The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-01
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 N N earnest advocate of prohibition Pl as cure for the evil of inebriety. writes to the Courier-J Journal

EN N earnest advocate of prohibition Vl as cure for the evil of inebriety.
 writes to the CourierJournal from Cadlz to file a complaint.
 Discussing an article in these columns in which it was insisted that the eduea- ton of the individual is the only means of reducing the social evil. and in which it was said that effort to eliminate vice by legislation have always failed, as prohibi- tion has failed to eliminate the evil of drink, our correspondent has this to say:
 Tt is education that is driving the whisky element to their hole. * Your readers fail to find in your columns any education on the whisky question. It would be a great and grand thing for the leading paper of-the south to lend it's support to this line of higher education"
 The efforts of this newspaper have been directed toward pointing out the fact that while a small community under local option, may reduce the liquor evil, although it cannot eliminate 1t, or at least has never done so, the morals and ap- petites of the individual are not affected by legislation, and prohibition state is not state without rum selling and drunkenness.
 An example frequently cited, and of long standing, proving the fallaey of the i doctrine that prohibition prohibits, is the state of Maine, where drunkenness is about as common after half century of prohibition as 1t was before Maine voted dry" New demonstrations of the inef- fectiveness of legislation are attracting attention in several states which have recently adopted statewide prohibition laws. In Alabama we have the spectacle of the withdrawal of the right of trial by jury, as an effort to convict liquor sell CTS where hundreds of trials have result
 ed In failure to convict. There is also an effort afoot in Alabama to amend the state constitution by striking out certain clauses patterned after the amendments to the federal constitution familiarly 1 known as the bill of rights, and written into that instrument to guarantee what have been held by the best thought of the nation to be rights that should be in alienable and that must be so before re- publican form of government can truly be said to exist. The present prohibition law in Alabama is an invasion of the right of the householder to security from unwarrantable search and seizure, and in other ways a measure going to extremes in an effort to end the liquor traffic. It is not proving effective. It is reasonable to believe that the efforts of it's packers to gain their ends by destroying the rights of the individual to security in his home and to a fair trial before an impartial jury of his peers will result in the over throw of the prohibition party In Ala bama.
 In Tennessee, which is "dry'' under the law, the efforts of the authorities to en- force the law have failed, possibly be- cause of a lack of earnestness which is commonly manifested where an effort Is made to enforce laws in which neither the law officers nor the community have any interest. The introduction of the shotgun into the argument has been advocated by misguided prohibitionists in Nashville. It is reasonable to believe that Tennessee and Alabama will soon repudiate prohibi- states which adopted it simultaneously with Maine, but subsequently, repealed their laws because 1t had been proven that they were failures. Maine clung to prohibition, and is famous as an example of hypocrisy.