The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-01

 question that the ardent prohibitionist consistently ignores, it seems.
 Montgomery Times: The Birmingham broom will be in demand by the local pro hibition sweepers.
 Nashville American: Prohibition in Bir- mingham. Next we shall look for Louis vile to go dry.
 Memphis News-scimitar; Well, Bir- mingham can come up to Memphis and liqudate.
 Columbus Ledger Birmingham city voted wet" but it wasn't wet much.
 Savannah Press: The Montgomery and Birmingham papers are all too dry for anything.
 Jackson Clarion-Ledger: Birmingham never knew what real, sure enough election was until she tried one on prohi- bition. Now that the election is over she has g 10-year job on hand trying to heal sores and getting lifelong friends and kinfoks to bury the hatchet and speak to each other again.
 Alabamian-H Jefferson county has gone dry by several hundred majority, and now 1t is up to Birmingham to go on the bum or else a good many of those who opposed prohibition will be shown up as false prophets. Alabama is booked for a long dry spell, and there is no way to | prevent it.
 Nashville Tennessean: Another victory for prohibition. After heated campaign, Jefferson county. Alabama, was carried Monday for prohibition by majority of 20oO, Birmingham voting against it by the small vote of BOP. The country districts, it seems, are going to keep the cities
 straight, an arrangement that does not appeal strongly to the urban sense of su- periority.
 Mobile Herald. With Jefferson county dry on January l. over two-thirds of the
 dram shops of Alabama will be in Mobile
 county. Unless. of course, the legislature
 passes state prohibition bill. which ac-
 ton the Herald now deems as improb- 1 able, since there is a growing sentiment to permit every county to decide the | liquor question by a majority of it's own
 people.
 Columbus Ledger: With the victory for
 prohibition in Jefferson county, Alabama,
 which was achieved Monday, comes the | announcement from all the people. the ac ho tI,af Ia
 must and shall be enforced. The Birmng-
 ham Age Herald, the only daily newspa per in the city that opposed prohibition, came out in leading editorial yesterday declaring that the will of the majority of the people of that great county must pre-
 vail 1t accepts defeat gracefully, and will join with the advocates of prohibit | ton in an effort to reap such reward as
 shall come to the people from prohibition. Memphis News-Scmitar: "It's good 1 bye. old rye, goodbye" down in Bir-
 mingham after the last day of December Chattanooga Times: Birmingham will ! be "dry" at least for a while, not by vote of it's own citizenship. but by vote of the people Of Jefferson county We do
 not expect to see the law enforced in that city because it is not backed by the ma l jority of the people. Alabama had no saving -four mile" law, hence the coun- | try people in Jefferson county who had i been harassed and pestered by lot of dives and ''doggeres" scattered in the various villages and smaller towns and
 seeing no chance for protection otherwise | voted almost solidly for prohibition In
 the city of Birmingham the majority of | sentiment was against prohibition. bnt snot sufficiently strong to overcome the { outside vote.
 [ One of tho reasons if not the chief reas-
 on, for the success of the movement in { Jefferson county was the lawlessness of ! the ssloon clements. Had Birmingham { adopted the excise law prepared for tho | government and regulation of the saloon ! in Chattanooga, ss if was advised to do . it misht have escaped But failing to ] appreciate the length. the depth and | breadth of the temperance sentiment that
 took hold Of tho south immediately after ! the Atlanta riots, it went ahead. allowing
 all sorts of abuses until crime and ois- i order became much matters of daily ! occurrence that men who would have 1 preferred proper regulation. but despair | ing thereof. went for prohibition straight ! The conditions in Birmingham were much 1 the same as they were in Atlanta and 1 Knoxville where the "dive" and the 1 'ioiud horrishe5 and bred crimes and 1 violence without let or hindrance ! Fortunately for the country Chatta-
 nooga adopted the policy of regulation
 and rigid enforcement of laws, the aholi-
 ton of the dive. and the exclusion of
 saloons from residential sections We l will have an opportunity of witnessing a 1 fair test of the two methods--the limta-
 tion and control of the traffic and prohibit l ton. Ii prohibition works better, then tt I will be prohibition: if Chattanooga $ plan
 works better. then it will be generally adopted. A fair view of each system as 1 it progresses will be interesting. | SOUND BUSINESS. 1 From the Baltimore American. | Why" asked the casual observer of