The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-19
In the New Constitution
 Over the Old.
POINTS OF SUPERIORITY
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 and judicial offers are prohibited from using free passes, or securing tickets or | transportation at a reduced rate, under heavy penalties.
 Fourtecnth-The power to refund the States pr ssent 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 a few years the State will De 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 hum dred thousand dollars per annum. the in- terest upon the sixteenth section fund, a,,d,,t ana the poll tax , to the support of the 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 1t 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" Un- der the liberal provisions, of the new Con- stltution 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 SiNteenth--As an additional aid to edu- cation the people of any county by a three-ffths vote may. if they choose 9N Il urnal tax of 10 cents on the one hundred dollars for the support of the public schools in the county where levied .-'o
 c, vaDtaantI-I ICor t,,o,+,, -t, ,,oo.. |. 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 a change is thought desirable 1t can be easily amended without putting the people to the great cost and expense of holding new Constitutional Conven- ton
 Elghteenth-The principle of negro equality Is firmly imbedded in the old Constitution. This is stricken down by the new Constitution and in it's place White Supremacy is written in the fun damental law. No white man Is disfran- chised except for crime and the vote of the vicious. incompetent and corrupt negro is stricken down now and forever more
 Nineteenth-The old Constitution makes force or fraud in many localities essen tial to the protection of White Suprem- acy In others where the negro holds the balapce of power bribery and cor ruption have been resorted to by all par ties in all 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 oppO- hents of the new Constitution suggest no plan of their own to remedy these admitted evils
 Twentieth-The old Constitution was written in taste with Federal soldiers surrounding ouI ballot boxes and d nos lle Republican administration in Wash ington; The new Constitution was writ len after full reflection. Adeouate dc bate was had upon every provision. No federal troops were near us and in our eHorts to secure the supremacy of our race and write it in the fundamental law It had the full sympathy of all good eli. Eens throushout the civilized world,
 Twenty-hrst-Copies of the new Com stitution were printed by the Democratic newspapers and can be had at Demo cratic headquarters- No copies of tbs new Constitution have been printed hv the opposition to it's ratifcatinn rGr any copies distributed by it's opponents
 Under these circumstances how csn any man hesitate between the cid an'i the new? '''A