The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-03
MT. Beddow Speaks.

Mir. C., P Beddow of Birmingham. n.enn- Der of the Constitutional Conventlon ticm dow spoke clear and distinct. He held the keenest attention of his hearers and was frequently applauded
 MT. Beddow said 1t gave him 10th pleasure and surprise to be at the meet ing pleasure said he because bis boy hood days had been spent among iaoortng people. In fact his entire life had been said tG~H When 't the ea Iaborink % man lays sside his tools and the machinery of the world is stopped, 1t should be Q day 3herianed by the laboring people MT: HsoooW sslo . dicate the organization of labor. The speake: said that he believed that if raii- road corporations are allowed to tonsoii- date If a great trust can be formed, tt Is the. duty of laboring people to get to- gether and organize for self-protect'or, life and liberty.
 The old maxim united we stand. di- vided we falr' Is as true today as when first written. By way of illustration or tho necessity for organization of people banded together for mutual good, ne told who was about to die and who called his seven sons about him. He gave them hurdle of seven sticks. ,the first second bundle bun % and SO so on down the line. The old man then separated the sticks and gave them to the young men and they easily broke them The moral
  action on their part they could succeed.
 There is now at this time one of the greatest strikes. this nation ever saw. be. grant, that labor, will yip.. said he. If fa Dor wins then it Is a fixed thing for all time to come in America. If labor fails. for for the time is coming when capital will be your servant instead of your master. E They tell me that in Montgomery the labor unions are rather weak, but that mingham ten years ago laborer be- longing o q union vas afraid to let his employer know It. They held meetings thcusands and meet in their own halls where the corporation men meet them in conference and talk to them like hu-G man beings By way of advice MT Bed best class of men, like the Knights of Pythias the Odd Fellows and other fra ternal organizations. He said if man should not expect to receive the same pay as an industrious man just because he was a member of a union. He urged the laborers to be reasonable in their de mands and go at 1t slow but when you do go. go out with the purpose to win or die together. With resolution of this character, no monetary power on earth can defeat you or prevent victory from perching on your banner. Labor people don't pay enough attention to politics. said the speaker. You have the retns or In16 ROVCEuIuSHb III yOuI Where there is one man who is a capi- talist there are one hundred men who are laborers. They should select the hest men to send to the legislatures and to the Constitutional Convention. MT. Beddow spoke of the great number of corporation lawyers in the Convention and told how they were inclined to fa- vor those by whom they were employed, but he made. special mention of the faithfulness of the member from Mont gomery, Ex-Governor Thos. G Jones. He said he was as true as steel and on every occasion when the peoples right were at stake Thos. c. Jones walked up and voted his honest conviction. He also said that Montgomery had made another good se- lection in the Hon. J. W: 4. Sanford. MT Beddow then spoke of his dissatis- faction with the ne V Constitution. He did not wish it to be ', s'i;ood that he deprecated 1t as a whole and he did not wish to be placed in the attitude dts,D that plaint was that they did not make the new instrument better than 1t is; It Is fore. MT. Beddow salt he had hoped to put in the new Constitution that the fun