The Green Forest tribune., 1907-07-26

in January, 1908.
 A history of the organized
 movement against license in this state is interesting. In the first contest, in 1900, the number of wet counties was reduced from 56 to 45, and the licensed mojority from ,475 to S,543.
 The "wet'' majority was re- duced from 8,543 to 3,610 in 1902, and at that time 45 counties had gone dry, leaving 30 wet.
 In the third contest, in 1904, no counties changed, but according to the figures of prohibition leaders, the majority of 3,610 for license was wiped out and ma jority of ,953 was shown against license.
 In 1906 an additional ten counties went dry, and the ma jority in the state against license reached 15,618'
 There are four important measures which have been pass ed through various state legisla- lures and by which the sale of whiskey has been prohibited or regulated.
 By one of these, elections may be held in counties, wards or townships to determine the ques- ton of license or no license and a majority of the adult inhabi- tants, men and women, may vote dry the entire county, or any section thereof in which the ma. jority is for prohibition.
 Many communities have abol- ished the saloons by the legisla- tive provision that majority of inhabitants within a three mile radius of any church or school house, may by petition cause the county commissioners to close saloons in the affected territory.
 Still another way in which communities have gone dry is by legislative enactment prohib- ting the licensing of saloons within a given radius of churches schools and state institutions.
 The Simms bill, effective next year which prohibits the licens- ing of a saloon out side of an incorporated town, is reckoned one of the most important of temperance measures passed in this state.
 E. A., Tabor, secretary of the Inter- Church Temperance Fed erations, in speaking of these various enactments, related bit of interesting history with re- ference to the passage of the first named of these laws.
 The legislator who introduced the measure desired to include the vote of the women and had framed the bill to read by vote of "men and women of the terri tory" It was Judge Henry Caldwell who suggested that women would not be given suf- forage and advised an alteration to read by vote of the ''adult in- habitants." The bill then be- came law without a hitch, and to the dismay of many the courts constructed it to include the votes of women as we'll as men.
 MT. Tabor spoke of Conway as the initial point from which the state- wide movement started and he pointed to the recent achieve ments of that city. When sa- looms were there, he says Con. way was one of the worst places in the state. "Now it is the model for every other city," he added. '.In. an effort to secure e Hendrix College in 1890, and a successful effort. Conway sub- scribed and raised S72,000 for the school, the largest sum ever raised in the United States by a | city of that size. The sum of S24 ,OOO was raised to secure the Baptist Female College iE 1893, and this year money and proper ty valued at fully $70,00O has been subscribed to secure the State Normal School.
 Even the soliciting or taking orders for intoxicating liquors in dry territories is rigidly prohibit ed. The law provides that it shall be unlawful for any liquor