The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-08
CuLPEPPER'S RESOLUTIONS
 DELAYED IN PUBLICATION

the air blue with profanity on the streets. I may go to the lookup or be | selected as the Party Candidate for 1 Congress. If try obscenity and black guardian I may be knocked down or bounced upon as the logical Party lead CT and be forced to don Gubernatorial honors.
 If I try stealing I may wind up in the penitentiary or be sent to the Leg islature. You see, vice and virtue are relative altogether and the very same vice that makes me worthy of stripes may be the virtue that ennobles and secures me the esteem and love of the truly good" You needn't ask me, How can these things be?" That They Are, is the proposition to face. And it leaves me in the quandary of action to suit the people, The more I think about 1t the more I'm convinced another mans hsterodoxy" Is about right. And there's one thing I don't like, and that is to be condemned for thinking certain crimes or sins or vir- tues are just as good in one man as another.
 If fellow Is too poor to be in the better element" and exercise the pleasure of gambling In the Stock or Cotton Exchange, it does look a little hard to punish him if he practice the virtue Of the elegant. refined and pious in some out of the way place. Now. does'nt its
 I'm too much against special privi- lege to approve a one-sided crusade and too much of a Protectioniat to endorse a moral crusade that discrim- mate against the poor and criminally virtuous
 That is. have arrived at the con clusion that, things being equal sauce for the goose Is the thing for the gander." wish you would get some body who Is equal to the occasion and has no fear to satisfy my mind that the better element" is better because . 1t does those things of which the worse element" is criminally guilty.
 Why knew poor fellow that "got away" with some money and he served the State in stripes. I knew another fellow that got away with some under circumstances about the same and it seemed to raise him in the estimation of the people, which leads me to thinks there Is a degraded and a re- fined manner of stealing. I can't tell which manner eases the conscience of the one losing the money. The Chad wick way seemed to be very fascinat- ing for awhile and, I reckon, the very refinement of her wonderful success makes us all sympathIze with the excellent lady. whereas. if some great big human brute had practiced the Claud Duval tactics, on those poor simple bankers we would all have ap- proved thS popular murder of the un- couth, unlearned highwayman. That, however seems to mark the differ ence between the better element" and the worse" What I'm after is to know. will I be better or worse if I swear as a gentleman or trooper? Will I be a Sabbath days journey" nearer perfection if steal as a hood lum or gentleman?
 Will I have "conscience void of offense" if bet at cards or cotton?
 If the faults of the under classes are the virtues of the upper which must l resolve to practice this incoming year" so as to have no regrets at the end2
 Now all this foolishness and philoso- phy may come of this-Two fellows. for more than @ week and especially today. seem to be hammering on an anvil in my head One of them hand les the small hammer and strikes ran idly and viciousfy. think his per