The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-07
Mistur Edditur

Mistur Edditur:
 Just at this junckture our hired men in Muntgumery air worrying there s4, per in terlecks with the grave question of Beer or no Beer, legal Boozeeneries, or Cats without lamps. It is hard question; serious question; and question upon which much depends, not only the future polyticaI standing of sum of the aforsed hired men, but also of the reel prosperity of the peepul.
 The wurst blow the prohibitionist evver got was the marriage of Uncle Brooks Lawrense to Aunty Saloon League, the peepul just naturelly don't love Uncle Brooks to enny tantalizing extent and that's all there is to it. He may be syncere, and may be advercating the things that air best for them, and doubt less meens well, but enny how to the peepul he is Butt-inSky and mars the scenery and in my judgemint Brooks will be the reel meens of the defect of stat utory prohibision in Alabama.
 But 1t is a lively issue, and the old and hystorical and hysterical capitol will be the seen of promising little scrap be- fore it is all ovver. Evvery natural born Statesman we have must have an opportunity to do sum classical spouting, and when J. Lee Long and Walkur Pursy, the heavy guns open up, the small Try must put on eer muffs and move back a few seets. Much pyrotachnicks will oe furnished for $4 per day. and free ad- vertising, if we could only be on hand to see it, and evvery Goat in the crowd will declare that he purposes only to Champyon the unterryfed rites of the PEEPUL. If we could bottle up the com pressed air turned loose in these old halls by our prominent statesmen, and it could be concerved and used what horsepower we would have. Or would it be Hoss- power?
 Going back to Uncle Babbling Brooks, our employees got huffy and passed a resolution conveying to that gentleman in delicate terms that his presence around the capitol could be dispensed with; how
 rood herd legislator say that Uncle
 Brooks had the same effekt upon his nerves, as watching small boy saving a stove lid in two would, and that's sum
 rasping. We have a coupe OI ldNOiitc ouiiS down there frum Etowah that will be
 herd frum, and especially on pay days
 MT. Brinley has already cum to the frunt
 as standpatter Mr. Brinley can turn
 on the warm air all rite when the occa
 sion requires it, and he believes in pro infusion and will fite for what he be leeves in and will ern his four samoleons and milage by making loud noise ev- yer time enny thing is sed about local option. Our uti1er favorite does not shine as an oritor That Is to say he would rot compare favorably with Wllum ]. Bryan or Henry Clay or enny of them fellers, but he is 8 reel fuss when 1t cums to voting, but the Lord knows how he's going to vote. however, on the local option bizness, 1t is evident he has |"frends in both plases'' or least his con stituents on both sides claim him. think he put one ovver on sumbody, which shows aftur all, that all the slick
 ducks air not born in town. for be it known that our Uncle Willum Hood is frum the country, and has sum class as a farmer, and guess that aftur the stunt Inc has pulled off to get to Muntgumery
 that there will be few, If enny there that l will aveSenny edge on him.,
 | Has prohibition benefited Alabama? Is 1 the blessing sum folks would make us beleeveg Is 1t the curse uthers declare