The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-25

was the matter. She did not pay any
attention to him, and from his pillow, as
he traced the burrows round and round,
he called again to her and sharply, as to
why she did not care for the baby She
replied that it was hungry. He said give
Il something to eat, and she told him that
there was nothing IN the house, she hay-
ing that morning used the last dust OF
meal for breakfast, giving the baby her
share, The father Immediately stopped
as pillow, unhitched the steer belled and
turned him aloose In the woods and with
a sack started out to hunt corn. He got
to the mans house at night and the man
had gone to bed. He walked him up and
told him his troubles. The man directed
him to his corncrib and said to him to go
in and take as much as he could carry,
and that he need not pay for or return 1t.
He shelled a bushel of corn and started
home. On his way he know of water
mill. He reached there past midnight:
walked up the owner; told him of the
scarcity of bread at home and that he
must have the corn ground at once. The
miller who knew him, told him he might
grind it, and he need leave no toll. He
ground the corn and got home next morn
ing and his wife and baby had bread.
That man has been very successful. To-
day he is one of the most benevolent cit
liens of Florala, earnestly endeavoring to
promote the welfare of his fellow citi-
zens and the soldiers of the lost cause.
Instances of Success.
Your own adjutant general, Col Harvey
Jones, commenced service as sergeant,
and then rose to the ranks of a major,
left leg at the battle of Fair Oak. He
is now one of the best tax adjusters the
state has ever had.
Judge Saffold Berney led his company
as captain, and is now judge of the law
and equity court, dispensing the justice
of the law.
Col. E. L. Russell, private at 16 when
the eolorbearer of his regiment fell with
the colors dragging the dust, and vol
unteer could scarcely be found to shoulder
them, stepped forward-this mere strip
ling-and asked if he would do. At the
battle of Franklin, one of the worst holo-
causts of the war, when the order was
given to charge upon the enemy's breast
works, said to have been the strongest
ever rushed, young Russell, advanced with
the colors of his regiment Haunting into
the trenches of the enemy, and I will
state with PRIDE captured two sets OF
the opposing army's flags.
General Harrison. beginning as second
lieutenant, on account of his bravery and
merit, advanced until he was the young
est brigadier general in the army. To-
day he is your honored commander.
Henry Grady in a speech delivered at
Boston, told of the Confederates' return
to Georgia. He followed DR.. Talmage,
who described the return of the Federal
army to Washington. They were in gala
attire; colors flying, bands playing They
were tens of thousands strong, and there
was a mighty huzzah-a victorious army.
Mr.. Grady told of two soldiers from
Sandersville; ragged, footsore and hun
gary, stopped by the side of the road
to rest.
One said to the other: Jim, what are
you going to do when you get homer"
Jim replied: do, I am going to kiss
Sallie and the baby, and get steer and
make a crop, and if these Yankees fool
with me anymore, l am going to whip
them again." This spirit you brought
home with you. and innoculated it into
this great country of ours. God grant
that it may last forever
Slogan of Victory.
If you soldiers will carry to very
farm, every vale every hill within the
state the incentive to raise everything
we consume, becoming instead of the
purchasers of supplies, the sellers of
supplies, then the true slogan of victory
will be sounded. Paradoxical as 1t may
seem, we perpetuate the republican par
ty by furnishing the market for the
crops of the farms of the north and
west; enriching them by our purchases
of grain and grain products, cattle,
mules, hogs and their products, thus
creating for them an unnatural market,
an unnatural demand and unnatural
price. AS it is we are impoverishing
our own lands in the vain attempt to
get rich by raising cotton We should,
by raising our own supplies, make it
impossible for the farmers of the north
and west to be contented with tariff
conditions as they exist today. By fur
nishing them a market for all of their
crops with a full understanding of the
tariff problems, we destroy that con-
dition of things that naturally results
from the farmers buying on tariff
basis, and selling on a free trade basis,
and if they were forced to hunt the
free trade markets of the world to sell
their surplus, then and not until then
will they realize the iniquity which
comes from selling on free trade basis
and buying on a tariff basis. 1t is UNI
natural that the farmer should ever
consent to the iniquities of our present
tariff system-a tariff system which has
built up the mightiest trust the world
has ever seen. Every crop the farmer
raises is raised on the free trade basis.
Every farm utensil, every article of
wearing apparel carries a tax of the
trust.
If we could by the different systems of
farming bring this home to them, and
then and not till then will the south
carry it's flag across Mason and Dixon's
line and win the great victory for
human rights and human preservation.
The south is, 1 believe, the conserva-
ton of the liberties of the people.
States Rights.
We have just had national election
in which the old line up was made |
again. The solid south on one side and
the solid north on the other Some |
as years ago it was said that the fight |
was about the negro. This was never
true The Mason and Dlxon's line was
one of human rights, and that right
was for state sovereignty and limita-
ton in the power to tax That is each |
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