The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-16

factor and governor of the south was a
failure, the cost of this experiment to
the south cannot be calculated, and while
the whites have removed them from po-
litieaf power, they have given them along
with the other people of the state a stable
and respectable government. The whites
have, out of their poverty, contributed
| millions to the education and upbuilding
of the negro youth. In this work they
have been constant and patient and have
labored for nearly half century, and
while bearing this great burden they are
hopefully looking to the future for q. solu-
ton of the race problem, so-called, and II
successful in helping the negro to at
tain high moral, industrial and educa-
tional position they will have accom-
plished that which has never been done
before. 1t is needless to say that this
difficult task will be impossible unles the
entire cooperation of the negro himself
| is secured. Instead of cultivating habits
of friction, a good disposition of one to
| the other should be encouraged; instead
| of living lives of vagrancy, industry must
supplant 1t; instead of violating every
| law of economy, thrift must be attained
Time is the only true orator of economics
and conditions of people, and any law
which tries to enforce false conditions
will find a subsoil of underlying hardpan
through which and over which nothing
prospers Sentimental legislation and
| fanatical establishment of false conditions
are from the very nature of the case
ephemeral and impossible.
For the state of Alabama | can assure
| that race rights and kindness, even the
| leniency of government along protective
| and upbuilding lines. / believe that the
| law should deal more than friendly with
! them, that the pardoning power shall be
| stretched in their favor rather than
drawn taut against them, but will again
caution them that the practice of friction
| against the whites can accomplish no
possible good and can only eventuate in
| serious results
| The question of social rights has been
| settled settled even before the fourteenth
| and fifteenth amendments of the consti-
| tuition of the United States were adopted.
were settled by a higher power than all
! the white people of the south, or all the
| white people of the north; 1t was settled
| by the Anglo-Saxon race. The color line
| is older, longer, broader, more compre-
hensive and lasting than that drawn by
| Mason and Dxon-God Himself establish
| ed the metes and bounds of 1t, and 1t Is
| eternal. The white men of American Will
unite whether they be from the north
| or south, east or west the prophetic scroll
of all time will forever rewrite the prin-
| ciple that the Anglo-Saxon race, whether
they cut off the head of Charles the First
today, whether they hang the dead body
! Of a Cromwell tomorrow, whether as
| Puritan, Quaker, or Cavalier, they viii
unite and stand together. and what Is
the use of discussing and fighting over
these things in this good year of 1907?
Election of U. S. Senators.
I recommend that you pass reso-
] luton requesting our congressman and
, senators to favor an amendment to the
| IN VI cd
eral senators elected by the people in
stead of by the legislature. as at pres
ent.
Primary Elections.
The selection by primary of all
the officers, county, state and federal,
has proven very satisfactory to the
| people at large, and has no doubt best
| served the economic interest of the state.
/ This method of making an officer di-
rectly responsible to all of the voters of
! the state, rather than having them Sc
, lected by conventins. has proven more
satisfactory and / would suggest the
! enactment of statutes requiring the hold
/ ing of a general primary the third Mon
| dav I'm August preceding a general cleo
ton. in which primary all the political
! parties of the state can vote for the can
| didates of their choice whether candi-
dates be for federal or state Offices and
/
| be paid for by the state.
Political Workers.
l recommend the enactment of laws
| prohibiting all persons who may be mere
! after employed for political purposes
! from engaging in the work of said en-
! pIoyment until they shall first register
! their names in a book to be kept for
that purpose in the probate office Of the
| county, or counties, I'm which they pro-
| pose to work and state under oath by
| whom they are employed, and the COM
! pensation they are receiving or expect to
receive for such employment
The Militia.
| 1t is gratifying to note the high stand
ard of efficiency and splendid organiza-
/ ton of the Alabama National Guard.
| This standard should be maintained. /.
| therefore, recommend that an adequate
| that every aid ad encouragement be
extended to our citizen soldiery.
Public Health.
The matter of safeguarding the pub
| lie health is one which will command
! your consideration, and in this con-
/ nectIon | desire to call your attention
! IN the statement recently made by an
| eminent medical authority that one
| seventh of oil the deaths in Alabama
| annually are caused by tuberculosis. COM
| monty known as consumption, and that
! not fewer than 5000 persons in this state
| are now afflicted with this dreadful dis
| ease Progressive states In all sections
! Of the country are legislating for the
/ nrevention and suppression Of the great
| white plague" and I commend this sub
| ject to your earnest consideration.
Good Roads.
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