The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-10


 Saks, merchant; J. J. WiIletts, attoT- ney; F. E. Elam, druggist; H. s. Mil- Ter, druggist; Lucien Keith, lawyer and many others.
 Referred to Committee on Corpora tons.
 Mr. Duke-I ask the~gentleman to yield for a moment.
 Er. Grcer-Mr. President. I dislike to be discourteous, but
 MT. Duke--I just wanted to make . motion that the gentleman be allowed to proceed without further interrup- ton.
 President pro tem--Does the gentle man yield for that purpose?
 Mir. GreerxCertainy
 President pro tem-The gentleman from Calhoun will now proceed with his remarks.
 order. The gentleman from Calhoun has had the floor for more than thirty minutes. Naughter.)
 President pro tem-The gentleman from Calhoun has been endeavoring to get the floor for the past thirty minutes. tAppla,se.)
 Mr. Greer-I have but little to say on the motion to reconsider this moln- ing. l made the point yesterday after noon that a man who has $500 worth of :'roperty and is a grand rascal, who hides behind his wife, to keep from paying his debts by putting the prop erty in her name, would have two votes whereas a man with S5G0,000 worth of property who pays his honest obliga- tions would have but one: and 1 make the point this morning that a rascal with $5,000 worth of property and who had six or seven daughters, and a wife could give to each five or six hundred dollars worth of property. and he would have eight or ten votes on the proposi- tion. -<
 Some one suggests that some grand rascal will come along and marry the daughters and that will make 1t still worse. because the grand rascal who married the daughter would Cote, the husband would vote, and the wife would vote. and there you would have fifteen or sixteen votes with that property against an honest man who owned five hundred thousand or a mill lion dollars worth of property.
 l believe I state the truth when I say that no living man today on earth has more respect or greater admira tion or more regard for womanhood than I have. No man walks on Gods green earth that would want to see her de- velop higher and higher than myself. for good women are akin to the angels of heaven. but insist that to put the suffrage in their hands would be to lower the standard of woma mood. There s a gentleman on the floor of this Convention who has a letter to be read that speaks ten thousand times louder, and in more thunderous tones than I could speak, and I yield part of my time to the gentleman from Lauderdale, MT. O'Neal, to read that letter and submit some remarks on the subject.
 MT. O'Neal Gauderdale)-This Con- ventfon has shown by it's course in the past that it Is always ready to correct its action when convinced that an error has been committed. Earnestly inl- pressed with this conviction and that the Convention erred In adopting the amendment on yesterday, I shall en- deavor as briefly as possible to pre- sent the reasons why I believe that we acted unWjsely. We are bound to recognize, gentlemen of the Conven- tion, that this is a complete departure, from the custom which has existed in this State since it's formation It Is complete departure from the custom which has existed among English speaking people since the foundation of government. The first effort in behalf of woman suffrage was inaugu- rated by the Abolitionists of the North. They contended that under the Declaration of Independence and under the principle that there should be no taxation without representation. that women were entitled to vote. That sentiment never had any existence in the south. After the close of the Civil War. it did receive some favor, from the Populist and Prohibition parties, but it has never been sanctioned by any of the great political parties of this country. The Democratic party always believed in the doctrine of no taxation without representation. but it believed that woman was represented by her husband. represented by her sweetheart represented by the gall lantry of the men of the country. Mir President, in no age in history did any people ever create an ideal of feminine loveiiness, sweetness, purity and moral beauty which surpassed that of the South, an ideal upon the continuation of which depends the preservation of the high civilization that prevails in our section.
 MT. Macdonald-I would like to in- QulEe WHICH SWetlHedTt IS woman represented by? Most of them have good many of them.
 MT. O'Neai-All of them rep resented by all of them. They say, gentlemen, and the argu- ment was grlvely made yesterday that women should vote beca.ase there should be no taxation without repre- sentation. If that argument is sound, we ought to permit them to vote for county commissioners, vote in the eler- tion5 in the county for members of the Legislature that pass revenue bills Im- posing burdens of taxation upoiI the people. The argument has been made for hundreds of years, and it has never foL nd any Judgment among the people of the South. Suppose you adopt this amendment the next time you attend banquet and the toast of the ladies Is presented, you can say I'll gre is to the ladies. oEce our superiOrS. and now through the action of the Constltu- tional Convention O! Alabama our equals. They are now our superiorS, and when you pass a law of this kind you bring them down to the level of a man. It has been attempted in some of the States. Ii was attemptei in Wyoming. They had women serving on the jurles in some If the Western States, and what does q Western judge who was d man had no chance. was always convicted for crime unless he was guilty of murder and then through sympathy he was frequently acquitted. Women will not vote. Take Minnea- -sA