The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-11
IMPROVEMENT IN
 IRON AND STEEL
Favorable Reports Predom- mate and General COndi-
 tiOns Encouraging

New York, July 1o-Dun's review will say tomorrow: '1rregularity still characterizes the business situation. Favorable reports predominate and general conditions afford encourage ment, although the volume of new bus mess is of moderate proportions In- dications of improvement are noted in iron and steel. Manufacturers of tex tiles are endeavoring to meet the slack ened demand by curtailing the output Stocks are stated to be in a well liqui- dated position. Most interests in the trade are anticipating a more active period later on as a consequence of abundant crops. Shoe manufacturers |are more optimistic.
 'Of the BIT commodity quotations compiled there were 23 advances and I17 declines this week, this being the first occasion in sometime that the general trend of the leading farm products has been upward.
 commercial failures this week are 293 against 23S last year"
 
 and refined young woman of Green vile. s. C., and then reviewed the early political career of the man who was destined to play so important a part in the nations history.
 Given Close Attention The association members gave MT. Alston the closest possible attention throughout his address. particularly while the speaker was reviewing John sons impeachment trial, the only trial Nof its kind. where giants of the law met in titanic struggle with the life of a nation in it's balance"
 In summarizing the events in John sons life MT. Aston pointed to the following results:
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 "A southerner and a shareholder, he opposes secession.
 "A senator in the United States Con- gress, representing a state which has declared itself out of the union.
 "A democrat, he becomes necessary factor to republican success.
 He becomes the head of those whom he has most opposed.
 'He is President of the United States while it refuses to recognize his state is within the union.
 "1Ie shocks the north by his threats of prescription to the south, yet dis appoints them by his leniency.
 ''Iie seeks to aid the south in some respect. but his very name becomes a millstone about his neck"
 Brilliant PerOratiOn
 In closing his masterly address MT. Aston delivered a brilliant peroration.
 "It is well nigh 50 years since the days when this proud state was made the part of the wonderful pawn which was played for in the times of which I have spoken. Long ago the guns to which Fort Sumter struck her flag were mounted on Charleston's beautiful battery to keep silent guard OCT a sacred host.
 Look back over the course which has been traversed. You find your magnificent state grown from poverty to wealth; the mountains give forth an abundance of raw material her fac tories are the pride of nation; her fields yield rich harvests to contented labor and her people are moving for ward to fulfill the destiny of the Anglo-Saxon race.
 "A magnificent history urges her forward to greater heritage; a past full of achievement fills her with in- spirat1on for the tasks yet to be done"
 Walkers Address on Public Roads
 W. R. Walker, prominent lawyer of Athens, read an important paper be- fore the bar association on the subject of Legislative Power to Require Roads Worked Without Compensa- tion." The principal theme in Mir Wal htI duuItSS WAS lHdI man DrOnertV can, by valid legislative enactment be subjected to road duty. He argued that the animal, man, can be forced to work thes roads without compensation. but that the animal. mule. Is exempt.
 If a man can be taken from his home and put to labor on the public roads for 10 days. why cannot that same mans mule be taken from hts home and put to labor on the public roads without compensation for three or four days?" asked MT. Walker.
 MT. Walker called attention to the fact that for 40 years personal prop erty in the shape of slaves were worked on the roads under a statute law and that other personal property in the form of tools and implements have been worked on the roads
 Why such a distinction be made be- tween the animal man and the animal mule? Wherein are the rights of the animal, mule. higher than the rights of the animal. man?'