The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-10
7e0eub-Nwe Cihsens D1ake RepIv To Ned Brace

on, and the only remedy is to put the
 whole thing out, and keep it out just as
 he advises us to do in reference to CO.,
 caine Yet, in the columns Of your paper,
 you are advertising the sale of a concoc-
 ton out of which, the advertisement
 reads, four full quarts of liquor of any kind can be manufactured for 90 cents. '. Ned Brace" refers to a grade-cross- ing accident and a killing in a blind tiger. Grade-crossing accidents were fre-
 quent under the open saloons, but under prohibition they have almost become a thing of the past. If the last accident of that kind was due to blind tiger whs- 1 ky that is but another reason why all good people should help us to enforce l the law Whisky will make men drunk,
 cause them to neglect their business, and l involve them in difficulties leading often to homicide, no matter where it is
 bought.
 What we are striving to do is to save lives, and the facts show, and the statis- l tics prove, that many lives have already
 been saved under prohibition.
 j The case in which an officer of the law and the owner of a tiger and his
 clerk and the innocent babe of the owner were killed is a lamentable one indeed. i No one regrets that tragedy more than !, we do but we should not lose sight of
 
 living today had not the law been vio- l lated. The proprietor had been arrested l three or four times for violating the
 law, had plead guilty, and had been all l lowed to pay small fine on his promise ] not to repeat the offense. Had he kept ] the promise there would have been no
 occasion for his arrest and he and his
 associate would not have been stimu-
 lated to shoot down a worthy officer in
 the discharge of his duty.
 l 8. The legalized liquor traffic in Jef- ferson county is dead. The prohibition 1 law did not come as the result of a l spasmodic effort. It is the expression | of deep conviction of a long-suffering
 community. It has come to stay. All ready 1t has accomplished wonders in 1 Birmingham. It has closed the saloons
 and swept out low and dangerous dives; | it has cleansed our streets and fumi- 1 gated old corners that smelt of whisky
 and blood and murder; it has carried our | city through one of the worst panics the l country ever saw and has saved many | legitimate businesses from possible bank ] ruptcy Under 1t real estate values have not only been maintained but advanced; | hundreds of comfortable houses have been | built; large enterprises have been pro- l jected and one bank has increased it's l deposits more than a million dollars. With | a fair trial it will prove to be one of
 the most important factors in making | Birmingham great and beautiful, and | adding to the wealth of the great county | of Jefferson.
 The good people of this community have
 covenanted together that it shall have a | chance to accomplish all its beneficent 1 possibilities. May we not ask The Age | Herald to desist in its efforts to bring the
 policy into disrepute, and to aid us in our
 efforts as private citizens to maintain
 respect for and obedience to the laws of
 our state?
 R. M. Goodall. F. M. Jackson, w L.
 Sessions. R. H. Hagood. John A. Ed l wards. T. M. Nesbtt, H. P. Burruss, John
 B. Weakley. L. P Smith, F. L. Erwin w. J. Stacy. M. A. Myatt, E. D. Tut
 wiler. w. c. Durrett, J. H. Guthrie, w
 R. Starbuck. w. L. c. Yam. R. A Por- ter, James Weisel, G. H. Estes, Hugh A
 Locke, N A. Barrett, c. S. Bissell, A
 P. Montague, J. T. Morgan, J. P Ken
 nedy, James H. Hardy, c. M. Green, F I. Tarrant