Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-01-03

Ing q campaign for state prohibition.
South Carolina recently repealed Its
famous diSpcnsary law and substituted
local option by counties. a movement
for state prohibition has Just started.
and IL out of II counties have voted
for no saloons. a large percentage OF
North Carolina has no saloons and tho
the prohibition campaign Is active.
Virginia has :: dry counties out OF
us. West Virginia has 30 out Of 65.
and Gov. Dawson Is actively nghtln.
the liquor traiiic.
Fourteen Of Mnryiand'H 81 counties
are dry: In Delaware III. election last
month resulted In about half the towns
Eoin. dry.
Louisiana has rs dry parishes and
parts OF others are also dry. and II ID
Illegal To solicit orders for liquor In
any of the dry districts.
Arkansas has 60 out OF - counties
dry and many dry towns In tho others.
Missouri's locai.option law has made
~ Of her li5 counties abolish saloons.
Sunday closing even In st. Louis is
vigorously enforced.
Texas IL one OF the most notable
examples of the revolution. for NJ
counties are absolutely dry. 81 are
partly dry and only ~ nrc totally wet.
The sale Of liquor ON dining ears Is for
hidden. and n traveller on u train may
not even drink from his own flask.
Oklahoma has Just adopted a con.
siitution that forbidH the sale OF liquor.
Kansas ~ n prohibition state. and
tho last OF the "spcak.casy'' saloons
has Just been suppressed by popular
opinion.
Nebraska has local option by VII.
lagcu and cities: 100 are dry. 600 wet
South Dakota Is about onc.uuartcr dry.
North Dakota has been n prohibition
state 80 long that In somc Of the
counties there no jniis.
Minnesota has Ia3 dry towns and
rigid Sunday closing.
Iowa. once n prohibition state. has
65 out OF 90 counties dry and II other
counties have only one saloon each.
Wisconsin has $50 dry towns. Mich.
igEn. under n county option Law. has
only one dry county.
A prohibition wave IN rolling through
Illinois; eight counticS are totally dry.
while six allow saloons In only q few
precincts.
Six hundred and eighty of fndiana's
l.OJ6 townships are dry. and the tenn
perance people expect to increase tho
license fee to $1,000.
In Ohio LAO out of .3I6 townships
are dry and 60 per cent. of the mum.
cipaiitics.
Pennsylvania seems little affected
by the temperance wave. but there is
one dry county.
New Jersey has no local option. but
has recently begun vigorous closing
OF saloons on Sundays.
New York has township option, un-
der which Coz towns in the state have
no saloons.
Only 81 towns In Vermont allow
liquor to be sold. New Hampshire is
prohibition state. but only
62 per cent. of the population lives In
really dry territory. Massachusetts
has $50 dry and 100 wet towns. Con.
nccticut has 90 dry towns out OF 176.
and every saloon must be run by its
actual owner. About half Rhode Isl.
and is dry.
In Colorado. New Mexico and Ari-
zona the Anti.Saloon league has
started n campaign that has already
resulted in the passage OF n local option
Law In the frst.mentioned state. In
Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Utah.
the saloons run about US they
like. they are beginning to realize that
sentiment is changing. The Mormon
church is fighting them. and the ten.
pe-ance people have already per.
suaded Idaho to adopt n Sunday
law.
On the Pacific slope California has
four dry counties and much dry terri
tory in the others. while in Oregon 12
are dry and 40 municipali.
ties in the 81 wet counties are also
dry. Washington has only 30 dry
towns.