Show THE WET AND THE DRY Various States as a The Result of the Battles Over the now speaking in says that in two years there won't be a saloon in the Arkansas and Florida will line up for prohibition this year and Texas will To Save the I look for all the Southern states to be dry within the next two The people down there want and I'll tell you just They desire it because of the They realize that he is there to In other the colored man is a fixture in the and the people there are making use of You can't get a white man to work in the fields down The climate is too hot for you can't expect him to get out and do the labor that the negro can The people of the South know that they have got use the and they are not going to have him drunk all time or part of the Just so long as the negro is employed in the and that will be the people want him and that is one of the principal reasons why they are knocking the saloons in the head The South there are other reasons why the prohibition sentiment is gaining in favor in the Southern You don't find the strife on this question there that you in the It is true there is a fight on when the question of state prohibition hobs it is not the same kind of a scrap that is into in the another I have come to the con-elusion that the people of the South are more religious than the right there is a factor that is forcing prohibition to the front ranks in the states that some people had the nerve to say never would stand for it a Goes I am asked how state prohibition in the South affects just now it is going on about the same as I It has probably deal in those not grown great states that have voted out the will go on the government license as long as can be That is a pretty ticklish and the government is making it hot for those who engage in What We Of The last paragraph just quoted from Chaffin 's argument contains the gist of the whole The exact facts as to the actual status of prohibition in this country are here presented for the benefit of our This paper has neither personal nor political interest in the outcome of the agitation in regard to Being himself a total abstainer and wondering why all others are not the editor of The Independent is earnestly desirous of the best the best attitude of the of the officers and of that will accomplish the ends of Here Are The As yet we have seen little reliable Evidence that prohibition laws are worth what they promise much and perform Here are the facts about prohibition in the various so presented that not a crazy prohibitionist could with show of that they were or stated by any one unfavorable to the They Are There are seven states in the Union that have is called These are Oklahoma and The law in does not go into effect until next In all of these states except Maine and where prohibition is enjoined by the the present condition is the of sweeping legislative In certain other where the dry movement is practically or partially the result has been attained under m-W j T Mixed With Polity Although the dry j f not-the result of the political mixed with politics quarters In Texas the have declared for stated P and the against The or t in Nebraska threw their last fall to the Democrats Republicans are expected to elare for prohibition to get In Arkansas the Democrats willing to submit state-wide 3 but the prohibit are demanding immediate tory In certain states the question tends more more to take on a political Eyen Ohio is I It will probably be a most readers to know that OW rt already 90 per cent dry and r Illinois and Indiana are Ohio More than half eity of Chicago is we are t and another remarkable that the liquor law is strictly forced in the dry m. A Curious There is one strange about all these they MA nish both the prohibitionists their opponents with all the ments they require to sustain respective sides quality it furnishing arguments is a peculiar of summaries and the of the revered but in 1 ease it from a live The New York Sun says that movement shows no in the South or West and fc ly the wave sweeping the East The os middle state thus far that a knockdown and drag-out on question is m was a more than state geographically What Is a Dry The South is practically in the driest states the corres dents report a lax the Blind tigers are thicK J the South and a dollar to even in GwM the strongest- prohibition the will always desired Georgia and both have numerous In the country Mills and far on the well which officially is al-l presents an amusing tte report of the corres-l at state is to be Prohibition has resulted 5 fating a famous home The Us of prohibition charge that 1 counties voted dry for the i Uw object of giving the poor t a better While ins may he there seems the belief that the 4 industry was never jj flourishing to Kentucky than 6 is at I r i fc The following tariff fairy tale a in large head lines in the 1 Monday's Intel-mountain |