The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-11-29
1.-THE War On The Saloons"
Times Democrat.

Times Democrat.
In an article based largely on some
facts rec, ntly given in an editorial in
The Times-D Democrat, the New York
Post discusses the present prohibition
movement in the country and what il
is likely to lead TO-.
1t cOrr-cts the impression that the
movement is restricted to the South,
and is ba sed on the race question. the
necessity of closing the saloons to the
negroes, and notes that $50 precincts
in Chicrgo voted against license at the
last election, thus closing 1879 saloons.
The Chicago City Council voted last
night To establish prohibition in q
southwestern section nearly a square
mile in extent. More than One-half OF
that city is now reported to have abo'-
ished the saloon. Here in u W
neighborhood, White Plains, and 9TH
or Westchester county towns went
dry In New Jersey, Judge Forts
defense of the Bishops law largely
contributed to his success. The move
ment is. therefore, neither local nor
sectional nor rural"
And it agrees with the Chicago Post
that the rec mt anti-salOOn victories
we're not won by the Prohibitiomsts
party proper. but by Democratic and
Republican voters aroused to the
occasion.
In Illinois. so the Chicago Evening
Post reports, victories too many to
enumeratew were won by the ~anti-saloon
forces: and not in the country alone,
but in towns and cities of size and i'm
portance. Jacksonville vent dry
by a majority of nearly 800 votes, and
it is only here and there that the sal
IONS escaped the rising food" 1t
adds that prohibition as an election
issue is now out of the Prohibition
party's hands, and has become The
sspopular cause of many thousands OF
voters, who are still Republicans
and Democrats. 1t attributes this
largely to the new methods OF the
anti-saloon leagues. They appeal to
reason rather than to emotion, and
makes use of modern advertising
methods to bring home salient facts,
and are getting greater and greater
support from business men OF means
and standing. Thus in Indianapolis
the Kokomo Steel and iron Company
estimates that the saloons near its
plant cost it $4,000 a year. 1t asks
for a law prohibiting saloons in fac
O r districts. "Kokomo," it says,
s'has thirty saloons that pay $500 a
year into the city treasury. The man
ufacturing interests are damaged mor
than ten times that amount by the
saloons"
The present movement is SO wholly
different from previous prohibition
movements that the Post is uncertain
exactly what it will bring about. al
though it sees that it is more intelli-
pent than any previous a~nti-saloon
campaign. being based on an appeal
to reason rather than to emotion and
prejudice. and recognizing that an
anti-saloon law to be effective should
have the support of the community
behind IL.
1.-The Notherners who are going to
the polls in such large numbers and
silently voting away the poor mans
club are not all abstainers, by any
MEANS" says the Post. "Nor is their
action infiuehced by a narrow belief
that men a be made moral by act OF
Legislature, such as brought about
the prohibition laws in Maine, Yer
mont. New Hampshire and other
States half a century ago. Its very
ras,unalism affords ground for hope
that this time prohibition has com
to stay. Its strength lies in the votes
of localities. When the prohibition
laws we're repealed in New Hamp-
shire and Vermont, many towns and
citfee voted for license. Gradually
these are swinging back into the pro-
jhibition column, wholly irrespective
what their neighbors are doing"