The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

bank Is giving a great deal OF attention
to the back to the farm movement" !
am glad that President Taft vetoed the
Dillingham; Burnett bill, as the PASSING
of that bill would have prevented thou
sands of immigrants from coming into the
country I believe In letting all who desire
to come in to the United States. If thev
are not educated they Will be after thev
arrive here. In my opinion 1t takes on1v
two generations TO make a, gentleman.
and the down trodden worker OF Eurone
who comes to America today becomes fine
aristocracy of tomorrow. We need fbe
Immigrants and l favor the open door to
all of them.''
Houser Calls 1t Qoung Mans Town
c. J. Houser, president of the CITY Ran1.
and Trust of Admission, is of the opinion
that there never was such an ideal nlace
for the young man as Admission. He said
II left st. Louis for Admission and have
never had cause to regret my departure
from the Missouri metropolis
''The south today is the logical field for
the young man, as 1t is the land of on
portunity. You can't start in business up
north at the present without encounterine !.
almost insurmountable opposition thai
will in the end ruin, as competition is too
keen. But here in the south any Young
man can start on snoestrine and bs.
close attention to business become a COM
mercial power in any southern citv he
happens to hang his hat in
"Of course, am for Admission first. last
and all the time. as l believe that 1t is
the most progressive of the Tive" cities
of Alabama. The health conditions are
better than anywhere e1se in the state
and combined with that we have a most
hustling industrial and commercial city
A good spirit exists between the employer.
and the employed and everything seems
going along smoothly for a greater An
niston-the esprit de corps is here.
speaking as banker. find that pro-
hibition has been a success in Admission.
There are more grocery bills being paid
at the present time than at the time when
Anniston's shops were all running and
saloons were open. There are more saw
ings accounts being opened by the work
iDgmen than ever before and the manu-
facturers are getting better results from
their labor than when Admission had sa-
looms. I venture to sayjthat the consump-
tion of liquor in Admission Is only about
10 per cent of what it was in the days of
the open saloon.
Keith Another Ardent Booster
james Keith, Jr., vice president of the
Admission City National bank, is another
ardent booster of Admission and firm be-
lever in its great industrial possibilities.
Mr., Keith however. contrary to the DEM
ocratic country he is in, is a high tariff
man and predicts dire results If that much
discussed 'bugaboo" is ''monkeyed'' with.
He said: Everything Is going along we'll
IN Admission and satisfactory progress is
being made that in measure please4s ev-
cry one; but things are not likely to keep
on as well if the present tariff is re-
vised downward.
Why should the south desire to see the
present high tariff reduced when the
south is the chief beneficiary of the high
tariff? 1t was different in the past when
the south's chief products were cotton,
and what was raised by agriculture and
then it could well afford to cry for a re-
vision of the tariff downward. But now
all of that is changed and great indus
land and 1t is a fallacy for the southern
in Congress to below TO
tear down the tariff wall
IT am told that 1t is the democratic
policy to revise the tariff downward: to
me the democratic policy spells failure
and weakness and two years from now
the country will return a high tariff
Congress to replace the democratic policy
which it Is planned to inaugurate ON
March 4.
Under the administration of President
Taft business conditions have been ideal
mo one could ask for better. Then why
in goodness should the democrats imme-
ciately insist the moment they enter Of
flee to start to tear down the excellent
business conditions fostered by Mr. Taft2
In less than two years the country will
awake and realize that they have been