The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-04

! the annexation, Mr.. Motion pointed
10 the advantage OF having one school
system. under one central superin.
tendent. He showed how. every com
munity. which now operates as q sepa-
rate city, and which has no water
words Of their own, can acquire water
works by becoming part OF city
that can afford to buy them.
And no city can grow. no district
can grow, without waterworks."
Another representative Of the Biz.
mingham contention. Mr.. jackson, re-
futed the contention OF the opponents
that DR.. Felix Tarrant was elected
Representative from Jefferson ,as de.
cisive OF the issue of q Greater Bir.
mingham. when he opposed the greater
city. jackson declared that Tarrani
was elected. not on the Birmingham
issue. but on the prohibition question
as he stood for prohibition. and tina,
platform 10 the most powerful.
Hon. sgd Bowie. the heavyweight
as to the arguments for Grsater Biz.
mingham.. repeated the statement OF
Mr.. jackson a. to Tarrant.s election
Tarrant. he said. came out AZ the
candidate OF the Anti-Saloon League
and as such had no opposition. Not
long. before the election, he stated, 1,
was ascertained that Tarrant hat
promised Ensley Immunity from the
provisions OF the Greater Bfrminghen
bill, as far as In his power lay. and
that many people, tired Of having the
old question thus ,recuf. withdrew ,their
allegiance from Tarrapt.s and entered
Romaine Boyd. who. entering late. was
defeated. ~ ~
TT Was not his !. opposition TO the
Greater Birmingham question which
elected Tarrant. but his prohibition
backing. II Boyd had entered sooner.
or IL he had made a thorough spersonal
toward election, & and Tarrant's stand
on the Greater Birmingham issue
would not have held good" =.
One Big Community. S5@r
Mr.. Bowie declared that while Bir-
mingham. with the towns about It con-
stitute practically ono community. and
that the community Is one OF the
greatest and richest Ia the South. still
the subdivision into thirteen different
municipalities, gives BirnsinghHm the
burden of an insignificant popuiaAion.
which It must bear in the contest with
Atlanta, Memphis and the other larger
cities Of the South.
The thirteen cities are all in one
community" he said. "they have all
one interest. and yet there are, thirteen
mayors within ak milea of the court
house. thirteen chiefs OF police. thir-
teen school systems They say that IT
will be bad for the greater city to
have forty aldermen. as 1t may. I say
II Is better the forty. II we have them.
than the 400 that are now In the same
Districts
He declared that the little cities
could not rule themselves, pointing to
an example of their bond sales. He
touched upon the fight which Ensley
ID making 10 gain exemption from the
provisions OF the Greater Birmingham
bill. and pointed to the prohibition
law as an, example =, -..,
why did you pass the prohibition
best for the people. instead OF making
1t provisional on the majority vote Of
each OF the sixty-seven (. counties.
Where Is the iogicf'' -,
DR.. Cunningham headed the Ensley
delegation, with Mcdowell, q prominent
Ensley man, and Cole. Of North Bir-
mingham. all three protesting against
the provisions of the bill,
DR.. Cunningham declared that
Ensley had built herself. was city In
herself. had school systenls. police pro-
lection of its own. and could take care
of herself. He declared that as far
as public utilities. education. ana all
other considerations went Ensiey was
Independent, and protested against an
nexation.
He said that Birmingham had neither
the right of eminent domain" nor was
the consideration of pride sufficiently
great to warrant Its annexation OF
Ensley against Ensley's wishes. He
said that 1t had been defeated once