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

bother about that, governor; that IS what I am staying awake at nights Tor; that is what I am working TOT, that ls what l am saving for; that IS the req son l am willing to bear the name or stiney. I am saving my money; l am going to educate my boys and girls | am going to send them through the schools I am going to send them through the college; l am going to send them through the university; if they show any high turn l am going to send them abroad I am going to train my boys and girls. and don't be uneasy about that Oh, my friends, l thank God Almighty, who Is no respecter ot persons. that you cannot get the best for your boy and your girl until you are ready to give the best to my boy and my girl.
 You can take that boy of yours and send him through the schools, send him through the college, send him through the university, send him abroad, bring him back home, head and shoulders above his friends and neighbors, but he won't be very high when he Is head and shoul- ders above his neighbors if his neighbors are ignorant and untaught and weak You cannot get the best out of your boy unless other peoples boys are educated nearly or quite as well as your boy; you have got to get the best out of your boy
  near about as good as he is but not quite. If you want to get the best out of a horse do you put that horse on the track by himself by no manner of means. How did they break the record below two minutes?
 Training Horses
 when they began training horses away back wonder when I was boy they got him, down to 2:40, and the record stayed at 2:4O so long until 1t became provero, when they say man started to the -deVil by the short road as he was going al 2:4O gait How did they get 1t below 2:4O? Did they train one horseY No They trained 10,000 horses, all over the world until they found one that broke
 it at 2:3s, and then they trained o'ooo more until they found one that broke It at 2:36, and then 10000 more until they brought it step by step and step by step until they got 1t down to two minutes and when they got it down to two min utes and half second they trained o,l 900 other horses and some man said, I have found one horse that l think Will do it. and did they put her on the race track by herself? No. They put her on the race track and put boy on the running horse. and put the runner be- hind her, and with whip and spur he pressed her. pressed her, strong in her determination that she would win the day, that she would give up the last breath she had before this running horse should beat her under the wire, and so in one grand last burst of speed she went under the wire fin less than two minutes with the runner at her heels. Your boy is going to run race; he wants to run race with race horse and not with a scrub. (Apiplause).
 Suppose he can't outrun his neighbor. If his neighbor can't make more than two miles an hour he is not running much Is he? Suppose he does stand head and shoulders above his neighbor. If his neghbor is not more than five feet high he is not tall. Suppose he can throw his neighbor down, but his neighbor cant lift more than 9 pounds, your boy is not much strong. Oh, no. if you want the best for your boy, thank God you have got to believe in this splendid, grand de- mocracy and give to my boy and other peoples boys the same opportunity that your boy has got and if then your boy outruns our boys in the race he will be a winner that is worth while and he will be something that is worth being proud of
 Going to Educate Your Girl
 You are going to educate your girl. know you are You are going to sit up all night to educate her; you are going to save to educate her: going to economize, going to be stingy to educate her. Maybe you want her to make a musician. Well, I am soing to tell you. You can send her to all the schools; you can let her burn the midnight oil; you can let her study under great musicians until she is almost buind; you can send her to the conserva- tory of music. you can send her abroad until her whole soul thrills and feels the glory of her gifted music. but she cannot make music to people that do not un- derstand. You cannot talk to an audi ence that cannot hear. Governor, lid you ever try it? We'll, I have When. was governor I made speeches all over North Carolina. 1 cansassed the stase for four years in behalf of the educations