The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-28
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Of Russia and the Balkans in leash; the port of Trieste, held by Austria, subverts the country of the Italian Alps; the Eng fish Channel, the Straits of Gibraltar are a perpetual menace
 "If Birmingham by the Louis
 vile and Nashville railroad to De-
 cntur and by the Southern to Shef-
 field and Riverton has a pro rata
 rate, mean a mileage rate as
 compared with the rates from
 Nashville, Memphis and the whole
 north and west country, then Bir-
 mingham would build to the limits
 of Greater Birmingham; then in-
 stead of proving upon each other.
 fighting the commissary and
 guarreiing about who should be
 city and county doctor, we would
 raise over the Magic City the flag
 of success.
 FIGHTING WITH BRICKBATS
 What hinders? MT. Frank Willis Bar nett, happily your co-edtor in your is- sue of January "A, quotes from Nehemia h, that wonderful Hebrew who sacrificed the place of prime minister with the great King to go to Jerusalem and rebuild the city of his fathers; who organized a building force with a trowel in one hand and sword in the other
 T quote from MT Motion in the same paper a good way to go for the com mission is with a trowel in one hand and a brick in the other Quoting further from MT. Barnett. who says that when a lad he was warned by his father never to sit in lighted room at night with out putting the curtains down. that it was the disposition of some people to hit a fellow who was in the light
 All this is reminiscent to me, as I wildly recall that I was once pounded with brick by people who ought to have stood by my side with sword in hand, trying to accomplish all those things, and which things were at that time very near accomplishment.
 T was advertised as a dangerous man by MT T. H. Motion; I was advertised as dangerous man by MT. Eugene Ens- len; a dangerous man by MT. T. c. Me Donaldsa who also had something to say about Avondale Mills stock, and for which he owes me an apology was called dangerous man by MT. Solon Jacobs by MT. Evans J. Dunn, and Mir Johnson of Atlanta, after receiving some S400O0 of Louisville and Nashville railroad money, also advertised me as a dangerous man, and Mir N. F. Thompson, after receiving more railroad money, organized a farmers congress for the sole purpose of making me a dangerous man. Nehe- miah rebuilded the wall at Jerusalem for the protection of the people, trowel
  is in the record that all this time sum- dry neighbors were organizing opposi- ton and throwing brick, and carrying all manner of evil reports to the great King.
 MT. Frank Glass of the News coin ciding with the Ledger in It's efforts to have a pike built to the Warrior, car ried a headline The Way to Get to the Warrior Is To Be On It.
 DIVIDED THE TERRITORY
 'Mr MlIIon smith of the Louisville and Nashville, and Mir. Samuel Spencer of the Southern railroad, as the inter- state commerce commission records show, divided all this territory between those two roads, they assuming the names of Pizarro and Cortez, the one the con- queror and destroyer of Peru and Chile, and the other of Mexico. MT. Smith was Pizarro and MT. Spencer was Cortez. In this division, the Southern railroad drew the North Alabama railroad and have bulded from Birmingham connect ing with it at Parish, making through line from Birmingham to the Tennessee, not for the purpose as they distinctly claim, of carrying freight or opening up a commerce, but of suppressing it.
 Birmingham has been trying to get a rate to the sea at Sheffield and River ton, also at Decatur MT. Wilson says, To the great nations of Europe, the sea should be open If the Tennessee was open to Birmingham and Alabama, mean by commensurate rates, mileage rates from Birmingham to Decatur and to Sheffield and Riverton, then we would accomplish that which MT. Wilson says the Europeans are striving for, and which means war to the death and is a most important feature of the war, and which they ought to have.
 ''NIr. Milton Smith Is sitting as
 the Turk at Decatur instead of
 the Dardanelles. and MT. Harrison
 as the same Turk at Sheffield and
 Riverton. saying to Birmingham
 and Alabama that we shall not
 enter the markets of the world
 through that great outlet. Mir.
 Wilson says to the European coun-
 tries that it is the one condition
 of peace. Birmingham can have its
 pageants; can have It's fire
 cracker shows; can have its civic
 meetings and Commercial Clubs,
 and rows without end over its
 Commission. If Birmingham builds,
 as build 1t should, then it has got
 to go to the sea through the
 Tennessee River.
 MIR. SMITHS DEFIANCE
 We have the Birmingham News, doubtless in the pay of the Louisville and Nashville railroad. commenting Mr. Smith as a great man; we hear the hue and cry of railroad batting; we have MT. Smith refusing to answer the in terstate commerce commission as to how the tens of thousands of dollars, the hundreds of thousands of dollars, were spent to debauch Kentucky. Tennessee and Alabama. We have the witness on the stand proving the debauchery of citizens, jury. judge, legislature. of every thing that venality could reach. We have Mr. Smith himself proving the ut ter contempt of the railroads for legis- iators. for Congress. evidencing that peo- pie despise the other people they can luy. Birmingham must read these things and must learn that unless we propose to be satisfied with tips like negro Pullman porter we have got to arouse ourselves and show Pizarro and Cortez that we will be a free and independent people,. It is not question of railroad haiting, it is a question of railroad con- trolling.
 What is the matter with Birmingham? Too many casting brick at the fellow in the lime light. because they are paid to do it by some extraneous interest If We are going to do anything but prey on ourselves. if we are going to do any thing but fight as to who should be doctor; if We are going to do anything n ore than fight for the abolition of the commission, and the substitution of the ward government; if we are going to be arything, Mir, Wilson has pointed the rt-g l--