Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-11-29
TEMPERANCE NOTES.

A number of counties in Alabama
this week voted for local option by
majorities rangingifrom 20 to l, to 10 to 1.
The Senate of Alabama last week
passed the Carmichael bill to prohibit
the sale, giving away or possessing of
liquors in any way in clubs. 1t prohibits
exactly what the Georgia law allows.
The bill will become effective January
l, 1909, in those counties where the sale
of liquor is to be kept up to that time; /;
January. The General Prohibition bill
was signed by the Speaker and the
President of the Senate last Thursday.
The Anti-Saloon League will seek,
among other things, to have county
local option act" passed by the next
Legislature. That is, when a court
house district in county will not close
saloons, the people of the whole county
should be allowed to say whether or not
there shall be whiskey sold t
their county-sea The League has re-
to be in good condition, financially, TO
push correspondence and petitions and
to send out thousands of pages of liter
ature bearing on the legislation desired.
cit is the duty of the liquor men
throughout the country to spot every
Congressman and member OF legisla-
ture who is suspected of strong tenn
perance proclivities, and exert them
selves to the utmost to defeat him. -
Texas Liquor Dealer. San Antonio.
And now it is rumored that the move
of the liquor men in Virginia by still
hunt is to capture the organization of
the Senate. In this reorganization the
liquor interest is to be favored in the
appointment of Senate committees, who
will not favor advanced temperance
legislation.
Those movements toward prohibition
in various sections Of the country, of
which newspaper readers at distance
learn only the bare results, are
being fought out on the ground
with the utmost vigor and inten-
sity. No little ability is being shown
by each side in the concrete and
striking expression of its arguments.
At Opelika, Ala, for example, Mr.. J..
B. Green, a Methodist Sunday-school
superintendent, used with telling effect
aposter which read as follows: Wanted,
100 boys for new customers! Most of
our old customers are rapidly dropping
out Ten committed suicide last week
twenty are in Jail (eight are in the
chain-gang); fifteen were sent to the
poorhouse; one was hanged; three were
sent to the insane asylum. Most of
the balance amt worth fooling with;
they've got no money. We are just
obliged to have new customers-fresh
young blood-or we will have to shut
up shop. Don't make any difference
whose boy you are; we need you. You
will be welcome. If you once get started
with us we guarantee to hold you. Our
goods are sure. Come early-stay late.
|-Opehka Saloons, Proprietors.
What is the matter with the liquor
men? Are they alarmed, and acting
from motives of expediency? Or, are
they actually on the stool of repentance?
Evidently the former, rather than the
latter. We clip the following from
our leading dailies:
Chicago, Oct. 14.-The Hyde Park
Liquor Dealers Association, as a mat
ter of self-protection, has started a
crusade against those who drink to ex-
cess. Notices have been sent out by
the secretary of the association request
ing each bartender to ask for the pho
tograph of every drunkard from his
wife and family in case COM
plant is made about selling liquor to
them. The pictures then are to be sent
to the secretary of the association,
and he is in turn to have copies made
and sent to every member of the asso-
citation. These pictures are to be
pasted on the mirror behind the bar, so
that the dispenser of drinks may see at
glance if he is selling liquor to a
drunkard. Two members of the asso-
citation have been prosecuted by women
for having sold intoxicants to their
husbands. This caused the movement
to brand drunkards.
The fact is the temperance movement
has of late been sweeping with sucl
tremendous power over the country tha
the liquor men are getting into a yer,
panicky and excited mood. -Richmon,
Christian Advocate.
NOT MANY TEETOTALERS.
Per cent. of men who drink, S5.
Per cent. who drink to excess, 80.
Per cent. who are inebriates, IL.
Per cent. who are incurables, 2.
Per cent. of women who drink, 65.
The man who is responsible for thes
figures is DR.. w. D. Lawrence, of Mir
neapolis.
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