The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-26
SOME REFLECTIONS, SOME
 FACTS, SOME CONCL USIONS

It Is perhaps true thar liberty is often purchased with blood. s IL is. perhaps, true that a< people T Perhaps. it is true that slavery siis. tened with law is slavery still | The lack of Rights is the lack of iib- A people trained in the siavish ob- servanee of law Is a people ripe for
 1t is q mistake to say or think that such d people will not submit to loss of rights- experience negatives the
 BoestfuI as we are. ane have been. Of rights achieved by The Fathers.' it should be recollected that even among the distinguished and illus triouss achievers of those rights there was an opinion unfavorable to the
 The capacity of the people to gov. ern was distrusted.
 That opinion. suppressed in meas poiitic.s sinuous and assrsssive. i've
 It asserts Itself at every favorable opportunity ot the law.
 when intrenched in power it hesi- tates not to override the law of its
 Through the law is the tapping and mining process to destroy Rights
 Perhaps. 1t 10 true that ''Eternsl viz ilance Is the price of liberty" .
 And. It may be true that . slavish cotic that makes the lids of vigilance to fall.
 right which thoughtlessness condones, of vigilance and the Paneora of evils may include the flight of Hope.
 The loss of one Right seems imma- reriai to the sleepy guard!
 The almost imperceptiple stream across the greatest dam. will. un.
 The sharp point of the wedge will not cleave the log. but followed by the swelling tool. the work of cleavage is done.
 A country's enemies. like mans. are those of, It's own household.
 The spirit aggressive for destruction of rights, must be met by the spirit unyislding sl,,ng to the loss s..,r,o;,a ef ,s,shss gression. and equally to be condemned.
 Without the great solid basis of rights. the superstructure of govern nnenr in the name of liberty, IS gilt. tering delus.on.
 .seif government" is based upon the. equality of citizenship. and the rule of the majority is the inevitable con- clusion, and the breach of the conclu- sion must. as inevitably, read to ca iamitys
 The experiment. of Minority Rule Is the dangerous experiment of Alabama
 Our present organic iaw was fixed upon us by Minority estimated af 6H.0op. ,it S ].
 The Majority. trained in the observ- ance of law, submit.
 The negro. for his own and popular good, was eliminated from the elecr~ orate. but since the glorious CD ratf- fication of our organic law. a major ity of the white men of the State has not been heard of at the polls!
 A governing Minority becomes dis dainful of popular rights.
 A ruthless disregard and d.sdain of tho peoples interests and rights man. ifests itself in the present attempt Of unbridled. licentious Minority to change the fundamental law when advantage Is taken of the wholesale disfran- chisement existcnt.by yirute of an or- ganic law inaugurated by a large Mi- nority of the voters! And. when it fs known that If. by supineness of the qualified voters, the amendment is fixed into the law. 1t will be done by, possibly, less than one-sixth of the white men of the Statei
 This devilish encroachment of the Minority needs to be checkedi
 But the motive of d~struction Of rights Is apparent amid the alarming