The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-23
BLAMES CRIME ON THE CHURCH GOERS Judge CoVington Speaks on
 Prohibition C0MER HINTSAT STATE LAW  Governor Stands for States Rights, Education and Temperance as
 Foundation Stones for
 States Success.
COMER HINTSAT STATE LAW

fOunQaLlOn olOHSo M d
 States Success.
 Perhaps the most original address with the newest argument that has been de- livered on the prohibition question was that hy Judge W. A. CoVington, at the Jefferson theatre yesterday afternoon. The sneaker did not base his attack upon the saloon-kepers-rath he sympathzed
 with them-but upon the Christian
 churchgoers who allow the traffic to ex- ist by law"
 Judge Covington was introduced by Gov. B. B. Conner, who not only re-enforced
 his position as favoring states rights,
 education and temperance as the foun-
 dation principles for a state, but hinted that, Some would say we should have
 initiated Georgia in her prohibition meas ures, just as strongly as she initiated us in our constitutional grandfather clause, CT, that certain people in Alabama want state prohibition.
 "To assimmilate the good and to throw
 out the bad should be the purpose of every community, of every town, and of every city in our state,' said the gov ernor
 He then called attention to the fact
 that within the last twelve months the legislature has practically revolutionized the state, commencing with the fight for equalized freight rates. The speaker dwelt
 on the give and take policy of the sis
 ter states, Georgia and Alabama; how
 Alabama gave Georgia her grandfather clause, eliminating the negro vote, and how she gave Alabama her railroad rate War.
 we set the pace for education; they set the pace for prohibition, even further than we ever dreamed. Here is the great prospective. Let us follow Geor- gia's example until this evil shall be wiped out and thrown away Conner for Temperance. Governor Conner divided the foundation | stones of commonwealth into states rights, education and temperance. We've been enjoned by the federal courts" he said, but we still stand as fast as | fast can be until we settle it. How could we stand for states rights and not for l the education and temperance of our children?" In concluding, the governor said:
 "I take pleasure in introducing to you 1 this tackswoodsman, who has come to | be a power over there in Georgia; who
 spoke, stood and fought for the right" l Judge Covington immediately granted | that he was one of the boys who used | to wash their feet in the same cedar tub all the year, except once, when it had souce meat In it, Georgia Cracker from | the backwoods.
 This makes me remember that Ala bama was once a part of the territory | of Georgia, way back there when James | Edward Oglethorpe founded his colony,
 and laid as the first foundations of dem ocracy 8 prohibition law. You fell heir | to this historic significance, and you in- herit the right, the privilege and the duty | to make 1t unlawful forever in the state | of Alabama to sell whisky" Money vs. Men. Judge Covington stated that since the
 world began there has never been but | two kinds of men, those who believe
 in spending men to make money, and | those who believe in spending money to
 make men; the first class he called sen l timentslists. and the second plutocrats. | He used the illustration of Alfred Henry | Lewis, that If a shipload of plutocrats
 and sentimentalists, equally divided,
 should embark with cargo of babies | and dollars, and storm were to come | up, if the sailors had to throw off bal
 last, the plutocrats would say. Throw
 out the babies; we cannot ruin business,
 anu effect the money market" but the fa-
 natcs would cry, Throw out every dol l lar but do not injure one baby. From immemorial time the Pharoahs | have lashed with hissing whips the life l blood of slaves into money making. In l Russia today hundreds bow down in tolls | for the benefit of the plutocrats. Asia is just beginning to learn the foundation principles of democracy, but here in America it Is coming to pass that the man | who is born poor is worth more than all the gold of the earth. The world is be- ing born again. and it is based on the cornerstone, which says that no mans
 business shall be strong enough, big
 enough or criminal enough, for one mo-
 ment, to stand in the way of one white child IT. our country,
 "The response of our civilization to the
 corporation man Is that every man, wife. and every child has the right to do his
 best and Is worth more than anything
 that can be collected by a business en- terprise.
 Saloon Must Go.