The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-11
CULPEPPER DISCOURSES ON
 VIRTUES OF HONESTY AND TRUTH

and none Of them nAo iocSeo com p,aint of underpay with me, but. the Lord knows, I thought 1t safe to take stand fer bettar pay q was out of my rarish. bear that in mind) and there's where I put my foot in 1t.
 When I set down in a generous ap- plause I found had convinced all who were already of my opinion of my po- sition. unenimity n a Bs ptist Church feet that one black ball rejects If you go to jriu Sometimes. you have to play politics when you want to get in crap shooter or salary grabbed: and, by some when you're going to get in your dirty friend.
 That's wrong--if do say 1t myself.
 So. we lacked little bit of being un- anirnous There was 8 "licentlous' preacher among us, rather new in the game, and he had old and correct mo- tions. He was for sticking to tn. Scriptures a Thus saith the Lcrd;' v ..serfp or purse" or two coats, etc.
 He had no Twentieth Century notions at all. and l was painfully astonishsd to find, at this late day. young Paul.
 The mistake made was in speaking too soon. but 1t came of my being sick and wanting to set through early. The style in religious meetings. nowadays, Is for the long winded brother, who has nothing to say, to speak first. so that exhaustion may deprive the con- gregation of the delight of hearing from him again.
 It is never so in my case. and on this particular ocasion. or I would have re- versed myself, as swiftly and as readily as did our Supreme Court, once. when the exigencies of Party required 1t.
 I have never heard that our court claimed sickness for a sudden change of opinion.
 s,,of tn oyn my admiration of General Morgan who virtuously explains his vote (against the raiIroads) in the interest of the people. He seems to be afraid our jury system was about to get a setback. He believes in jury trials as the Magma where he mistakes. Jury trials, in liti- gation with railroads, are very vexa- tious and annoying to our great cor porations and unsatisfactory to our common litigant citizen.
 I suppose we may divide our courts into two classes-the jury courts. the pride and property of the simpie--the Supreme Court. the chattel of the wise.
 The poor. simple fellow. by some mis- take in the law in his favor. can bring the wise man into the Court of the Simple and get Judgment against him. matter to his own court and gets back the Judgment. The mistake In the Simples, (when they were in power in the "beautiful Southland.'o was in not making their court the Court of Appeal The General has been out of the law practice so long he may not have mo- ticed this everlasting tendency of the courts to serve their owners.
 So. If have a difference with a rail- road to the amount of a dollar. or per haps dollar and half. or may be so two dollars. honestly coming my way but. unlawfully withheld, I want our highest court to have original and final Jurisdiction so that I'll know without wanting my own.
 Why. if 1t weren't for the courts of the Wise, the Simple would get justice about as often as the next one.
 If you ever go to law. never try your case in the other fellows court. Go to the jail or County farm and work out the anticipated punishment as soon
 It was once my habit to vary my farm labor with attendance upon the Justices Court to assist poor fellows who were fin the tolls of the Law.
 found that there Is difference in Magistrates. Some of 'em are perhaps, more human and conscientiously decide cases upon the preponderance of pay. the ballot I am told that the last pay ment to the voter like the last will. Is ethe one that holds It's that way with some Magistrates. If the last payment or promise is-the biggest.
 There was one Magistrate. before whom I sometimes appeared. who was man after my own heart and so gem erally of my opinion in everything, ex- cept politics q regret to say he was a Bryan Democrat, but ready to vote for Cleveland) that I got to trusting him. never lost but one case before him, which was such plain case of steal ing that I couldn't blame him. In- deed In spite of all I could do the &C., cused modestly confessed
 We'll, one day poor fellow who was accused of stealing some corn came to secure my valuable assistance. I had just prepared one of the most beautiful heard. and was in the very frame to help the oppressed.
 There's nothing like caution in these things unless you are dead sure of the Magistrate I asked the good young man what Justice of the Peace was to hear the case. He told me. Why" said l. that fellow belongs. heart and soul, crop and mule, to the man from whom you stole the corn, and if he's to try you, you had better go along to Jail and write him to know how long before him alone" sent for my Mag istrate. who had sense and discretion and we proved that poor guilty fellow as innocent as the child unborn
 Let the simples have their courts and waste time, the wise have the last in- ming.
 In this interesting Aggression have almost forgotten the moral to the tale of the preacher who is willing Gin these days when the Anti-Salooners are drawing on the Sunday schools for campaign funds in favor of one of my tumble opponents') to take pot luck" with the brethren (which means. chick en by accident) and no hire except, now and then, poor soul.
 Oh, yes, I told him privately that his notions are correct but an antiquated like honesty and truth and so forth : that they will do to talk, but will be very unsatisfactory In practice; that money makes the mare go" and enters now, more than formerly. into the d. vine calling; that it's all right to preach. but clean shirt and stylish preaching than good conscience. amount of excellent advice (which always carry with me and dispense as afms) and promised to stand with him in the next round.
 I know It was wrong for me to speak right too early In the game and I'm going to be cautious.
 In observing that honesty and truth are anticipated I desire to remark that the observation only applies to pri- vate and public life.
 They may be all right In the other kinds of life, and I want to be under stood as not even hintinR that in those kinds of life they are not in peren-
 J. Culpepper.