The Green Forest tribune., 1907-07-26

powerful tendency to- keep all
 within the straight and narrow
 path. It is misdeameaner in
 Arkansas for any person to ap-
 pear at picnic, barbecue, child
 ren's day service, church ser
 vice, Sunday school service or at
 any other public gathering or
 on any train in this state in an intoxicated condition.
 Whiskey is still sold in the larger towns of the state of
 course, and it would be thirsty
 man indeed that could not
 be satisfied at Little Rock, Pine
 Bluff, Texarkana or Fort Smith,
 but on the other hand there are several places of good size which are as dry as dry can be. Jones' boro is one and Paragould is another. High license at De- Vall's Bluff has resulted in the closing of all but one saloon. Newport also has high license. As a general rule the wet terri tory is in the eastern and swampy district of the state and the dry in the western and higher por- tions. Texas is declared to be four fifths dry, and the dry ter- ritory includes at least two cities of about 10000 population. Waco, San Antonia, Austin, and Galveston, with the intermediate territory, still have saloons and an abundance of them, as have other Texas cites. It would ap- pear that the saloon is a fixture in the "foreign belt" of Texas.
 Louisiana is still wet as well as swampy, but temperance workers say that good progress is now being made. In one To- cality it is said that real estate is being sold with a provision in the deed that it should revert to the original owner if property is ever utilized for the sale of liq- uor. It is said the Supreme Court has held this provision to be valid.
 Saloons are now licensed in only four or five counties in Mis- sissippi. Jackson is dry, while Greenville and Vicksburg license saloons.
 A bill is to be presented to the Alabama legislature leaving the prohibition question to vote of the people, and local temperance workers say that from advices at hand there is good prospect that the state will then go dry. Should this be done, whiskey would probably be out of towns which otherwise retain one saloon.
 Georgia is another state in which the prospect is reported to be that the whole state will be dry. A bill has passed the sen- ate and is awaiting action in tue house which would abolish the saloon without even leaving the question of a referendum to the people.
 South Carolina has only within the recent past abolished the state dispensary, an institution supported by Senator Benjamin F. Tillman for many years and to the very last. The whiskey question in that state is left to ocal option of the counties, and hey may either have county lispensaries and high license, or vote out whiskey altogether.
 The recent temperance cam paign through which Tennessee passed was one of the most stren- lous in it's history or in that of any Southern state. Many poll ticians of that state do not know 'just where they are at" yet as } result of the fight, but it is a fact that with the exception of four cities no whiskey is sold in he state. These oases are Memphis, Nashville, Chattanoo- ga and LaFollette. The saloon s yet in it's glory in Memphis out in Chattanooga and Nash vile high license and segregation threaten to reduce the number materially. LaFollette is min- ing town located in the western part of the state, and Is practi- cally dominated by one of the miners of that section.