The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19

perfect sanitary system. we must h. one great city, with powers to take c
 of a population of 100000 "Graymont, Elyton or North Birmi ham has no more right to endanger health and lives of Birmingham. Il Birmingham had to endanger the hea and lives of the people west of Us wh our sewage was at one time emptied. ''The bill which has been publisl has been twice indorsed by the Cham of Commerce without a dissenting v This organized body of the best busin | men in the district stands pledged to all honorable means to have the bill
 acted into law.
 'I cannot see why Senator Miller or
 member of the legislature should tate to support a bill which has suot mendous indorsement as the original
 bill received at mass meeting asss
 low the will of the people when so
 later date. If they made pledge
 should consider that they are the
 sentatives of the people and shou
 low the vii lof the people when SC
 bly, expressed and emphasized
 No Reason For Quitting Er
 There is no more reason for
 out the town of Ensley than ther
 leaving out Pratt City, North Bnn ham or East Lake. Not as much, for reason that Ensley has under exis laws encroached upon territory elah by Birmingham and rightfully belong the parent city.
 As an advocate of the Smyer and still believing that there are tions and terms therein contained
 would like to see embodied in a. providing for annexing new terri
 am ready to confess that 1t is inop
 and we will never get a Create
 mingham to conform to symmetrict
 under its provisions.
 Tn voting for a representative
 legislature on tomorrow l shall cast preference and vote for n stranger stands for what I believe is best i the good of the community as and man who has the nerve to fiat-footed and proclaim his convict man who does not straddle the iect. but comes out bravely and says is for Greater Birmingham.
 Tt has been argued that the Grea Birmingham bill should leave out Thon and Ensley, because the territory ( braced in these places were not inc in the original King bill.
 "If one will look at rne map an
 low zigzag lines which were necess " once convinced that the lines were
 as a compromise measure and i, running counter to a powerful in This same influence is now in and must be overcome now. anc as I am concerned, I would rather l no extension than to snow a favor l or partiality.
 Threats have been made that in
 trial plants will move ou, rather | operate in a territory controlled by a government. I tell you. gentlemen.
 this is all a bluff have heard
 these threats for the last 20 odd years
 don't take any stock in such talk. of this territory must be under the l trol of some municipal government
 why not have it under the contrdl
 one government which we hopa xpeet to be made as perfect as anA ] ipal government In the land
 'The advantages that the emp 1 these industrial plants will deriy being in a. large, well regulated ci : far exceed the small amount of ia be paid out by the corporations tha | the plants
 Must Have Greater Birminqt We must have Greater Birmin including East Lake, woodlawn End, Elyton, Graymont, North Bi nam, Thomas and Ensley; and ho
 the friends of the proposition thuse on the subject and work end until the bill has become a la Tn conclusion I want to say tn ing the last two years of busin
 pression there have been periods pression within my own soul. The, .ditions will not last. The bushes Tor the world are anxious to stai l wheels of industry, and if we fail to | by the census of 1910 that we have
 city as we have claimed to hay ! will be a serious reflection. "We would today. perhaps, ha
 sub-treasury of the United States | our population shown better We
 no doubt, make satisfactory financi arrangements to build a $1. 000, 900 hotei were not elassed so low in populatio deed there are many things thi
 need that will come easy when we
 a population of from 125,00O to 150,O00