The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-02


 John Trotwood Moore of Columbia, Tenn, delivered the following address at the opening of Trotwood park. near | Birmingham, Saturday, July 25. He said: Ladies and Gentlemen:
 It is one of the distinct pleasures of Hmy life to be permitted to be with you today and to express in person my ap- preciation of the honor you have con ferred upon me. I feel that honor the more and I appreciate 1t the more. be- cause 1t comes from the people of my native state. And to me it Is redolent with the odor of sweet memories and rich with tender recollections and sa- cred with the solemnity of the silent past.
 For I too, was and am an Alabamian. The first twenty-five years of my life were spent here. and you who have been with me to it's me- ridian will bear witness to my words when l say that we cannot change our birthmarks with our birth land, that whatever we are and what ever we hope to be the destiny of bur birtn and breed decide. And tho we may go forth to other lands, Ay tho we may wander till the very stars hang strange and foreign OCT our homesick heads the influence of our birthland makes or mars our life. But whatever we are and whatever we may be, we have only to tread again the soil our fathers knew to. feel the air cling to- our lungs as perfume to rose-the nils our uncles, trees our cousins, flowers our sweet friends be-
 And therefore I am still an Alabaman, in this age the lines of states and coun- tries have been erased by the speed or steam in the engines Hanks, the puise . of thought in the lightnings breath ana the still small voice in the air no lon ger trackiess. And nations have become as one community, and the people of the earth as one nation and the man or in- tellect and activity becomes the neigh bor and boon comrade of that other man the world over whose life and whose ideals fit his own.
 An therefore am still an Alabamaian as I am an American, claiming as my neighbor he who believes in the broad uplifting of our whole country.
 Proud of Alabama.
 And believe not that I am not proud of my native state, for of all the south ern states 1t is my deliberate opinion that Alabama leads Pardon inc If dipress for a moment to tell you why think so and to put upon record this nall expressed tribute to he. progressive en- ergy. But in my opinion, by the terms of her new constitution, she has taken "a forward step that has placed her in ad- vance of all her sisters and in another decade she will have made even more wonderful strides adown the roadway or broad ideas and progressive work. claim it to be a great achievement TOT anv state to have settled, as Alapama
 e said to the world, and the supreme court of the United States has confirmed her decision that she has the right to regu- late the franchise of all citizens WNnln her border even as Massachusetts and Connecticut have regulated theirs Ana while in fact it is but simple preroga- tive of statehood, in effect 1t Is notitca- tion to the world that in Alabama the white blood that has ever made and mouldded the destiny of the world, shall rule. Any other decision would set back the hands of the clock of time, and stag ger to standstill the onward march of the human race.
 There is fact illustrating the impor- tance of this subject. and the correct at titude of our state in thus settling this ouestion which seems to escape the at tention of the thinking world To you and to me, who have studied and wit messed the unvarying law of progression in the development Ol llt idSS NOiSct an animal upon whose breeding and de- velopment man has spent, more time and money and thought than on the human race itself, the question becomes easy of solution and the logic of the south un- deniable Like produces like or the likeness of an ancestor" is the founda- ton law of animal reproduction. From the foundation of the world miscegena- tion has ever been a mistress. and never a mother. Only through pure blood have the gods been made and only through the gods may man reach up to the skies.
 Ll..e Produces Like.
 If Is true there are some people who think they know more than the Almighty when He made the different races of men and set bounds to their limitations and achievements. even as he bounded their land by the sea and reared bar riers of mountain over which they might not climb. But he who studies the laws of animal reproduction, he who knoGs the effect of miscegenation on man and the out-cross of cold blood on a race horse. we who know that like will produce like or the likeness of an ances- tor, who know the value of pure blood in race achievement, the strength of her edity fin glorious deeds. we look upon him as an enemy to the race, a purloner of posterity's rights. contrfver and plotter for race suicide indeed. who would advocate this thing unsanctioned bv the laws of God and condemned by avery great achievement of the human race Like produces like or the likeness of an ancestor, and had this meddling ---====--=--==--