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Show Rum on the Run (Continued from first pngo. " - 1 -- - - , j their own neighborhoods did not be lievo In forcing It upon an unwilling community. Vet tho evils .0$ tho system had grown so blatant nnd so dictatorial that these gentlemen were willing to sacrifice tin abstract theory In order to cot rid of 11 litigant foot. Heilovlng this way, tho States of Georlfpi, Alabama, North Carolina, Mississippi, nnd Oklahoma hnvo oustod tlr saloon. It Is believed that tho ontiro South by ono method or nnothor will soon bo dry. LIQUOR MKN IJKATEN AT EV , EKV 8TEP. In ovory Stato of the Union tho right la going on. Strangely enough thn iiro and aggression scorns now to bo on tho side of tho prohlbitlonUts. Likowleo tho success. Iu thirty-eight recent elections in Ohio, for instance, tho "drys" won thirty three Even whoro thoy fall thn ngl'ntlou docs In calculable good, for it shows tho saloon sa-loon man thnt ho is bnroly tolerated nnd must mend his ways. Tho liquor Interests- from the dog-gory dog-gory to tho truBts fought thia niovo-moot niovo-moot nt ovciy stop. Thoy used every art known to prarjtlcul politics. Thoy tried tho campaign of brass bund nud skyrocket, tho gum shoo aud still hunt, thn hard drivo aud thn soft pedal ped-al nnd got whipped. In tho begin-ii begin-ii lug thoy fought tho planing of any tux whatsoever upon liquor. Thoy fought ovory proposition to Inoreaho tho Ilconeo; thoy fought tho Sundny-oloslug Sundny-oloslug laws; they fought In California Califor-nia for their Inalienable right to soil whisky to minors and to known drunk urds. Thoy fought tho Fivo Mllo Ihwb; fought local option; fought county option; thoy fought Statewide State-wide prohibition. Thoy nro now lighting, tooth nnd toenail, against tho law proposed lu Congress that tho Fodoral Govorumont shall no lougor Isaun Internal revouuo HoonBos In communities whoro tho enlo of liquor li-quor Is prohibited by local law. Thoy nro now lighting to maintain Undo Sam's partnership with the blind tiger, wherein tho majesty of tho United States is hold up as n shlold to tho dlvo keoper and 11 pro tooclon to tho outlaw. At practically practical-ly "very stop thoy hnvo boon boaten. Thoroughly aroused nt Inst to tho danger that threatens tholr trndo, tho browors arid wholesalers nro beginning to announce general huuscoleaulng. Thoy say iu nrtloulo mortis that thoy want to put tho divo out of bua-Ineofl bua-Ineofl nnd keep their trndo respectable. respecta-ble. Lnudiiblo, but Into. Years ngn nil good pooplo would have wealcmed tho brewers' old In stifling tho dlvo. Now thoy will nttond to tho job theni-eolvos, theni-eolvos, asking permission neither of tho dlvo koepoi' nor the browor. And thoy will do it In tholr own good nny aud tlmo. |
