The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-22


 tional amendment giving the legisla- ture authority to abolish the system in this county. We should not only give this amendment our active and unceas- ing support to see to it's adoption al the polls but it is even more import ant to see that the legislature carries it into effect after 1t Is adopted
 Employ Secretary
 Among other things, it Is our purpose to employ, if we can get sufficient sup port, a competent and experienced secre. tafy whose office will at all times be opcr and accessible and whose duty 1t sha
 be to actively promote and carry forward
 the purposes of the organization. Pub licity shall be the shining light througl
 which he walks. His acts Vhall be under the control and guidance of the executive
 committe and this will be a guarantee oi
 fairness and conservatism. But. sirs,
 when wrongs affict the body polite il
 shall be the duty of the association tc
 turn on the light, no matter in whose face
 it shines We propose to. have sentne
 in the watch tower, and we have abiding faith that when the people intelligentlS understand they will correctly decide the questions presented to them.
 But, MT. Toastmaster. when all this
 is done, when we have abolished the fec system and we can do it if we will, and when we have reformed our criminal pro-
 oedure and brought it down to date. ana that is not impossible, there will still be the larger question of educating tSt
 masses of the people to a love and respect for law and order. Tt will still be neces- sary to preach in season and out of sea
 son that a citizen who shirks and evades jury duty. walks from the courthouse not with the brand of Cain written upor his brow and the convict's stripes upor his back, as he ought to be, but with d1t wreath of hero around his face and tho approbation and paudts of certain of hi: friends and admirers-and there are not z fwe-who. taking counsel of the honol
 and distinction that has been thrust upoy
 him and the immunity that has beer granted him. go and follow his exampl' in order that theS may receive the sam
 consideration
 Dr. Plunket Speaks
 A stirring five minute talk spoken D, pr. J. T. Plunket, pastor of the Soul Hiehlands Presbyterian church, was tn second number on the programme, an in this was embraced an advocacy fo
 publicity in the matter of the expenditur of public money. Dr. Plunket declares that civic resolutions would be forgot ten and platform lose it's vitality unles flaw enforcement should incarnate Wit the residents of this county, which shoul protect the weak as well as meet the de mands Of the strong. Reading certa excerps from the grand jurNs report, h reached the highest points of his orator in pleading for combination of the mel of Birmingham against criminal law neg l ligence.
 A tabloid of laws and law enaetmen composed pr. R.. NJ. Cunningham five minute discourse and the forme lieutenant of the state vigorously state
 that the league should openly indors
 those men for office who typified tn | principles of the organization. His re sume of the relationship of law, social natural, man made and divine, was ap piled to the question in hand and he de dueed that law is a covenant with socie ty as whole and the individual in par ticular.
 | Lee C. Bradley. one of the best know attorneys of the city. placed the respon | sibility of any. condition anywhere npol the voters of that community, as h l stated that many do not appreciate tn | trusteeship invoked in their franchise ment and that law is just how the jur. | interprets 1t, as fitting any particula | case. He concluded by saying that un less this or some other movement bring about a reform of conditions in Jefferson county this county would stand convicte, of not only being violators of the law, bu incapable of self government and if Leadership was not followed to better con ditions, a mob would be trailed into revo lution.
 J. w. Mcqueen Talks . J. w. Mcqueen, vice president of tll'