The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-09-27

w II II II WIcChS the state. we must
have office. To get what we want we
must dominate the people-must do some
smart thing to get in on. Shoot them
DOWN."
I say No! For Gods sake, MOI Spare
these this time. In trying to be too over
temperate you may become Incorporate.
Spare them some privileges and rights;
some of the rights for which our fore
fathers fought and died. Let us give as
sacred some rights to our fair women,
whose hands have rocked our cradles and
made blackberry wines and cordials for
us when we were babies. Let them have
some privileges left theml Something to
employ the noble, willing hands that have
rocked the cradle that moves the world.
Ny aged mother Is now gone. Gone
up to Heaven and to Cod But for years
she made two or more gallons of black
berry wine for home consumption, church
communion and for her neighbors for
their sick ones and she gave, or sold, to
her many friends her cordials. She is
gone and in Heaven! You can never harm
her therei But how about sainted moth
ers who yet toll here below? Shall we
hamper them?
Shall our love for q northern Yankee
leader from Ohio cause us to disregard
our sacred rights and privileges and cause
us to disfurnish the old soldiers with the
empty sleeve and the wooden leg, lost in
the interest of the south, and southern
womanhood and young manhood? Shall
we rally to the gentleman from Ohio and
say, "Yes. everything you wanti While
our mothers pensions are short and grow
ing shorter, and our old soldiers gaze
longingly upon the meat bone in the dish
and yet we raise no dissenting voice?''
I think mott Gentlemen who wore the
gray are brave men yet. and they will
stop AMI think and act. They Will, aided
by younger and stronger hands and
hearts, rally as they did in the sixties,
and they Will go to battle on November
20 and with weapons of peace, the honest
ballot they will say: "Comer, your day
of leadership is now haltedl Mr. Law
renee yours is fully ended in Alabama"
Then we will test the Fuller bill enact
ments and the Carmichael enactments,
and those that are good prohibition laws
we will hold Those that may infringe
upon our sacred liberties and the rights of
our homes we will cut out if need be and
make more and better ones.
Have we done enough last and this
year? We have. Have we advanced in
prohibition legislation? We have. We
wide statutory law. Both Fuller bill and
Carmichael bill, and all we need we now
have If anything is wrong, our supreme
judges will right it, as to whether or not
our laws now made are wholesome and
not in conflict with our constitution and
based upon principles of jurisprudence. II
they need any additional bracing, all the
good men are not yet gone when Conner
and Weakley and Lawrence are gone. If
SO, we had better give up the old ship
now. But we have got all the talent we
need and much to spare for other states.
We can afford a few of a kind to go
back to Ohio with the Rev. Lawrence and
never miss them much. But we cannot
afford to cut down our ranks here in
Alabama too much. The democratic party
needs them, and if they don't we RAIDS
do, for we are growing slowly but surely!
Hurrah, boysl Down with Conner and
Comerism Down with Brooks Lawrence
and up with the old honored soldier and
the anti-amendistsl Hoise the old flag of
freedom! Hoist the flag for the protection
of home, Katie and the babies, Cut out
further extra sessions and further reck-
less legislatingl Swing high the banners
of liberty and freedom for whom our
fathers and forefathers gave their lives
and their efforts and their prayers! Look
only to God as your leader! Listen not
too much to the cheaper paid parson; but
act for yourselves, Listen not to the
false statements that all this new ex-
perimenta1 law should be rushed into OUT
dear constitution! Keep 1t out Wait and
test the law first and all that is found
good later can be held sacredy! That
which is found obnoxious can be cut out
and should be cut out! That that is
found good we will carry with us! But
we want to test it first and see. When
We know then we can adopt.
| am sorry for the man, or men, who
say. when men of sense and sound i,idg
rnent express an honest opinion that our
constitution should not be burdened with
these Fuller and Carmichael bills, by the
rash adoption of extreme and untried
laws, and laws upon which no supreme
judge has ever passed an opinion, I am
sorry, | say, that we have men who say:
HE is for whisky
/ for one have not drank a drop for
more than Is years. Neither have
handled or tasted. I have not for s6
years drank drop of coffee. never In my
life had a drop of beer, a cigar, a cigar
cite, pipestem, chew of tobacco, a dip
of snuff. a chew OF chewing gum inside
of my lips For is years my wife and
l have kept house and we have six chill
dren, all living. and we have never had
whisky beer or camphor in our home.
led the fight here at Calera and through
out my county against whisky calling
the first meeting and making the first
speech against 1t and for the county, and
yet / do not believe it best to adopt the
amendment. Am / for whisky? If you
think 30 ask these former saloonkeepers
IL they ever saw my foot or face inside
a barroom or even inside poolroom in Is
years. What will you say of me? Say I
am crazy 1 suppose. If you do / hope
you will get the same way before you de-
part this life. Get temperate by practice
Let your record speak and then people
will know where you are! Let us quit
branding every statesman as for whisky
or whisky head" ETC.. because he thinks
certain law should remain on the
statutes and not be embodied in our con-
etitution.
Every sensible man knows IL he Is in
formed that the majority now stand
against the amendment. If you ever pass
1t you must get your help from prohibit
ton men now with the opponents to the
amendment If you get them you must do
so by kindness and by argument, not by
harshness or branding them as 'Iiquor
heads" Be sensible and keep cool IL you
never carry any measure. Yours for
right s. J. JENNINGS.
Calera, September 25 1909.
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