The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30
WILL WORK TO
GET MONEY FOR SCHOOLS

Pell City, December 29-(speclal)-Re
cent dispatches sent out from Montgom-
cry in regard to the guano tag tax has
brought forth the following letter from
the Farmers Union Guide of Pell City.
Ala:
Headquarters, Pell City, Ala.
| ITO the People of Alabama
THE subject of appropriating the guano
| tag tax bids fair to he an interesting top
ic during the coming session of the leg
| islature.
THE tag tax, so-called, is a tax of 30
cents per ton on guano, and is a tax that
all manufacturers of fertilizers must pay
on said product, but which amount is of
course paid by the farmers WHO use this
| guano.
sixty thousand members of the Far
| mers' Union of Alabama say that this
| tax, which amounts to nearly 100000 per
year, should be appropriated to the rural
district schools where those who pay it
can derive some benefit from II.
THE records in the auditors office at
| Montgomery will show that the fari1ng
class of people are the only class of Ao-
! pie In Alabama that are specially tti ed
to pay for what benefits they receive from
the state.
Take, for instance, the department of
| agriculture, which is sustained by the tag
| "
| dreds of other things are paid for out of
/ the general fund.
| Not only are the farmers specially
! taxed to keep up the department of agri-
/ culture and several agricultural schools
! in the state, but the annual surplus from
/ these funds, 700 to $4,000 per year,
| has been turned into the general funds;
thus the producers Of the largest portion
/ of the states wealth not only pay the
/ regular state and county taxes ike all
/ other classes. but pay an extra sum INTO
the general fund, besides keeping up their
! own department
1.-THE petitions circulated by the Far
mers' Union Guide, the recognized medi-
UNI of the Alabama State union, ask that
! the entire tag tax, except that part that
! Is required to keep up the department OF
/ agriculture at Montgomery, be appropil-
ated to the common schools of the state,
where the children of those who pay TINS
/ tax can get the benefits of It.
The Farmers Union Guide has been agl-
/ tating this subject in its columns for
more than three months, and has sue
change or when the change IS pelns
worked out as 1t will be some day.
"Political equality my friends, means
social equality and you cannot make any,
thing else out of it. Can you conceive
! of the Justice of the negro, who is only
/ twice removed from barbarism, and only
once removed from slavery, being placed
on an equality with the white man
| II has been 1000 years since Nilllaih the
/ Conoueror crossed the channel ana lalu
the foundation of the English race the
strongest and purest race under the shlh-
ing sun The race has been advancing
on and upwards in purity and in IN
telligence ever since Now at this end OF
the long line of progression a black
man only once removed from slavery Is
made your equal by the law OF the lana
and by a perverted sentiment at the
north.
Inferior Race.
'There is no record in the history oil
the world of any meritorious achievement
of the black race He is inferior in every
respect to the Caucasian and never can
he brought to his level in morality OF
in any other quality. In his native lano
he is a cannibal and barbarian OF the
most pronounced type. He has built nc
cities has no language or religion. VII
YOU have him as your equal now?
at is contended that education ele-
Yates the negro and makes good cltlzef
of him. This has never been proven. liz
has not the moral stamina that will civ
ilize a race He Is morally degenerate ano
with moral degeneracy there is no hope
for ANYBODY. The negro has no concep
ton as a race of the rights OF tre'
government. He interprets liberty as Il
cense. -.
1.-THE negro as a slave was better
90
man morally and in every other respee'
than he is with education ana liberty
The soldiers of the Confederacy lett theh
homes. their wives and children III MS
care and went away to war, hundreds o.
miles away, and there is no record o.
one negro mistreatlng white woman. /
the conditions and abuses OF slavery nat
been half as bad as they had peeh PIC
TIRED by Mrs Stowe and others at lh'
north. what a golden opportunity th'
wronged slave had to avenge his wrongs
ole was given freedom and the pallo;
and educated by the poisonous preJudie'
of the people of the NORTH who did no
,,now him he has become fiend incar
nate You cannot pick up newspaper
but that you read of some horrible tras
edv that has been committed by TINS 'elti
non, who has been made better by educa
ton
What Can We Do?
.Rut what are we going to do about IL
What can we do? When these horrible
uncomfortable crimes are committed b!
the hrutes our civilization just peels OF
for the time being Our blood is too rex
and too hot to waste or to bother VIII
trials Almost with the oath of office oil
nv lips as governor of South Caroline
made the assertion that | would lea'
mob to hang brute that committed
an assault on a white woman. TalK apou
law and order when a man, worse than
brute. committing acts that brutes do NOT
dares to blight the hopes, happiness an
chastity of womankind. Why, once
twice in my official capacity was calle
unon to order out the militia to protec
the brutes, but the job did not set yer,
well on my stomach.
Now, | do not advocate going out an
killing. but / am afraid we are approach
ing a condition in the south that vii
make this necessary 1t won't be pic
mic. either | feel sure that conflict be
tween the races Is inevitable, When
comes there will be slaughter slaughter
, slaughter 1t may not be general, but
will be sporadic. We are already havin
: NO