The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-26

right for the people of each section to
settle their own differences without ma
tional interference. He declared in this
connection, that Captain ffobson was IN
favor of still another amendment to the
constitution, one providing for universal
suffrage and granting the right OF SUI
frage to negroes of both sexes. He then
admonished his hearers against changing
the constitution save for grave emergen-
cies, and declared that when the right Of
the states to settle their own problems
was abrogated, the republican form OF
government, In the long run, would be
changed to a monarchy.
Mr.. Underwood consumed some time in
explaining national prohibition. He de-
clared, in the first place. that there was
not a possibility of it's being passed within
the next SIX years.
but suppose, for the sake of argu-
ment," he said, that it does become q
law. The administration of the law would
be in the hands of the United States gov
ernment, and it's enforcement in the
hands of United States deputies and
judges. You do not drink. Possibly your
son does. If he does, he will be hauled
up before Judge Grubb, convicted. and
sentenced to the federal prison in Atlanta
The law if it should become necessary,
would he upheld by the bayonet. The
day of the carpetbagger might be again
in order.
Il am in favor of temperance. You
will note in The Age-Herald this morn
ing that the author of the Webb bill
stated that 1 have always been friendly
to his measure, and that 1t would have
been a matter of great difficulty to pass
1t over my opposition. 1t could not have
been passed over the opposition OF the
leader of the House. But DO not believe
in that temperance which is enforced at
n -. 10,
that temperance which appeals to the
heart and the brain of men.
For Political Expediency
''But prohibition is fictitious issue in
jected by my opponent for the sake OIL
political expediency The real issue Is the
record of the two men. | have been in
Congress for 10 years and have remained
on the job. My opponent has not been
on the job and he has not delivered the
goods-to you. He has in addition to ms
salary, drawn $500 night on the lecture
platform This Is the record. If you
want absent treatment, he Is the man.
He has not told you that he would attend
to business if you elect him senator. OF
course he will not He holds the man
who works in supreme contempt, and calls
them cloak room loafers and chair warm
ers. But the cloak room loafer. l have
found it, is generally the man who
watches out for your interest and delivers
the goods in the form of legislation for
the people,.
Throughout the day, Mr.. Underwood
talked to farmers principally. He told
them of the tariff bill, how he had. by
the assistance of other cloak room loaf
ers, relieved the burden of taxation
which has long rested on the backs of
the poor people, and of how he had
raised revenue for the operation of gov
ernment, by inflicting an income tax on
the great wealth of the nation He told
of how taxes had been removed from
bagging and ties and fencing, bread and
meat and shoes, and all farming imple-
ments and of how, in order to redeem
the pledges of the party to their fullest
extent, he had removed all protection
from pig iron in which he himself. is
interested.