The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-05-27

. uHloH WIN Stdto Nlut pNHlUllou bu
January next year. If North Car.
olina voters demanded the abolition
of the saloons in the special election
which was held in that state Tues
day. That the Tar Heels voted for a
dry state is the general belief OF
those interested.
The war between the friends and
opponents of the rum demon" in
North Carolina has been the most
spectacular in the history of the tenn
perancc movement, despite the fact
shat from the first the 'drys' were
sure of victory.
Governor Glenn, who came INTO
prominence as the defender OF states
rights in the regulation of railroads.
has been doing yeoman's service for
the prohibition cause. United STATS
Judge Peter c. PrItchard who was
Glcnn's opponent in the railroad fight.
has been fighting shoulder to shoul-
der with the governor. Practically all
of the dozen North Carolina con-
gressmen have taken part in the bat.
tle, arraycd under the milk wh~e
banner OF temperance. II has been a
great fight, although the enemy was
defeated from the start, and fought
with the desperation of the man who
is down and all but counted out.
North Carolina will join the ranks
Of prohibition states on January /.
1903, as will Mississippi and Alabama.
Maine began the prohibition move
ment in 1855, Kansas followed suit in
1850, and North Dakota got in line
in 1859. Oklahoma came into the
union as a prohibition state last
year and Georgia's prohibition law
went into effect on January ! of
this year
In addition to the eight totally
dry states, present and prospective
there are in other commonwealths
nearly 1900 counties, almost 10000
towns and townships and 1886 CITIES.
with populations ranging up TO l5O.-
600, which have been made dry"
by local option elections.
There are eleven cities. each hav-
Ing a population OF more than 5O.-
600, that are dry" and nineteen
whose population is between 10000
and 10000. Many of the states have
been swept close TO prohibitory laws
by the spread of local option senti-
ment; ono.half of Nebraska is with.
out saloons; of the 2i1 counties in
Texas 1872 are "dry". 30 of the 80
counties in West Virginia have shut
out the saloons; G6 of the 100 coun-
ties Of Virginia have adopted local
option; a of the 115 counties of Mis-
souri, are in the local option column;
in Ohio three counties and 1921
townships and small towns have vot.
ed against liquor, while in Minnesota
l,Gll townships and villages are dry.
As result of recent local option
elections in Illinois a large oprtion
of the state, outside the large cit
les, is in dry" territory.
So persistent have the Massachu-
setts anti-saloon campaiguers waged
their war that 76 per cent of the
territory of the state is under pro-
hibitory law; Is per cent of Min
nesota is 'dry,' while Kentucky ts~
home of moonshine whiskey since
the Revolution, now has but four
counties wholly wet Even the
Mormons have caught the fever and
it is confidently asserted that Utah
will before long swing in with the
local option column.
Pennsylvania and New Jersey are
admitted to be the hardest nuts to
crack in the matter of getting laws
that will permit the voters to say
whether or not they wish to keep
the saloon in the townships, coun-
ties and cities of the commonw ,alth.
II is asserted by the officers of the
National Anti-Saloon League that in
two years eleven more states will
enact constitution prohibltory laws.
statutes will be declared in the legis-
latures, with every indication Of
speedy adoption.
With the same confidence it Is
declared by the leaders of the tenn
perance movement that county option
bills viii be adopted in eleven states
in the next two years, and that not
only will Pennsylvania and New Jer.
sey be well speckled with dry" terri
tory by that time but that great
Invasion OF the wet territory west
of the Mississippi will be made by
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