The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-25
From the Anniston Star.
Some people may tf


 E. Kilby has been such a stormy
 S one, he having been compelleu to fight so continuously and so vlgor- ously for the vindiation of the primer nles he has enunciated, that there IS danper that the heroic and combative oualities of the man will overshadow in the public mind the humanitarian and altruistic characteristics or our chief executive. If one will but exam inc intofthe policies of the governor Tn Their final analysis, however, 1t will be seen that every battle he has wageo has been in the interest either or hu- manity, education or law enforcement Respect for the lawris inherent Tn the governors mind, but no less does ms heart respond to the mute appear OF inc states most needy subjects.
 The Fundamental character Of the governor was revealed very strlklngiy recently on one of his regular trips or irsnection to the state convict mines and nrfsons. While going through the wards at Flat Top and Banner, 1t was evidenced that the linen and oeooihs on which the convicts sleep were dlrty' ragged and generally il-kept. hehoe the governor gave orders that the oeu clotbes he washed more often and that evarv nrisoner be furnished new mattress and a single ped.
 But governor. that will cost a iot or money" said the warden.
 .ut makes no difference what 1t costs' if 1t takes every cent of profit we maAe ant of the mines, l want it done; TOT the interests of humanity mean ino'' than dollars and cents
 The incident gave an evidence or the governors humanity, and just a Ie" moments later there was an eVidence of the mans business ability. He saw ou,+a a number of men engaged m washing clothes and called the atteh- ton of the warden to the fact that II machines were purchased to do tho washing, several of the men could pc released and placed at move proouctise yorlx in the mines. Still later when tne governor went down into the mines the first time in the history or the sea'e an executive had made such trip-ne was impressed with the fact that the conyicts are required to get out some so feet of rock, for which they get no credit from the coal companies, in or dor to secure from 50 to 70 feet of coal "a state of affairs that is at once an injustice to the men and or financlal disadvantage to the state.
 Governor Kilby has just given an other striking evidence of his absorb ing interest in humanity in an address he has delivered to the people or the state with reference to the activities or those short-sighted citizens who have organized to oppose his financial poli- l cies, with particular reference to taxa ton. That address is concluded as fol- lows:
 q wish every right-thinking citizen of Alabama might hold the scales of state within his fingers for one short hour. I wish he might see piled on the Left the dollars which represent only a | little more than half of the amount he and his neighbors are rightfully due. | wish he might see piled on the right the bright faced children who are pleading for that half a chance which the state is now attempting to give and ,above them the old men and. women 1 who ask now for nothing more than bread and water to sustain life in re- payment for the broken bodies which they threw-between this generation and the dangers of the years gone by wish he might see with his own eyes the balance as it becomes unsteady and then slowly gives way under the weight which the state is carrying in order that in the years t6 comesits men and women may be better prepared for the duties and responsibilities of life and citizenship.
 eyerily. I believe that if every right thinking person could hold those scales for the one short hour there would be many resignations from the Alabama Tax Dodgers league, the propagandists would suffer death from which there could never be resurrection and there would be this new oath ef alle- | glance to the state and humanity: Never again will unrighteousness and l illegal dollars jingle in my pocket while my own call for succ
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