make their demands felt. They will insist that counties as large as some kingdoms are not up to the requirements of mod ern progress, and they will see that in this. as in other matters affecting their interests, their will Is obeyed.
 Let The Workman come down out of the air and get on the right side. which. in the present case. is also the strong side.