The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-28
Next Comes Trust question


"The next big question TO be dealt
with by this administration will prob
ably be the trust question and our
President has paid another distin-
guished Alabamian the great honor to
ask him to stay on the job and to de-
clare that the job needs him. the Hon.
Henry d. Clayton, chairman of the ju-
dietary committee.
another question to be dealt with
is the immigration question and the
leadership in the House on that ques-
ton will be in the hands of another
Alabamian. our neighbor. John L. Bur-
nett, chairman of the committee on i'm
migration.
''The speaker. Hon. Champ Clark, is
from Missouri. and the chief justice of
the supreme court is from Louisiana.
Thus it appears that not only has the
south come to have a large part in our
federal government. but our own state
of Alabama is right In the forefront.
and We are being led by men we per-
sonally know, men who are of us, and
whose impulses are quickened by the
same thoughts and desires which move
US. We are no longer an outlying pro-
vince governed by people from afar,
but we are a part and parcel of the
government itself
"When Oscar Underwood was a can
didate for President I gave of my time
anu iiteho GndCdNOflHS 10 promote MS
candidacy. I knew him to be worthy.
Some good was accomplished. south
ern man became a factor as cam
didate for President in a democratic
convention. The Ice has been broken.
No more will 1T be necessary for any
southern candidate to apologize for the
section of country from which he
comes.
with this return of the democratic
party to power great opportunities for
service are presenting themselves.
want to go as your representative and
have a part in this work / am not
looking for job for the money that is
in 1t. l can make, as private citizen,
all the money I actually need, and all
that 1t Is good for me to spend. want
the place because ] have a vision of
great service that may be rendered.
To hear my people say, Well done. good
and faithful servant would be sweet
music to my ears. I want the oppor-
tunity to do something. I will then con-
secrate the best effort that Is in me to
your service and then hope to be re-
membered by what have done.
Tribute to Morgan
Mobile is soon to have a great meet
ing to help point the way for us to
take advantage of the new conditions
brought about by the Panama canal
Hc IIcSiutul Oh the On1Ie0 states VIII
be there and other leaders of thought
and action. Everybody is talking of the
great benefits to be derived from this
canal. Who made the canal possible? :?
Who is more responsible for it than
any other man? Our lamented John r.
Morgan. He kept the canal idea live.
He more than anybody else created the
public sentiment which forced it to be
built. 1t is true that when public SEN
timent forced its building that the great
appropriation of all honors, Teddy
Roosevelt, by some doubtful hocus
pocus secured the Panama route and
caused the canal to be built at Panama
instead of at Nicaragua. the place ad-
vocated by Senator Morgan; but this
cannot take from Senator Morgan the
credit for the canal Had he not kent
the public interest alive the building
OF the canal would probably have been
postponed many years, and while this IS
credit TO Morgan ii is a credit to Ala
bama
And in the actual building of the
canal, Alabama was again to the front.
me Freneh failed at Panama because
or the sickness of its labor Colonel
Goreas of Tuscaloosa took charge of the
health conditions and not only made
the canal possible. but opened the ewes
or the world to the prevention of sick
ness, suffering, diseases and death
winch work will continue to bless man.
KIND for ages yet to come; and within
the last few days he has been called to
AFRICA to the Rand to stamp out dis
ease there.
Ihese men. in the House, In the Sem
ate. and In the army, help to fire my
| amblt'on. I hore to make a place in
my eountry's history by faithful and
persistent work and by loyalty to high
| idea Is
Our congressional district is one of
the greatest ones in the United States
God created it great when he stored in
our hills SO vast an ano,lnt of m'nerals
oVeraid II with productive soil;
| watered II with mighty streams beauti-
! flea IL with a great variety 81 woods
and flowers, ana coddles 1t with salu.