The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-15
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Editor The Advertiser:
 It looks liko things are coming your way. We can't always have things here to please us." for it seems just as you are about to be blessed, stray buckshot may miss the Business Manager and snuff the editorial light. Be cautious. Don't let the Business Manager hang around you. He's marked for slaughter. Now, a small bird shot or two in him will ease my conscience. know he'll do things. l Why, last summer when you were doing the Pacific Coast and enjoying yourself among our Chinese citizens or aliens or | tolerations, and. no doubt felt too good to injure worm of the dust, your hard hearted Manager wrote me a letter in which he intimated that in your absence, he had learned that I am gentleman and he couldn't reflect on me any further by carrying me on the ID. H." list-or something that amounted to the same thing so far as the particular result is concerned.
 This keen scent that detects impositions on the railroads Is equally keen to dis cover gentlemen masquerading as fraudu- lent pensioners of newspaper. Its get ting to be a serious thing when brass is no longer current for free rides and free reading. Why, if a fellow with pure conscience and an all seeing eye like your Manager, were at the head of gem | eral affairs, he would hardly begin reckoning before there would be gen. eral uprising of the impostors, frauds and ID. H. with all the implements Of | death and destruction to "vacinate,' per- | forate, assassinate and annihilate the aforesaid. Its human nature. He had bet l ter repent and bring forth fruits meet for repentance" (One of my good Baptist brethren puts private interpre- tation" upon that Scripture quotation and | has "crow to pick. with John the | Baptist because he charged, like Ben De- Lemos, 6 middling of bacon for baptiz- ng) Is afraid this strenuous public virtue is going to work out for the railroads and newspapers a long list of genteel pensioners.
 l We have to be careful, now, for there's heap of virtue in the new Constitution. There ought to be some safe guard thrown around the Memorial Logs of the l Falkner Soldiers Home. I think Gen eral Oates wanted. in the Constitutional l Convention, to make some honorable dis criminations in favor of the true soldier and the worthless one. In getting up Memorial Volume of Alabamians, a cer- tain distinguished gentleman was care full to want to see the list before he joined | in, for, he said he didn't want to be in book with every Tom, Dick and Harry I place in such a. Memorial Now, knew a fellow whose chief record of valor was | in noble running fight with the hounds of the Conscript Officer. He was finally | forced to surrender to the prowess of the dogs and was enrolled as soldier. Ought we to hold such a fellow in loving re- membrance on a '1og?"
 l I tell you, it's getting to be a serious thing when a gentleman has to pay for l ha at inc of conduct of gentlemen of the Press and | laity Is getting irksome and no wonder | the city of Patience is stale and I'm weary of 1t" calls for guns and buckshot | and vacination. Why, know a fellow who has undertaken to keep Judges, Solicitors, juries. tax officers up to the prize of the mark of the high calling of honesty and proper department. I think he's beginning to realize the way of the transgressor is hard" This private polk ing of the nose into public business merits and receives official censure, because 1t is offensive. All officers of county and State should be allowed to Knock down. a littis now and then as a reward of public spirit in sacrificing themselves on the altar of public service. I suppose they are too conscientious to take mony wrongfully unless they need some for present use or wisely lay by some flor I
 It really looks like the Presidents Ala bama Referees might get some suitable timber out of the Press Association for preferment. There apears to be some gentlemen in it worthy of their most dis tinguished consideration" and that brings me to the late Black and Tan" con- ference. Some people think the Referees are planning the nomination of our next Democratic Governor and since the action of the conference met the approval of the Democratic, onlooking niggers, there must be something in 1t.
 It must be a great consolation to white men strenuousy striving for and cor dlaly desiring to be equal with negroes to know that the negro can suppress con- tempt into approval.
 | I am sorry you disapprove of the race question in national politics. I am "de- lighted with the Senate In that matter. Do you reckon any possible Democratic Presidential candidate can be tender footed" on the race question? Get some of my courage and scorn the white man who is even under suspicion of desiring equality with the negro.