The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26

his shirt sleeves an climbs tillygraft pole. He says ye can make sthrong dhrink iv anything with sugar or starch in it. A few years firm now can see ye pacin' up an down tn sidewalk an wondhrin' why ye'er shirts haven't come home firm tn aundhry
 don't believe all that Hogan says guess tn wurruld cud sthruggle along without it if il had to- It's doin' without good nanny things that it used to think was nicissry But what I'm wondhrin' is what will it be like without tn hateful pizen. It's been poorin it in fir cinchres an no wan knows what inhoonce it's had on tn charackter iy tn human race, dye mind. If it's bad tn docks say it must have had a good dale. There's as much iv it put away ivry day as there IS wather howin' between tn banks iv tn Mississippi river, an it's sure thing that some iv it has took holt Tn wurruld may be betther without it or 1t may be worse, but it won't be tn same wurruld. Ye can bet on that. In me own study iv it in this here laboratory I've seen 1t make silent men talkative an talk ative men dumb, cautious bold an bold men cautious, a severe man janial an a jania man cross, stingy men gnrous an gin'rous men careful. Whatver a man wants to be whn he's sober an don't dare to be, he's apt to be whin he's drunk Ivry man keeps concealed in him. sf hero that he greatly admires but fears to cut loose. Rum releases this splindid char ackter who rampages around fir night to tn gr-reat pleasure iv his keeper an thin retres to his cell. In tn mornin tn keeper has head ache. an says to himsf, Why did let that blame fool out?' Now, say I, whin tn dhrink is removed what's goin' to happen? Orators that now poor foorth sthream iv goolden lo- quince whiniver they get tn chance will be ashamed to speak above a whisper, an modest men that was wanst afraid to open their lips fir fear iv bethrayin slight hccup will burst fear lessly into song. Fellows that ar-re now famous fir their attintons to tn fair sect will dance no more, an la-ads that wanst wud not dare to thrust thimsives on a slipp'ry fure will grab tn first girl they see an go tangoin like madnen Tn turrbe judge that now, full v infammatory refrishmints, angrily turns tn prs'ner over to tn hangnan an wishes he cud spring tn thrap himsif will say, Who am l to judge me fellow man. an lave tn job to a magistrate who was binivont whin alcohol was king an he was subjick that he let ivrybody off with fathery riprimand. Tn whole arth will be turned upside down no wan can reckonize it. Repytations that ar-re great now will fade away an new Walls VIII ldhe tiieli plaCe. we II nave TO revise s our lists, change nanny iv our idees, an get used to new vans, fir ye bet Hinnissy, that if most v tn crimes an good dale v tn dis ease that aalcts must be charged to tn reign that IS now dhrawin' to close, so is much iv tn pollyticks, orathry, music love makin', an art Tn new kind may be betther. But it'll be diff an tn wurruld will be sadder an safer wurruld to live in
 ' don't believe in this here pro-hybtion," said Mir. Hennessy. Tn man who drinks modhrately ought to be allowed to have what he wants"
 What is his name?" asked Mir Dooley. j" What novel Is he in ?"
 Scopyright 1914: By Finley Peter Dunn&l