The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-14
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Sackville- West Incident

10 IHe EultOr or The ASe-HeTdlu. Your editorial in this mornings issue "Dumba and Others contains a ref /, erence to the case of Sackville-West
 British minister to this country at the
 time of the presidential election of 1888
 Your editorial states that he was given
 his passports by President Cleveland, be- | cause he advised a naturalized English | man to vote ''the republican ticket in
 the presidential election. do not know
 where you got your information. but 1
 think you are in error as to the minister | advising him to support the republican
 candidate. General Harrison Fact of the | case is that the advice he gave him was to vote the democratic ticket. The New International Encyclopedia is my authority and in Vests biography in this work we find the following: "sackville-West appointed British min ister in 1881. In the year 1888, in the American presidential election. a decoy letter, now known as the Murchison let citizen of British birth, requested his views on the attitude of the administra- tion toward England. His answer. which claimed that the reelection of Cleveland would be advantageous to British inter- ests. was published. and gave offense to the President. who sent him his pass ports, thus terminating his career at Washington, and incidentally, his political life"
 The issue in the campaign of 1888 was the tariff, Cleveland standing for low uv}f A<.A To- C.. tariff. Everyone knows that 1t Is to Ensland's interest to have free trade and all her ministers and statesmen are trained in the Golden school and Sack ville-West was no exception. The re- publicans laid trap for him and he bit and pulled the cork clean under Yours truly, GEORGE J. BEYER. Cullman. September Il. 1915.
 Aut0mObilists and Vehicle Drivers To the Editor of The Age-Herald: After visiting in a northern city this summer where an ordinance provides that all automobile lights must be dimmed
 and that every vehicle as a buggy or
 wagon must carry at least one light so
 arranged that 1t is visible from either front or rear: may I suggest that Bir-
 minghams apathy and disregard of the
 safety factor which Is obtained by the enforcement of such rules is hard in- deed to understand
 I am sure that hundreds of automobile drivers in Birmingham have experienced
 the feeling of danger when forced to one side of the street or, road by the
 blinding glare of an automobile whose lights are so powerful as to absolutely blind them as to the nature of the road alongside or ahead of them. Also there must be many who have had the experi- encs of almost running into . wagon or buggy ahead, even when driving at moderate speed, because the lights of the machine could not bring out the object ahead and there was no light of any kind about It.
 In your Saturdays issue mention was made of injury to some persons who drove into dead wagon standing on one of the streets of the city last Friday night. painfully injuring the occupants and dam aging the machine. Should the city not assume the larger part of the blame for such an accident by reason of the fact that the loaded wagon was allowed to stand in the street without any lights to indicate 1t was there.
 Is there any good reason why bicycles wagons, drays, buggies in fact vehicles of all kinds should be allowed on the streets at night without lights; leaving 1t up to the owners and drivers of auto- mobiles to either produce sufficient light to bring out clearly all that is on the road ahead or take the consequences? Would it not be good common sense to provide a factor of safety when it is 70 easy to do 1t?
 It should be remembered that wet roeds and roads built of or covered with . Vk mi nR oil . light very readily, so the lights of the average car on such roads do not roach very far ahead.
 Cannot The Age Herald take the neces- sary steps to enlist the attention of the
 city commissioners to the necessity for
 enz ordnance and tts enforcement that