The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-16
THE CONFINEMENT
 OF A PHILOSOPHER

Editor The Advertiser:
 Perhaps the reason why you've naa no letters from me lately is-i bscanse mayem I've learned 1t is not safe to pc posi- tive in what one knows. I heard a man once. on the witness stand. sweas Sts that the sun rises in the west ana nIs disgusting positiveness persuadea tae jury that 1t wouldn't do to believe any thing he said. Indeed. l heard that tne . guilty man innocent than have the sun rising out of place. No. 1t won't do to be too positive about what you ,nins 'stas Won, isarn,n do to tie to every lime
 True it has Suni,iisy, aoi,n y,ao of bne it is ocular in a candidate for pubic omce, Of two candidates seeking place you can generally conclude ta that iearn,nc 1ne sns For instance" the last race in our sixth district-and possibly in some other races. In this connection L WI, ,n admiration of Judge Carmichael in his literary attachments and disposition to poetry. and lament. that he is falling because sa % his learning is hitler" than inc competitor's. I notice that he has been making reunion speeche: along with fell9w who ,ho, Was trasd m m.ns ms .ouis %
 and the shirt tail fellow got his speech reported! But the judge didn't! l be- ieve. if were the judge; % gsome~ wo"ta cansi- Gs date for Governor. Let the shirt tail fellows have 1t out! Two or three years ago the popular thing at Con. Righteousness in a judge. This year 1t seems an occasion to talk about the nigger. The nigger doesn't amount 10 %Sea evsn in present asr 0R" Rheip as ' subject orators. I can't understand why the nigger Is so persistent in troubling the minds of people p,,sns wno sonhern Sars orators are agreed that the nigger IS very pop
 ular as field hand or house servant and that we have no disposition to pars given of his popularity as servant servant that I may be permitted to suggest that may be so. possibly, perhaps the the fact that he is the easiest fellow robbed under the sun. or to be more exact, under the whole canopy oi
 Mind you, I don't pretend to be posi- tive about that. for 1t develops lin courO that even white men can DC oe- prived of rights-sometimes v TO- search and conclusion against the beautiful reasons for the nigger's pop. ularity as servant. But, IT .,y on ,u reunion days, even at the risk of being accused of knowing something.
 recolect Judge Carmichaei was once Sfsfyranehised SHTy eafnsss " That was very good in him. I wish you would get him to join with Powell of Butler to take the nig. ger ost of about the nirrer. The nTgger doesn't bother in Populist meetings. The very mention of Populist opens up the subject or had a very decent sort of Democrat to admit, the other day that religion is the highest science known to man ofu of that! And yet lots of folks draw
 have heard school teachers and n science " of government as Ii, 1t were something mean and dirty. suppose such will be astonished at Demo cratic admission o,,aad, that II IS Sc'eh'e
 However. there's no accounting for teachers and preachers who never tax their minds with thought mat re. re. commencement sermons and literary addresses this summer. One was from a Governor (not ours, thank the Lore Ian address, not a sermonl and, may the Lord forgive me If I didn't think he had little enough learning to make me fall from grace. It ought 10 pc d poor speech. It Is so disappointing, Now, I think real nice. neat, sweet commencement sermon is "A tnlng oi beauty ana a Joy IoreNer, pul IL ousht not to be printed-it may have done service at various places at the same time, which would be sort of "bustin up @ philosophical fact.
 Perhaps I've arrived at the point to state, with a great deal of trepidation that I like great learning in a preach er q have lived long enough to know that the teacher generally has more learning than he can convenient jy carry) But. I'm afraid that tho Higher school training Is conducive to bi1I, vi nf tesy not adapted to the backwoods or rural districts. -"-
 When I was a Democrat did try to behave so that all the world would say "There is a gentleman even if he is a Democrat" When I became Populist my department was so correct that the 'wayfaring man. though a fool.
 ocrat When the Lilly Whites" kindly invited me to take pot luck" with