Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1905-04-27
A YEAR FOR VICTORY.
Already 1905 Shows Forward
March of Prohibition.
JOHN MITCRELL's COMRADEssPRAK

Kansas Serves Notice on Liquor Lob
byists-North Dakota Stands Solid.
Folk Talks Prohibition - United
States senate Vote For Prohibition.
Four Hundred Victories In Penn
sylvnnia-Other News.
The new year has already set new
pace for the great reform. Eight short
weeks have recorded victories and
events OF unusual Importance to the
Prohibitionst. For an 'off year. to
use the phrase OF the politician the
first sixty days of 1905 were alive
with unexpected achievements and pro
phctic hints OF triumphant cooperation
all along the line. The wideawake Pro
hibitionist should paste these notes OF
progress in his hat and speed them
orally around the world. They sound
the forward march of the new epoch
in moral reform.
Nothing could more fittingly typify
the indissoluble ties which link the is
sues of the great reform with the fu
ture of the labor problem than the
brave act of Amcrica's mine workers
at indianapolis on the 23d of January,
when by an overwhelming vote they.
severed the last lie between them and
the liquor trade. And when some be-
wildered spokesman for the liquor mi
nority suggested years postponcment
John Mtchell's sturdy comrades spiked
his air gun and certified an immediate
decision in the premises.
Scarcely had the Associated Press
clicked this dispatch to the farthest
limits of the nation when Kansas serv-
ed notice on liquor lobbyists that they
would get cold comfort from it's latest
legislature. and the Topeka Daily Her
aid, Jan. 26, thus epitomized the news:
There is now no doubt that the present
legislature stands for prohibition of liquor
selling. The skirmish in the house the
other day settled the question concerning
that bodys opinion and the senate is over
whelmingly n prohibition body.
In the same week North Dakota re-
asserted unqueStioned confidence in the
efficiency of constitutional prohibition,
defeating by Il vote of more than to
an attempt ut resubmission, and the
Fargo Morning Call Feb speaks the
states dominant sentiment when 1t
says:
The action of the North Dakota legis-
lature in knocking out resubmission in
the first half of the first round can be
taken as fair Indication of the senti-
ment of the people Of the state on the sub
ject.
February opened with an official mes
sage from the governor of great state
preaching straight Prohibition doctrine
30 frankly and sincerely as to startle
the oid party press. The state was Mis-
souri,, the man was Governor Folk, the
message was aimed at pool selling, but
the context was extraordinary. He de-
clared that "a sound and healthy pub
lie sentiment will not tolerate the
states sharing in the profits of vicious
practices" and with that idea for
text so strenuOusly denounced the H.
censing of this particular iniquity that
the Kansas City Journal declared 1t "a
remarkable document" whose argn-
ment 'might have been culled bodily
from the speech of some Prohibition Or
ator," and thus concludes it's comment:
The governor has made use of all tho
stock arguments of the Prohibticnists
ana left himself no ground to stand on
when the Prohibtionists ask him why he
oarrooms as we'll as pool rooms, as scores
OF them probably will.
Tuesday, Feb. Z, will be historic
milestone in the annals of the Prohibit
ton cause. On that day at the national
capitol tariff, trusts and railroad re-
bates sidctracked for the great reform.
ana the senate chamber rang with tri-
umphant Prohibition oratory until by
vote Of 90 to 90 the upper house of
the United States congress upheld the
nonor or the nation and declared
against the liquor traffic in a great
prospective commonwealth
Almost at the very instant in which
mis- demonstration of growing public
sentiment occurred the Atlantic cable
was bearing TO the metropolitan press
the latest news from Europe to the ef-
feet that Wilhelm III. had himself Civ
en- imperial sanction to the pioneer
temperance movement ill the army of
the fatherland
American Legislative victories have
followed these vnricd triumphs i'll rapid
succession.
On Feb. S the Illinois senate, in the
hands of a hostile organization, ran up
flag of truce and capitu!ated to the
peoples demand for a state local Pro-
hibition privilege, voiced by Prohibi-
ton party legislative vote Of 100000
and crystallized later by effective league
strategy ut Springfield.