The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-04

in by the strongest enactments. Let
down the guards, remove the protection
to this fund, and what would De the re-
suit? l shall write you shortly on the
subject of Confederate pensions, giving
statistics from the reports of the auditor
and treasurer, and from the message or
Governor Conner, and leave it to you to
solve the mystery.
Gentlemen, this appeal from a Confed-
crate soldier. voicing the sentiment and
wishes of many other Confederates, may
fall upon needless ears, but "therell come
a time" next year when 10000 or 3d.
Confederates will be heard. 1t may be
useless TO ask you to kill all the meas
ures of the prohibition party. because 1t
Is currently reported-how or where the
report originated would be hard to dis
cover-but 1t Is said that Governor
Conner is advocating all this prohibition
party politics, and that you belong to
him-that he has bought you body and
soul-what he speaks you try to utter.
That when he whistles, "Tige, Tray,
Dixie or Pug" all come, with the little
dogs In the wake, to kiss the hand that
throws the bone. That when he pops his
whip, which sounds louder and leaves a
more singing smart than did that of the
oyerseer in the days of slavery, you each
go yelping to do his bidding, falling over
each other to be the first.
But cannot believe that you have be-
come SO debased as to wear any man.
collar, neither Lawrence's. Weakley's nor
Corners Some of you are the noble sons
of worthy Confederates, and those battle
SCARED heroes would almost arise from
their graves to remind you that you had
forgotten their instruction, the hardships
they endured, and the blood they shed,
to secure the rights which they placed in
your keeping, and which you are now
trying to deprive their living comrades
from enjoying.
But with all his political power-with
his party whip, his whistle, and his bones
Jaw-bones, If you wish-will all these, 1
cannot believe that you would dog his
heels and courts'y at his frowns.'' in order
that thrift might follow fawning." L
cannot believe that you have sold your
selves to him-I would as soon believe that
you had sold out to the devil-well, what s
the difference, since prohibition is the
child of the devil?
Listen, then, to this appeal from an old
Confederate soldier, who Is rapidly ap-
preaching the sunset of life! Hear me.
for our dear old stated Hear me for the
sake of our precious boys, the future stay
of the state! Hear me for the sake of the
dearest of all living beings. our mothers,
whose hearts will be made to bleed great
drops of blood when they see their loved
sons dropping into drunkards graves, who
could not buy whisky from a licensed
saloon, but who can get all he wants
under the conditions brought about by
prohibition Hear me for the sake OF
| home, of heaven, of Christ, of civilization
of the supremacy Of the Anglo Saxon, for
the success of democracy and for the per-
petuation of the solid south, until the time
shall be ripe when the negro can do us nc
harm, for all these. and more. vote
against the odious prohibition party bills
and the other measures mentioned, and re-
store peace and quiet to our distracted
/ people. n. A. STUART.
Birmingham, Ala, August 3, 1909.