The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-19

as long as the fertilizer would stay on, i then got on and began tramping 1t down so as to still further pile it up The seller chewed his tobacco fast and when he could hold in no longer said "Damn it all man ain't you got no quit ting sense?"
 The leaders of the league" are like high official in the United States who was described as dangerously empiri- cal idealist' or fanatical zealots who are so blinded by fanaticism that the storm brewing cannot be seen by them.
 More than four months since the
 writer replying to a prominent candi-
 date for the United States Senate stated
 that the brutal and illegal manner used
 by the federal officers in the enforce
 ment of the prohibition law was doing
 more to bring about anarchy than all
 the I. w w, reds and bolshevists com
 bined That he would see federal of
 ficers shot to death and the juries of
 the country acquitting them on the
 grounds of justifiable homicide.
 We have seen the men shot to death
 and unless there is a biased court with
 a packed jury, there will be no convic-
 ton had. The country is facing indus
 trial slavery, having to pay the salaries
 of more than million officials and
 employees with the interest on s25,00o.-
 ooo,0 900 of bonds, requiring approxi-
 mately the value of a 10000, ,000-bale
 cotton crop at 40 cents per pound to
 pay the south's share of the s5,4lo,-
 274,S74 federal tax.
 There are at present employed Tn
 connection with the enforcement Of the
 national prohibition act 2,59S persons July 1, 1920. The amount of money ap-
 propriated for the fiscal year ending
 June 30, 1921, is s5.550,0o0, approxi- mately 19 cents per capita for every man, woman and child in the United States, costing the county of Talladegs S7,600 annually.
 We have a sheriff paid to do the
 work, and every one of the convictions had at the present term of court were arrested by the sheriff of the county, and all the evidence to convict, was gotten up by the sheriff, who IS man with the respect and confidence or every citizen in Talledega county. Sheriff Cornett does not have to take a posse armed with Winchesters and shot guns to go into any nook or COT . ner of the county to make an arrest but brings his man in without trouoie or cOnIuSlOn.
 We complain of a shortage of teach CTS on account of lack of funds to pay living salaries and yet the state of Ala bama is sduandering half million dol lars annually tramplng under foot all state and individual rights to satisfy a lot of fanatics, devoid of common | sense and humanity, substituting money. organization and force for love and Christianity. Talking to minister holding down one of the best appointments in the | North Alabama conference. a man noted l for his conservatism and hard horse sense. He said "the present method Of | enforcement aggravates rather than 1 alleviates the condition"
 | If the enforcement was turned over to the sheriffs of the state and country, there would not be half the violations | of the prohibition laws and the taxpay- CTS would save s5,500,000, no inconsid- | erab1e saving in these days of H. C. L. Alabama's half million dollars saved l and paid to teachers would guarantee | every school in the state a teacher. G. T. McELDERRY. | Talladega, August IA. 1920.