The age-herald., 1900-02-25
A REPLY
To Jacobs Pharmacy by the Druggists of
 Birmingham

In Saturday mornings Age-Herald the following article appeared in black type, authorized by Jacobs Pharmacy:
 "And now a few words to the cowardly hyenas who are gloating over our misfortune; harpers who have deliberately robbed the public for years in drugs, and who attempted by unfair and unclean methods to prevent us securing loca- tion in order to perpetuate their loot.
 "We put you on note that none of your dirty, unfair and contemptibIe efforts will pre- vent us from securing a new location. reopening and stand ing between the people of Blr- mingham and your efforts to rob them anew"
 The druggists of Birmingham feel them- selves very much mortified at being com pelled to answer an article of this charac- ter but when we are publicaly denounced in the press as cowardy hyenas robbers or unelean methods, of dirty, unfair, and con temptible efforts, of gloating over the mis- fortunes of one of their competitors feel that no apology Is necessary to the good people of Birmingham for our course. A majority of the druggists of Birming- ham are well known citizens of the com monwealth of Jefferson county, and contri" bute no inconsiderable share of their means to the upbuilding and support Of every worthy cause. Some of them have been worthy citizens ever since Birmingham was incorporated. while others have borne high character and business standing for more than forty years without ever having been denounced in the public press as rascals It Is absolutely false that the druggists of Birmingham would gloat over any mis- fortune of It's citizens or have been guilty of robbing their patrons for years. It is equally false that they have attempted to prevent the Jacobs pharmacy from reopen ing business in order ato perpetuate their loot Such vile islander could only emenate from degenerate braip: one whom the Gods had made ma~f or the purpose of destroying.
 The druggists of Birmingham expect to continue business in their own way by seek ing trade in a fair and legitimate manner, giving the public what they want and the best of everything, and only at living prof its. They do not propose to lose their heads or be swept overheard by the hurricane of abuse thrown at us by any traducer. The following lines of the poet most appropriate:
 'The man that dares traduce
 Because he can
 With safety to himself
 Is not man..
 Our apology for reproducing such a loath- some article to which our answer is di- rected is that the druggists of Birmng'ha m are not unwilling to let thefr friends and the public see what manner of competition that has been imported to our city under
  seeks to malign a respecta ble porton of its citizens. We are willing to submit our cause 10 the whole people of Birmingham, feeling secure of their verdict in sustain Ing us against such slanderous vftuperative and vulgar caoal
 We must not close, however, without ex- pressing our as,torisnmept that respect able newspaper should lend it's columns to @ traducer to attack any particular class of Birmingham merchants.
 Respectfully,
 NABERS. MORROW & SINNIGE,
 AMZI GOLDEN CO,
 WTTHINGTON & LYNCH,
 COLLIER DRUG CO,
 ADAMS DRUG O.,
 H. M. REESE,
 JOHN L. PARKER,
 MAGIC CITY DRUG CO,
 H. E. KLINE & BRO.,
 J. J. DUNCAN,
 FOX'S PHARMACY CO,
 T. A. KL1ERS,
 BARRIERS DRUG AND SEED STORE,
 E. B. NORTON,
 WILIIAMS' DRUG CO.,
 ELLIS DRUG CO,
 DBWBERRY & SONS,
 NEWMAN DRUG CO,
 PATTON PHARMACY NOTE.-The Age-Herald has nothing to do with this controversy between drug gists. The above, like the advertisement of the Jacobs Pharmacy, which the sign CTS of the above have seen fit to repro for ri. atod