Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-08-21
HOME OF OLD BOURBON is ALL
BUT CONQUERED.
BUT FOUR "WET' COUNTIES
Prohibition Forces Give Notice That
They VIII Push the Fight-oues,
ton Is in Politics and interest
Manifested EVery'Shere-Two Dry
Precincts in Louisville.

appropriate today in eighty-seven oil
the 119 counties of Kentucky
! Strange as it may eeem to public
educated in its notions of the Blue
Grass state by the jest IS of the comic
press. Kentucky, the hame of fine
whiskey, is in imminent danger OF
becoming a prohibition state
AT the present time, despite her
253 distilleries, turning out thousands
of barrels of the fluid to fill the cup
that cheers" Kentucky has but four
counties sufficiently irrigated to be
| classed as really wet counties Pro-
hibition leaders say that Appellate
Court decisions in pending cases win
make entirely dry" the four of The
counties now classed as partially
wet"
Wet Spot in Bourbon County.
Even in the thirty-two where liquor
| Is sold it is in most cases in but one
or two precincts. Anomalous though
| it may seem, Bourbon, the county
from which one variety of whiskey
takes its name, has but one place
Paris-within its limits where wbis-
key may be purchased.
The four counties which are largely
wet" are Jefferson, Kenton, Camp
bell and Meads. All, with the excep-
ton of Meade, are still wet because
they contain large cities. Jefferson
. mas Louisville, Kenton has Covingtou
and Campbell has Newport. The LAT.
ter two are directly across from Gin.
cinnat, it'll its German beer-drinkius
population, and possibly, it sets the
| example.
! While the anti-saloon forces have
been making steady fight for over
thirty years, it is within recent years
only that rapid progress has been
made. The passage of the county INIT
law by the legislature last winter put
the most formidable weapon in their
hands. With this they have been able
70 carry county after county. Their
efforts have to this time been confined
70 counties having no large cities he.
cause OF compromise amendment Of
Oh the law excepting from its provl.
sions all counties containing cities Of
the first. second and third classes
Prepare to Press the Fiuht.
The Prohibition leaders already
{ nave given notice that at the next SEES.
sion CT the legislature, next winter
I they will seek the amendment of tna
/ law s. as to cover all counties. They
VIII then invade some of the counties
containing larger cities, among them
fayette, in which is Lexington.
/ Though they have given this oitv
l ilttie attention, the Prohibitionists cali
( attention to the fact that there are
even two dry" precincts in Louis
, vile itself
| The sweeping change which has
come over Kentucky on the liquor
question first came home to most of
the people during the recent Demo.
cratic senatorial primary. Both
Beckham and McGreary made their
nights on the prohibition platform
The move was a shrewd one, it proved.
Tor the vote of the country districts
| IN the state is overwhelming com.
pared with the city vote, which might
be expected to be against prohibition.
The campaign was a novelty for
kentucky. where, according to tradi.
tloh' candidates in the olden davs
were in the habit of knocking in the
heads of barrels of whiskey and allow.
ing voters to help themselves with
tin cups
! "nere Does the Product Go?
! With eighty-seven of the 119 couu-
ties in the state dry and 253 dfstil.
leries turning out their endless stream
OF whiskey, the question naturally oc.
ours where all this product is going.
Kentucky is rapidly putting herself in
queer position. She is sor.iddine
her sons to drink that which she is
manufacturing for the rest of the
world
A feature of recent option elections
has been the victory for the anti-sa-
, loon forces in many of the southeast.
/ ern Kentucky mountain counties.
What the effect Of this will be on
"moonshining" is an interesting ques.
: ton over which government revenue
I officials are now bordering. The H.
uqor men argue that it merely means
increased Shilling" by the mountain
GERS on the sly.
Liquor is hard to @acuiv In the coun-
, ties which have gone dr." A state
law forbidding siippirx 1t into dry
localities, and also prohibits any per
son carrying more than gallon OF
the product for any other person.
/ Blind tigers" are run, of course, bur
( the class who frequent them keep
away even semi-respectaOle topers.
The option elections have resulted
in some queer things in tn state. At
Winchester and Mount Sterling halt
sAe town Is wet" and half dry"
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