The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-20

scribe as hypocritical, 'honer-tnan- tnou'' pose.
 Then the brewers are also at outs with the distillers, laying all the blame for the prohibition sentiment on the whisky busi- ness which they think has brought the more innocent beer into disrepute. A speaker at the national meeting of brew CTS found much support for his proposi- tion to cut loose from the whisky people, to try to get laws separating beer and whisky and go 1t alone. The official organ of the brewers, in commenting on this speech, strongly advocated the separation.
 With the storms of internecine strife about to break on the defensive side Of the liquor business, the forces of the anti liquor people are being augmented every day, and, encouraged by the remarkable anti-saloon victories in the south, the fight Is to be waged in every state in the union. Not only has there been a sweeping move- ment which has placed new laws on the statute books but there has been dis- tinct movement 7ard stricter law en- forcement Tn s, Maine and North Dakota lonp ed statutes are now heinz riP' This Is especially true r he joints nave heer ries confiscated.
 aH 1ent has man fife. arly In the soutt larger pop ulatio than any other may ne sold ir, T icipali- ,tas Mach, q and IaI,oIlette .l-Sa- loon league l. n sue cessfuI desplt, 4superable barriers erected constitution. In other states {. .sion or nquor has been accomplish / local option, but the Tennessee constitution forbids that course
 What was impossible by direction was accomplished by indirecuon. A bill was passed some twenty-five years ago pro- hibiting the sale of llquor within four miles of a school except in incorporated towns It was designed to protect the University of the South at Sewanee, an institution of learning situated on mountain where there was no incorporat- ed town. It's general effect was not dreamed of. In those days there was a "doggery" at every crossroads At the next meeting of the legislature every hamlet of thirty or forty people appned for incorporation. Then an amendment was placed on the "four-mile law as 1t is called forbldding the sale of liquor within the prescribed limit except Ill town of more than 1000 thereafter incorporated. Then several towns, having less than a thousand inhabitants, and desiring to get rid of saloons, surrendered ther char ters and redncorporated, thus applying the four-mile law.
 At various sessions of the legislature the limit was raised, first to POGO then to 5000 and at the last session. made 10 include the entire tate. Whereupon knoX- vile, having over 5000 people, held an election and went dry" it's representa- lives in the legislature repeating the old charter and enacting new one prohip- iting saloons. In only one town dld the election or primary result in victory for the vets, and that was in LaFollette, a mining town in the mountains where there is a large foreign population.
 The movement which has reached high tide in Tennessee Is sweeping all over the south. Kentucky, state whose whskey Is famed in the four quarters or the earth, Is now well nigh prohibition state, ninety of it's 1l9 counties be- Ing totally dry, while there are local op- ton precincts in every county but one. The Sunday closing law, for years dead letter in the cities, is now being enforced rigidly. Governor Beckham. the democratic nominee for the United States senate. is lined up against the liquor interests.
 Samuel w. Hager the democratic nomi- nee for governor in the election which takes place this fall has written to the ti-Saloon league that he stands for the county unit system of local option and for strict enforcement of the liquor laws. A. E. Wilson, the republican nom- inee. is expected to take similar po- sition, and, according to the Louisville correspondent of liquor journal, the liouor interests are jockeying for posi- tion." All this in Kentucky.
 In Alabama there is new law which permits u people to choose between H. cense and no license, or between saloons
 
 state Is without liquor In Arkansas six ty of the seventy-five counties are dry. and the laws are rigidly enforced An example of prohibition sentiment there Is law requiring man to take out a tag license to drink, costing s5 year. In Georgia 124 of the 146 counties are with out saloons. In Atlanta the saloon l- cense has been raised from 5000 to $2- OOO and whiskey to twenty cents a dririk. The Georgia legislature is now in ses- sion, and the anti-saloon people are in control
 In Louisiana seven-eights of the state is dry territory The police jury of Mansfield fixed the saloon license fee at s5oO0 The state supreme court de- cided that this fee was so high as to be prohibtory and set it aside The license was then fixed at s35o0 a year, which was pau. How would that look to town where s750 is considered high lt cense?
 In Oklahoma, the constitutional conven- tion made the proposed constitution pro- hibt the sale of liquor absolutely and without qualification. The enabling act passed by congress directed that the DOT tion of the new state now known as the Indian Territory should be prohibition territory for twenty-one years. In Mis- sissippi. three-fourths of the state is without saloons and there are strong movements on foot to restrict the Jug and bottle trade, shipped c. O. D. to places without the state.
 In Tsxas over two-thIrds of the terri