The Iola register., 1902-05-16
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& Era IIelfrch, Superintendent
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Regular meetings the End and 4th
Friday of each month in the U. b.
church at p. m.
Our membership has increased to
about sixty and we look for a vase
deal of good TO be accomplished, with
SO many willing hearts and hands.
Our Y. Flower Supt. has not been
idle. Some one in the hospital has
received from her u basket of flowers
LESS DRINKING IN SOUTH
From the New York Sun,
Before the beginning of the civil
war and for several years after, the
distinction.of the Southern states as
those which produced and consumed
larger amount of spirituous liquors
than any other group of states in the
country was unchallenged. But since
the close of the war, or, rather, since
the eifacement of the passing genera
ton of fighting colonies and thirsty
majors, a complete, palpable and very
marked change has come almost inn
perceptibly over the face of things in
the South, and while Keutuckey and
Maryland continue to produce whisk
in very large quantities, as warehouse
returns of the United States treasury
indicate, the larger part of the pro-
duct is shipped North; comparatively
little is sent South for consumption.
In fact, the South is becoming the
temperance section of the United
States, and of 200, 600 retail liquor
dealers in the United States having
licenses lof various sorts, there are
only 1000 in Alabama, 750 in Arkan-
sas, 400 in Florida, 1,200 in Georgia,
$50 in Mississippi, 1,200 in North Car
olina and 325 in South Carolina. where
the dispensary system prevails, and
in which there has been very mark
ed reduction in the sales of liquor dur
ing recent years.
Mississippi has had since 1892,
high license law calling for tax on
each saloon of 5000 year and there
are now fewer saloons in the state
than in some wards of New York or
Brooklyn. Georgia has been since
1891 a high license state with absolute
prohibition in a majority of counties.
In Atlanta there is now one liquor
saloon only for each 200 of popula-
tion and there is very much less of
drinkinu In Ganruio thon In onv Nau
England state, although climatic con-
ditions account, of course, for some
part of this. North Carolina has a
local license law which permits a ma
jority of the electors in any locality
to establish absolute prohibition, and
the license rate is $3.50 for even the
smallest tavern.
Ii is not, however, so much in con-
sequence of laws as of local Gu stom to
which these laws are responsive, that
extensive drinking has fallen off in SO
many of the states of the South. There
is no longer IN that section the large
"leisure class from which, in great
measure, the most frequent drinkers
were recruited. The problems conse-
quent upon the close OF the civil war
made necessary many personal sacri-
fees by Southern men, and the era
following reconstruction was not one
favorable either to conviviality or
dissipation. There are, relatively, few
large cities in the Southern states
and the enormous improvement in
railroad connection has had the effect
of doing away with the necessity of
long journeys by wagon or horse
back such as marked the business life
of the South during previous genera.
tions. Comparatively little liquor is
drunk in the South at present, not
much more beer and practically no
wine. A state in which wine and whis-
ky drinking has increased considera-
bly, is California.