The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-11
U. CuLpepper Ccmments
 On Men and Many Matters

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 We are. no doubt. in the happy frame of mind to. take whatever we can ret and thank God" though it's . sin to openly confess 1t.
 4 young fellow was holding and hug ging and kissing his girl In the parior. which she very much enjoyed. under protest. The old lady was in the kitchen. Turn mo loose! shouted the girl. ainiost loud enough for the mother to hear. Then in whisper- Hold me fastr'
 | So. while we protest against bless ings. as subversive of pet theories, let's in practice. enjoy the sweets of false systems.
 want permission to protest against certain unkind filings" at Populists and Populism from absorbent sponges. It Is execrable taste in the purloiner to discredit the means of his success. If there was no yvalue in it, it was Q waste of time and energy to steal 1t. There is one thing about purioined Popuiism-the original owner cannot identify the goods.
 A Direct Insult. It is adding insult to injury to call the masqueraders Populists. + The president of the L. and N. Rail- road was ready to apologize to me for calling the members of the Governors Legislature Popuiists. As soon as I called. his attention to the matter. he very promptly saw his mistake and was willing to admit that the "Popu- lists had little sense."
 hope, since Congressional attention is now called to this matter, that an apparent want of sense will no more be denominated "Populism." Call it. like old man Acree did. right out by its right name."
 But. while I was resting. those two Sundays, was hard at work on the ''Williamson Plan" of making corn. was not-.oniy preparing the land in my mind. but was getting good advice from experience.
 Experience is the poorest asset of the farmer. He uses 1t to keep his nose to the grindetone." He works hard to grow poorf He keeps out of politics because 1t conflicts with his religion. All he lives for Is to de right, so that he can take commend able pride in his epitaph.
 The farmer I, consulted about the prize acre of the Williamson plan is inclined to scientffic methods. Science in farming is the main thing that en- gages our agricultural schools, gener- ously supported by the tag tax.
 Our love of the tag no doubt stim- ulates fertilizer trusts. though the tar iff may be the mother. It may be that the trust fixes the price of cottonseed, which is. more or less. an abrogation of the law of supply and demand. But, what does the farmer caye for that?
 About all he can do is to gather up his experience and labor to make his family poorer-neglecting the science going to waste in the agricultural schools.
 So. took counsel with . scientific A. IA A- to success in prize acre contest. is-- to secure your witnesses first: that. with the proper witnesses 1t is prob able to make an impossible yield.
 My partner. who IS another good Baptist, thinks we had better follow science and have the witnesses "in soak" Y
 The Chief ArKumeat.
 Now, it's too late in the day for the conscientious to object to extraordln- ary yields of corn In this scientific manner.
 Before the dollar became the chief argument in nominating primaries. tha imagination was very reliable of re- suits and this stimulation of the imagination was highly approved In moral and religious circles. It was Reform. Reforms do not go backwards. Sparta was great coun- try and taught two great virtues. In Sparta it was a crime to "get caught" 1t is pretty much that way with us-- except in the case of public servants.
 Governor Johnston instituted and left us system of Examination or Public Accounts. which has been quite prolific in detecting honest mistakes.
 I. think the Governor realized that the public servant only Knocks down" with good. honest Intentions. not fe- ioniously, but for the good of his fam fly. When it Is ascertained, at public cost, that the official was honestly careless enough to mix some of the public money with his own. he is glad to return it, with thanks-and so on at the same game.
 7 want to suggest an improvement in the plan that will avoid honest mis- takes" The charge of embezzlement and suspension 0mmediate) from of- flee until trial and acquittal. will go q. long ways towards correct book keeping.
 Governor Conner is at liberty to put 1t in his call for extra session. Though he may be so pleased and happy with a late court decision. and. perhaps. an- Pother one, that he'll indefinitely post pone tho call. That will strengthen him in his race for higher honors. us a spieudid Legislature and gratihed the tax-payers with so many increased burdens that 1t will be very hazardous to Senatorial aspirations to reconvene so wise body.
 However, he Is about to have trouble with tha women. His trouble with the raiIToads is insignificant compared with the lowering clouds Of feminine wrath.
 1t was very unfortunate for the Gov ernor to antagonize beauty and gentle- ness. I don't. like to prophecy evil for our Chief-Afa gistrate. but honestly believe he will not get single female vote In the next primary, Perhaps. 1t is no business Of women 10 be seeking laws to safeguard chii- dren. The old notion that worfian's sphere is in the home is playing out That old notion and "horne sphere" custom were fatal to nodesty and fem mine refinement. Happily the old GUS toms are passing away. Why our best women, in the old days. were vulgar enough to blush at things that are highly entertaining now. Our highest type of Christian lady in the old days was rude enough to stop her ears af inc hest tid-bits of the present-day Evangelist. Indeed the foul mouthed fellow would have been tarred and feathered by the rude. uncouth male Christians of that day.
 A GoverAOr's Speech.
 have heard a Governor. In a mixed assembly, say things that were so in- decently delicate as to make me con- cIude that aa we advance in elegance