The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-09

islature as straight as a shingle, and a Senate the same way. If you are go- ing to send a railroad lawyer as a Sen ator, what is the use of sending me If you ain't going to make suitable laws for the railroads, what is the use of do- ing anything at all? Take your town here. You have no idea of the claims and claims that come to us. They make you pay before you get your goods, but l am told they carry your claims in their pigeon holes until they become grey. I am told that there is half a million dollars in Alabama in unpaid claims. l am told that they kill your stock and have got saying that the finest stock is a cross between a piney woods COW and locomotive, and I say to you there is no sorrier claim on earth than claim filed against a rail- road. What we want to do is to get all of these things regulated by law. We your goyernment: I said the farmers rule the world. You take the farmer and business man of Alabama today, and what have you got left?
 am sorry. You were entitled to a very much better talk than you have had I today. am a bit like Governor Frank l County making a talk and sitting in | front of him was an old gentleman, a l little tipsy, and after the talk the old l the hotel with him. He said. Squire I Hart, you ain't no really smart man, but you can come as nigh saying what I want G. to hear as any any man l eyer eyer l you wanted to hear. everything l have 1 said to you is what you want to do.
 There was a young man going to see an old mans daughter. He staid pret- I ty late and finally the old man wanted | to know why the young man hadn t gone. \The little boy. who had been | Papa, he can't leave; sisters sitting on him." I can't leave you because you are sitting on me. l like to talk
 They say these items. 4Oc on a bale of cotton and 75c on d ton of guano l don't amount to anything, but, passing pay your State debt in four years. l It's true, gentlemen, you wouldn't use
 1t on the State debt because 1t would be distributed around among the farm | CTS.
 Don't you know a man at Columbus, Ga, when he ships freight across the river into Alabama pays 50 per cent
 more freight than when he is shipping l into Georgia? Don't you know If the | men understood what was going on there would be some pretty tall kick 1 Alabama thought that all this come | about because there was some balky | mules in the team, there would be some pretty tall kicking? These things are face to face with YOU. They call this | Comerism. This is not Comerism, but peopleism. Back wonder in Georgia l they call IL POpullSn w nat IS the ull . ference between Populism and People | ism? These things. gentlemen are peopleism; not Cunninghamsm or Co., mcrism, but Peopleism. Gentlemen, If you will stand by this issue to the last. I will stand by you. And it is because they know that all this hue and cry
 is raised. If you stand be my. l will stand by you, and we will be there at the last day. I want to say that we
 stand ready to strike. and we want everybody to come, every paper in the
 State, to come on this great question
 and stand with them and stand by them
 and help them secure that relief that
 every paper in the State Is obliged to
 see should be offered from the trusts.
 There is trust at your gate that is
 most dangerous to us, and please ray to
 The Advertiser for me that I say to them that the trust here Is greater and
 more dangerous than any in this great
 fight we are making for the people.
 l was talking at Fayette Mir Hob
 son and MT, Bankhead were on the floor,
 The people of Alabama can name their