Show THE PROHIBITION WAVE In the past two years and es especially especially especially es- es in tho the year 1907 the tho cou country country country has hIlS to realize that I wo we have havo a 11 Prohibition Wave Not until Georgia and Alabama had bad gone gono dry and prohibition had become tho ho main issue in the tangled politics of did tho the public in general perceive it Now at tho the beginning of the tho year 1908 nearly one ono i l half the area of the United S States ates is dry and more moro than one third one third of our people aro arc living under prohibitory laws The Tho movement has gone further and faster in the tho south than anywhere anywhere anywhere any any- where else but it is unfelt only in 10 the tho Rocky Mountain region and andin andin andin in the tho bo central states of the tho Atlantic Atlan Atlan- tic coast Georgia is dry Alabama Alabama ama has passed a Do prohibitory law Jaw Mississippi has followed just as this article goes to press In Tennissee Tennissee Ten- Ten ono one can buy liquor in but three small small districts has only four wholly wet countries countries coun coun- t tries ies Florida only a fringe fringo i al 1 ng the tho seacoasts Texas is more mOJe than half balf dry Missouri and Arkansas community by community are falling folling into line lino tho election of January 14 in Shreveport fi finished the manufacture acturo and sale in aUthe all aU the northern half of Louisiana it itis itis is highly probable that wi within bin two years ono one or both botho of the Carolinas roli ns I will V IJ vote vot f for fr r state state- i H ti tion I v Starting from the seaboard at nt Georgia Georgin one ODe can travel now to tob the tho b borders of Colorado or New Mexico and cross in in- passage only one narrow strip of wet territory the delta counties of Mississippi Even Evon these will u w be be dry by next January The movement has has a little tittle less strong in the tho north Maine Kansas and North Dakota are wholly dry but they came camo in inon inon on earlier carlier movements More recently recently recently rec rec- great groat areas of Illinois and Indiana have come como under prohibitory prohibitory tory law Ohio wh which h has already gone dry in many spots through I ward and township local option seems on p int of p passing a local ocal option law Nearly one half halt bo the area aron of Chicago Chica o is under ward prohibition and even andr oven where the movement for absolute no ies anti and towns to are aro showing a more earnest dispo disposition disposition disposition to enforce tho the old and half forgotten laws for 0 regulation of liduor traffic Colliers tram traffic Colliers e.-Collier's Colliers Collier's I the tho or Week Weekly Ily ly |