The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-01

and there is no doubt of the success Of
the effort.
Within the memory of many now living
there was a state of society in all Mont
gomery when every soul, of all degrees
and conditions, went to bed assured that
the next day breakfast dinner and sup
per would be bountiful and on time.
Never man fell disabled by the way
side who failed to be taken to ''the Inn
by the first passerby, be he white or
black.
The profoundly vital point is that Biz
mingham, being ready for the Salvation
Army, welcomes it. Miss Booth is the
great woman of the ages-free from
sham or superstition as her Divine IDEAL
but do not refer to the religion mani
Tested in the situation, exalted as 1t
surely is.
Alabama is an indissoluble political
community, and at stated intervals the
people meet here by their representa-
tives to provide the regulations of law
for the whole 1t is impossible to con-
ceive any other organized form of po-
ltical existence than the present or to
Imagine any greater benefits of civil gov
eminent than the existing form for Ala
bama. However When we-looIs back
little way to see Jefferson county,
punched as one of three to form state
senatorial district, and look forward q
little way to see the county single fed
eral congressional district and soon there
after find a subdivision of that con-
gressional district to make two, 1t is well
to remember that Jefferson county does
not live by iron alone There was a time
when the black belt paid two-thirds of the
taxes of the state, but there never was
serious or permanent friction between the
minority outside and black belt that fixed
the taxes and the minority that paid
them. Why not? Because the people in
al, sections We're blessed with prosperity,
founded on brain and Drawn, enough to
generate a sympathy in common. There
was q millionaire cotton planter in this
county, Mr.. Henry Lucas. He was not
es teemed for his wealth. He mounted
his horse every day at dawn and rode
north or south, east or west, to his planta-
lions. There were white men not far off
who mounted their mules at the same
hour and rode to the pillow stock. hitched
up and ran burrows all day. They were
not discredited for poverty. The record
shows that none of the lawyers, doctors,
preachers merchants who became emf
nent above their fellows came out from
the latter than the former type OF So
ciety. Society in the concrete was secure
and self-respeetlng accordingly.
Society has not been revolutionized,
however jeopardized, and the proof lies
in Mayor Wards speech and the sequel.
This blessed country of ours, Alabama
and her neighboring sisters will continue
to make and establish a community senti-
ment of its own, beyond which human
instinct cannot lead and has never been
known to exist. The froth of agitation
may rise to the surface now and then,
but here, where labor is in phenomenal
diversity and universal profit 365 days in
every year. out of doors, we shall even
sec peculiar people, self-adjusting, COM
prehensive and ideal. There not soil
tary trouble raging in Washington or
New York in the political or social life
OF that United States today that had Its
birth In the south. There is neither hope
o, attempt to reconcile existing disturb
ances of the political and social system
but by returning to the embrace of an
cient southern-born principles.
While the meeting progressed at the
theatre, Bishop Galloway preached some
remarkable sermons, remarkable specially
because sympathetic with the impulse
that controlled at the theatre meeting
The right reverend orator Is reported
to have spoken words of warning against
prosperity so pronounced as the country
now realizes. Is
Macaulay said American Huns and
Nandals would come from within Ameri-
can boundaries. William Pitt said when
he heard of Hamilton's scheme for Great
ing national bank to handle national
debt, that the liberty which the revolu-
ton had brought to us would go out as
that scheme came in.
Normal pr osperity is safe thing; pros
perity founded on government favor, is
robbery under the false guise of law.
Law Is reason" or IL is no law. The
person with several million dollars of
DEMONSTRATING, non-taxable government
bonds owns the promise of the govern
ment and this promise the person in
possession is able to set up against any
and all normal prosperity TO squelch It,
II the government will stand hands off
the interest. commissions and profits on
Alabama iron trade and cotton trade, etc,
will naturally and inevitably remain here
Up to forty-five years ago that very thing
was done and Mobile had an export
trade nine times as great In dollars. as
Philadelphia. New Orleans had an export
trade 80 per cent greater than New York
There was no United States debt to form
the basis of bank currency and thus to
pull down here and set up there the pros
perity of commerce at the option Of the
holder. Hamilton failed IN his life TO
see the fruits OF his scheme because the
south resisted it, The full fruition is ar
rived at last and wise and good men
cry aloud. "S-op prosperity Stop civil
cation that is mot a fixed state but an
irresistible and constant movement on
ward" controlled by the divine law which
reads. Love Sthe Lord with all thy
mind"-thy mind that eysn reduces to