The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-22

concerts, which have always been of
very high class. The proposed ordi-
nance reads: "* theatre, NOV
ing picture show, vaudeville, or va
riety show, or any public exhibition,
show, entertainment or performance
for pecuniary profit or reward, or to
which an admission is charged or
paid for" etc.
The Sunday musicales which for
many seasons have been delight TO
the serious music lovers and have been
distinctly elevating would have to be
numbered with the things of the past.
Not only so, but the organization of
a concert orchestra, which has been
under consideration, would be impos-
sible, for during the winter season
professional musicians are available
for concert purposes only on Sunday.
No matter how humanizing the photo
play may be, music of artistic merit
is so closely allied to religion that it
is called heavenly.
Every restriction on the liberty of
the people when it comes to the ques-
ton of relaxation on Sunday makes
for social unrest. Let the law stand
as it is. By so doing there will be no
deterioration in Birmingham's morals.
n democratic campaign commit
tee will publish and distribute to the
voters a comprehensive review of the
constructive legislation that has been
accomplished under the Wilson admin
istra on.
What Democrats Have The laws en-
Done for Agriculture acted for the
the farmer form large part of demo-
cratic achievement as seen at glance
from a summing up of the record in
the Presidents letter to Representa-
tive Lever, chairman of the commit
tee on agriculture.
Among the salient facts are in
creased appropriations for the agri-
cultural department, the cooperative
agricultural extension act, the creation
of the office of markets and rural or
ganization, the cotton futures act, the
grain standard act, the good roads
law and the rural credits law.
The appropriation of $27,0o0,000
for the department of agriculture
passed at this session of Congress,
exceeds last years appropriation by
81, 100000 and the appropriation of
1910 by $14,O00,000.
The agricultural department has
been economically and efficiently
managed and no money expended by
the government, perhaps, has brought
larger returns. In every section of he
country better farming is the rule
and the progress made during the last
few years is due in great measure to
the activities of the various branches
of the agricultural department. Not
only has there been a steady increase
in production but in many cases the
cost per acre has been appreciably
reduced.
Never in the history of the country
has Congress accomplished so much
for the tiller of the soil as it has done
in the short space of little less than
three years since Wilson's Inaugural
ton.
Whether the democrats or the re-
publicans are victorious in the Novem-
Der election the remarkable record will
stand as a monument to democratic
craftsmanship and a great party's
honesty of purpose.
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MIR. HUGHES has now been on
INl "the road" three weeks and in
that time he has made many speeches,
but has failed to create the impress
sion that his friends hoped he would.
He has assailed the Wilson administra-
ton with bitter
Hughes and His ness and INDUCED
Campaign Issues in petty fault-find-
ing touching the
civil service, but he has proposed
nothing constructive.
In condemning the Underwood tariff
he does not say how much protection
he would favor. A great many repub-
licans in the northwest, where the
party is strong, were sincerely in ia
vor of tariff revision downward, but
if Mr.. Hughes were President, with
republican Congress back of him,
he would be in the Glands of his
friends" and the old "robber tariff"
would he restored, although the stand
ard bearer does not come right out