The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-08-14

lnl Il ,.anal from NrN. YORK Y,
ncnycr-~lct only One Quarter 81
the iiopul..l.an Drinks = Ali---
Temperance ms
New Yurk fHcA@s 4 million dollars
das fot drinks The annual con-
SUMPTION OF drinks IN the lNlte
States amounts TO 00,oo3,uVe.
II an the beer drunk a the Units,
St4tes since 1876 we acought vi
gether ii would fill \ can't rom Nei
YbrE 10 Denver. twenty inet wide,
ten feet deep and l,93S l M long,
says INV MAN York sun.
1he nations drink bin Is caa-thiri
more than the public DEBT, ! lce as
much HI the capital stScx M taa
haAhs MA little tess than5he q tail
zation III the trusts, Aneshai ths
yalua 81 our domestic aninals,
more than ona-half the galnesef all
our farm products one third iAofs
than our total imported fnercllanhlsa
and ane-twelfth more than our fetal
expurt4'
II each individual In this count,
regardless Of age on sex, ma drums
Its share Of liquor III 1875 he would
have consumed about eight gallons;
but now the proportion IS Mule
more than twenty gallons. The IN
crease III attributed 70 the influx o.
| foreign Immigrants who drink much
| beer
1t II estimated that taree-fonrths
of tie population are total abstain
ers. which would make every fourth
person who docs drink consume ~
iii AVERAGE $40 worth 81 liquor each
year
The nae Oh wines and spirits u "a
| the decrease Iii the Haited States,
while beer ii becoming more popn-
Hut There are fever retail liquor
dealers NOW than there We're a year
ago, while tha number Of places
where beer II sold y increasing
rapidly
As many railroad accidents were
/ I'll times rast accounted for by EN-
| plo3 ees being drunk. 100000 Of the
| / geo 900 railroad men now on duty
| In the United States are under orders
neither to drink NOR To enter place
| where iiquor ID sold. The penalty
Is dismissal from service, In Canada
| II q locomotive engineer or q train
conductor II foand drunk while Oh
daay lie is liable 10 ten years iIn-
priaoument.
Southern States are more agrees
siYs ill This time than those of any
othei part 81 the country IA attempt
ing TO ctsb drunkenness BY law
! Kentucky, Whose very name brings
up thoughts os mint julens, has 10
i counties, and Of these nsnety-six are
wifa0at saloons In all Kentucky
there ARC bat FIVE counties where
| liquor May be sold All over the
| county.
In the matter of local option cleo
tions Illinois leads All other States
/ with record of 700 communities
which have voted the saloon out
Mississippi and Texas are more thar
4 three-fourths dry by yirtus OF local
optfon laws. Texas prohibits screens
in drinking places, and Indiana re-
quiPes saloons 10 keep lights burning
ali night With window shades open.
Tennessee, another great whiskey
producing state, has hy.a an anti
saloon movement. with the result
that there are but nine towns in the
entire Commonwealth whore saloons
are permitted Every candidate for
State Office In Tennessee, Demo
Graf or Republican, Is temperance
re former, Senator Carmack, Demo-
cratic leader. has pledged himself to
movement to drive every saloon
from the State.
CGlifornians say that q great tenn
persnce lesson was taught by the
earthquake. San Francisco con-
sumed much liquor and was known
as a wide opeA town. When the
earthquake occurred, the saloons
were closed and ioEg kept closed.
North Carolina has also taken adj
vantage Vi Inc lbNdi pHAtch ia ".
Greensboro. with more than 10000
population, is as dry as bone.
Nebraska has a law uroviding for
tine examination Of dipsomaniacs,
inelriates an1 persons addicted 70
the excessive use Of morphine, Co
caiae or other narcotic drugs; for
the detention, care and treatment OF
such persons. and for their parole. "
The only home for drunkards'
wives ever established in the United
States. and possibly in the world, Is
at Des Noines, la. This was made
possible By the will If the late'
Jan es Callahan. who LEFT $4,000
for the puri Csc OF building it.
In those communities where the
perez ntage of foreign born ponula-
ton is largest there is tbs least effort
toward legal restriction OF the liquor
traffic, which facl is taken to indicate
that pure blooded Americans have
set their faces against the vice OF
, drunkenness. The Southern States
received but 4 per cent OF the inn
migrants which came mo the eoun-
try last yea, and they are leading
the crusade against the 1aioon.