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xJu00: Lottery, casinos won t generate revenue
" ° By John Hill, Ph.D. positions that, in places where casinos have problems on its populace.
.... Supporters of expanding gambling in closed because of falling demand, are short- Grasping for revenue that will do long-
Alabama often hype the opportunities lived. In the past year, for example, two term damage by cannibalizing local
missed by our state to "keep Alabama gam- casinos in Mississippi have closed. In economies is not a responsible approach to
" "-? bling dollars in Alabama.' Given the eco- Atlantic City, New Jersey, four casinos have the current shortfall. Embracing gambling in
nomic and social damage that would come closed or will close soon, including its return for a quick payoff puts the state in the
.=' with establishing a compact with the Poarch newest one, the $2.4 billion Revel. position of trying to put a dollar value on the
" Creek Indians, our state govemment--espe- Thousands of workers in both states who health and well-being of the citizens who
: cially under conservative leadership -- thought that gambling would be their ticket would be hurt by it.
...... - should not be involved in this sordid busi- to success have been laid off. Alabama has a long history of its citizens
Comments by the editor.are opinions, reasons, or recommendations...
Send your written and signed opinions to the Editor-, P. O. Box 480040, Linden, Alabama 36748
Soldiers due spoils of war
Spoils of war. In ancient times, commanders would
draft soldiers into their ranks and march them off to
kill other soldiers who were working for other com-
manders.
If the good guys won the battle, they could go
through the village to take all the money and food
they wanted, rape the women and girls, kill the little
boys (until the U. S. Supreme Court ruled they have
to rape them, too).
That used to be the spoils of war.
In the United States of America, our commanders
send our troops in (boys and girls) to fight, kill, be
killed or maimed, and bring them home with no
spoils of war.
We just can't imagine raping a Arab woman.
Maybe they would like that so let them have all they
want. Take all the Arabs' gold, silver, money, and
deeds to oil wells.
Our troops should have some of those oil wells.
They earned them.
Our leaders in Washington, D. C., do not under-
Stone Age.
King George of England went down there and trad-
ed trinkets for captured tribes and brought those out
and sold them as slaves all over the world.
In the old South, they were better than a John
Deere tractor. Up North where cotton would not
grow, the Yankee folks made them do house work
and used them for ente "rtamment until they got old.
Then like an old sick horse, they did away with them.
After all, slaves in the North were only chattel like
they were everywhere else. In the South, the planta-
tion owners built cabins for them and helped breed
some white blood into their families.
Of course, the Yankees didn't like this either so
they declared war on the South and Abe Lincoln had
to threaten to shoot every man in Indiana dead if they
didn't join the war of aggression.
When they finally got down here, they took the
spoils of war after the South had surrendered months
earlier. They raped, killed, burned, looted, and pil-
laged just like in the ancient times.
stand history. Some of them probably can't even spell-.....• We can remember Grandma Sutton's recollections
history. There is no history in Africa except up in .from after war when the Yankees came through
Egypt. The rest of it was occupied by exiled and
cursed tribes. Their spoils of war was the hind quarter
off one of the enemy soldiers masted over some good
hot coals for supper.
Those tribes never even advanced culturally to the
Mobile raiding, looting, stealing the silver, gold, and
china. She said her family dug big holes and buffed
all that before the Yankees got there.
Today, the Yankee government steals half of what
we make for taxes. History keeps repeating itself.
Two senators speak against Obama
Two U. S. Senators have constantly spoken out
against the Obama fiascoes in Washington, D. C.
About immigration and the recalling the border
patrol back 40 miles from the Mexican border, Sen.
Ted Cruz stopped short of calling President Barack
Obama a traitor. Jeff Sessions spoke in polite lan-
guage which leaves no doubt that he thinks Obama is
a traitor who actually does not know what America is
all about.
There are 50 states and each state has two senators.
That's a total of 100.
Alabama has one senator who has steadfastly
rebuked everything Barack Obama has done and pro-
posed for the past six years. That is Jeff Sessions
born right near at Hybart.
He has mentioned no aspirations to be president.
Sessions and Cruz have been mentioned as the
solid leaders against Obama and his radical pro-
grams.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has presidential aspirations
and he is outspoken against the traitorous actions of
Obama. It is his state which is being cannibalized by
the Democrats.
He speaks with the same charismatic vigor that
George Wallace had.
Sen. Cruz, you'd do well to get some body guards.
The sweet little Ivy Leaguers cohorts like Jeb Bush
and Mittsy Romney won't challenge you publicly but
they can hire you shot, blow up your airplane, or
bomb you car.
Remember, these are white Democrats in the
Republican Party. They are capable of anything.
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Linden Reporter established 1879. Marengo Democrat
established 1889. Consolidated 1911 as The Democrat-
Reporter. Periodicals postage paid at Demopolis. Alabama.
Subscription prices include sales tax plus postage and han-
dling.
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ness.
The only reason the state is flirting with a
compact is because there's money to be
made up to $60 million to help plug a
$200 million hole in the state's 2015 budget.
This possibility of new revenue should not
be considered with blinders on as to the
repercussions that can come with it.
Gambling damages almost everything it
touches. From increased crime rates, to
addictions that last for years, to personal
debt and bankruptcy, gambling is a scourge
to any community that embraces it with the
hope of making a fast buck.
Gambling is more than just a personal
vice that affects only the individual who
chooses to do it: it is an economic injustice
that Alabamians of all political leanings
should oppose. It teases the poor with the
illusion of wealth. The jobs that typically
come with gambling tend to be low-wage
Having the state involved in large-scale
gambling solely for short-term economic
gain is contrary to the principle of limited
government. If Alabama is fiscally desper-
ate enough to establish a compact with the
Poarch Creeks Indians, additional govern-
ment offices will have to be created to man-
age it. This new arm of government would
be established with the sole purpose of
keeping itself in existence by ensuring that
casino gambling dollars flow into the state's
coffers. Alabama's conservative leadership
will find itself facing a powerful successor
to the now-diminished AEA, an organiza-
tion that will increase in power and influ-
ence using the money lost by our own state's
gamblers. Make no mistake: with the
American gambling market saturated, the
only people visiting Alabama's casinos will
be Alabamians. especially its poorest. Why
would any state's leadership wish these
wisely rejecting calls to expand gambling in
the state because we've seen the human toll
of what it can do in other states like
Mississippi and Louisiana. Governor
Bentley appears to have made the decision
to not pursue the expansion of gambling in
the state as a possible fix to the state's
General Fund shortfall. The remainder of
Alabama's leaders should follow suit and
consider instead sustainable budget solu-
tions that don't wreck our state and exact a
toll on "the least of these."
Dr. John Hill is senior research analyst
for the Alabama Policy Institute (API), an
independent non-partisan, non-profit
research and education organization dedicat-
ed to the preservation of free markets, limit-
ed government and strong families. If you
would like to speak with the author, please
email john@alabamapolicy.org or call (205)
870-9900.
OLD TIMES BY THE LATE JOEL D. JONES
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED OCTOBER 12, 1939
Kidnapped! Little girl stolen
in Montgomery is taken to Texas
I am m correspondence with a Mr. Daniels, who is a son
of Mrs. Jennie A. Daniels. who on the first day of October
1883, stole a little girl from her home in Montgomery and
carried her to Texas. When the east bound train on the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad stopped at the depot at
Decatur, one morning in February 1884, the conductor Harry
Ryan, assisted from the train a little girl, and seeing the
Governor O'Neal standing near. he led the child to him and
said: Governor. here is a little girl who has been stolen from
her mother in Montgomery and carried to Texas, will you
take her in charge and see that she gets home. The governor
replied "Certainly," and immediately received his charge and
cheerfully carried out Captain Ryan's request. Later in the
day, a reporter called at the hotel, and in the presence of the
Governor and Mrs. O'Neal. heard from the girl's own lips
the thrilling story of her abduction, pilgrimage to Texas,
sojourn there and retum thus far to her grief-stricken mother.
who will joyfully welcome the return of her loved lost child.
Mamie, a blue eyed fair. round faced, fine featured girl of ten
years of age. Evidently a child of good disposition and much
amiability. In answering the ques-
tions the reporters asked, she
developed a wonderful recollec-
tion of names and places and
persons and gave dates with an
accuracy that was quite aston-
ishing. During the conversation
her countenance was radiant,
and a pleasing smile was all the
time playing across her finely
chiseled features, except when
allusion was made to anguish
that her absence had brought to
her mother, then her blue eyes
would fill with tears, her voice
became subdued, and her whole
body emotional. The story of
her abduction is substantially as
follows.
She was the daughter of Mrs.
Mary Jane Levy of
Montgomery. In the fall of
1883. a woman named Jennie
A. Daniels. representing that
she lived in Selma. went to
Montgomery to employ a
lawyer to prevent the probating
of a will. Through the interven-
tion of a lady friend, Mrs. Levy
was induced to let Mamie
accompany Mrs. Daniels to
Selma to stay for a few days visit with the Daniels family.
When they reached Selma she informed the child that her
home was eighteen miles distant in the county, and they
passed on to it. She told Mamie that she wanted to see
General Morgan, who was at the time at Calera, to get him to
look after her pension money, so she started with the child
for Calera, taking her own clothing and also that of the girl
and putting all in a trunk. On arriving at Calera, she stated
that General Morgan was at Decatur, and that they would go
up there; getting to Decatur she told the child that he was at
Memphis, and they would follow on to Bluff City. Again she
deceived her by stating that General Morgan was in Little
Rock and on arriving at that place, she said he was at
Texarkana and on that place they went.
Reaching Texarkana, Mamie said: "Mrs. Daniels, we are
now in Texas and I want to go back home," to which she
The late
Joel Desaker Jones
replied; "Yes, we are in Texas, and I am going to keep you
until you are eighteen years old." From there they went to
Taylor, in Williamson County, where Mrs. Daniels had a son
living. Here she claimed Mamie as her own child, subjected
her to hard labor and cruel treatment, compelling the girl to
tell others that she was her mother and to keep from them the
secret of her abduction and the home and name of her parent.
Mamie was permitted to attend a party given the little girls at
the house of Mrs. Hawkins, and while there she told her
name and where her mother lived and how she been decoyed
from Alabama to Texas. Mr. Hawkins kept her at her house
until he could write to Montgomery, and in due time
received an answer from her mother, corroborating the state-
ments made by the child, whereupon, he with the aid of oth-
ers. contributed money to pay her passage home. Before
leaving Texas she was carried before the grand jury of
Williamson County and made a statement which resulted in
the issuance of a warrant for Mrs. Daniels, but the heartless
old woman apprehended her fate and left the State of Texas.
Mamie, in the charge of Governor and Mrs. O'Neal, pro-
ceed to Montgomery, and she was
restored to her mother.
Mr. Daniels writes he that he is
now 83 years old, and remembers
the little girl very well, and wonders
if she is still living. He says his
mother lost her mind, and left Texas
for Alabama, 1883 claiming she had
a child in Alabama, she was going
after. He said they knew better, and
they knew the condition of her mind
and his older brother was the one
who got the little girl to tell the truth
of the abduction, and made arrange-
ments with Mr. Hawkins for the
child to stay at his home until they
could hear from Montgomery, and
his brother furnished the money to
pay her transportation back home.
His mother died in Oklahoma in
1886 and his brother died in 1889.
He saved newspaper clippings of
the abduction of the little girl and
sent me some of them from which l
wrote the above story. He said the
story was true, but the people did
not understand the condition of his
mother's mind, for no sane person
would have acted as she did. My
name was given him by a historian
of Galveston, Texas, whom I have
had some correspondence with.
A young man wants advice. He wants to know if it would
be better to live through this life single or get married. We do
not wish to advise along this line, but will say a man some-
times overtaken by misfortune; he meets with failure and
defeat; trial and temptation beset him; and he needs someone
for battles to fight with poverty, enemies and sin; and he
needs a woman, that when he puts his arm around her, he
feels that he has something to fight for; that will help him to
whisper words of counsel and put her hand to his heart and
impart courage. And through life, through every victory,
throughout adverse and favorable winds man needs a
woman's love. The heart yearns for it. A sister's or a moth-
er's love will hardly supply the need.
So long until next time .........