The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-11-20

amendment: Hero II an amendment
you ou6ht to be allowed to vote for.
The LeKisiaturo should have given
won the privilege OF voting for an
amendment giving 10 some power. the
Governor, ~ you please. the authority
to issue bonds to the amount Of one
or more millions to pay the deficit un-
lawfully created. That is what you
ought to be voting for now Instead
OF that. the Governor treats the de-
ficit tocularly. 1t amuses him. He
saws In erect. let the next adminis-
tration look >out for the deficit: let
him come in here to the executive Of
Ace. take this chair and through four
years pinch and pinch the old soldiers.
the schools. and all the great interests
OF the state to replace the waste and
extravagance which has gone before.
IN the face Of that situation. he says
those. whofdo not favor his policies or
support him ought to be sent to the
asylum, forgetting, no doubt, that we
have only two asyiums, the quarters
OF which, while large, are yet limited.
.aThese sold-fashion' people of Ala
hama have an idea In their heads that
IL takes greater virtue to produce than
to waste: that any person. however
small his capacity, can have no diff
acuity in dissipating fortune; only
the Wise and the provident gathers
one together.
People were dissatisfied. They
were talking about the administers
tion. and somefhing must be done to
rehabiiitate Its fortunes. and they be-
lieye the politicians considered this q
most practical way. Here at hand
was q chariot ON which the Governor
and his heirs might ride out Of the
airy and exhausted into brighter and
more hopeful political fields.
Conceived I'm Politics.
"If not politics, would the election
be on hand now? In vain was the cry
OF the business man that he be allowed
to wait until the regular election next
year and thus get the matter off at
the time of the election of public Of
6cers. In vain did the business ele-
ment cry out. insisting. in the hrst
Mace, that IL was at present need
less expense; that the Fuller and Car
michael bills were quite snfficient 10
hold the booze-nghters for the year.
They pointed out also that the payment
OF a poll tax. which might be pro,
cured by reasonable delay. would
add many thousands Of dollars to
fund devoted exclusively to the teach
ing of our children.
.Tfese cries would have reached the
prohibitionist, 1t seems to your speaker
the man who stood for prohi-
bftion--the most rabid of all OF them.
1t did not seem to meet the views OF
the aspiring.
.The conaausion is Irresistible. then.
that the ydys November 29th was con-
cefyed in politics; that the date was
named by these men thirsting for Of
fee; that the amender and the anti
amender might thus be tied to the
chariot wheels of the ambitious TO
make a politicians holiday. When the
business man pleaded for three months
to rebuild his fortunes, one sweet au-
tumn in which TO recuperate. the re-
suits OF the spasms and panics run
ming through two years. they ridi-
culed him. They were Tor business,
too. but another kind OF business, and
one the blessings of which they APP
pretended would not be equally dis
tributed. This election, my fellow
citizens, II appears to me. and 1t ap-
pears to you. was conceived IN wicked
ness.
"Does any man know of any reason
in the world why this election should
be held now; why tnis haste and hurry
n we could not wait a year. could We
not have waited until after February.
at least, to the end that every citizen OF
Alabama capable of qualifying could
have the opportunity to vote on so
Important a matter as changing the
organic law under which he was to
live.
.sThere are other evidences that
their plans contemplated a disfran-
chisement of many OF our people, and
protesting every virtue on the outside.
they purposed sneaking the amend.
lnent into the constitution by species
~ hgahN arlbuiant 1850