The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-04
ABOUT BIRMINGHAM

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 Florida Times Union: Now maybe Br- mingham will know how Atlanta feels I about it.
 Atlanta Constitution: That call for waterways convention from Birmingham is one of extreme timeliness.
 Eufaula Times: The Birmingham vote was not strong enough. for there were suburbs and country to come in.
 Anniston Star: Press league has q night in Bohemia says a B.ea,ingham headline. What was the brand, please? Huntsville Mercury: Birmingham has a chance 10 get rid of Vulcan at last. Seattle wants the big iron man at her exposition.
 Jackson News: An Alabama man has grown lemon nearly IA inches in cir conference. It ought to be sent to some saloon man in Birmingham Charleston News and Courier: The Bir- mingham vote is a sign that Atlantas ''Gal at the Fountain will have a hard time finding Il home in the south.
 Montgomery Times: Birmingham has organized law and order league. Bet ter borrow Chief Taylor and his assoeia- les ill the trouble up there is oyer
 Washington Herald Now that Bir- n1fnuban1 ia fa laa4.,na 1,ar, taoea people who persist in calling it "Bir- min ham may have some excuse for 1t.
 Washington Herald: Of course Mont gomery is trying to look as pleasant as possible, but it is the next town on the schedule-and the returns from Birming- ham make dry reading.
 Jackson Clarion-Ledger. Birmingham newspapers are giving their street car management fits for not keeping the cars clean. They are reported so dirty at times that ladies refuse to ride on them
 Houston Post When He visit Nash vile, Birmingham. Monts emery, Marvel ous Manhattan and Milaaukee next year, We will be welcomed with much poetry and other evidences of affection, but only trpulation awaits Us in Charleston, Rich mond and Washington.
 Chattanooga News: If the republicans will bring their national convention to Chattanooga next year we will promise to use our influence to have the 10 o'clock closing ordinance suspended while the delegates are in town. That is better inducement than Atlanta or Birmingham will be able to offer
 Blocton Enterprise: The State fair at Birmingham was a great success finan- cially and every other way. The idea that people can be attracted in large numbers to gaze in wonder at huge rutabagas kline and swine was dispelled by the meagre attendance at the same fair last year. The management wisely provided amusements and relaxation for the crowds who came sightseeing this year. and tine result was mutually gratifying.
 Huntsville Banner: To prohibit or not to prohibit was the question before the people of Jefferson county last Monday. and the result of the election was a vic- tory for the prohibitionists. who carried the county by nearly 2o0o majority. All the saloons in Birmingham. and other towns in Jefferson, will go out of bus- ness on January l, and there is a strong probability that prohibition will shortly become state law
 Chicago Record Alabama has q local option law under which almost half the counties of the state have already prohibited the sale of liquors Usually the counties which contain big cities and especially those which contain manulac- turing cities, are the last to fall in line against the saloons. In Alabama. how ever, Jefferson county, which contains the manufacturing city of Birmingham, and which has more than double the popula- tion of any other county in the state, has now voted itself dry"
 The astonishing strength of the. move- ment against liquor can be seen from the vote. Incomplete returns show a major. ity of 1857 for prohibition and the eight rural districts not yet heard from are ex- pected to increase the total to 1900. The highest vote cast in the county at any re- cent presidential or gubernatorial cleo tion was less than 5000, Southern voting for political candidates is, of course, very light in proportion to the population, and it may be that the vote on the local op- tion issue was larger than the presidential votes, but even if that is so, the majority is very heavy.
 Col. Henry Watterson continues to shrlek about thessintellectual degeneracy of people who believe in prohibition, but it is evident that in this he is no true spokesman for the south. The people of that part of the country are becoming in- creasngly more certain that they are getting value received when they shut down the saloons.
 ACE HE'D ATn ECrANE