The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-02-24
 ARKANSAW FANATIClSM.

ARKANSAW FANATIClSM.
 The Arkansaw legislature has amended the temperance law so that cities of the first and second classes are covered by the enactment. that IS. anywhere within three miles Of church or sehool-house. majority of the adult citizens can pre- vent the granting of license. This IS a species of woman suffrage, but IS just, as women suffer the worst from the evil arising from in- temperance. The law. with the ex- ception of the "ciY addition was en- acted two years ago and its failure as reform measure has met with almost uni versal recognition. Not content with failing to enforce temperance in the country, the ardent gentlemen, or rather the gentlemen manifes,ly opposed to the ardent. were rife to try the experiment on Little Rock. Nearly every ru- ral gentleman is an enemy to Little Rock. He cannot under stand why the capital should en- joy privileges impossible to his own dear crossroads town. If we are not allowed to have whisky in Hogville," he argues, Little Rock should not be al- lowed to have it"
 It is impossible to prevent the use of whisky in Little Rock, but it is possible to greatly injure the city by greatly reduc- ing its revenue in refusal to grant li- eense. The city realizes nearly twenty thousand dollars per year from the whis- Ky traffic. The number of saloons has much to do with the amount of revenue. but it really has nothing to do with the actual amount of whisky consumed.
 The German citizens are indignant, and justly so, as the law, if enforced, compels them to forego an inherent pleasure, the German birthright of sitting around a beer table when the days work is done and taking the harmless drink of the fatherland. It is said that the leading German citizens of Little Rock contemplate organization against such an oppressive law, and that a meet ing will soon be held, at which resolutions substantially as follows will be drafted, for home and foreign circulation i: Whereas, the state of Arkansaw has en- acted laws oppressive to the customs and natural rights of German people by re- fusing to allow the sale of beer, our natural drink, be it resolved that we. the leading German citizens of Little Rock warn German people everywhere not to immigrate to this state.
 If such meeting is called. it will have disastrous effect on immigration. so much so that the gentlemen who enacted the law-yes, even those keen-sighted citizens can see the force of a prejudiced mistake, and feel that their enmity to- ward the capital has injured the entire state.
 Whisky is factor whose power for evil no one will deny. but it cannot be driven out of the country by local legis- lanon. The experiment has been tried many times, and on every occasion il has been attended by failure. Considering population,there are more fanatics in Ar kansaw than in any other state in the union. It seems that when a man in any other state arrives at the limit of fanati- cism and cannot hope to go higher up the stairway of semi-insani,y, he sells out his interest in his old home and comes to Arkansaw. Here there is no limit i; here the more fanatical a man is, the greater as reformer he IS likely to be come. Beyond the thirst for notoriety as grand reorganizer, rests the insane asylum. There is but little difference of tone between the exalted cry of the em- byo leader as he waves his hand over the bald heads of his colleagues, and the howl of the crazy man as he dances in grotesque representation of David, the hing.