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Show IB Prohibition In the South. I By the year 1912 one of the chief planks of I qne of the great parties will bo prohibition, if the I signs of the times are worth anything. The south I is going to be for prohibition, the days of saloon I licenses are swiftly passing away there. The I churches are all at work and public men are join- I ing them. By actual test it has been found that I where promiscuous liquor-drinking has stopped, L the jails are empty, there are no more street I brawls, even race-differences no longer lead I to violence. It was begun to stop the troubles I in the low sections where the lower class of no- I groes with the degraded class of the whites met I and clashed. Now they meet and there are no I clothings. Could the whole negro population be I suddenly transported to some other country, the I movement might stop, but now it is growing and L ;; spreading and at the present momentum the whole f - south will, in four years more, unite in a demand I for nationnl prohibition. It is a marvelous change I and it is in the hands of a cool and brave race that when it thinks it is right, does not turn backward. back-ward. When it becomes a reproach to be seen I drinking, men will give it up. Then southern peo- pie always work together when a certain class approves ap-proves of anything, it is but a step to suspend the rules and make it unanimous. |