The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-05-17
QUESTION OF PROHIBITION
CONDITIONS IN ALABAMA

EuOu morse SuOulu NOT maui UlOW,
but be- ridden or driven boy a white
man. So the white farmer who comes
To the State and gets up at daylight
and digs, is often looked upon as
setting a bad example. Dr. hi. children
they are not considered $50 very de-
sirablc as neighbors. and the old
planter with thousand of acres of
ground and plenty of negroes to do
the work, would revolt to sro his son
get well acquainted with The daughter
of man who tills the soil / know
that In 1864 nearly every soldier who
got well acquainted with old Alabama.
looked upon the state ds a sort of
heaven that he wanted to live in af-
ter The war was over aui many plaas
were made to settle here and there.
buy a small farm and have all kinds
Of fruit. flowers and crops of AN kinds
where q man could live like King
and enjoy every month OF the year.
But l do not find them here Every
acre of Alabama is good for some
thing. and the woods should be- full
OF grazing cattle, ana uyrc should
be- butter and cheese factories at ev-
cry crossroad but from Birmingham
to Mobile ] saw less cattle than J
would see on the farms between
Milwaukee and Madison, 81 miles.
and the cattle did see were scrawuy
as though they never expected to
amount TO much. | asked a man who
wore a Cor ederate button in his but.
tonhole, how much dairies and cheese
factories there were in ,he State
lie said that he knew one Yankee in
his county who had mess of these
yellow New Jersey cows. and he made
some butter out of machine like
cash register in saloon but he
guessed plain old brindle COW and
stone crock churn was good enough
for him. asked him If he ever talk
ed with the Yankee about The butter
business. and he said, mo. sah.
looked over his fence once and he
had on overalls, and was milking his
own COW, with one of these ncuba.
tors that has rubber tube running
from the bottom of the COW to the
pail, the milk running like water
into a bath tub at the hotel in -Iobile
and he seemed so trhng never
had no truck with him. Besides.
when We We're trying TO vote dry in
Alabama that Yankee was on the wet
side, and said every man had right
to drink II he wanted 10, and that
settled It with me He and his New
Jersey cows and his suction pump
for milking cows are too rich for
Alabama, and | guess he won't last
long around here here" Five thou
sand such herds of New Jersey"
COWS, with creameries and chc-e
factories, would start Alabama out of
the rut she has got into, and set her
going on the road TO prosperity and
greater happiness that she has ever
known. | think IL was in Alabama
that / heard that the State Commits.
sioners of immigration, who had been
trying TO get foreigners to locate in
the State, had reported TO the Cover.
the work as they could not get any
body to come. Maybe II was in Ten
nessee that | heard that Any way
it will apply TO Alabama, because
where prohibition is going into effect
the first OF January everywhere in
the State, there is no use of trying
to get people who work and produce,
and populate, and who want to be
allowed to drink their beer and wine
without going bchipd the door, to
I live in such State.
In studying the condition of things
/ brought about by prohibition In Ala
bama, first struck Birmingham, a
most interesting city, full of manufac-
tories, steel plants, surrounded by
iron mines and employing thousands
OF laborers. The town has gone dry,
not on her own account, but because
the country in which she is situated
voted dry Montgomery and Mobile
are the only wet places in Alabama,
and they will dry up according to law
on the first day of January, Birming.
ham believes she will always have
plenty to drink, law or no law, and
she certainly has plenty now. 1t Is
proposed to elect a wet mayor, who
will do his best 10 keep things, wet
but it will be uphill work to irriFate
so large town with an occasional
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