| OCR Text |
Show THE IDAHO LIQUOR FIGHT. r Wjith fifteen counties in the state "dry" out of a total of twenty-four, and Idaho's liquor question election on the calendar for the first week in September, that state is undergoing about the same sort of political experience Salt Lake passed through a month or two ago when the slush brigade turned on the tears, and psalmed "Where is My Wandering Boy Tonight" up and down the state for a few weeks. Fifteen of the twenty-four counties in Idaho have been "dry" for the past two years that is, one could always get a drink pretty nearly anywhere any-where in any of the fifteen counties at any time, but the brethren have been able to clasp their hands, cast their optics piously (and piteously) toward the blue above and murmur sanctimoniously, sanctimon-iously, "Yes, sister, we are saved we have no saloons." The other nine counties of the state are "wet' and the fight is on full blast to keep them "wet" and to show the voters of the "dry" counties the realization that the operation of their prohibition law has been a farce and will always be, just as it is in every other community where the experiment experi-ment has been tried. Merchants and business men all through the state are lined up in solid phalanx against the efforts being made to keep the majority of the state "dry," and while those in the fight for the latter are waging a particularly particu-larly vindictive battle, indications point to a very heavy majority for the anti-prohibition forces. |
