The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-05

what an Irish potato is now, but what did the Irish potato used to be when 1t was ignorant and had never gone to school? Why it was a little thing and 1t was tough and bitter. but some wiser man than the average found II, and he says, I believe this thing has got good in it, and I will fetch it out F etch' Is a good word In North Carolina, but l do not know how it is in Alabama. 1 taught school myself, and I know English as | she is spoke He said 1t is not good and | Twill fetch it out, and he proceeded to educate 1t; to bring out of 1t what it had in Il! He planted 1t aud feitilized # and cultivated 1t, and planted it and feftffss1 and cultivated. and planted 1t fertized n and cultivated 1t, until the Irish potato i has become so good that we have it three 1 times a day, every day in the year, and We thank God when leap year comes and gives us one more day In which to eat Irish potatoes. CLaughter)
 An Ignorant Irish Potato But you must understand that Is an educated Irish potato, and that is not an ignorant Irish potato. You would not eat that old fashioned ignorant Irish po- tato on Saturday. II is good for veg etable and It Is good for animals. and 1t is good for mule. You know the most dangerous thing in tIis country Is an old. unbrolen mule. Josh Billings said if he
 
 would stand at his head. Qanghter)
 But that is your unbroken mule We call it breaking them What Is break ing mule except training him. edueat- ing him, bringing out of him what there Is in him? Why, when you buy mule fresh from a drove it takes two white men and one Fifteenth Amendment to hitch him to a blow. G4anghter) And when you get him hitched mp he blows up. moro cotton than he does grass; but after you have broken him. trained him, developed him, educated him, why that old mule goes right along. We used to. in our state, when ] was a farmer, and that old mule would go right along down the side of this cotton and when a clod dropped over on it she would keep her head so you could lift 1t off, daughter) I have done it and [ know how to do it.: I say what I believe because I know that if you don't let me make q living practicing law or in politics 1 can blow it out.
 Is Good for a Dog
 "Well. if it is good for mule 1t is good for q dog. Anybody hunt foxes in Alabama? If it was daytime I could look in your faces and tell because if there is any lovely man the face of the earth 1t is one of these old time fox hunters. Laughter). When l used to travel up and down North Carolina, making political speeches, and night would be coming on and I didn't know just where l was going to stay, l would begin to look out on the roadside and came to a nice place and I wouldn't see a dog there l would go right on through: but if l got to a place and found about 10 hounds reclining in the declining rays of the sun, I drove right in and stayed there, because 1 know there ant man in North Carolina that will feed 15 hounds but will be glad to feed me and want me to stay a week with him.
 Now, take that hound puppy It hasn't run foxes A hound puppy that has never run anything; he would get Up before breakfast and start a rabbit before being told to. But when you want this hound to hunt foxes you take that hound puppy and break him. train him. educate him: you take him out on some beautiful moonlight night in the cold crspness of the early fall or the late fall or early winter, with the old hound. and you take the boys along with you. if you are ii good-hearted man. too. and you won't have been out more than i5 minutes before every one of those dogs will be going. vow. vow, vow. and the 1 old fox hunter says, Shut up. that is no fox 1t Is nothing but q rabbit. You wait until you hear the music. And by and by, away off wonder on the hill a mile away you will hear the music come  He waits until she gives mouth again. He says. Hush up there He sends tho other dogs in because he knows a fox has gone along there as well as he would if he had seen the fox put his foot down there. because that music is educated and she speaks the truth. Let me say to you teachers that that Is the very first essential of all true education. the per- sonal verity of it. the truth telling that comes out of ii. (Applause).
 Good for Pointer
 Good for a hound dog? Then il Is good for a pointer Maybe you think, you bird hunters. these pointers always did point birds No, they didn't any such thing Why. the pointers used to hunt birds. but they hunted birds to eat, for a pointer loves bird just as we'll as you >~~~~~.~~~~~~~~~~~
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