The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-11

the following amendment to the or
 Sec. ss-The state shall not De in terested in any private or corporate em. em terprise. or lend money or It's creu.t to any individual, association or corpo- ration. nor shall the state engage In works Of internal % .mprovemenss s,d ns spch. m Provided, that the State may. under aps propriate laws cause the net proceeos from the state convict fund to De ap maintenance of public roads In ine State, and the Legislature may also make additional appropriations TOT that purpose"
 tional aid which will come soon as sure as stand before you. I shall use ev- cry possible effort while I am mem Der of the Senate to bring It about; NO one questions the right under the Fed eral Constitution of the government to, appropriate money to aid in construct ing post roads, but some claim that IL is paternal
 If 1t Is paternal we have always been paternal. Calhoun. Clay and Webster. in their day. were ali advo- cates of government aid for road con struction and one of MT. CaIhouns best efforts was made in advocacy or hill appropriatlng money for this pur- pose. His speech may be found in the annals of the Fourteenth Congress, second session, Volume 2. page Sbl The government has aided in building many railroads in the country by iand grants and bond issues. We have im- proved rivers and deepened harbors and constructed canals for the benefit or commerce. We have appropriated $4o,- O00.000 for irrigating arid lands in the West and the amount will soon pass the $100000,000 mark We have re- gently spent $13,000,000 building roads in our island possessions in an enort to civilize people and develop com nue and never will. We appropriate 64 per cent of our revenues for war and preparation of war and the mag nificent sum of per cent for com merce and 3-4 of 1 per cent for agrf5 culture, The farmers in this country pay the taxes and fight the battles they furnish the exports which make the balance of trade in our favor and bring What are we doing for this class Of our citizenship? Is 1t not time for the government to be just ana fair 10 them? The government constantly uses the public roads In carrying the mans. Government roads are the best aid to a national defense in case Of war. Good roads are necessary to the exten- sion of the free delivery service which should go to every man Who lVes on good road.
 Need for Ala of capital.
 Now let us briefly notice the ques-
 
 velopment. The pessimist will say that we have always had these boasted re- sources--why have they not been de- veloped before? The reason Is plain; the capital to do the work. This Ia a new country. industrially considered
 The accumulation of hundred years by our fathers was wiped out at Ap- pQmattox when the greatest military captain of all the ages furled his nag: declared the end of the struggle had come and advised his veterans 10 go home and make better citizens tnan except honor. The old soldiers turned their faces southward and homeward; some of them covered with scars ana all of them covered with glory. Tn stroyed and the family had scattered In order to prevent starvation.
 "Under these conditions We began life anew We expected to be left Tn l peace to rebuild our homes end TOT tunes. Soon the evil genius of wicked prosecutors conceived and put into op- l eration the horrors of reconstruction and for seven long years we sunered more than during the war itselr. Ine carpet-bagger, aided by the scalawa| | and the negro, ruled and dictated until we could no longer endure the attempt l cd disgrace. The spirit of '61 revived and under one grand charge from the Tennessee to the Gulf, under the lead ership of the immortal Houston, we swept the cohorts of Satan from power and again came into possession of our own. We soon discovered that dead iy cancer was gnawing at the very yitais of our social and political fabric. We again decided on heroic action and with a keen, sharp knife. We cut 1t out root and branch. Thank God the wound is healed and we now have q the supremacy of our race is secured forever. The greatest blessing that ever befell Alabama came with the adoption of our new constitution The the man who conceived the franchise claussk of that instrument should have mohument erected to his memory as high. as the skies, built Of the finest love and affection of grateful people
 with the ratification of the new constitution there came confidence Tn the stability of our State government began to flow in. More capital has been invested in Alabama since the adoption of our new constltutlon than for thirty years before. If today all the foreign capital were to be with drawn the fire in every furnace would 20 out the wheels of industry would cease to turn and every train on our railroads would stand stili. We need and must have more capital We must send it a gilt-edge invitation and write nt the bottom "R. S. V. P" and when If cannes into our borders we must treat 1t justly and fairly. Every sky scraper and cottage built by foreign capital makes us richer and pays It's just share of taxation.
 Must Have Foreign Money.
 "A yelled threat is sometimes as bad as direct blow-capital is as timid as fawn. even the shaking of q bush sends 1t to GOV er We want and must have nancy millions of foreign capital We must manufacture our raw materials here in Alabama. We must not send our products away to be finished and returned to us witt the price enhanced many times b. skilled laboA whose wages ought to DO paid here In Ala bama. for 1t is such as these who consume the products of our farm and make a home market for all we have to sell.
 I've must manufacture our raw material into the finished products and thereby en- nance their value many fold. We produce the raw material and send 1t from Ala bama to be manufactured into finished fab rios by skilled labor Take for instance one pound of Alabama iron worth five cents drawn into a wire one-thousandth of an inch in diameter fine that 1t will pass through the eye of the smallest needle-a pound of which would exIend for seventy Mir. whiunan the best authority on finish ed product holds out practical demon stration Of how raw material can be enhanc- ed in value by skilled labor. A pound avoirdupoia of iron In this finished form Is valued at $1.S14.4 40. pound avoirdupos of our gold coin has value of S271 32. The finished iron Is therefore worth nearly eight times as much as gold coin.
 ''Senators and Representatives l heartily congratulate you on the splendid work you the State. No man In public life has suf- | fered more than on account of the lack | of an early education and training. It has been a handicap all through my life l