Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-11-21
DRYS WILL CARRY
. FIGHT TO CONGRESS
SEVERAL MEASURES READY TO
BE PRESSED.
NO CANTEEN REVOCATION
Hope to Make All Liquor Carried As
Interstate Commerce Subject to
State Laws At State Lines-Oppo-
.sition On the Alert-Help Expected
From the South.

Washington, NOV. 19.-Leaders Ia
congress who have made I'D their
minds that a little legislation" pro-
gram Will be easy to carry out at the
next session are counting without
the prohibitionists. 1t may not be p
hard task to Ignore the recommends.
tlons of the president, but the total
abstalner's phalanx stays daily in the
held and is tireless in attack.
The promise is that more than a
phalanx is to put in the winter cam
paigning at the capital, and that a
thlrstIess army is making ready FOR
the invasion. Save in the matter of
! the antl-canteen law congress never
mas been generous in yielding to the
demands of the prohibitionsts. 1t has
| been declared wickedIy that time and
again that the senators and repre-
sentatiVes gave way ON The canteeu
| simply because the soldiers are few
in number and never vote.
The experience of the past has not
| unnerVed or unmuscled the working
apostles OF prohibition. Those who
! live in the capital are saying with an
! unusual freedom and words Of the
same tenor come from without the dis
;rict-that congress this year will pay
heed to tnem as never in the past,
! and that before another year has
/ gone there will be. three distinct pro.
! hlbltion enactments on the national
statute books.
The advocates Of dry measures
! seem to be certain of success, but
there are those who believe that the
congressman will find a way t. circum-
vent them without great danger OF
! loss of vote in districts in which pro
| hlbitiOn is thu rule of faith
The great Roadway prohibition has
made in the south, OF course, has
given the abstainers their strong hope
! that the victory in many states may
| be repeated in the capital of the ma
ton. They are counting on the support
OF members of congress from those
parts Of the south which voted the
| saloon out of existence. Looking at
to be extremely doubtful if the Ala
bama and Georgia and some other
states members will vote in congress
as their constituents voted at the
polls.
Not many members from the south
are prohibitionists at heart. They
! think compulsory dryness Of throat Is
! a good thing for the negro, and they
gave sanction to prohibition as a
measure of safety to the white peo-
pie, and especially to the white wo-
men. When it comes to voting for pro-
hibition in the District of Columbia
and all government reservations, it Is
the belief Of most Of the officials in
Washington that the prohibitionists
will find the southerners less than
, lukeWarm.
Friends of prohibition hope for the
enactment of three laws and to pre-
vent the repeal Of a fourth. They will
have no trouble in doing thesrest Of
the work to which they will set their
hands. This is what the prohibition
lists wish to do at the coming session:
l. Procure the passage of the So
called Hepburn-DolliYer bill.
2. Stop the sale OF liquor in the
District Of Columbia.
3. Extend absolute prohibition over
all government reservations.
4. Defeat every effort to restore
the canteen in the army.
The Hepburn-Dolliver bill is not
only first on the list, but first in tie
hearts of advocates of abstinence. The
measure is an old friend of the pro
hibitionists, as it is an old enemy of
members who have felt the necessity
of seeking shelter whenever the sub
ject has been up for discussion. Mem
bers of the house committee on inter
state commerce especially have found
the bill a thorn in every one of its
provisions.
In brief, this measure provides thar
all liquor which has been shipped N
interstate commerce shall become SUB
ject to the police laws of the state
into which it is sent. AS the law now
is, liquor shipped into prohibition ter
ritory frequently is made an object Of
sale by the person to whom it is ad
dressed. The proposed law, it is said.
would give the local police a power OF
seizure which they do not have now
and thus the Illicit sale Of strong drink
could be prevented by cutting it of
at the source.
in the fight for the interstate com
merce measure, which will be intro
Guced anew as soon as congress opens
its session, the prohibitionits perhaps
will be able to command considerable
southern support lacking for the other
measures. The southern members are
anxious to make prohibition in. the
home states where it has been adopt
ed of a kind that prohibits. But the
northern republicans, aided by thu
northern democrats, may prevent the
bill from reaching the stage where 9
floor vote is possible. A way has beer
found at nearly every session for eigh.