The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-28
M|LL|KEN TELLS 0F
 PROHIBITION RULE
Former Birmingham Man Reviews His Visits to
 Maine and Kansas
To the Editor of The Age-Herald:

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 Accept congratulations for yesterday s victorious return to sanity on the liquor question. 1t is nearly four years since I consented to go to Maine and Kan sas and report the truth respecting conditions which prevailed there re-, garding the enforcement of their so called "prohibitory laws" Before con- senting to make that trip l demand ed that two truthful and well known citizens of your county accompany me and verify the facts reported by me, and Capt. T. c. Mcdonald and Mr. c. L.. Dabbs were the citizens selected for that purpose.
 The evidence produced by us, discred- ting those laws, was simply overwhelm- ing Not only did those two witnesses testify that liquors were openly sold in numerous cities of those states but they exhibited their own photographs taken in the very places of such unlawful sale. Present these facts to the prohibitionist, during a heated campaign, and he will tell you the law of murder is violated, though he never produces a picture of the act being pulled off well staged prohibition campaign has about the same effect on many or most of it's votares that voodooism has on the negro popu- lation. It simply destroys the last Ves- tige of their logical faculties.
 Unable to answer the facts produced by those two truthful citizens, the i'ro- hibitionists of your county sent to Port land. Me, for one J. R. Libby, the most confirmed prohibition voodooist in his state to go there and make some speeches Captain McDonald, being de- sirous of hearing him refute facts wIich te had seen with his own eyes, requested that I accompany him to his Besseiner speaIxing In order that we might hear every word he said we got right under the "drippings of the sanctuary, within 10 feet of the speaker. When he made the broad statement that there is not a. nlace in Portland, Me. in which liquor can be bought" I asked him if he was ever in the Prebble house bar"
 His reply was, "No: were you ever there?" When I responded that I had been there few weeks before and bad bought liquors he said I should know more about it than he. l then asked him the name of the street leading north from the Prebble house, one of the leading ho- tels, and he gave it to me. I made him admit that one of the best public school buildings of the city was on that street
 
 business was being conducted in this and that building on the same street, he be- came confused.
 This his local fellow voodooists set up a howl that we were trying to break up their meeting and refused to permit us to interrogate him further. That happened right by the side of one of the principal buildings of Bessemer which was owned by Captain McDon- aid.
 If that crowd had let us alone we would have established out of the mouth of their own witness that 1i- quors were sold in several houses near that public school building or else he did not know what they were used for, because we bought liquors in those houses and kodaked them. l was not in your great city during the two or three years you were blessed with prohibition, and, therefore, am in no position to give testimony as to con ditions which then prevailed; but it has been my pleasure to visit 1t fre- auently while the liquor traffic was handled under high license and wish to say. I never saw anything like the evidence of dissipation there which ex- isted in prohibition Maine. Sincerely yours. R. (. Mlll1lkEN.
 Washington, D. C., August 25. 1911.