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Show IDAHO'S DRY LAW ! ' 11 EFFECT JAN. 1 ' Prohibitionists Exult, While Saloon Element Gives Up Controversy. VEXATION IS REDUCED Suffragists Chagrined Over Defeats of Propaganda in Eastern States. i .i-v-tsl to The Tnbxir j "pOISE. T 'o- S Firty lead-1 1 - mi politicians in Idaho ar actually ' r?''-vd because the daya ar turn- ' hred fer the saloon m this state. In 5s than two montha it trill b the x.ost arid spot in the fntira west, for what i ad t k most rifid prohi- ; ' hition law vr jass,3 bv a legislature ni held constitutional br tha tuprcme ! .p'.irt, will ffo into effect on and after : ss'jarr 1, 1915. To quench their rh-.rst. "imbibers of intoxicauta are tak-irs tak-irs th nest fiftv five dava in whu-h ro p3v the'.r rcr-eec.s to .fehn Parley-, lorn. ' Farched throats ire few and far between, but darli brown tastes Ira n-sav. Tie relief eipressed by those influ- ' eutia! in political circles in this state ; would ordinarily seem stranco. hcvuise ' ,. -t pver tho abolishment of liquor. ; kfever. it is not so when it is r'al- i:ed that ever since Idaho abandoned b?r swsddlin; clothes of territorial days ir.i donned those of statehood the sa- icor has be-n a dominant factor in eon-rr:l:r:c eon-rr:l:r:c vote?, and there baa been con-start con-start agitation against it. Tn tha fu- ; lure, it is hoped, partv leaders will uot ' kave to face an errbarrassirg liquor is-je. i Not Quite Finished. j Ret this iss'.: will not entirely be ; e'.-.ar.ratei. at Ifast for another year. for the general eie-tion of voter? will psss upon the question of 1'necding :b state constitution to banish for ever the manufacture of intoxicating beverages in the state. There is no Question that the amendment will carrv. L'.en the liquor rootle concede that. It , is now very doubtful if they will at- : ta.pt to make a fight against it. A rs;ority of 15. "00 is already giv en the , amen anient by those familiar with roli 1 tics in this s'.ate. The prohibitionists, ! however, are taking no chances. Al- reacv they have tacien stepa to organ- j i:e the state by precincts to make cer- ( tain af the predicted victory. ! The sa'.oon has seen its last days in '. liaho. No one realizea that any bet- i tar than the brewers and saloonkeepers : themselves. And not a few of them ( a-e acrually glad of it. When the i:T:or icterests threw nr their hands , refers the last legislature and eave up . the fight, it was" admitted they saw , the handwriting on the wall. j Dry Section Prospers. j Although probably only pledged to j I their constituents to paes the constitutional constitu-tional amendment for submission to the j I sectors to ratifv, the solons went two steps farther. They passed the strin- j jest local option amendatorr ae.t. which i row applies to counties that are dry Bud wul apply to the state as a whole ; . on ar.d after nert January. Then they passed a state-wide prohibition act. ; maiir- Idaho prohibition territory on aft alter that aate. f Were it not for the fact that Idaho is ; eitt two-thirds dry, and ha been so I for the past four years, the Mow the i sa'oons received here would be surpris- j I irg. As it is. it ia not. Local option I has been popular in many counties. Soxe of the-n' have been dry since their j creation. This is particularly true of ! the southeastern part of the state. There j is not a wet county in that section. The i 1 entire eastern tier" is dry and, with the , eicerition of Owvhee, every county j so-tS of the Snake nver in the south'- j I ern portion ia and has been prohibition, j It is the most prosperous section of I Haho. I i Rigid Enforcement. Tuat there will be a3 rigid enforce- ' meat of the law in the state as it is . severe, was made evident to leaders of all parties this week by Governor Al- , exander. when he wrote to the attorney general asking for advice as to what j nis powers were in regard to law en- i forcernent. "I would like to know," ' said the governor in his query to the i t (tate'i legal advisor, "what power the : governor possesses in order to aid the j various sheriffs and prosecuting attor- I , nora of the state in the enforcement of this law, and if anv of the county j oriicers should be negfigc-nt in enforcing enforc-ing such law, let me Know if the gov- j prtior possesses the authority to compel tbem to enforce said law." The gov-'nor gov-'nor signed the prohibition bill, al-tcough al-tcough every pressure was brought on . nim not to do ao. He was odIv pledged "r.his party platform for tfie constitutional consti-tutional amendment. But he recommended recom-mended in his message to the legislature : hoth the amendment and a state-wide prohibition act. Suffragists Chagrined. j If there is anv one thing that has t mused Idaho pa'rty leaders ves, and I ''tne of the ardent suffragists of the j ii te P88t week, it was the way i tne suffrage issue suffered. Women nave been voting so long in Idaho that , ( suffrage is taken for granted. How- j vr, during the pat summer a num- ; ""r of the national suffrage leaders in- : Jded this state intent on forcing ! 'mted States Senator Borah into line ' '?r the proposed suffrage amendment to t. 'e constitution. Senator Bornh would ; ) n"t be forced. To fact, ho came out ! penly against, the issue. What was 29t- from the eastern suffrage lead- j ers viewpoint, he had tho support of ' "lany of Idaho's suffrage leaders. The . , .V0" lpafl'""8 were from Massaehu-Pennsvlvaula Massaehu-Pennsvlvaula and New York, all , " which turned down suffrage. Several ' tnem were from Xew .Tersev, whi.-h "iso showed the same discourt'esv. If ' mN0f ,he leafline suffragists "dared ' 'T "1.T would advise a few of the - pf; ardent leaders bent on whipping - ma f'tatoa senators into line to re- ." at home and convert their respec- , ( ' ,lve statis. |