Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-08 | Page 6 | More "Dry" States

MORE "DRY" STATES. Ohio, 'Wyoming, Tlorida, Nevada and Minnesota havo gone "dry," bringing up tho total number of prohibition states to thirty-three. It is not wartime war-time prohibition, but the real thing. Tho amendment to tho constitution of tho United States will probably not be ratified by a sufficient number of state legislatures before somo time1 in 1020, but the states voting on tho question last Tuesday refused to wait for nationwide nation-wide prohibition and settled their own individual cases without the aid of the federal government. The "wet" vote of San Francisco defeated the aspirations aspira-tions of tho California prohibitionists, but tho latter have tho satisfaction of knowing that San Francisco cannot defeat de-feat tho W'ill of the whole nation and that sooner or later tho Golden state will experience a "drought" along with all the rest of the commonwealths. There is no getting away from it. New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Il-linois, Missouri and somo of tho other statos may not like it, but they, too, will have to submit to the inevitable and cease to manufacture alcoholic and malt beverages. There maybe a, reaction some time in the future and the use of light wines and boers may bo sanctioned by law. Just at this time, however, it seems certain that John Barleycorn and all his near relatives rela-tives will shortly be banished from tho United States or put to death without benefit of clergy. Prohibition sentiment senti-ment has been growing for a number of years and has at last gathered sufficient suffi-cient momentum to make itself felt. Politicians havo long since ceased to call the prohibitionists "long-haired cranks," just as they lave ceased calling call-ing suffragists "short-haired females." Success makes all the difference in the world.