The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-06
HUMANITY IN THE SOUTH
MIR. QUATTLEHAUM coRREcTs
 IMPRESSIONS ABOUT ALA # BAHIA H
Being Child Labor State and Opens Some Northern Eyes
 to the Truth.

From the Mobile Register, November II.
 Major F. R. Quattiebaum, secretary
 and treasurer of the Mobile Society for
 tho Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
 has returned from a visit to the North.
 Regarding his trip he says:
 After spending ten days visiting Gin
 cinnati and various other cities and. in
 having the most enjoyable timel of my
 life have returned to Mobile. I spent a
 day and night tn Bowling Green, Ken
 lucky. and was royalty entertained at
 the beautiful home of Col. Motley, may
 or-elect of that city: visited the family
 and grave of my brother, Gen. F. J.
 S.iattlebaum. 0he former at Coyington
 and the latter at Newport). and was hos
 pitably and delightfully."- entertained for
 two days by Mir. and Mrs. A. T. Morris
 at Newport. '! While in Cincinnati represented the Mobile Humane Society at the. annual meeting of the American Humane Asso- ciation and, with tho able assistance of that great and good woman, Mrs. Scha.- ter. of New Orleans, I also, in part. rep l resented the South.
 "A report on child labor was read be- fore that convention, in which it was stated that in New I ork and some other | Northern States child labor was humane | ly restricted. but that there was still | dark places where the poor little children were compelled to work their fingers of, | and instanced. South Carolina and Ala 1 bama. showed wherein the imputation was unjust and the writer mistaken as l to the facts of the case. and moved mat l the names of South Carolina and Ala bama be eXpunged from the report, which was done.
 Being called upon by the chair to tel
 something of the humane work being done in Alabama. I made two impromptu speeches upon the subject--one showing the minutias of the work and ,ne assist ance rendered by the press and the Mo- bile and Ohio and Louisville and Nash ville railroads and the other was. as l stenographically reported, as follows: | " MT. President and Brothers and Sis | t. 5 of the Humane Association: I come | from. the land of Magnoiias, beautiful women and ever-blcoming flowers: from | the chtvalric land of Wheeler and Hob son--the home of Father Ryan and Au- | gusta Evans Wilson-beautiful Mobile, | by the Mex;c Calf. .. -..
 ''I come not with my whole anatomy. | as I lost some of that in fighting for | southern rights, home and independence, l but come with my whole heart beam | ing with love for my fellow man-to strike hands with you in the great eau e | of humanity
 We. of the South. stand abreast with | | the Mobile Humane Society stands first
 in the world to procure T fine and con- viction against the cruel use of the bar barbarous overhead checkrein: first. in l tho South. to procure a similar convic-
 ton and fine against cruelty to poultry; | first to perform the Caesarian operation
 upon disabled and dying cows. and thus
 saving the lives of calves: first to use | strychnine, administered by the intra- venous process to produce instantaneous
 and painless death; first in the world to
 advocate the coeducation of the heart,
 mind and body-the making of heart cul- ture a part of the curriculum of our | schools; and thus causing ull of the att
 tributes of man to grow parri-passu into 1 a perfect man. with the image and spirit of his maker.
 "I regret that I can but continue to
 be plodder in this grand work on ac- | count of lack of means in hands and
 money. and I can but ever regret that I | have not and cannot have the combined | eloquence of Calhoun. Clay, Webster, De 1 mosthenes and Cicero that 1 might, in clarion voice and eloquence. awake the | latent good in our people and thus be
 able to build q monument of good deeds
 reaching up to the great white throne of
 the Author of good deeds-the God of all
 mercies and goodness.