Natchitoches populist., 1898-07-22
Temperance Notes.

ASo 4 = oouSH, PlOulultloulSl, uds
been elected mayor of East Liverpool
o., by nearly 800 majority.
Since the first of January over 10 ,OOC
gallons of liquor have been taken into
the Yukon district under permits grant
ed by the lieutenant-governor of the
Northwest Territories.
A state branch of the National Amer
lean Anti-Saloon league was organized
in Salt Lake City recently. The presi-
dent is George F. Goodwin, and the sec
retary, Richard Wake. 1t is intended
to push the organization over the state
as fast as possible.
The supreme court of Michigan has
decided that in that state a saloon
keeper is liable for all damages which
result to wife by reason of the intoxi-
cation of the husband, and any one
causing or contributing" to the in
toxication is liable. A declaration to
recover damages need not aIIege that
sales of liquor were made to the per-
son when he was intoxicated or an
habitual drurkard.
Senator Rayenscroft has introduced
into the Maryland senate bill compel
ling all signers of petitions for saloons
to live in the immediate vicinity OF
the proposed Location. 1t also provides
that no saloon shall be located within
400 feet Of sch0olhouses and churches.
At present the signers may live quito
distance from the proposed location,
and the distance from churches and
schoolhouses is placed at 200 feet. The
bill applies to Baltimore city.
The Woodstock Sentinel Review
states that Masonic banquet was held
in the town Of Woodstock, Ontario. and
that "the toasits were drunk with cold
water and the fact was considered wor-
thy OF comment by one of the speakers
as indicating The change that is coming
over society and societies" Com.
menting On this statement The Cana.
dian Craftsman says: in the city OF
Toronto, and we may say the city OF
Montreal, also, as we'll as throughout
the greater part Of the Dominion the
best and most prosperous lodges have
conducted their banquets without lio-
uors for the past quarter of century
In Toronto, for instance, st. Andrews
Lodge, the mother lodge of the district
banished liquor from its refreshment
table some twenty-five years or more
ago. and celebrated its seventy-fifth
birthday few months ago with a
banquet equal to anything gotten up by
the craft, without drop OF intoxicat.
ing drinks"
The New York Voice asked the 250
members of the faculty of Yale uni
versity this question, Would you ad-
wise the voters Of New Haven to vote
yes or mo- upon the question of IL
cense, and why?' A stamped enyelope
accompanied the question. Seventeen
replies were received five of which
were anonymous. The Voice SAYS:
"Of these, only four are willing to say
that they will advise New Haven's vot-
ers to cast their ballots for no-license.
two advise citizens to vote for license;
fourteen replies indicate that the writ
ers are sorely yexed at the Voice and
about thirty have returned the blanks
or the envelopes without an answer
John Q. Tilson, proctor and steward of
the university dining7hall, where wine
sauces are advertised on the menu
cards. says THAI he has voted no-license
at every election for the last nine years /
). 5. Curry, instructor in the Yale Di-
vlnity school, says he always votes for i
prohibition. Simeon E. Baldwin. pro-
[essor OF constitutional law, and Ed
ward G. Buckland, assistant professor
of evidence, would advise them to vote
yes The other answers are. either
anonymous Or evasive or abusive.