The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-10

gar feast that cost $50 plate Tn the hereafter every devil of those fellows will be asking that woman for a drink
 Of water and 1t will not be in her power
 to give it to him. But there are sane
 and Christian luxuries in the country
 and there Is no starvation there I
 maintain that there Is more crime and
 or the city of Chicago in any given 24
 hours than exist in the entire state of
 Kentucky in any given 24 days
 MT. McCumber has perhaps heard of
 Daniel Webster, and here is what he said about town and farm when he
 made one of his terrific assaults on a protective tariff:
 T am not anxious to accelerate the approach of the period when the great
 mass of American labor shall not find
 its employment in the field, when the young men of the country shall be
 obliged to shut their eyes upon eternal | nature, upon the heavens and the earth ! and immerse themselves in close and i unwholesome workshops, when they shall be obliged to shut their ears to 1 the bleatings of their own flocks upon their own hills and to the voice of the iark that cheers them at the plough" grant that there is more wealth
 Tn the city; but it is side by side with
 more poverty, and never out of sight [, wretchedness and woe such as are rare indeed in the country
 AS Tor opportunities the member snip or every Congress will show that DIE majority of both Housese were country born and country bred And the same IS true of most of the success ful men of the cities What is lnxurvp I'll tell you. It is a farm dinner in old Kentucky in the month of March You nave Jowl and turnip saIIet poached eggs fresh from the nest and corn pone, hot out of the skillet ,ro top or you have roll made of pie crust wrapped around stewed sun-dried
 peaches, sewed In clean linen cloth and boiled in spring water Put some butter sauce on that and have a goblet Of rich sweet milk right out of tbe | spring house. Open your wescut and
 fall to. That is luxury such as no city
 can match with even $50 a plate. | And as for comforts, you have orchard
 and garden, you have game and the nuts | of the forest, you have berries and many other fruits, such as melons, You haye
 bacon and beans, black-eyed peas. cab- bage, pot-licker, sure-enough butter and Isure-enough buttermilk. Later YOU have pumpkin bread and stewed or broil,d squirrel. and when the hard freeze comes lyou have possum, a feast for the gods | of high~ Olympus.
 Ana then nog-killing time with spare lrib, chinebone, sausage, and all such fixins. not emitting cracking bread. The boys go to the rabbit gums at crack of day and return laden with half a dozen. | fat as a rabbit can get to be, and barbe- cued, a luxury for Luculus. Then the -shuchng, the quilting and the dance. | to say nothing of the school champion
 ship, the spelling bee and the debating sc-
 ciety in the old field school house.
 | The unfair distribution of wealth in oiir republic is due to the privileges conferred on a class by the protective tariff, which takes from him that has earned and be-
 slows on him that covets. That made your city teem with millions who shoull never have left the farm, and as soon as the demon of protection dies of the stab the people have given it, there will be a reversal of the exodus. Back to the farm is legend that will mean some- thing practical.
 Emancipate the farm from the slavery a protective tariff imposes on it, and it will
 blossom and fructify as never before.
 Washington, August ..