The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-12-31

In the Saturday Evening Post of De
Cember 2S published by the Curtis Pub
lishing Company, Philadelphia, in an
article entitled The Battle of the Bot
tie, is presented an argument which the
most jealous and enthusiastic defenders
and pleadcrs Of the saloon can not con
trOvert. In the Battle Of the Bottle is
written the obituary Of Kentucky and
the epitaph Of Tennessee 1t is not
necessary to go to Kansas or some
Northern States for facts.
len years ago if man had offered to
bet on Kentucky going dry his money
would have been snapped up-as fool 5
money should be. Today he would be
called a CRATER, betting on a cinch +
The traveller may journey from
Louisville, Kentucky. to Knoxville, Ten
nessce, and never hear the glasses but
once. Stranger than that. the traveller
may go from Louisville, Kentucky.
through western Tennessee to Memphis.
thence through Mississippi from end to
end until he comes within stones throw
of the Gulf of Mexico-twenty-fo four
hours-and one drink town, Memphis.
But canels do not travel by rail.
Ninety-ight per cent of Kentucky ter
ritory is dry.
Seventyfvc per cent of Kentucbans
live in dry territory-made SO by their
own votes. inch by inch
Ninety-two counties are entirely dry.
town.
Seven counties have two saloon towns
each
Two counties have three saloon towns
each.
Four counties are almost solidly wet.
Verify it seemeth that the Kentucky
triplets-whiskey, horses and pretty girls
will be reduced to twins A thorough
bred and pretty girl go passing well
together
The negro question has not cut SO
great a figure as it does farther south.
Negroes vote in Kentucky, but there are
not SO many of them.
The black ballot has been constant
stumbling block i'll the path of prohib
ton There are several counties in
which the prohibitionists fear to call an
election because they think the black
ballot would be cast for whiskey.
Bad as the situation looks for the
saloon people, it is rapidly getting
Public sentiment is so strong that, in
the campaign just closed, the candidates
of each political party tried to outshout
tn other, each proclaiming himself the
aboriginal temperance man. Both parties
were pledged by platform and candi-
dates to support an extension of the
county unit law, making it uniform for
the entire State.
WHERE BUSINESS THRIVES ON
PROHIBITION.
Glasgow, located in the midst of dis
couraging natural conditions, is {. town
of less than three thousand people. Il
has six banks, four large wholesale
houses, and public improvements equal
to any other city of its size in the State
Its tax rate is invariably below th'
maximum allowed by law. Not one mar
out of five could be induced to vote il
| favor of the saloon Commercial travel
ers say that there is no town in the
State of five times its population tha
does as good a business as Glasgow.
Prohibition has had another effec
I upon the smaller towns-farreachins
and inestimable.
The removal of saloon domination il
politics has uniformly resulted i'll tn
election to office of high-grade men
men whose services would be eagerl
sought by the largest commercial ant
industrial institutions.
THE SUNDAY LAW.
The retail liquor man did not wax
up: he never does until his place
closed for good. A dime in hand is al
he looks at, until somebody shakes tn
bush Mayor Bingham shook the bus
and seven hundred crap games fell ou
-forty-six dive licenses fell out-an
, every law-breaker in Louisville fell OF
, with Mayor Bingham
} For years it had been noisily assefte
} that Sunday closing could not be, en
; forced in Louisville-that the sovereig
State of Kentucky had no an sal ion
enough to reach into the ity