The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-05-17

dNhOhb tue Htut WHeTe tOeN can get
what they think they need to drink.
SO there has been no great exodus.
How 10 will Dee when the law makes
the whole state dry by constitutional
'whiskcy game wardcns.' and spies
on the ucighbors. is not known bun
if the present condition is any crlter.
ion 10 Judge hN Alabama is going
10 be the Wcrty-t dry State in the
Union birmingham citizens simply
laugh az the condition Men can get
all the liquor they want day or night
and the dear child. the negro. who
was 90 be saved from a drunkard's
grave by legislation. laughs loudest
Of all one thing hOthcrs the negro
and that is that it is unlawful to
drink in public. and though he may
have the goods concealed a-put his
person. De- has got 10 6ud place ~
drink where no one can see him. SO
Dee will 10 into an onico building. or
lII % "NHiAl A W y hlIh " IlNi'. II' W NANN ll'.n
out, or has friend watch out for
intrudors, he puts the bottle To- his
mouth and the guggle is all that can
be heard. the jag is acquired, and
no one is any wiser unless they hap
pen To run up against MIR Negro
when Do feels his fighting spirit come
on IL has been suggested that the
city provide little wooden buildings
just large enough for one man To
stand up m 10 take "a quiet drink.
but the idea is not yet popular. So
the empty freight car, or the covered
wagon. BIS used extensively To hide
him during the critical moment when
the drink Is actually going down the
colored gullct Negro women as well
as men, take their drinks, and many
calico skirt couceals the bootleg
GER plant where any colorcd brother
who has the price may procure D
bottle of vile stun from regularly
ordained "auntyr who is not burden
ed with license or conscience.
Aud yet some Of these negroes, male
and female. who sell it and drink it.
ara deyout church members ON sun
day. and shout and sing GLORY to
God" between drinks. and Impress
others as being pretty good intcrmit-
tcntly. Drunkenness and crime
among the negroes is not ON the
decrease since Birmingham went dry,
as getting the stun Is easier than
ever, and after a negro gets more
than he needs Of the deadly fluid, he
has not the miscrly instinct that
causes him to lay it up for rainy
/ it down for the dry day, and when
he gets full and his brain begins
TO si2zle like fat frying in the pan,
he is ready to kin a neighbor, or
steal a mule, and he does not care
much which comes first.
But dear old Mobile, which has
miles of docks where ships from ev-
cry port brings cargoes and take
away the products OF the Southern
! plantation, whose business has been
| the pride OF the South for a hundred
years, whose people speak all Ian
guages, and which is visited by for
eigners from all lands, and whose
ocean steamers go 10 every port
where there Is business, and whose
/ hotels and clubs are the finest in
| the land, and which catches the
worlds travellers going and coming,
is going to feel prohibition the worst.
/ II is going to take her from the class
| Of Paris, Venice. Buenos Ayres and
other world leaders in business and
pleasure, and put her In the class
with Skov hegan. Maine, and Vine
/ land, New Jersey, and the people
are broken-hearted over the prospect
after January LIST, when everything
must become dry In Alabama. With
/ banks as solid as the Bank OF Eng
land. business houses thar trade with
all the world, the stopping place for
the tourists of our own country and
all of Europe, cosmopolitan city
today, she is to be closed up so
that an emperor visiting here would
have 10 drink soda water, at a din
ner. instead Of the champagne he is
accustomed to. Business is already
feeling the slump and one can buy
what has always been good paying
business at his own price. one man
told me that a year ago he could
have sold his business for one hun
dred and fifty cents on the dollar for
all that he had put in il but now
he would sell for fifty cents on the