The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-04
KNIGHTS MEET
IN HISTORIC CITY
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lumbus had one of their reception to
| new members, and the POSTMASTER who
was an old timer Supposed to know all
things), wrote to knight in adjacent
state summoning him to come and as
| signed to him as his toast at the talk
| fest following the exercises, The Faith
of Our Fathers Now, that looked all
right in print and was correctly tuned
Tor the title of the much read and loved
work of our cardinal was surely the right
key, with none to say nay, but II so
happened that the faith of that member j
fathers for some generations had been
Methodist and the knights were treated
with an eulogy on John Wesley's follow
ers (his noble ancestors faith that would
have caused any brother or sister of that
persuasion to repeat amen, amen which
leads me to say that we have the greatest
love and respect for our dissenting broth
ers for what they have done for us. Take
Alabama as an instance and her first
three state deputies of this order were
converts. Taking these as something done
Tor US by them, we certainly cannot fail
to be thankful and wish the good work
to go on.
"A mother said to her son one Sunday
afternoon that he must get ready for Sun
day school Johnny answered that he
thought he would go to baseball instead,
as it was just the same. You bad boy,
mother replied. What could have put
that notion in your head?' Why mother,
Johnny answered, at Sunday school they
tell us to Stand up for Jesus sake and
at baseball they holler at us to sit down
for Christs sake
The tide of prosperity cannot be longer
stayed by even the making of coat-of-
many-colors tariff bill, the demand for
the products of the south from Virginia
to Texas must be answered with the
goods, and one could not, If he would
forget the overwhelmed hills and valleys
of middle and north Alabama grooming
to be put upon our waterways and be
fioated to Mobile and thence to Panama,
or to the wide world.
Your children for many generations
will be using steel and iron from Biz
mingham, for the biologists say the sup
ply is inexhaustible. Laid there side by
side with lime rock and coal, thing
that does not occur at any other place
on the earth's surface, the price OF the
market is today fixed by Birmingham
of these most necessary Of all commodl-
ties While king Cotton still reigns here
In his God-given monopoly, while Prince
Steel and the Iron Duke gladly attend his
court the Barons-Lumber, Cement and
others-are too numerous to mention,
while the Sir knights of the smaller IN
dustries pay true tribute to that kindly
monarch.
THE present contest is one of COM
merce. We are not imitators. we DON'T
want to be like the small boy VINO toid
the barber to cut my hair like papa's
with a hole in the top There is room
here for original endeavors, for geolo-
gists, for chemists, for scientists, each
making the art of living little easier,
the art of doing more with a given
force. Nearer Handy Andy time is al
most gone: his I fly is quite accomp-
lished; steady, persistent consistent work
and the victory is bought. The future
will see the south ashamed TO use I'M
necessary force on non-combatants, let
that remain for the gendarmes of France
and the mobs Of Spain.
Let no one think that the greatest
problem of modern civlization-the PROB
lem of the preservation of the integrity
of the white race, which the south has
almost silently fought for, won and saved
to the world, has been won by an easy
victory. All other weapons having failed,
1t was won with patience, almost super
human patience: the occasional outbreaks
did not even count-they were symptoms,
not the disease. And 1t is now VIC
tory, the great philosophers so recognize
ii. and some of us will live to see the
day that miscegenation is worldwide
crime.
Alabama applauds when California
stays the unknown tide and all men feel
better when the best thought of today
prevents the crime of tomorrow. We