The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-02-03

open on Sunday, the dealers began TO cast
about for relief They found that the
w G. T. L. OF Lexington was instrument
tai in having the indictments brought;
that Young man belonging to the several
Protestant churches, and some who were
students OF the Bible coIledge Of Kentucky
university. had visited the saloons on Sun
day and had bought Oft They found
that the religious element WAS not willing
to stop at these indictments, and that il
intended to keep the work uf indlct.nf
the saloon men up from court 10 court
As an evidence Of this. number of tn
young men who caused the indictment
last month, went around TO thirtyfOu
saloons last Sunday and obtained fact
enough to indict thirty-one OF them 70
selling on Sunday.
The saloon men, seeing that their sun
day business WAS at end unless they did
something to conteract the work Of the
I w. c. T. L.. determined to stop dealing
with the merchants who employed young
men who got evidence against the saloon.
One large shoe dealer employed such d
young man rs salesman and more than a
dozen saloon men went to the store. paid
off their accounts and told the merchant
that they would never buy any more guods
from him. As the mprchnnt seemed to
not care for the Withdrawal OF trade. and
as other merchants treated lhe bOycott
with equal Indifference. the saloon men
met and gave out the statement ihat they
did not intend to bovcott the men who
indicted them; they proposed to allow all
members OF the Liquor Dealers associtior
81 deal where they please The ladies o
the w. G. T. T., however. do not intenc
to let the saloon men OF 50 easily, auC
they will, they say, continue To presen
evidence 10 the grand juries from cour
to court and ask that all saloon men VIII
sell whiskeY or beer on Sunday b
Indicted.
/ While this moral wave is rolling owe
Lexington n similar movement is on foo
in Louisville and other citiss and town
> through the state. The work Of tn
W.C.T. L. has bcsn going on quietly fu
y the past two years Mrs. Frances =. Beau
D champ Of the city. who is President og tn
+ state organization and an Ofiicrr in IN
national w. c. T. U.. has been all owe
r the state within the past eighteen month
s and has organized local branches Of IL
nrder until there is not now n village {
|. tnwa in the state which does not have d
p ". c. T. L. As result Of thus quiet wor
l. there is f.eling all over the state in fav'
y OF reinforcing the local option law wherev'
+. It is possiable. It is confidently expect'
IS by the friends OF temperance that an a
10 tempt will be made to vote local optic
ir even in Lexington. In Richmond. Pari
10 Winchester, Mt. Sterling. Cynthian
H. Nicholasvillr. Georgetown, Lancaste
Lebanon, Wiliamstown. London Ma
chester and other towns the woman V
.. try to keep whisky from being sold. Loo
$ ontion already prevails in Winchesit
Williamsburg and London, and it car
near carrying recently AT hlchhoh
r. Nearly every country Precint in tn" STA
" 'has local option. 50 that the sale OF liqu
al in Kentucky can only be conduct
he legally in the town and cities, with ma
of the towns against it. This, is notab
Al true in the case OF Dlnvelle. the home
in Central college. II has b'en t~enty-o
n. years since liquor was lie sally sold in th
Mt city save on physicians prescriptio
RS and as its tax rates has gone down
Nj thirty cents IN the 800 for munich
nit expenses, many other small cities !
va ms dering the ACCESSIBILITY OF abolishi
&C. thu sale Of liquor AS the local option j
,t give them the right 10 do,
.rn In addition To the crusade against
so sale Of liquor the religious people h.
of worked up revivals all over the state. a
hs. the vvangelsls say they never saw the p
2nt plc in the country districts more
-. ieresled in religious questions, and
- -, advocates of Christianity and moral
SAY there is a great religious and temp
NV ance awakening in old Kentucky.