The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-06
Deprived By the Fuller BiII.

"The drastic features of the Fuller bill have already had their effect in the mat ter of securing beer" said German citi- zen. My wife and I like a glass of beer, or a bottle, and even under the first prohibition law we were enabled to get few bottles for our use. Now we must buy case or cask in a distant city and take it to our home. But then we have no home in the real sense. We have a small rented apartment, and it will put the premises under suspicion, and might lead to arrest for innocent persons if we should keep beer and serve it to our friends. I understand that many per- sons owning their homes buy beer and wine in quantities and that they are safe from interference on the part of officers of the law.
 Tt Is great hardship on those of US who all of our lives have been accus- toned to beer to be deprived of something we have been from from our youths taught was at once harmless and whole some; in fact it has become with us old people necessity"
 Regarding Harriman's Influence.
 Henry Clews in his Saturday review says in part:
 "The stock market has been taking the rest cure, which was much needed after the late collapse in the Hartman issues. The suspension of business for three suc- cessive days also induced further quiet ness It is perfectly evident that for the time being at least the spirit of the bulls has been impaired. Their leader and ma- gician has withdrawn. probably to never again resume his former active command. No longer can the mysteries conjured up in MT. Harriman's influence be used to manipulate the stock market and here after his specialties will be obliged to sell more strictly upon their merits, con- dition that will be wholesome and will contribute to financial stability. Upon the whole it is highly fortunate that the market is relieved of the baneful effects of wild speculations.
 Probably MT Hartman never intended that his plans should have the peculiar influence upon the public mind which they did; yet his dominating and arbitrary personality appealed to the imagination and completely hypnotized the minimizing class, so that his securities readily be- came the basis of wild and hazardous orgies in the speculative arena; and while MT sHarriman's great speculative trans actions proved successful thanks large ly to good fortune, the effect was dan gerousy infammatory upon individuals of a speculative disposition. Happily the I fever which these operations induced is now subsiding, and the market is settling 1 down into saner and safer conditions. Whatever of merit there happens to be in Mir Harriman's great schemes will re- main, and on such it is to be sincerely hoped that he will be able to carry. them to completion. If not, however, there is no reason to suppose but that competent successors will appear who will safeguard the future of the entire system
 A Virginia Newspaper. "One of the best newspapers in the United States is the Richmond News Leader. owned by John Skelton Will Hams and other members of the Will Hams family and edited by Ali Williams" :" said a member of Birmingham's Virginia colony.
 'Tt Is clean, h:igh-clas paper and it's editorials are wonderfully able. The policy of the News Leader concerning v,~v,hgS>Starv, 5n 6~ride<51v a~nannf that po-