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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27

have told us, that simple prosperity does not satisfy. Business may be quietly good, but that ambition to which we prob ably owe also the greater part of the worlds progress insists upon forcing 1t beyond reasonable capacity. The result is always the same, and following that result developments are curiously uni- form.
 "The result of years of saving is over confidence imitation, waste, conversion oi floating wealth into fixed wealth, and, finally, collapse and panic. Here is the plain evidence of 200 years, and, it may be assumed at no risk, that 1t is the evil dence of all commercial systems. Joseph with seven fat years and his seven lean years expressed nothing more. If we choose to deny him inspiration. a sound economist of his day could have told Pharaoh nearly as much, given reason- able knowledge of the tendency of Egyp- tian trade at that time.
 What Is not so readily realized is that 8 panic is followed by rapid recovery in stock prices, and one slower but still rel atively quick in general business. This
 
 where, contrary to assumptions just as nasty and Unbalanced as those which caused the bear attitude on the panic break. boom conditions are not immediate ly restored, nor does anything of the kind develop within period of year or so of the crisis. The first recovery runs too far and has always run too far, as any student of history can ascertain for him self. What follows is not collapse, but dulness. It become imperative to make real savings in order to build up for the next boom in business.
 "It is now nearly two years since ths eliminating crisis of 1907. We have re- covered more rapidly than we did on other like occasions. Prices of all com modities are abnormally high, and the wage-earner has had little time to save. This newspaper likes to be conservatively optimistic, but is it not possible to learn some lessons from parallel developments recorded in history for all men to see in over two centuries?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27
PRoHIBlTloNlsT ABsURDlTY.

From the Spokane Spokesman Review.
 Advance sheets of the National Prohi- bitionist which evidently believes it has done a clever thing, attempt to show by the new tariff law that President Taft and Congress are in league with the liquor interests. The intelligent reader will, how ever see in the effort and the position taken striking evidence of the irrational zeal which has often made the activities of some prohibitionists hindrance to real temperance reform
 The National Prohibitionist relies upon the old rhetorical device of asking lead ing questions and assuming that only one answer is possible and argument is not worth while. It inquiries, for instance, "ls it true that the liquor interests financed the campaign which elected William H. Taft President of the United States a year ago, in return for promises and pledges that there should be no legislation hostile to their welfare?"
 All good prohibitionists are expected to answer Yes" The paper assists them with a hint that this Is the proper an- swer by remarking, There were ugly rumors to that effect during the cam paignl''
 Accordingly the results of this compact should appear in the new tariff, and as the increased duties on liquors do not suit the prohibitionists what could be more clear to them than that these in- creased duties represent the payment of political debt to the liquor interest? To an impartial judge this line of reas- oning is rather faulty In the first place, going on the principle that luxuries should be made to stand the increases in duties. liouors would naturally be taxed higher, regardless of whether the rise happens to protect American liquor men from foreign competition
 1 But 1t is more important to recall the fact that the prohibitionists object to recognition of the liquor business by the government in any way whatever. They l do not wish the government to take any l revenue from it at all. The abolition of the internal revenue tax on liquors was a plank In their 1908 platform.
 So if Congress had done away entirely ! with the tariff on liquors, the prohibi- ! tionists would have been greatly pleased.
 Practical considerations do not trouble
 them. as appears from their objection
 to the internal revenue tax.
 This tax which Is faithfully collected | should show workers for prohibition
 where violations of their law are going on. But instead of being glad to have 1 this useful information they seem sensi-
 tive to the disclosure which it gives of
 the weakness of the prohibition plan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27
ALABAMIAN IN DISTRESS
From the Louisville courier-Journal.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal. | N GENTLEMAN residing in Mont | VV gomery writes to the Courier Journal a letter in which he | quotes Cooley on constitutional limita- 1 tions, and numerous decisions of the | United States supreme court, to uphold his contention that neither the fourth amendment of the federal constitution, nor any other amendment safeguarding individual rights, could protect the peo- pie of Alabama from the tyranny of their legislature if the proposed prohibition amendment of the Alabama constitution should be adopted in November. 'If the proposed prohibition amendment to the Alabama constitution Is adopted he says nothing is left upon which the citizen can rely for the safety of his home. The legislature could enact law prohibiting man from keeping liquor Of less than one-half of one per cent alcohol in his own home. And the courts would have to uphold all officers of the law in raiding homes under suspicion of hay ing liquors there.''
 The question of whether frenzed fanaticism can entirely obliterate the rights of citizens of the United States re- siding in Alabama is one sufficiently grave to be decided by the United States su- preme court rather than in discussion by the press between individuals. It is un- occasionally true that the bill of rights is held, by Cooley. and in numerous de- cisions, to be set of restrictions upon the national government.
 Says Cooley:
 Tt Is a settled rule of construction of the national constitution that the limita- tions it imposes upon the powers of gov erment are, in all cases, to be regarded as limitations upon the government of the pressly mentioned
 States are expressly mentioned in the fourteenth amendment of the federal con- stitution, which says that no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States
 The fourteenth amendment was, of course. adopted to guard emancipated slaves against the abridgement of rights,
 
 imagination or the constitution, to apply that amendment if a state should seek to abolish the privileges and immunities of the home. The matter is one for law yers to discuss and for courts to decide. Possibly the Alabaman whose letter is quoted is quite right in his contention, but the right to regard ones home as his castle is a privilege no less dear to the average man than the right to cast a ballot, and immunity from unwarrantab,e search and seizure Is held as highly as immunity from interference with the right to vote.
 When the French National Assembly, upon August 25. 17S9, adopted its famous declaration of the rights of man. it pro- vided, among other things hardly more important. that no one should be "ac- cused, arrested or imprisoned without due process of law Civilizations indorse- ment has since been written large across that declaration, which Burke, in his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27
Searching Homes In This State

All right-minded people were stirred with wrathful indignation when the sheriffs deputies in Mobile searched the home of a respectable family of that city on a warrant issued under the Fuller act. The lady of the house and her daughters were at home un- protected. The deputies. in making thorough search, compelled one of the young ladies to open her trunk and take out all the garments contained therein. It was liquor for which the officers were searching, but the only package they found was in the sideboard, and it was a small flask at that. The whole thing was an outrage for which the drastic prohibition laws are respon- sible.
 But as startling as the Mobile affair was. cases occurring right here in Bir- mingham with plain clothes men of the police department searched homes on avenue I were far more startling, be- cause the officers entered the dwell- ings without warrants. The Fuller law would have been regarded as wrong and cruel even in Russia. But the Fuller law was drawn by Judge Weakley, counsel for the Anti-Saloon i league and candidate for the gover- norship on a constitutional prohibit 1 tion platform, and it Is this very act which is now making Alabama a by-word and a reproach among com- monwealths. The home Is no longer sacred and should the proposed amendment seeking to write prohibit tion in the constitution be ratified at the polls, conditions here will be still more intolerable. But surely there is enough manhood and patriotism left | in Alabama to defeat the amendment and to elect a legislature that will materially modify the prohibition acts. Certainly no one who read in The Age-Herald of Sunday the account of the searching of our homes by detec. tives will vote,ufor the amendment The people will rise up in mass
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27

1 Reflections Upon the French Revolu- tion," eharacterizes as declaration of
 anarchy, and which Thomas Paine up-
 held so hotly, in his reply to Burke, that he was prosecuted for libel in London.
 The principles upon which the French
 formulated their definition of rights were borrowed from America.
 A century before the doctrine of the
 rights of man was promulgated in France
 the Prince and Princess of Orange se-
 cured the English throne by agreeing to
 statement of the fundamental rights of the nation
 ihe tendency of the most civilized coun-
 tries, since the adoption of the English
 bill of rights, has been toward safeguard
 ing the individual from too much gov
 ernment, and especially from the ex- ercise of arbitrary power interfering with
 whhat the American Declaration of Inde-
 pendence describes, rhetorically as the
 right to life, liberty and the pursuit of
 happiness. It is possible that fanatics of Alabama may be able to destroy the bar
 riers that the evolution of society has
 gradually raised between the individual and unwarrantable interference with his
 private affairs. It is, however, lamentabls
 that this bakcward step is contemplated by state overridden by overwrought ex- ponents of prohibition who would deny
 the individual any and all rights that conflict with their ideas of what is good
 for his morals or his digestion.
 It Is possible for Alabama to destroy individual liberty, and if the state should adopt the amendments proposed by the constitutional prohibltionists,' the lm- mediate consequence would be humilating to the unoffending citizen, and doubtless damaging to the interests of state which at least cannot enjoin anyone from re-
 moving to a more civilized and enlighten- ed state to escape the consequences of organized anarchy. But the ultimate re- suit would be that the provision of the Fuller law providing for the search of homes upon suspicion would not be gen orally enforced. Even the present prohi- bition laws, in states where insanity is not as common as 1t Is in Alabama, are not rigidly enforced because they are not upheld by public opinion. If the blind tiger' fourishes in Maine after more
 than a half century of theoretic prohibi-
 tion, the family residence in Alabama,
 even under an amended constitution
 would not be subject to general, and regu-
 lar, invasion for any great length of time by law officers in search of liquors. The
 vlciousness of the effort to prescribe the contents of the sideboard is, however, not
 lessened but increased by the fact that
 the practice of invading homes would soon fall into disuse save where the desire
 of the officials in power to annoy certain persons would keep it alive. The Courier Journal sympathizes with the Montgomery lawyer who views with sorrow the pro- posed adoption of amendments to repeal the bill of rights of Alabama, and vio- late the spirit of the federal consti- tuition which has long been a guide to , the framers of state constitutions insofar as it hedges about the liberty of the in- dividual and guarantees to him ths sanctity of his own hearthstone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27
The conouerinq of Ice King.


 How have the mighty fallen before the onslaught of dogs and men," said a man much interested in the conquest of the frozen north"
 "One of the most interesting features to many are the dogs, evidently trained wolves that the Esquimos have bred for centuries. One can almost hear their bark mentioned by Dr. Cook, when the first start was made from Annatook, as with crack of the whips they dashed for ward with the loaded sleds. In the first part of the journey the men were enabled to rest themselves for short stretches with rides upon the sledges For the last laps the fight was every dog to his utmost pulling power, while Cook and his two companions aided at times as they best could with ice axes, chopping ways for the sledges carrying about 500 pounds each.
 And the retreat is a suggestion of the retreat of Napoleon from Moscow. It re- solved itself into a survival of the Attest. It was in fact dog-eat-dog journey, and a fighting of the way through ice bar riers, across treacherous foes. The finale: All the dogs consumed one by the others until at last the party crept into Annatook dragging the remains of two sledges by hand having swung away below and cir cling back to the base, where Whitney met them, he having seen them and gone two miles. The probable reason for this is that ships and men are so rare and do sometimes pass without seeing signals, as adid the ship Arctic with Whitney's 8 party in the Jeannette crushed in the ice"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27
A cHILD's LAUGHTER.

By Algernon Charles Swinburne. All the bells of heaven may ring, All the birds of heaven may sing, All the wells of earth may spring, All the winds on earth may bring
 All sweet sounds together; Sweeter far than all things heard, Hand of harper. tone of bird, Sounds of woods at sundown stirred, Yelling waters winsome word,
 Wind in warm, wan weather. One thing yet there Is that none Hearing ere it's chime be done, Knows not well the sweetest one Heard of man beneath the sun,
 Hope in heaven hereafter; Soft and strong and loud and light, Very sound of very light Heard from mornings rosiest height When the soul of all delight
 Fills a childs clear laughter. Golden bells of welcome rolled Ne'er before such notes nor told Hours so blithe in tones 90 bold As the radiant month of gold
 Here that rings forth heaven. If the golden-crested wren Were a nightingale, why then, Something seen and heard of men Might be half as sweet as when Laughs . child of ssven
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27
Permanent Prosperity.

"The record of crises and booms can be carried back beyond the history of this country and we can start from the opening years of the eighteenth century when William of Orange was on the Eng fish throne" says a writer in the Wall St. Journal. We can trace therefrom a commercial panic of the first class, on an average, once in 10 years, and we can carry 1t into the last century, with condi- tions exactly reflected on this side of the Atlantic A condition of equilibrium is apparently the most difficult of all for the worlds trade to maintain. We can theorize about crops, consumption, capi- tai, labor and score of other factors. but human nature is after all, at once the least stable and the most unchange- able factor of them all.
 "The more you change it. in fact, the more it remains the same thing. We have heard with our sars, and our fathers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27
Effects of Presidents Speeches.

Henry Clews in his Saturday review of stock market conditions says, in part:
 ''The large financial and speculative in- terests are still supporting the stock market. and any discussion of financial prospects must necessarily be subject to their movements predicated upon the whim or exigencies of their present in- terests. Dealing, however, with the funda- mental situation. which in the long run must prevail, there appears no question that developments are converting it into one of increasing burden for manipula- tive interests, and the features 10 be watched In the current period of strain are indications of the endurance, strength and determination of the manipulators.
 "The weeks news developments have been Encouragement to those outside interests who became enthusiastic over market prospects immediately after the death of Mir. Hartman. There have been a number of specific disappoint- ments In the first place, the speeches of President Taft in his tour of the west have exercised rather unsettling influ- ence upon holders of securities. They suggest that the trend towards national supervision of accumulated capital did not end with the retirement of the Pres ident's immediate predecessor; and MT. Taft's distinct statement that recommen- dations are to be made to Congress at the December session of a character cal- culated to reopen discussion and action on corporation matters of a controversial character, can hardly be viewed as a fa- vorable stock market influence. large percentage of the very heavy advance
 price level since the inauguration Of President Taft in March last has been based upon the belief that legislative antagonism to accumulated capital as such was on the wane and that just as surely as national political sentiment mod erated so would state. county. municipal and lesser governmental organizations fall into line. Holders of securities began to feel free from care in this direction; they quite freely admitted that the Roosevelt policy, while perhaps at times unneces- sarly harsh, had not been without it's very pronounced benefits upon the finan- cal and business fabric as a whole. and that changes had been forced quite as necessary as for the moment they were unsettlihg and perhaps temporarily dis astrous
 "The Presidents speeches. especially that at Des Moines. have suddenly made | 1t clear that great questions affecting the financial markets that were considered settled are. in fact. not settled and that the opening of Congress will again become | the source of uneasiness and uncertainty | among large railroad and industrial man. | agers and owners"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New YOrk Press. The exact truth is always either bore some or brutal.
 The more conceit man has the more a clever girl can make him think she doesn't see it.
 When a girl will let you tie her shoe string she knew it was going to happen and dressed for it.
 woman can keep on believing in her husband just to be able to hope some day it will come true.
 There's mighty little use in being so good that everybody will wish you were horse thief % you could be tolerated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27
IN HOTEL LOBBlES
indicates Prosperity.

This Sundays Age-Herald shows un- mistakable signs of prosperity's return, ' said Frank H. Bell the well-known ad- vertising man, who is close observer and student of business conditions.
 "The advertising columns of a news paper are the citys business barometer, and the magnificent showing in today s paper is conclusive evidence that the last trace of the panic has made it's exit and that Birmingham's merchants are prompt to take advantage of renewed business activity"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27
----------'o- o-----7=---=-----7--- FANATICISM AND LAW.
.om the New York World.

From the New York World
 In the Alabama dry" statutes is large void where stood the clause forbidding the transportation of liquors from one person to another. A decision by the inferior cess of establishing the fact that fanati- cism is seldom good law is long and tedious. but may be some day complete.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27
HOME IS SACRED.
From the Hartselle Enterprise.

The home Is the most sacred spot on earth to man. He will protect that one place with all the powers that are in him. and when it comes to the point that a mans home is subject to search by fee grabbers. and the private haunts of that place of all places to a man be- comes toy to be played with by those who would place upon him certain laws. there will be something doing. Better go slow along this line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27

Birmingham great events for Octo- Der will be the monster rally of the defenders next Saturday night the state fair on the 11th to the goth of the month, and the good roads con yention on the 14th and 18th. The November events will be the visit of President Taft, the circus and the election.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27
COMING TO coMER.

From the Green County Democrat
 Evidently the Governor thought that Alabama was the state of Conner, but be- fore he gets through with the anti-amend- ment opposition he will think that 1t is anything else than "a state of Coma
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27

Temperance does not mean prohibit tion. In Alabama just now the de- lenders of the constitution are the temperance people, while the amend CTS go to make up the intemperance or prohibition party
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27

The saddest day of the melancholy days is the day when you discover that you haven't a single suit of un- derwear left over from last winter that is fit to put on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27

Frank A. Munsey has cleaned up something like s5,0OOO0O because he refused to listen to the advice of friends Luck like that is enough to make any man bullheaded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27

A Chinaman has built an aeroplane on the Pacific coast. He probably took his cue from somebody who lived thousand years ago in China.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27

A magazine writer calls Circassia the Hand of lovely ladies'" Good lockers can be purchased over there for s75 and $100 apiece
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27

People who discover the north pole may not find a pot of gold buried there, but they find a whole lot of fat lecture offers waiting them when they get back.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27

It is evident that there was quite a( lot of cast-off timber some bark and some worm-eaten political slabs in the prohibition woodpile in Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27

If suffragettes are determined to starve to death when put in jail, why not let them have their way about it?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27

A Georgia man accused of murder is studying the Bible. Had he studied it sooner he might have learned some- thing to his advantage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27

There are prohibitionists and pro- hibitionists, but one must go to Tur- key for the 33d degree. The followers of Mahomet have been prohibitionists dan religion in the seventh century.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27

The emperor of Austria is tickled almost to death because Andrew Car negie has presented him with plaster cast of diplodocus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27

President Taft seems to have found a mares nest in the Mormon taber- nacle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27

A person named Harry Thaw is still sojourning in Matteawan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27

The best thing MT. Peary can do is to thaw, and thaw quick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27

Next Saturday night will bring the biggest crowd to Birmingham that has been seen here in many a day. De- lenders of the constitution will come from every county within a radius of 100 miles, and they will make the welkin ring with patriotic shouts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27

and overthrow the tyranny which would. if it were allowed to continue, ruin Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27

Kansas pigs are riding to market in automobiles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
 Second Part of Henry w., lll:3.