West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1881-03-23
TEMPERANCE NEWS.
Prohibition Progresses All Along
the Line.

Liquor apologists and advo-
Gates, together with that class of
temperate people, (who mistakenly
think themselves temperance pee
ple) who persist in insisting that
prohibition does not prohibit, and
is failure, must either admit that
progress goes backward, or write
themselves down as wofully ignor-
ant of what is transpiring around
them. We could wish they might
be induced to read and consider the
news.
The Temperance people of Texas
have organized Grand Council.
A Local Option Bill has passed
the Delaware House of Represen-
tatives
The future of the Temperance
work in Indiana looks bright and
promising.
Will county, ILL.,, has, by a vote
of the Supervisors, been deprived of
all liquor licenses.
The county of Queens, Nova
Scotia, has just voted for no-license
the vote stood $50 against license
to 80 in favor.
J. L Palmer, Esq. of Arkansas, says
that twenty counties in that State
Prohibit the liquor traffic within
their borders.
Quite a number of counties in
Virginia have recently been carried
for prohibition under the operation
of the local-option law.
The prohibition party in New
Jersey is making strenuous efforts
to effect amore compact party Or
ganization in the State, and com
plete separation from other Temper
ance organizations.
Three of the Irish Rualan Catholic
bishops who were friendly to the
Sunday Closing Act have broken
up illegal liquor-selling on that day
by refusing to hear the confessions
of the laW-breakers.
There are 461 Temperance organ
izations in Indiana. The largest of
these is Evans Hall Red Ribbon
Club of Evansville, with amember-
ship of 1900. Gen. Jas. M.
Shackelford, President.
Bulloch county, Georgia, has
adopted the Local-Option law and
banished liquor-selling; the result
is that "the jail is empty, the Grim
inal docket almost without a case
to be tried, and business much i'm
proved"
Hon. Schuyler Colfax says 'Iet
me prophecy in less than five years
from to-day no man Of intelligence
in the United States will advocate
the present license system, nor will
the traffic in whisky be tolerated
by the American people.
The Senate of Texas has, by a
vote of23 to 7, passed bill tosubmit
to the people a constitutional
amendment prohibiting the inn
portation, manufacture and sale of
intoxicating liquors in the State,
except for medical and sacramental
purposes
North CARoLINA-President T.
H. Prichard, of Wake Forrest Col
lege, writes:
"Prohibition Prohibition is the
cry all over the South; and prohi-
bition of making and selling all
kinds ofstrong drink, weshall have
after awhile; but at present in
North Carolina, and in other States
the people seem to be ahead Of the
lawmakers as regards this measure.
In this State two hundred thousand
voters call for a straight-out prohi-
bition law; but they will not get
it at the hands of the present legis-
lature."
The North Carolina House of
Representatives has passed the
Senate Bill prohibiting the sale or
purchase of any spirituous liquors,
except wine, under heavy penalties.
It is to be submitted to the people
for ratification in August, and, ifl
adopted, will go into effect next Oc-