The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-28

and otherwise, that they would meet
 them in spirit of adjustment and set
 tlement, and would arrange inequalities
 anda expressions, if there be any thus
 settling outside of the courts every con
 tention and removing whatever friction
 there might be between carrier and ship
 per. So far this amity and equity on
 the part of the state has been rejected.
 We are asking for further appropra
 ton to be used if need be to protect
 the state along this line. There is no
 question that a settlement by the state
 vdth the Southern, the Alabama Great
 Southern, the Mobile and Ohio the Sea-
 board, the Atlantic Coast Line, the Frisco,
 the Northern Alabama, and the Atlanta,
 Birmingham and Atlantic railroads, and
 the decision of the circuit court of ap-
 peals maintaining the integrity of your
 legislation, have been worth many times the trouble and money so far expended.
 There is nothing more dangerous to the
 interest and integrity of the state than
 to have the people defenseless should any
 corporation or individual attempt to hec-
 tor or dominate the state. The state
 should always be in position to maintain
 a firm stand in carrying out it's statutes
 and In enforcing the protection of the
 citizen.
 You created the following new officers and made appropriation for the expenses
 of the same
 State game and fish commissioner, $2500. Two state tax commissioner, $5400. Inspector of jails, cotton mills, etc,
 $2400.
 Director of cotton statistics bureau,
 $500.
 z. Expenditures.
 Your appropriations and expenditures have fructifled every interest in the state While a deficit will be created 11 o131a nf Ia tG wi hn
 rendered in our midst You have put the money out at usury, and with that
 usury you bring to every interest and every citizen the highest returns. | Would you recall the money appro- | priated to the state board of health; to the soil survey; to the live stock board; 1 to the medical college at Mobile Would you recall the estab lishment of l the law and equity courts; the higher 1 gay for the judiciary? Would you I recall the increased appropriations for I the insane; for the Institute for the 1 Deaf; for the Boys Industrial school' l Would you recall the money for the l agricultural schools; the normal schools; for the country high schools, l for the Girls Industrial, the Polytech .
 nie and the university? Would you
 recall the money for the rural school buildings and for the maintenance or | the rural schools? Would you recall | the money for the old soldiers? These l in a large measure have been your eX l penditures.
 | It is true that the appropriations I were made after careful study of the | conditions of the treasury, and the iu- l ture of the state, and it was not then | thought that a deficit would be created
 The statewide prohibition bill oc- 1 castoned the loss of revenue derived 1 from the whisky license, and 1t IS l largely responsible for the coming | deficit in the treasury. But this money | Is well lost, and the state should re- l ioice that we have cut loose from | revenue that comes from licensing the 1 liouor traffic. Our convict camps snow 1 that a large per cent or the inmates I are there because of the use or liquor As governor I have come in contact | with the wives, mothers and children of these conyicts and have had forc1ply l impressed upon me the terrible results l of the whisky habit in its worst form While originally was local optionist l T now believe that every power or l the state should be used to exterininate | inc evils of intemperance. Some
 have said that the jails and 1 nenitentiaries have always been filled with 1 this class of inmates This Is true, but | if ,s also equally as true that they will I continue to be thus filled as long as we | allow the sale of liquor in. our midst Your determination to protect the women and children and the future generations of the state by the statewide prohibition bill to decrease the criminal records ana to increase one thousand fold the chances for higher and better citizenship, IS worthy of high commendation. It Is true we have some citizens who will always drink, and some who will always sell liouor. It Is equally true that the future motherhood of the land and the future children should be protected as far as possible from this great evil
 I believe that you could nave maue no better investment than to cut out the
 revenue derived from the whisky license;