Show PROHIBITION IN THE SOUTH The chances are that the entire south southwill will TIll be made up of prohibition states in the next three years and that this will extend to Oklahoma One leading newspaper of the new state announces that it will publish no more liquor or saloon advertisements as the owner of the journal believes that such advertisements advertisements advertisements adver adver- are an indirect violation of the will of the thep p people oJ le as c. c expressed in the constitution One after another of the old south states sf-ates is falling into line In North Carolina the dispensary law lay is giving way to out and out prohibition The movement was started to prevent colored men from congregating ng ngin in low joints and getting drunk The efI effects ets were astonishing when tried The he jails were soon emptied i ithe the constables and magistrates had nothing to do doThe do The effect was equally as satisfying ing w with th the poor whites The incentive to go into town and have a good time was vas taken a away ay and fighting between the races has well nigh ceased Where tried the laws are arc most thorough No liquor is permitted to be made and the thc man who imports it even for his private private private vate use is fined the fined the thought evidently being that the way yay to prohibit is to prohibit The distillers and brewers of the Ule south arc are greatly disturbed over the outlook for if the zeal continues and grows at lit will mean the loss of millions and millions ions of dollars Altogether Altogether Altogether Al Al- together the movement is s the mo most t form formidable dable one ever eyer seen to abolish the use of and traffic in liquor It ma may result in the permanent settlement of the race question in those states |