The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-18
AMER|CAN|SM OF
 THE SOLID SOUTH Is Making Itself Felt in Busi- ness and in Politics THE PROHIBITION WAVE Southern Prohibitionists Claims That Shipments of Liquor Into Dry Territory Calls for Nation
 wide Prohibition
THE PROHIBITION WAVE
By ROBERT LEE CARTER

New York, December 17.-(Special.)-
 The stalwart Americanism of the south
 is coming to be recognized in the north
 and east, as the bulwark of the broad
 democracy upon which this government Of ours is founded For instance, the other day I found an editorial in the l New Haven, Conn.,, Register, in which 1t | said:
 And be 1t said in passing that the
 south serves it's God better fin these times
 than does any other part of the nation
 He founded. even New England On the
 foundation, of democracy the south
 stands; 1t dare not, even if 1t would,
 stand anywhere else. By its sign it con
 quers, or, vanquished, goes down in hon.
 orable and untamed defeat. The south
 learned generations ago to be loyal to
 principle, and 1t proved in bitter war
 between the states how well it had | learned the lesson Its principle in these
 days Is the democratic party, and it will
 hold to 1t. It may not wisely be said
 moreover, that demonstration of such | principle is bad for the nations view
 Tt raises us with needed lift above
 
 tisanship in the north.
 "These things every man should know
 who would study wisely his nations po-
 litical history. These things every man should know who enters politics with
 high ideals. They are for the saving
 from misapprehension and disappoint-
 ment of any man who fancies that some
 day the too solid south will melt away | The time will come, 1t may be, when
 we'll thank God for that rock of loyalty | to principle"
 In speaking with distinguished south | ern prohibitionist the other day he called
 attention to a statement that one rail-
 road had carried into prohibition south
 ern states the past year 55.0OO tons of
 wines, liquors and beers.
 This will probably be used as an ar gument by the nti-prohibitionists," he
 said, ito show that prohibition does not | prohibit, but if they will study the his | tory of the prohibition movement in the south they should be convinced that 1t Is much more powerful and effective argument in favor of nationwide prohi- bition.
 | Tn all the southern states which now ! have statewide prohibition the process | has been the same. County neighbor- hoods first determined to drive liquor out and did. The towns negatived their efforts by sending liquor into dry terl ' | tory. Then came county option and the
 wet counties through the jug trade made state wide prohibition necessary. Now the wet states are doing all they can by shipping liquor into dry states to make
 nationwide prohibition necessary, unless they stop 1t. It will not be many years before prohibition measure will be in troduced in Congress and passed" ! Texas has one of. the most active and
 wide-awake state organizations in New
 York.
 An entertainment by the Texas club was held last week at the Plaza. Although one of the youngest of the state organizations in the city, the Texas
 club within the last year or so has be- come one of the most prominent, numer- ically as well as socially. It's entertain ments are always charmingly unique and
 are looked forward to with great pleasure l by Texans in New York.
 | The reception in December will be fol- lowed by similar affairs on the first Tues | day afternoon of each month through
 the winter and spring season. On Jan
 uary 13 the clubs "Lone Star ball. which will be particularly brilliant, will l be given The final and most ambitious entertainment of the season, the San | Jacinto dinner and cotillion," which eel ebrates the battle of San Jacinto, where Texans won their independence from
 Mexico, will occur on April 2. | There were more than 400 Tennesseans at the annual dinner of the Tennessee society at the Waldorf-Astoria the other day. It WAS literally feast of reason and a flow of soul,' with more material things in plenty.
 G. M. Ahrons has returned from a visit to New Orleans, the fifth he has made to
 that city since he took up his residence in New York 16 months ago. While | there he looked carefully into the canned | oyster situation and the result of his investigations leads him to believe that | this seasons pack will again be short, | not exceeding that of 1909.
 This is the second year of the opera | ton of the restrictive laws in Mississippi | which were designed to scounteract the effects of indiscriminate dredging that | almost wiped out the Mississippi oyster industry" he said. "These laws. which | prevent the dredging of oysters for cam ming purposes, have another year to 1 run and In the meantime the state gov | ernment and packers are continuing the | rcplanting of oyster beds so that by the | time the Jaw is up they will have been restored to something like their old pro- ducing capacity, and under proper regu7 lation will yield ample supplies in the l future. WI | "The Mississippi packers of oysters are | not able to do much canning with the supply of oysters native to that state | and what they can get from Alabama, | for the recent establishment of a large packing plant at Mobile affords mar
 ket for most of the product of the Ala | bama beds"
 | While fin the south MT. Ahrons visited Texas, which state, he says. is in g. most | prosperous condition. The city of Hous- ton Is making great strides in commer- | cial advancement and is already one of | the busiest cities for it's size in the | United States, with many great and growing industries.
 "The teacher of a country school" saio | Fred B. Ward of Louisville, Ky, "once | purchased at a certain bookstore an old copy of Artemus Wards book as prize I to be awarded in his school The pupil who received 1t was young man to whom the teacher remarked that if he wished some other book he could change
 it.. A few days afterward the youth came | to the store and asked to have it ex- changed. Don't you like it?' asked the | clerk in the store We'll said he, the readin' is tolerable good, but the spellin' ain't right, nohow | "The insurance business of the United
 States has been placed on higher plane Toe AxrA h q