The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-10

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 high schools in those counties of the State which at present have no state school; leaving the execution of same In abayance until 1t is demonstrate6 that the< <func- of the State VIII fuiIu 'A' fncrea.ed Approprfations.
 You have made new annual tncreaseo appropriations of more than eleven hun dred and fifty thousand dollars per year of this amount over one million CT year or four millions go to the schools and ola soldiers. I would suggest tnat you weigh well any further increased ap meIit Is necessary, make, the payment contingent on whether or not the finances of the State are commensurate with same.
 It is just and right that you shouIo provide an effective method Tor @ en- !. forcing the Child Labor Law M HE could easily be done by empoWerihs the inspector Of cotton trn1n ,S inc mil who in his judgment in under age Sa not in fit condition to work, at the same time providing a penalty TOT the punishment of the mill owner ano .ne parent for re-employing or re-hnns such parties so discharged wtnous first getting the permission or your
 Win caution you that by an extreme provision of the law you can easily ir, nIr. inc parties that we are trying to help; We have the poor with us always, ano if is as much incumbent upon the pusi- l ness of the State to provide me.nou. .,.' of work, and perhaps would De mor1 beneficial to this class of our feiiow citizens, than to provide ways nov they should work; and we snouio oe exceedingly careful along this line'
 Lobby Bhl.
 failed 10 complete your anti-lobby bill: iou have no bill on the calendar more pr9. tective of the interest or the peoPae than hdSsvsr this If yon y0u touch any large terest for taxes or otherwise. your halls swarm, with lobbyists, many or them in the guise of patriots. yet mos. the peoples interests. unfortunately. there is no paid lobbyist to represent them. The protection of their interest; the protection of the best interest or the State demand at your hand an anti lobby law.
 Revenue Bill.
 Your revenue bill was ambiguous as regards the tax on money lenders and created some friction through the State because many constructed it to mean that any person who lends mon ey. regardless of his business. has 70 pay, a license. The Code Committee, as I understand. has restored this fea- ture to read as formerly. limiting the tax to the party whose principal busi- ness 1t Is to lend money and who had
 The revenue bilf Improperly compre- hended special tax on any party In towns or cfties who sells tobacco and cigars. This has been changed so as to embrace only, as ] am sure your tn- tent was. to stand dealers in tobacco and cigars, not those who are paying a regular ad valorem tax.
 There has been quite a Dit of agfta- ton on the franchise tax on foreign corporations, including foreign money lenders. I think this law has been stood The 'ssssis1f tax itself is nHU e1ceedinsiy fair and liberal to the foreign lenders and directly in line of the Constitution. and 1t Is mandatory on you to impose been distorted into such shape that it and ill-advised am sure that If this hst % %onS SfoSe in ey of the word deterrent to business, and the tax (about one-tenth to one sixteenth of the. amount charged on would not be onerous on any one. n other words, where the banks Montgomery are charged are lending money at per cent; by adding the entire tax it would amount to 1-2 per cent. The foreign lender of million dollars pays 1 3-4 mills; or. 1T he were lending money at per the loan. 1t would be 6 1-6 per cent This you will see is not oneroNs on foreign lenders. and brings hardship and enlargement to no one who wish- es to transact business in the State Yet the money market of the world is at present perturbed and many of ou1 best business men are apprehensive and introduce changed conditions. however small: and while think the repeal oi the law a bad precedent and will brins about bad results-for a sovereign tain its own laws in it's own way yet if you think it wise to repeal the clause increasing the franchise charges on foreign money lenders, I will not
 We have three great Constitutions The State. the Federal and the Deca- logue. The oldest of these is the decalogue. and on this Is built every cles of that great constitution coming from Sinai. Is to observe the Sabbath yet, there Is not a Sunday but what great freight trains desecrate this day us stand Georgia and North Carolina with the Sabbath preserved as a day of rest to its people. If we could but rest the machinery of our State for one nervous system and energies of the great army of railroad employees would. have no doubt, prevent many a destructive collision and loss of life You need not put this in operation at once, but put it in process of ac- complishment. Give these employees q day with their families and a day of respite from the intense nerve straiT from train service and we will have the experience of all time to know that we will be the better by it. We could make such exceptions and prep arations as would be necessary.
 On your continued labors, we pray the blessings of God, the Father and may His blessings abide with you and your work.