The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-15

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 Atlanta Georgian: It does seem like the last straw when Birmingham hands us a lemon.
 Sylacauga Advance: The Birmingham strike is getting to be worse than South American revolution.
 Memphis commercial-Appeal Commun- al sobriety is not gained through politics. Ask Birmingham and Atlanta.
 Talladega Reporter: The strike situa- ton around Birmingham this week has kept the military boys guessing.
 Mobile Herald: Up in Birmingham they evidently don't think that band music hath power to charm the savage striker.
 Gadsden Tribune; Despite the assur- ance of the governor to the contrary that Alabama coal strike seems to be taking on some alarming features. ' Ozark Southern Star: The strike situa- tion in the Birmingham district has
 
 thing must be done at once to prevent further trouble.
 Annston Star: Near beer'' is becom- ing a popular drink in Birmingham and the City Council is planning to make life interesting for the dealers by imposing an annual license of $500.
 Wpc chi nufa II wine who drives a water cart in the city of Waukegan, H., were to try that game in Birmingham Ala, he would be prompt ly arrested as a suspicious character.
 Guntersviles Democrat: Business men of Birmingham are out in red hot pro- test against the lawlessness of the strik- CTS in mining districts It Is disturbing business conditions, and imperlling hu- man life.
 Anniston Starr Richard Harding Davis has been appointed deputy sheriff Dick should proceed to get job in the Br- mingham district Good material for strenuous fiction based on strenuous facts Is lying around loose over there.
 Pell City Progress As was expected, the Birmingham ball tossers show their real merit at the end of the season when some ability is required to be shown to hold their jobs next year. They will end where those sort of folks properly belong, at the bottom.
 limestone Democrat: From recent re- ports from the Birmingham district it would seem that Alabama is trying to vie with Kentucky in her disregard of the laws of the land. It requires many years to erase the bad impression of such outrages from the public mind.
 Anniston Starr Having reached Bir- mingham, perhaps near beer will make visit to Anniston soon. If ''near beer" is very near the real article, however 1t is probable that Anniston's reputation as a prohibition town will cause the dealers to make haste slowly in this di- rection.
 Headland Post: The strike situation near Birmingham now is getting serious. Dynamite has been used freely by the miners, and the state troops have been forced to fire on the strikers. We sin cerely hope that the present week will be the last of the strike, for at present it resembles anarchy, and nothing else, and law abiding citizens are against such vio- lence
 Tallapoosa Courier: We believe the strong arm of the law ought to put a stop to the Birmingham strike at once, and too, the laws of the country should adjust the capital and labor question. Any question that affects all people should be under the control of the law. It is not right for capital to crush labor. nor is it right for labor to cripple business by strikes and boycotts
 Chattanooga Star Lawlessness once begun in a community feeds upon Itself and grows of Its own strength. We know little of the merits of the controversy in progress in the Birmingham district. but we know that with every hour of additional tolerance of lawbreaking, l spect for law Is weakened, and the spirit of crime is emboldened and strengthened. | Huntsville Banner: The outrages that are being committed in the Birmingham district in the name of the striking min CTS are attracting the attention of the whole country, and it Is now high time for the mine union mon to take a hand in bringing the guilty to justice No 1 more effective means could have been taken to lose the sympathy of the pub lio than by allowing the violence of the last few days.
 Twin City Herald: How long will the miners strike last in the Birmingham district?' Is a question asked every day and is one to which responses are slow and uncertain. In the past 25 years the Birmingham district has seen a number of strikes, most of them hard fought and too long drawnout. We think and sin cerely hope the present strike will end soon in a manner satisfactory to both parties directly concerned.
 l Gadsden Times-News: What that Bir- mingham strike needs Is not so much l deputies and soldiers as somebody who | is big enough to force the operators and miners to get together and settle. This can best be done by high official, pref l erably the governor, who Is so entrench- l ed in the esteem of his peonle that his