| Show SEAL REAL CONTEST BONE DRY COMES IN 1919 IChen Utah Legislature Meets Tho The IJ Fight ht Will be in Its Mo Io Most rt Active St Stages Stages 36 80 States Must Ratify When Utah's legislature meets to fr hake kc action on the matter In 1919 I Ithe the fight to have the states ratify or ort t reject the na on wed prohibition amendment recently passed by Con- Con dress will twill be In Its Us most active stages True rue tho fight has already begun and nd It will reach progressive passes Idu during ng 1918 1915 but the real contest between the dry and wets Is s not expected expected ex ex- for more than a year since itis It Itis is in 1919 that the Issue will be decided de de- according to James H. H Wolf ol or orthe the attorney generals general's office In charge of f administration of Utah's dry law lawIn lawIn lawIn In that year ear the legislatures of dr dry and thirteen wet wee states tates will convene whereas In xi n 1918 the legislatures of but four tour dry states tates and nd eight wet states will meet Those Thoe who are leading the prohibition fight are going on the lion tion Mr Wolf said which seems certain enough that the legislatures of all the dry states will vote dry that the legislatures of a low few states which are v wet et only in spots will like like- vote dry and that the fight must be made In these commonwealths where bere the wets and drys are numerically numerically numer- numer cally and strategically about at a stand off In strength Thirty six Must Ratify There are forty-eight forty states In the union Two-thirds Two of these or thirty six x must ratify the prohibition prohibition tion amendment to make the country dry Twenty-seven Twenty sJ states tes are now nov dry airy and one twenty one w nty n are wet The problem of the drys will be to win wh over ver at least nine of the wet states Sixty per cent of the coun country's rys ry's l lives laves ves in dr dry territory and 88 pc per e e C its area Is dry t Ir ft 3 i 1 t t J inee ti g aci 1 are Georgia 1 Mississippi S ri Carolina and V Virginia All of th them are expected to The wet states states' st tes legislatures to meet In 1918 are Kentucky Kentuck Louis Louisiana na Maryland Massachusetts New Jersey New NewYorK NewYork NewYork York Ohio and Rhode Island Dry le leaders s dei-s claim that at least three and perhaps four of those eIght eight ight wet states will ratify tion They are banking outright on Kentucky has a dry leg Slature Sla ture and 81 per cent of whose lation Is In dry territory and Louis Louisi ana three-fourths three of whose areas and nd 51 per cent of whose population eithEr either either eith eith- are dry They are figuring on er New Jersey or Maryland as a 50 SO break with their opponents and Dd they have hopes of Ohio Their heir expectation of winning over Ol Ohio is based on the fact that altho although gh state statewide statewide statewide wide prohibition was defeated lit u n 1915 by uy votes it lost out recently only by hy 1500 They figure that prohibition sentiment as indi indi- indicated b by this gain in two years' years time will carry the state by the time tame tin the legislature meets Dry States Won on for Cor Cause The dry states meeting in 1919 are Alabama Arizona Arkans Arkansas Colorado Idaho Indiana Iowa Kansas Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas Maine Maino I 1 Michigan Montana N No Ne New Hampshire New Mexico North Carolina North Dakota Oklahoma Oklahoma Okla Okla- homa Oregon South Dakota ota Tennessee Ten ren Tennessee neece Utah Vermont and West Virginia The dry have no misgivings c ings as to any of these they these they e expect the twenty-three twenty legislatures to to ratify prohibition Tl The e wet states to lo have Lave legislative Sessions cessions ns In 1919 are aro California Connecticut Connecticut Connecticut Con Con- Delaware Flor Florida a Illinois Minnesota Missouri Nevada Pennsylvania Penn sylvania Texas Vermont Wisconsin and Wyoming ng Upon thais the fight with ill center r. r t. t Dry Dry are already claiming four of the thirteen These are re Florida which Is already 91 per cent 1 dry now Illinois whose state senate Is already dry and whose hou house e ol of representatives could be captured by winning five or six seats Minnesota which which Is s 60 per ner cent dry already and andI I which may voto vote dry during tho the statewide state statewide statewide wide prohibition electon next ear sear and which it is claimed has been kept wet only through the In Influence of its me metropolis St. St Louis Louia Wets Wets' Must Hold nold 18 13 to Win AVIn To defeat wide nation prohibition 1 the wets must hold bold thirteen states 7 There Thore are aro fourteen states slates which appear ap ap- pear at present to be ho their strong strong- t holds But can they be counted upon by the Tho liquor interests when the su supreme supreme supreme su- su preme test comes The drys claim that them a them crucial num some of a number num num- ber ber The fourteen with tho the percentage of them already dry are as follows California Conn Connecticut Delaware Maryl Maryland nd Massachusetts Massachusetts Massachusetts Mas Mas- Nevada New New- Jersey 54 64 New Now York 71 Pennsyl vania vanla Rhode Rhodo Island 31 Texas Vermont Wisconsin Wiscon Wiscon- sin Wyoming r T. |
