Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-04-11
Mrs. Phelps-Whitncy,
Press Supt.

Richmond, KY, which had a
dozen saloons went dry on March
IL, by 14s majority.
Bristol, Tenn, voted the saloons
out on March 9Th. There were
thirty saloons in the town. Only
IL wet votes were cast.
Knoxville, Tenn, took a vote on
the liquor question February 18th,
with the result of 1921 majority
for local option. The saloons have
six months time in which to close.
The following facts clipped from
one OF the big Chicago dailies, are
so encouraging that we gladly give
battle has been long and hard, but
victory is coming.
Thirty million people in America,
or more than onc-third of the ma
TONS population, are living under
a prohibition law, says the annual
report of the Associated Prohibition
Press, news service furnishing
news relative to the prohibition
movement, which has its head
quarters in Chicago. The report,
which is a resume of the results
accomplished by the various forces
working for prohibition, states that
the prohibitory area in foreign
countries has been greatly in
creased during the year.
In the United States the territory
gained by the prohibitionists is
large. In Tennessee 1885 out of
I, 848 towns have shut out saloons
under the local option law, and
1892, 1877 people out of total pop
ulation of 2,o2o, GIG live under pro-
hibition.
In Arkansas the advance of pro-
hibition has been equally marked,
for elcven-twelfths of the territory
and two-thirds of the population
have prohibition. The aggregate
vote on the liquor question in that
state changed from license ma
jority of 81, 35s in 1894 to a pro-
hibition majority of 5,618 in
1906
In Georgia, 1913 out of 1877 coun-
ties in the state have prohibition.
indiana is reported as having $40
townships and 40 cities without
saloons and Ohio has 1900 dry"
townships. Vermont and New
Hampshire, which repealed their
prohibitory laws, are said to be re-
turning to the fold, Vermont hav-
ing but IS licensed towns out of a
&c IN,
shire the increase for prohibition
during 1906 is given as 175 per
cent.
Minneapolis is given as an ex-
ample of a large city which has en-
forced Sunday closing with good et-
fects. Mayor Jones is quoted as
saying that Sunday arrests since
the law had been enforced were
Is per cent less than under the
"wide opcn'' policy. He estimated
that Sunday closing was saving the
people of Minneapolis $1,000, 00(
annually.
With reference to Chicago, the
report sets forth that the agitation
here ''bids fair to soon end the wide
\ open Sunday policy which has con
tinued uninterruptedly for three
decades. - The experience of Sar
Francisco Immediately after the
fire is given as an example of the
beneficent influence Of prohibition
applied seven days in the week.
1t is also pointed out that frater
nal orders, especially those main
taing life insurance for members
have taken q decided stand agains
liquor. During the year the Odt
, Fellows of New York, Masonic fra
tcrnity of Kentucky, and the ns
, tional conclavc of the Knights o
, Pythias adopted ironclad regulation
barring from their ranks drunken
or men connected with the 1iquo
, business.
, The stand of the labor unions in
( Dictated by a warning against intox
icants contained in pamphlet is
t sued by Samuel Gompers, is an
: other matter commented on.