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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Breach of aith.

''The present prohibition laws and the
proposed amendment to the constitution
are a direct breach of faith on the part
of the state of Alabama, to the citizens
of such communities as Cullman, Thorsby
and Fruithurst," said a prominent citi-
zen of CuIlman, who a few years ago
removed from the northwest to Cullman
county and engaged in the culture of
grapes and other fruits.
1.-THE state of Alabama, through its
legislature, its agricultural department,
its pfess and its people, have for a num-
Der of years represented to the people of
other states that the soil and climate Of
this state were adapted to the culture of
the grape and other fruits and to the
making of domestic wines, and have In
vited these people to come to Alabama
and engage in this business. assuring
them that they would be protected. Upon
these representations hundreds of people
have left their homes in other states and
have invested their all in fruit farms and
grape vineyards Under the present dras-
tic laws there is nothing left these new
citizens of the states. but to cut down
their grapevine and fruit trees and go to
raising cotton, a class of agriculture of
which they know nothing, and which is
overdone as it is. Can any man say
that we have been treated fairly and
ripht9"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-13
GOMPERS TALKS OF
COURT DECISION

Toronto, November 12.-During the Ave
days the American Federation of Labor
has been in session there has been much
suppressed speculation as to the attitude
the convention might take on the ques-
ton of labor and the saloon. When II
was announced early in the week that
temperance mass meeting would be held
Sunday, under the auspices of the labor
department of the Presbyterian church.
the delegates representing the interna-
tional union of the United Brewery Work
men, the Hotel and Restaurant Employees
International Alliance and the Bar
tenders International League of America
began to canvass the situation quietly
with a view to learning whether the
liquor question was likely to reach the
floor of the convention.
The Rev. Charles Stelzle, a fraternal
delegate from the federal councils of
the Church of Christ in America and a
warm advocate of the principles of trades
unionism has been advocating the es-
tablishment OF temperance brotherhood
among the trades unions and will preside
at Sundays meeting.
Mr.. Gompers said this morning that
the question of an appeal of the con-
tempt decision and the line of the case
will be discussed at a conference of the
defendants and their counsel to be held
soon after the convention adjourns.
Mr. Gompers declarde that Justice
Wright was guilty of Outrageous con-
duct in so cruelty excoriating the honest
conduct of three citizens who undertook
to test the law in imposing unusual SEN
fences"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-13
Hast any philosophy In thee, shep-
herd? AS You Like II.
For the New York Rich

More divorces would be applied for
were it not for the publicity and Cos
sip that usually attend such cases, but
il now appears that in New York state
the rich and influential can gumshoe
through the divorce court and no one
be the wiser on account of 1t. Secrecy
is vouehsafed, however, in New York
to the powerful and wealthy few only.
Humble persons of small means, says
the New York Times, cannot obtain
secret divorces in New York state
The case referred to occurred in a
small village of an upstate county Of
New York. Mrs. John Jacob Astor de-
sired divorce from Col. John Jacob AS
tor for the one cause admissible in
New York. No one knew anything
about the case until it was called in
the rural court and referees report,
duly sealed, was handed in. Neither OF
the parties was in court. Colonel
Astor was cruising In the West Indies,
and Mrs. Astor was seeking health at
a watering place in Indiana. The rus
tics in the courtroom did not know
anything unusual was going on. Pres
emily strange lawyer-one Henry w.
Taft-arose and asked to have the
judgment signed and decree granted,
and the judge did as he had been re-
quested 1t was all over In a few min
utes Justice thus did gumshoe through
the divorce court with the appreciation
of the Judge, the referee and all others
concerned, and Mrs Astor stood di-
vorced with a reported alimony of
$10,0O0,000 in her handbag No one
knows why she got decree, much less
why she got the reported sum Of
money.
Under this precedent great in
crease of divorces may be expected
among the rich and influential, for the
papers are all sealed and any attempt
to ascertain their contents would be
apt to land the inquisitive in jail. The
court has practically declared that the
rich and influential shall have secret
divorces-especially when Henry w.
Taft is their LAWYER
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-13
Foul ISLANDERS and No Proof

The campaign has existed in acute
form over two months, and IL the
brewers or the whisky magnates, or any
other interests connected with the
liquor trade have spent hundreds of
thousands of dollars in Alabama, sure
ly by this time some of the money
could be traced from a corruptor to a
corruptee.
The Age-Herald has no desire to dig
nifty the baseless roorbacks that
Brooks Lawrence Eliminates daily in
relation to whisky or beer money, but
before he goes any further he should,
in all decency, show where the money
has gone. The sums he mentions
could not have been distributed in this
state without some one knowing where
at least one bit of it had been spent.
The Age-Herald demands proof of pay
ment of even a single five-dollar bill
Proof is utterly lacking at both ends
Of the line, and at the Alabama end it
is painfully lacking, for no man is
knows to have received a dollar of the
money that exists in Brooks Law
rence's vivid imagination.
If the farmers have been bribed to
vote against the amendment, let us
out of the vast array have the name
of at least one man. Until the name
of single farmer is furnished Brooks
Lawrence should cease to SANDER the
farmers of Alabama. If any news
paper has received a cent of the
tainted mosey. let the fact be made
known. If anybody has been bribed or
swerved from his convictions, bring
on the proof.
The wholesale statements of Brooks
Lawrence concerning the money fur
nished by the brewers is reflection
on the best, the purest, the most select
electorate in this country. Manhood
suffrage does not exist in Alabama.
Here a man must be taxpayer and
man of intelligence, or else a man of
ripe experience. No other state has so
choice a body of voters, and Brooks
Lawrence charges that these voters
are men who may be bribed Before
he goes any further he should furnish
some proof In these last days of a
long campaign proof is in order. 1t
would be forthcoming if even a moiety
of the sum named had been expended
in this state. Either stop the foul and
baseless ISLANDERS against the Alabama
voters. or else bring forward bit Of
proof. 1t is up to you, Mr.. Lawrence.
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usurped Authority.

gentleman prominent in politics in
Jefferson county remarked the other day:
IT have always been democrat and
believe in unfolding and carrying out
the platforms of the party as far as Is
possible. The last convention OF the
party In this state expressed itself In no
uncertain way as to the attitude and
demands Of the party on the prohibition
question, which was declaration Tor To-
cal option. This plank Of our last state
platform is yet the law and the demand
of the party and the instructions ana
authority of our democratic lawmakers.
The legislature that convened shortly aft
err this platform was promulgated very
wisely and properly passed local OPP
ton law for the state in response to this
demand of their party.
IAN extra session of the legislature,
without any further expression from the
party and without any convention nav
ing been called to consider it. passed the
statewide prohibition law. This was
nothing less than usurpation OF authority
on the part of this democratic body, but
I for one am willing to condone 1t, and
help to uphold this law SO long as 1t
Is effective, but as a democrat l am
unwilling to accept and submit to the
further usurped authority of this same
legislature at the called session, In It's
demand for a constitutional prohinition
amendment, which, after all. is put an
experiment and contrary to the demands
of the democratic party In this state.
III the democrats of Alabama keep on
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-13
Injustice to Slack Belt NEGRO.

II desire to contradict a SANDER upon
| the negro of the black belt In an after
| noon paper" said former citizen of Dali
las county
ut is not true that the negro in the
black belt has often committed offenses
against the virtue Of white women. In
my home equity Dallas, where the negro
outnumbers the whites five to one, in a
population of 5000 in 1900, this crime has
been comparatively unknown. l do not
now recall a single such crime In 20
years.
NO, back in the los we literally awed
the negro In the fight necessary to regain
control of affairs political. governmental
and some of the courts. This drastic
action carried with absolute respect for
the white race of every class as to the
Negroes demeanor. SO necessary was it
to keep up this line that sometimes a
white man of low character was protected
in clashes with negroes when he did not
deserve it, but we could not slacken the
line without great danger.
1.-The nude figure on the bottle was
only heard of in few places, and the
only crime against a white woman trace
able to it took plaese In Pickens county
not a black belt county
Some of the writer's on the afternoon
paper alluded to make a great ado over
the lynching of negro brutes. Well, they
will not be allowed to speak for either
the white men or the white women on
matters of protection of the homes and
the women. More, they shall not damn
the well-behaved, respectful black belt
negro to bolster up losing cause; cause
that ought to lose, because truth has fed
from the tents of many of the advocates
of 1t.
1T is in the state of Georgia, with
prohibition, and a large majority of
whites, that most of the racial crimes
have occurred in the past two years in
the south. And these horrible happenings
have been in cities, such as Atlanta, or in
sections where there were few negroes
comparatively.
81 would like to call to the attention
of the Factor for Prohibition that the
most brutal murders ever committed in
Alabama (all white persons) were done in
prohibition counties within the past few
months: Mrs. Pope killed her mother in
Chiffon county, William Stevenson killed
his wife and mother-in-law in Crenshaw
% and only a few days ago Tom Rober-
son killed his wife, mother-in-law and
father-in-law in Franklin county,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-13
"Death Has No Part In Him."

SVdtt TAG wv III VI
BY A. c. Swinburne.
Unto each man his handiwork, unto each
his crown,
The just fate gives;
Whose takes the worlds life on him and
his own lays down,
He, dying so, lives.
Whose bears the whole heaviness Of the
wronged worlds weight
And puts 1t by,
1t is we'll with him suffering, though he
face mans fate;
How should he die?
Seeing death has no part In him any
more, no power
Upon his head
He has brought his eternity with little
And Is not dead
For an hour, If We look for him. he is no
more found
For one hours space;
Then We lift up your eyes to him and be-
hold him crowned,
A deathless face.
On the mountains of memory. by the
worlds well-springs,
In all mems eyes.
Where the light of the life of him Is ON
all past things,
Death only dies.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-13
Newa of AIhertvIIIe.

Albertville, November R.-(Speciai.)-
Mayor W. p. Goodwin is having a new
survey made of the town. The street cor
ners will be Strengthened and other need
ed improvements made.
Fhe Woman's Home Mission society
gave a silver tea at the residence of Mr..
Hogan jackson Thursday afternoon ana
evening.
The Misses Bradley entertained six
couples Wednesday evening. After miss
ing contest some'er set was played at
four tables. Ices were served.
The agricultural school football team
is practicing hard now getting ready for
their annual game against the Blounts-
Vile boys, which will be played In Gads-
den MoAiay. There has been friendly
rivalry between these two schools Tor
some time and much interest is manifest
ed In the coming game.
Mrs. j. w. Irvine, who was called to
Sherman, Tex, by the death of John IT.
vine returned home Tuesday
Miss Kennedy of the agricultural school
faculty received telegram Thursday an
nouncing the death of a brother-in-law In
South Carolina.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-13
Colossal Theft In a Colossal AGE

Business is conducted on colossal
scale In this country, and in this pc
riod of trusts and monopolies we have
long been compelled to endure men
who have grabbed from their fellow
creatures unearned increment to the
extent of many millions, but not until
Treasurer Warmer of the Big Four
railroad became active did we have a
man who actually stole outright mil
lion more or less.
And the strangest feature of the
strange story that is told by piecemeal
only is that the stealing had been go
ing on many years, and no one knew
that a penny was missing. No one
seemed to want to know whether the
affairs of the company were being hon
estly or dishonesty conducted. No
system of auditing seems to have been
in use, and If these methods extend to
all other railroads the wonder Is that
we have only one Warmer.
Some of the treasurers populations
are actually outlawed by the statute of
limitations, SO long had the transfer
of railroad money to private pockets
been going on. The railroad in ques-
case and the public may never know
the full extent of the railroads loss, or
the circumstances that attended it. 1t
is big mystery in many respects, and
no one knows much about the man
who stole a million, or what he did
with Il.
Presumably. the ex-treaswer will be
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-13
prouth In Pennsylvania.

Reading, Pa, November 1.-TWO hun
dred tank cars were today ordered to the
Shamokin division by the Reading railroad
to haul water to the collieries and towns
that are now without water because of
a prolonged drouth. It will take at least
10 or 20 crews to man these trains and
distribute the water. The present situa-
ton is one of the most serious water
problems that the Reading company has
ever had to deal with. number of
mines in the lower anthracite coal fields
have been forced to suspend operations
because of a lack of water for boilers and
the supply has been curtailed in several
towns in order to keep the industries In
operation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-13
Naval Dispute Again eobs Up.

Washington, November 12.-Secretary
Meyer of the navy department today set
tied the controversy as to whether a line
officer or a medical officer shall be
placed in command of the hospital ship
Solace by designating Surgeon George
Pickrerl of the medical corps to COM
mand the vessel. The navigation Of the
ship will be in charge of merchant sail
ing master. In reaching this decision
Secretary Meyer adhered to the policy
of the Roosevelt administration. which
stirred up much criticism from line Of
ficers
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-13
SIoss-SheffieId Dividend.

New York, November 1.-THE Sloss-
Sheffield Steel and Iron company today
declared a quarterly dividend of 1 IA
per cent on the common stock, the
same as for the last quarter, and an
extra dividend of "a per cent The
extra dividend, it was stated, repre-
sents compensation to common stock
holders for the amount lost to them
when the dividend was reduced from a
8 per cent to a per cent basis follow
ing the panic in 1907, the dividend be-
ing continued at reduced rate for about
nine months.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-13

One reason why the proposed amend
ment will fail of ratification is because
constitutional prohibition in every
state in which it has been tried is a
miserable failure. What little good
prohibition in Maine might have done
in the matter of minimizing the liquor
evil In years past has been much more
than offset by the deterioration Of
morals growing out of hypocrisy, per-
Jury and disregard for law. Intelligent,
well-informed people in Alabama know
all about Maine and cannot be fooled
by amendment politicians.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-13

| City, to be thence shipped by the long
route down the Ohio and Mississippi
some 1000 miles.
New Orleans can secure by this pro
posed barge connection with the Ala
bama and the Warrior rivers one of
the most promising industrial and COM
mercial fields within it's reach The
government has been deepening the
Warrior river, so as to open it to navi-
CATION; and 1t will soon be possible to
get the coal to this city with little diff
f1culty and with no handling or I'M
loading, the barges coming down the
Warrior and Alabama to Mobile, and
being thence towed to New Orleans
and brought through one of the canals
into the Mississippi river, and landed
close to the shipping or factory"
New Orleans stands ready to coop
crate in the establishment of an Ala
bama barge line, but aside from Mont
gomery, no one in this state seems to
appreciate the value of water route
to and from New Orleans. And yet the
Panama canal is nearing completion
daily.
Can this district afford longer to neg
lect its great opportunity? Can it af-
ford to ignore water rates which the
government and the great port OF New
Orleans are rendering possible?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-13
Sheffield Man in CITY.

Capt. James Grove. a prominent Con-
federate veteran and one of Sheffield S
best known citizens, passed through Biz
mingham yesterday en- route to Gads-
den.
There is no longer any doubt about
how Colbert county is going on the
amendment" he said. ut will be strong
ly against it and 1t is personal politics
that will cause the defeat of the meas
ure 1 understand that Lauderdale coun-
ty will also be against It,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-13
ailor on a Jao.

Louisville, November 1.-THE services
of four policemen were necessary last
night to remove Michael MAJ, a Gin
cinnati tailor. from the auditorium of the
Southern Presbyterian Theological SEM
mary in this city. MAJ, stark naked and
loudly praying. said that he was in the
garden Of Eden and that 1t was too
good a place to leave.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-13
Enoineers Ask a Raise.

New Haven. Conn.,. November lit is
stated authoritatively that the locomo-
tive engineers of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad company
have given the 80 days notice required
previous to a request for a revision of
the schedule. What the engineers will
ask for cannot be ascertained. but it is
thought that this is a part of the general
movement of the railroad operatives east
of the Mississippi, who ask for shorter
hours, increased pay and full days pay
for fractional run.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-13

London, November 12.-The joint COM
mittee of the house of lords and the
house of commons which was appoint
ed in July to inquire into the censorship
of the drama today reported In favor OF
continuing the censorship and of extend
fng the authority of the censore so as to
include a supervision over the music
halls, the same as the theatres.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-13

brought to trial, but even this is not
well determined. In this country there
has long been one law for the rich and
influential, and another for the poor
and humble. When Warmer is sum-
moned to the bar the people will know
he is to be tried, and they cannot be
sure Of it until then.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-13

The amendment election is only two
weeks off from next Monday. Every
amender of any political experience or
observation must have seen for a week
or more past that the bottom had
dropped out of the amendment side,
and 1t is easy to imagine how grudg-
ingly all who feel the hopelessness OF
the cause respond to Dr.. Brooks Law
rence's call for more cash. Easy marks
however, are still contributing with
great alacrity and open-handed gener-
osity. They will stand by the chairman
to the last. But hard and practical
brethren hate to throw good money
after bad. 1t was ever thus.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-13
Woman CHARGED With Murder.

Oklahoma City, November PA war;
rant was issued today for the arrest OF
Miss Maude Geek, charged with being an
accessory to the murder of r. D. Can
non, whose body was found on the roof
OF ten-story building Sunday afternoon.
A detective left today for Seneca, Mo-,
to serve the warrant, information hav-
ing reached here that Miss Geek is there.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-13
spain's Treaty With Cuba.

Madrid. November 12-The terms of the
new commercial treaty between Spain
and Cuba practically have been agreed
upon. Cuba will continue her preferential
treatment of Spanish products imported,
while Spain will give reduction of
90 per cent on tobacco, cocoa and fruits
brought to Spanish ports from Cuba.
Spain abandons her claim that Cuba as
sumo a share in the Spanish colonial
debit
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The Iron Market.

Matthew Addy & Co.'s Cincinnati re-
port for the week says: "Pig iron con-
sumers are steadily increasing their melt.
There is right along an insistent call for
faster shipments and If furnaces fail
to ship on time there is great complaint
While there has been a tremendous ex-
pansion in all lines of the trade dur
ing this year, yet it is evident that this
is still in progress and the maximum out
put has not yet been attained. There is
a top limit somewhere of course. but
it is still in the future So great has
been the present movement in iron that
It is hard to realize the full extent of
the volume of actual business. There
are furnaces, which, If they do not sell
another ton, have their order books filled
I'D to July, and there is no question
but that much the greater part OF the
iron which the country can produce from
now on until April next year is under
contract. This iron has been sold at
profitable though not at excessive prices
and naturally the furnace outlook is ex-
cellent. AS for the steel mills one Of
them to our own knowledge Is today
81 weeks behind on actual orders. This
may be an unusual case. but none of
the mills have been able to keep or
ders anywhere near up to date.
1.-THE iron trade is accustomed to go
by jerks, 80 to speak. 1t is not steady,
day-by-day business like that enjoyed by
a dairyman for instance. The selling for
the year is all done in two or three
spasms and then the trade settles down
for a comparatively quiet season until
buyers are again in purchasing humor.
But of course there is always something
doing and this week there has been
fair buying of small lots. Low grade
iron, however, is in great demand and the
supply is limited.
1.-THE railroads are doing fairly well.
but they might do a great deal bet
ter And one of the best things in the
situation is the more liberal h'iving on
the part of the railroads, rnough consd-
ering their needs they have only made
a beginning"