Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1905-06-29
Zee Prohibition Win
SALOON DIRECTLY FORCING is
Sue BY NATION WIDE LAW
DEFIANCE.
Bfazen Liquor Anarchy StarlIes Many
States in Last Sixty Days.
lPress Corr ospondence.l

Press Corr espondence.
Chicago May %. p The nation is
rapidly making. history in its relations
with the liquor traffic Developments |
state OF the Union prove that Il new
irrepressible conflict has arrived and
that 4 crisis III the arrogant preten
sions of the drink trade is clearly due.
Twcnty-nine state legislatures have
tackled the liquor question in some
vigorous fashion during the past three
months. BECAUSE TIE PEOPLE
FORCED THEM TO; every daily
newspaper, big and little, Republican,
Democratic or independent from
Boston to San Francisco, has had col
umns of "wrlteups" ard comment up
on the fortunes OF these various meas
ures under discussion, BECAUSE IT
WAS IMPORTANT NEWS, and to
cap the climax of all this unprecc-
dented agitation there have tran
spired, almost simultaneously. facts
and events OF the most diametIic con-
trast-on the one hand liquor aggres-
sion, saloon anarchy ana law defiance,
with dynamite and assassination as
their preferred methods of attack,
have in quick succession startled the
people i'll several license states within
the past thirty days, and ON the other
hand Prohibition Maine has entered
upon the most successful law enforce
In, xx1,i1A L. q
and North Dakota are experiencing
wonderful prosperity throughout the
length and breadth Of their Prohibition
areas,
How Prohibition Prohibits.
Maine, long at the mercy of liquor
lawcd traffic could get i'll it's work,
now has an unbribable state commis-
sion. created under the new Sturgis
law by the late legislature, whose duty
is Ia +s.o endorsement Vr tIc
prohibitory law. and the result proves
for itself with laundering emphasis
that an honest, efficient official can en-
force Prohibition us successfully as
any other law AT the annual meeting
Of the Christian Civic League of Maine
at Waterville. Me-, May 8, the reports
from delegates representing practically
every section of the state showed that
Prohibition enforcement was never SO
universal and successful. Portland,
made laugllingstock by Democratic
Sheriff Pennell, is typical instance Of
the influence OF the new law. The rum
sellers have abdicated, The total num-
Der Of arrests last month (ApriD de-
creased almost so per cent as COM
pared with April of last year, while the
number of arrests for intoxication dur
ing that month Is shown to have de-
creased more than 60 per cent The
percentage Of decrease for March us
compared with March of last year is
not SO large, the decrease in the whole
cent, while those for intoXication de-
creased u little more than 40 per cent,
thus showing the cumulative influence
OF the enforcement of the law. The
figures speak for themselves as fol-
lows:
Total arrests for March, 1904. ......... 29i
Total arrests. intoxication. March. 1894. 192
Total arrests for April 1901 ............ 2Sl
Total arrests. intoxicalion, April, 1904 2oG
Total arrests for March 1905. 20G
Total arrests, intoXication March. 1906 iii
Total arrests Tor April lgi5............. 13S
Total arrests. intoxcation. April, 1906. G3
The Portland Evening Express, May
s. 1905, says
The figures taken from the records Of
the police court of the city of Portland
arc most illuminating They show as no
amount Of thoorizing can DO, the effect
of the closing OF the liquor saloons in this
community
Prohibition and Prosperity.
While Maine is doing things to her
liquor outlaws the Prohibition states
OF Kansas and North Dakota greet the
rest Of the country with such unprece-
lented prosperity, rapid increase in
population and remarkable activity in
home, mercantile and public building
that the calamity howlers who rail at
Prohibition as a paralyZer Of business
and Il certain harbinger Of bad times"
have suddenly lost their glibness of
tongue While ther thrcadbare predic-
tions go whistling down the wind for
future generations to laugh at.
How II Looks In Kansas.
kansas bank deposits have passed
the $1o0,00o,o00 mark" declares the
Kansas City Journal OF May g. accord
ing to the report of State Commissioner
Royce, issued Yesterday" Proceeding,
the Journal says:
OF this amour. s5s.1io,szs Al is held by
ol9 incorporated state banks. twenty-five
private banks and one trust company
The rest is held by national banks. The
cash and sight exchange has also In
creased Si.5oo.cO0. making the average le-
sai reserve now carried s1-S per cent