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Show J TWO STRIKING ILLUSTRATIONS. i Perhaps lu no city of the west has 1. lne argument for prohibition been T l waged with more enthusiasm and hard work than in Portlnnd, Oregon. The f Associated Ptcbs, a day or two ago, I conveyed the astonishing information, ! astonishing to even those who were most sanguine of its failure to Impose tuelf upon a highly cultured and on- lightened community, that the candl- , date for prohibition received only 1.000 H SiSflS1 f, 27'00 Cast for the various I candidates for mayor. Portland would 1 ( JaVQ ?Q of it, and so declared In ' H foTthatU0reversettItheques- .1 tion of prohibition In Portland. i' lnlKaenrfren!,arkabl0 colncldonco lies I n thc fa.ct and completely refutes the I i argument of tho prohibitionist T that ' - t P hTrities aro the mst moral I T nh. llle notorlos Adams county V ' , 5f hat 1fural unty sold their votes ?l I ?"r,fnS tho fall election for sums rang I. 1 Ins from one to five dollars, is and has i I Such arumcnt8 that dry coramunl- B ties are more moral than IlceS aa- f , ioUtiS108 IS n0t "of rc- |