The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-01

Indeed 1t should be as the barren fie treeF accursed--and not permitted tc cufnber the ground, but dug up and destroyed. root and branch.
 CaIhoun's View.
 The Referendum's fret step is by
 stealth. It enters Congress in the in-
 nocent garb of petition"
 On March 1, 1850. was the las. ap- pearance of John c. Calhoun in the Senate chamber. It was a scene of dramatic pathos It was his farewell address to his fellow Senators. Web- ster and Clay were there drinking in every word of the dying statesnlan n i. Ills theme was, How Can the Union be PreservedY
 / He began by asking. What is 1t that has endangered the Union?"
 Tn tracing the causes, he emphasized the causa causans--the causing cause. Where did he locate 1t?
 The first organized movement of .ne disturoing cause commenced fin 1SS5I For the first time societies wara organized and lectures and agitators sent forth to excite the North against the south, The result was as soon as Congress met 'petitions' poured in from the North calling unon congress to prohibit internal slave trade. and also announcing their ob- Ject to abolish slavery in the states throughout the Union?'
 MT, Calhoun fought the reception of eness petitions" He held that it you'd open the slavery agitation in congress. He held that Congress had no Jurisdiction over the subjeot' Tt was q matter for the States. He said:
 called upon both parties to take ground against assuming jurisdietion. put In vain. Had Congress done ao the agitation which followed would nave been presented. That was the time for the North to have snown her devotion to- the Union . ana now IS the time for all Democrats Of Government.
 History wnl Repeat Itself.
 by the Initiative, any set of citisens, even from Kansas, can bring in a ',pe- ton. Under the Referendum" ae a iaw congress must refer the s.petitious to all the people. Then editors, incen- diary orators. agitators. South haters, religious fanatics. dc -agogues get in
 The majority of the peopIa os tha nation vote for the '.pstition.' How l soever oppressive to us, even though | the petition be a demand for Q gen. l eral fepeal of the "disfranchisenen 1 laws of the Southern States. the I South is helpless. For under the Ref | erendum system where Is our protec- | tion?
 What Is Georgia as against New York or Pennsylvania? As Ben Hill | once expressed 1t: "Mississippf fs the equal of Illinois in the Senate, but un- | der the Referendum Illinois is equal | to nineteen Mississippis
 We are in "Our Fathers House" to | stay; not to erect new buildings, As | Henry Watterson says: "Lat it be Old Kentucky'-never New Kentucky. but always and forever old Kentucky your birthright and mine"
 Let us keep the faith of the fathers Herein is our safety, for as John sharp Williams puts it. "the old Democratic | faith is midway between piutocracy and mobocracy."
 The Referendum, if ever adopted as ! principle of our systarn of Govern inent, will blbt out Southern civillsa- ton. Sour views and ideals will be swept before the flood.
 "Petitions" will flood Congress, Those which began in 1885. so dreaded by Calhoun, drove the South to secession n B search for peace. tranquility. hap oiness. The Referendum will he the 'pen door of perpetual strife and agi- ation.
 We who know what Northern agita- Ton from 1850 to 1860 did in forcing 'ecession who who have eaten of the bitter fruits of reconstruction and it's lespotic power, and feel today its per- licioub influence, denying even now the women of our State the freedom of the highways. must at all hazards reject ! ny substitute whatsoever that will ini- 'eril our State Government and State ontroi. Our safety is to magnify the State; ot the mob. More necessary now than ever. as wo races dwell here, to travel the paths--and none others.