The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-06-13

He has advocated our new state
wide compulsory education law;
statewide prohibition law against ig-
norance, Furnishing every parent whS
fails to school his child. ! shall e.
further and fayor,the compulsory de-
struction Of every school Of vice. II
it be right to prohibit Ignorance
everywhere. as the Mayor agrees, it
is also right to prohibit vice every
where.
Lately he asked our boys on
Mothers Day to write their metk-
ers. Good. BUT l shall urga oae
step further, / shall ask and h. no toe
boy so to live that he can vuly
write his mother and say n her
/ have kept my promises to you w
you kissed me last good-by, / have
avoided bad company and evil places
and lived worthy of your prayers and
tears. | am living right and would
die like Sam Davis before | would
dishonor my sweet mother. Mother
pray often for me that may be
strong to do my whole duty and re-
sist the temptations of this city.
This would be but continuation OF
my conduct since l came to Nashville.
1887. AS God is my helper / would
not speak or do what my mother
could not praise What blesses our
mothers will bless us all.
Women and Children First!
Women and children first!" was
the cry of chivalry and duty as the
Titantic went down. Twas good to
die by, It's good to live by. 1t made
men glorious ndeath. Twill make
us glorious and prosperous in every
walk Of life.
Negro Citizens.
There are $4,000 Negroes here.
They are our brothers. We have a
common destiny. What helps them
will help us ALL What hurts them
will hurt us all. Nashville is the
center of Negro education and cul-
ture in the south, and all of our citi-
zens must unite to make and keep
it a centre Of righteous influences
that radiate around the world.
Our Negro voters can turn tide for
good or evil. They pay their taxes
and have their burdens; but, sad to
say, they are being tempted and de-
stroyed physically and morally, four
times as fast as your white folks.
Our court records show this, and we
see it everywhere. Now, who and
what is thus destroying the NegroY
, Behold the seductive slime pits int
which colored men and women, boys
and girls, are thronging to their
DEATH Dishonoring their race and
disgracing us who suffer such degra-
dation.
Il rejoice that our sensible Ne
groes are in open protest against
these lawless pest holes, long open DO
all eyes, day and night, Sunday and
Monday: these open doors to hell
|. which our present Mayor could shut
up with word, but will not.
Our Negroes helped to give hfm
office. Eut now seem to hear them
asking him for bread and receive q
! stone; asking for a fish and only get
, ting a serpent. Though free with HIS
money, he has withheld from them
what is better than gold-the power
! of his office in active suppression Of
the evils now destroying their wages,
homes souls and bodies The Mayors
, sword that should be cleaning in de-
: Tense of Ethiopia, is still rustling in
. its scabbard; and his club of Hercules
= given him by law to strike down
every hydra aud lift up every virtue;
that mighty club, neglected and for
c lorn, seems silently sleeping and
! soaking in the old Cascade. | am
: persuaded that Ethiopia will soon
4 stretch out her hand to God" and get
= deliverance from her task masters
. | shall use every power of my Office
= to bring her deliverance and bros
{ perity.
Auditing Property Law and T. c.
a Railroad.
. THE abutting property tax law can
4 be made an engine Of oppression. It's
= use can only be proper when the peo-
= pie and public necessity demand 1t.
. Il shall do my utmost to save our
. $l,0O0,000 stock in the Tennessee
= Central Railroad. Not to do all law.
full things to save it would be an
objectionable crime on our people
who voted it.
6 1 shall use my every vote and pow
er to aid every city agency to relieve
. distress in every form.
> Our charter requires us to vote
' and act as patriots, not as partisans.
! as members of one big family, not
' as warning clans; to lay aside politics
and seek only to serve all the people
, | shall follow this requirement in vot-
ing for members of our Park Board.
= Humane Board, Hospital Board.
, Education Board, policemen, firemen,
!. watermen and lightmen, and in vot-
q ing for every collection and expen-
! diture of the money of our people.
p School Children.
4 I'VE have nearly 1900 school chill.
! dren. shall daily honor and defend
! them, every one, in private walk and
q public act. They are our chiefest
= treasures; their high moral charac-
> ter, the Palladium of our city. Their
, moral and material welfare will have
, my constant care. If your Mayor
! should pave your streets with gold
and your alleys with diamonds It
, would not repair the loss of the char
acter or life Of one little child, black
! or white.
7 Il entered this fight to win a vic