The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-27
GOVERNOR GLENN
AFTER GOTHAM
breaches Prohibition to People
of New York
HE MAKES A PROPHECY
Declares That in Five Years the state
VIII Go Dry With Exception of
New York Clty-First Vote of
Pell City Bank

New York, March Especial --Former
Gov. Robert B. Glenn of North Carolina
has been Smelling the words against the
saloons of New York this week and he
has been surprising the citizens of the
metropolis not only by his oratory but
by some of the strong statements he has
made.
For instance, he prophesied that within
five years practically every city In the
state would be dry except New York city,
and maybe Buffalo, while in 10 years time
even these strongholds of the demon rum
would be conquered.
The best impression here is that Gov
ernor Glenn is perhaps over-enthusiastlc.
1t would take little short of a revolution
to carry New York dry, and there are
no visible signs of such a revolution now.
Still, the pro2hesy made several years
ago that in five years time the whole
south would be dry seemed almost equal
ly improbable. Nevertheless 1t has pretty
nearly come true.
Anyway, 1t is liable to be a mighty
pretty fight when it's on in earnest.
The news that Mrs LaSalle Corbell
Pickett, widow of the famous leader of
the most desperate charge in the history
OF warfare, Is to appear In vaudeville and
tell the story of the great battle which
gave her husband undying fame, has Gre
ated what may fairly be called sensa-
ton in the southern colony here, and Mrs.
Pickett will be greeted on her first ap-
pearance here by an audience which will
beat anything ever seen in the city.
Mrs. Pickett also saw the great fight
between the Monitor and the Virginia,
and in her talks will describe the first
battle between ironclads as she saw it.
II anybody is competent to answer the
question, What is whisky" it should be
Kentucky colonel. Among the recent
visitors to New York was Col Edmund
w. Taylor of Frankfort, Ky. Colonel Tay-
Tor takes direct issue with President Taft
as to what constitutes the staple drink of
his state.
For one thing" says Mr. Taylor. "a
true Kentuckian objects to the use of
water in whisky, such as is permitted
under the Taft definition. And speaking
seriously, he objects to what is used as
the basis Of the so-called WHISTLES that
under the new ruling can be sold lawfully
as whisky.
According to the Taft definition
whisky can be neutral spirits reduced by
water to the proof of whisky and arti-
Totally colored.' A peculiar phase Of the
situation is that Roosevelt on April 10,
1907 had defined straight whisky, blended
whisky and imitation whisky. and had
directed that they be labeled as such,
and the courts had upheld his ruling.
Food inspection decision No. 49," as the
Mac Veagh- Wilson Maggie ruling is known.
practically does away with the pure food
law, for II the bars are let down on one
provision, how can the rest be main
tanned? Under this ruling it would be
quite within the law to take alcohol in
which anatomical specimens have been
preserved, reduce it to 20 degrees below
proof by the addition Of water and label
1t whisky. You can take arrack, which is
made out OF rice, and call 1t whisky If
liquor dealer has q supply of vodka on
hand he can sell 1t as whisky. He
can do the same thing with gin. Why.
he can take into his back door so gal
Ions of neutral. spirits, which is neither
whisky nor brandy. nor rum, nor gin. put
into 1t a lot of water, one ounce of car
amel to give 1t age and color. little oil
OF bourbon or oil of rye to give IL a
flavor, or some prune Juice for that mat
ter; little cheap sherry for the bouquet.
little bead oil to give it the bead whis-
KY naturally has, and then five minutes
later he can trot 1t out through his front
door and sell it as whisky and still not
offend the pure food law. This stuff costs
the maker about IA cents gallon.
The maker of genuine whisky has to
build bonded warehouses in which to store
his product, and there he keeps 1t at
least four years under government SUI
pervison to keep faith with the product.
The maker of imitation whisky doesn't
have to build costly plant. he needs
no bonded warehouse, he has no insurance
charges to pay, he operates in one room,
and he sends out every day a flood of
what looks like old whisky and under
the late ruling 1t is whisky. There is a
lot of this made In New York state.
Under the law as II now stands, if you
so into drug store to get whisky for
medicinal purposes, and the druggist has
run out OF 1t, he can take some grain
alcohol, add water. flavor it with hair
tonic or anything you find in a barber
shop. label 1T as whisky and sell it to
you, and II you find it out-why, damn It.
what redress have you? None whatever.
He has sold you what thes law calls
whisky"
That the south needs the labor. that
the colored people cannot supply it In
the quality required to obtain the best
development of that section, that the
planters. miners, lumbermen, mill owners
must have 1t, is plain enough, accord
Ing to Robert 8. Stanton of Atlanta. Ga.
The only way by which this shortage
can be efficiently met and fought is to
try and induce immigrants to settle in
the sparsely populated Districts" de-
clares Mr.. Stanton. ITO do this 1t is not
necessary to 90 outside the country for
labor at all. Several hundred thousand
immigrants are stagnating in the north
Atlantic division Of the country, either
steadily In the cities, or temporarily In
the mills, mines. labor camps, etc.. of
the north Atlantic seaboard. One stu
ation can relieve the other If properly
handled. Now the first thing to do to-
ward this effect Is to convince the immi-
grant that he can do better for himself
in another place than that in which he
heards. The scheme Of exporting bodily
few hundred immigrants to a certain
desired district by paying their expen-
SEES there Is at best q risky one. unless
good care is taken to have those immi-
grants feel happy and at home once they
get there. Unless they are contented you
cannot hope for others to follow them.
1t IL surprising how news travels among
the immigrants.
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