The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-10

struggle for the pussage of our present law in Alabama those operators who insisted on having a compulsory clause for education inserted In tho draft of the bill. hoping by such | condition to defeat 1t, were found fighting to a finality the act providing for local tax ation for school purposes. I make this last assertion based on the published statement of the Rev. Neal l.. Anderson, of Montgomery. Ala, who was on the committee before the legislature repre- senting the interests in favor of the Dill.
 Matter of Sentiment.
 But the greatest of charges. my friends, which we. who favor the sup pression of child labor in factories have to confront is sentiment. And what Is sentiment? Why 1t Is the warm gulf stream of love that rises out of the equator of Gods infinite heart and sweeping outward and onward through human life and human heart tempers to an everlasting green the bleak white shores of human destlnies: changes despair to joy; heals the suffering, and yet makes their suffering benediction. not blight, and puts away the rancor of the pain for the wisdom of the ex- perience. It changes the icy blasts of human greed and capacity into divine zephyrs of generosity and brotherly love It Is the leavening power of Gods spirit and wherever studied we find 1t has charged civilization with the enthusiasm of the Crusader. and whether Its votary in centuries past has disputed with the Paladin the right to the Holy Sepulchre, or whether in days more recent 1t has sent him on mercy mission under the banner of an- xyh If hn1dQ him duty bound in his observatory be- meath the quaking crater of the dis rupting volcano that it's phenomena may be preserved for the advancement of the races science, or whether IL treads with patriotism the scenes of carnage on land or sea, or whether in the paths of peace 1t finds a more holy expression in the reclamation of fallen lives by the surrender of lifes service. 1t has always been the exultation of an inspired spirit-the demonstration in the human of the legitimate pro- duct of a divine attribute. So let us have sentiment. Pour 1t into the minds and hearts of our lawmakers. that the products of their deliberations may more and more disclose the beau ty of the holiness in human legislation. And in laws let the Strong arm of the law" mean nothing more, nothing less than the law of conscience and reason asserting itself over the lower instincts of our nature. For if higher condi- tions of society are ever to prevail, It will move from the better motives or our nature that must be supplied from the heart. and must be imposed in au- thoritative form through the legitimate organs of positive institution.
 Conclusion.
 And now, my brother alumni. my message is finished In my way nave sought to put the burden of this con dition on your consciences, believing that there will follow ready and swift response. That your patriotism will invoke the proper powers of our society for a surcease of this iniquity as practiced against this wounded helpiess, defenseIess element that lives with us day by day We realize that the goodness of one life contributes 10 the fulness of all life: that no liberty Is permanent which enslaves another. that no knowledge Is lasting founded on ignorance. We know .nat
 bring others into their own believing hoping and loving-that Is religion; to share with others the powers Of &C., auiring, and thriving. and rejoicing that Is wealth: to open to others tho liberties of thinking, and Knowing and aehieving--that Is education: 10 enlarge and widen for others the glory of lvinG-tnat IS iiLt. <Ahu thSA behold the great thronging masses or men alive and radiant with those ca pacities and ,efficiencies which redeem the waste and silence of the world. that Is indeed the supreme emclency, that is indeed the supreme patriotism.
 So to every Alabamian today. in whose blood floats the conquest or many a wilderness marking pack through your ancestors from the raw beeinnings of the world. from the wild ernesses of Britain, of Normandy, or the Hercinian forest, of the frosted marshes of Elbe and the Rhine ana oI the North Seas widest wandering foam and fury, to you, my felow oountrymen, out of the depths of the wilderness of the social condition comes the piteous call of the lost eco ,or,tc eN7ciencies of the lives of this wasting working world. calling to you forever calling. for protection. TOT expression, for life. Will you not hs- ten to that callf