The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07
Have No Trusts.

 pr.ations to schools.
 Have No Trusts. "One of the things that we rejoice over is that we are not the headquarters of any of the great trusts: the insurance
 scandals left no smell of fire on our gar
 ments. We have no interest in the ill- gotten fortunes born of an exacting pro- tective tariff, except to pay our share of an unfair burden. I may almost say that
 nc dollar of it lines our pocket. We are universal contributors, that Is all. This item alone compounded would perhaps measure the difference between the wealth of this and some other sections of the country.
 Jur President, God bless him. is after two of these classes and probably he will get after the other; the matchless Bryan is after all three classes. Hearst does not stop with any specified number
 of classes. Just about as soon as I had
 made up my mind that Mir. Hearst was unusually well equipped for running for office since he owned so many papers to take care of him he gives notice that he will not again offer for public place I hold that every candidate and every office holder ought to have and edit at least one paper. I have seen the time in my official life when I would have dearly loved 10 write for all of them. We ought to manage to get saved between ttese three larger personalities.
 We are not rich in mere dollars in Alabama, but richer. some of us. than were our fathers. and they worshipDed
 God on these plains and in these hills and were glad If wealth makes men decay we ought, sunpose congratulate ourselves that we will at least not be
 the first people in this country upon whom n ortification will lay it's whitening blight
 
 Our visitor has heard something of it. The Universal Ruler of us all is invoked and will be invoked to lead us to a wise settlement of it with justice to both races. Tn conclusion. l want to express 10
 our guest another word of praise for the
 scholar, the man of schools. who is will
 ing to leave the joys of the book mans
 library. and essay to be a moving and
 potential factor in the great fight for
 civic reform and righteousness
 MT. Lows Address.
 AIr. Low said in part
 MT. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Commercial Club of Montgomery-It is d distinguished honor to be invited to visit your city by the Commercial club. and the privilege of addressing such company as is gathered here is a very great one l appreciate both the honor and the privi- I courteous welcome The city of 4Aont-
 gomery as the capital of Alabama, and
 the first capital of the Southern Confed- eracY, has an historic quality which gives to it peculiar interest visitor here recognizes at once that he is in a center of influence-that from here streams of thought and of power go out in every | direction, like light and heat from the 1 sun.
 l As l came through the southern coun- | try on my way to Alabama l saw on | every side. as the train sped quickly
 along. the evidences of the cotton manu- | facture of the south. The Scotch have | aying that Its a far cry to Loch Ave- | and it is a far cry from the south that | was content only to raise cotton, to the | south that is steadily wrestling the manu- | facture of cotton, year by year, from New ! England. I suppose it to be true that certain grades of ctoton can no longer be profitably manufactured in this country | outside of the south.
 | Here in the United States the question l Chinese exclusion) hinges mainly on the | attitude of labor towards the Chinese. ! Every American who appreciates the standard of living which has been realized after hard struggles by the American la | borer, can perfectly understand why the | American laborer is unwilling to enter
 into competition with the Chinese coolies. l For one. I not only understand it. but sympathize with it. That is not good | reason, however. why the United States | should take an attitude towards an entire nation which Is at once ungracious and unwise. The position taken by the Presi- dent to the amendment of this law seems to be thoroughly statesmanlike. and the south do nothing better in the interest of the country and in it's own interest than to throw it's influence in favor of such an amendment of the Chinese exclusion act. I understand why the labor element is opposed to any modi- flcation of the law; it fears that any change will lead to general evasion; but also believe that when the matter is thoroughly talked out, labor itself will
 perceive that the change proposed by the President is in the public interest, in cluding its own.
 T reflected again as passed the cotton