The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-08

Dora, Aug. 7.-(Speeial.)-If the public assembly of striking miners with their women and children, which occurred at Dora today is characteristic of other gath erings in the district. l fail to discover any very dangerous feature in the public assembly proposition
 This correspondent came out on the train this morning which numbered among it's passengers MT. Fairley, who l was informed was to be the orator of the day at a great gathering of his followers in a wooded place short distance from Dora. By my own invitation l attended that meeting, and numbered myself one of an audience of about 300 people, among them white men, black men, white women, black women, and children of both races.
 Fairley Talks.
 MT. Fairley's speech was just such an address as would ordinarily be delivered by any other paid attorney in defence of his client The most objectionable features of his remarks were his personal refer ences-and his harsh criticism of men who differ with him, and of the governor of Alabama. The speaker urged the striking miners to stand fast to the proposition they had laid down and to yield not one point. Said he: If you lose this strike not decent miner, not a man of you who has any self-respect, should remain in Alabama" He took occasion to speak in opposition to the importation of foreigners to this district, upbraided Governor Conner (who says he is opposed to foreign i'm mgration) for allowing them to come and forgot the fact that he uttered his sen tences in the dialect and tongue of a man from across the sea-he himself being a foreigner
 When I suggested to a bystander that I had heard nothing incendiary in the re- marks of MT. Fairley, it was stated to me that it is not the open meetings, but the star-chamber gatherings where fiery ut | terances are delivered and from which is breathed forth dangerous contagion. | Racial Danger.
 Other speakers addressed the assembly. following in the Fairleyite line and ideas. 1t was left for a negro preacher from Empire to take the stand and give utter ance to remarks which cannot prove con- ducive to a readjustment of conditions and resumption of peace and order. It is a lamentable condition that incites and permits ignorant negro leaders to address assemblies of white women and children as social equals, advising as to moral and social questions, and alludipg to those 1 delicate matters of social status which can only be discussed properly with fair women in the private home and by nus f band and father.
 f-I af nnnft q pa nr i more that the people of Alabama by rigid
 force and even the shedding of blood ] estopped the advance of a threatening , peril which endangered our social fabric. | It was the medication in the minds of ! blacks the idea of social equality. The terrible poison then was sought to be ap- piled for political purposes by carpet l baggers from the north, and for time | the cloud seemed ominous; but the Cau- casian blood of this state was aroused to resentment and to the defense of the home fireside.
 l When today this correspondent saw the | comingling of whites and blacks at Dora, | where he beheld the sympathetic arms 1 of a negro extended toward and embrace ! white speaker to impact to him secret | of his bosom in the very presence of gentle white women and innocent little girls, I thought to myself: has 1t again come to this?
 Hymn Singing.
 | One interesting feature of this meeting today was the singing of hymn by the assembly. AS MT. Fairley took his seat a Square note music teacher led the sacred warning hymn, Are you ready for the judgment day" and white and black, male and female, joined in concert. Just what bearing the musical introduce