The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-03
,r,, In the New Constitution POINTS OF SUPERlUKll1 Over the Old.

necessary offices and preventing new ones except where tmperatvely demand ed by the public service
 Thirteenth-Members of the Legislature and judicial offers are prohibited from using free passes, or securing tickets or heavy penalties.
 Fourtecnth--The power to refund the States pr ,sent indebtedness under the old Constitution is doubtful. Under the new Constitution this power is expressly conferred. The public credit is strength ened and fortified and in few years the State will DC able to save In the mere matter of interest alone on its borrowed indebtedness nearly two hundred thou- sand dollars per annum or double the amount of the cost each year of holding the convention.
 Fifteenth-The old Constitution requires the Legislature to appropriate one hun dred thousand dollars per annum, the in- terest upon the sixteenth section fund, public schools. Under the new Consti- futon. the interest upon the sixteenth section fund, the poll tax and a special
 tax of three mills on the dollar, or six thirteenths of the total State taxes, is
 appropriated perpetually to the support
 and maintenance of the public schools
 of the State. And it further provides:
 Tt shall be the duty of the Legislature
 to increase the public school fund from time to time as necessity therefor and the condition of the treasury and the re- sources of the State may justify" Cn- der the liberal provisions of the new Con- stitution more than one million dollars annually are devoted in perpetuity to the support of the public schools and
 the same is increased in proportion as the
 taxable property increases. A free com
 mon school education is thus put within the reach of every child within the State Sixteenth-As an additional aid to edu-
 three-fifths vote may, if they choose
 levy an additional tax of 10 cents on the one hundred dollars for the support Of the public schools in the county where levied.
 Seventeenth-For twenty six years 1t
 has been impossible to amend the old Constitution in any manner affecting the general public, no matter how great the
 need for relief may be and has been,
 1t could not be obtained by amendments
 under the old Constitution. If any pro-
 vision of the new Constitution Is found
 to be imperfect or works unsatisfactory,
 or if change Is thought desirable. it | can be easily amended without putting
 the people to the great cost and expense of holding new Constitutional Conven- ton.
 EighteentheaThe principle of negro Constitution. This Is stricken down by tho new Constitution and in it's place White Supremacy is written in the fun
 damental law. No white man is disfrun- chised except for crime and the vote Of | the vicious, incompetent and corrupt
 negro is stricken down now and forever mora.
 Nineteenth-The old Constitution make $ | force or fraud in many localities essen | tial to the protection of White Suprem- | acy. In others where the negro holds | the balance of power bribery and cor
 ruption have been resorted to by all par | ties in an effort to divide his vote The | new Constitution removes the cause and provides a plain and sure path to hon | est elections in the future. The opno- | nents of the new Constitution suggest
 no plan of their own to remedy these admitted evils
 Twentieth-The old Constitution was l written in haste with Federal soldiers | surrounding our ballot boxes and d nos | tile Republican administration in Wash | ington The new Constitution was writ | ten after full reflection. Adequate de | hate was had upon every provision. Nc | Federal troops were near us and in ouI | efforts to secure the supremacy of our
 race and write 1t In the fundamental law | it had the full sympathy of all good citi- l zens throughout the civilized world. | Twenty-irst-Copies of the new Con
 stitution were printed by the Democratic | newspapers and can be had at Demo
 cratic headauarters. No copies of tho
 new Constitution have been printed by | the opposition to it's ratification. rol
 any copies distributed by it's opponents
 Under these circumstances how car
 any man hesitate between the cid and | the new?