The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1907-02-14

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world were 10 endure their thirst for
eighteen months their savings would
buy every ounce of gold in existence
/ The use OF wine and spirits is on
the decrease in the United States,
while beer is becoming more popu-
lar. There are fewer retail liquor
stores now than there were a year
ago, while the number of places at
which beer is sold is increasing very
rapidly
AS many railroad accidents were
( in times past accounted for by EN-
ployes being drunk. 100000 of the
100000 railroad men now on duty
in the United are under orders neith
er to drink nor TO enter a place where
liquor is sold. The penalty is dis
missal from service. In Canada. If
locomotive engineer or a train con
ductor is found drunk while on duty.
he is liable to ten years imprison
ment
Southern States are more aggres-
sive at this time than those of any
other part of the country in attempt
ing to curb drunkenness by law.
Kentucky, whose very name brings
up thoughts of mint juleps, has 119
counties, and of these 90 are without
saloons. In all Kentucky there are
but five counties where liquor may
I 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 than
three-fourths dry by virtue of local
option laws. Texas prohibits screens
in drinking places, and Indiana re-
quires saloons TO keep lights burning
all night with window shades open.
/ Tennessee, another great whiskey-
j producing State, has had an anti-sa-
loon movement, with the result that
there are but nine towns in the entire
commonwealth where saloons are per
mitted. Every candidate for a State
Office in Tennessee. Democrat or Re
publican, is temperance reformer.
Senator Carmack a Democratic lead
er, has pledged himself to a move
ment to drive every saloon from the
State
Californians say that a great tenn
perance lesson was taught by the San
Francisco earthquake. San Francisco
consumed much liquor and was
known as a wide-open town. When
the earthquake occurred the saloons
North Carolina has also taken ad-
vantage of the local option law
Greensboro, with more than 10000
population, is as dry as a bone.
South Carolina has the State dis
pensary system.
Indiana, a State in which ten years
ago much influence was exerted by
the distiIlers and brewers. is now try
ing TO keep the legislature from go
ing too far in enacting laws which
cannot be enforced, thus weakening
the whole temperance movement. In
that State the Moore law permits the
citizens of any geological division in
county, township, city or ward to
abolish saloons by petition signed
by a majority of it's citizens.
Maine is technically a prohibition
State, where the sale of intoxicants
is an outlaw business. The New York
Sunday laws are strict on the books.
but elastic in enforcement In Chi
cago, a city made up largely of for
eigners. the movement toward local
restriction of the liquor traffic is
very slow.
Ohio has progressed from a simple
precinct local option law to a regula-
tion which will permit the citizens of
any prescribed district in the city to
prohibit saloons within that territory.
the only requirements being that q
majority of the citizens sign petit
tion against them.
Nebraska has a law providing for
the examination of dipsomaniacs, in
ebriates and persons addicted to the
excessive use of morphine, cocaine
or other narcotic drugs; for the de
ten11i5n. care 2hd treatment of such
persons, and for their parole. -sa4
The only home for the wives of
drunkards ever established in the
United States, and possibly in the
world, is at Des Moines, Iowa This
was made possible by the will of the
late James Callahan, who left 500
900 for the purpose of building II.
In those communities where the
percentage Of foreign born population
is largest, there is the least effort
toward legal restriction of the liquor
traffic, which fact Is taken to indi-
cate that nrre : hlnddad Anoricnnc