The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-07-23
rHE CRUSADE AGAINST DRINK
PROGRESS MADE BY CHAMPIONS
: FIGHTING THE RUM DEMON.
Spread OF Prohibition-Tcaders De-
clare That County Option Bills
VIII BE Adopted in Eleven States
iu tho Next Two ycarv

VIII BE Adopted in Eleven States
In the Next Two Years.
Seven States. nearly 900 counties,
almost 10000 towns and townships
and 1876 cities. with Il population of
500 to 100000 have adopted local
option or prohlbltory laws in sup
preston of the liquor traffic in the
United States.
There are eleven cities. each having
population OF more than $4,000,
that are dry, and nineteen whose pop
ulation is between 10000 and $4,000.
Many of the States have been swept
close to prohibitory laws BY the
spread of local option sentiment: one
half of Nebraska is without saloons:
of the 241 counties in Texas 1862 are
dry: twenty-nine OF the fifty-five
counties in West Virginia have shut
out the saloons: sixty-six OF the 100
counties of Virginia have adopted
local option: seyenty-five of the 11b
counties OF Missouri are in the bcal
option column. in Ohio three counties
and 1921 townships and small towns
have voted against liquor. while in
Minnesota 1911 townships and vii
lagos are dry.
Georgia s prohibition law went into
effect ON January l Of this year Ala
bama will 80 under constitutional
prohibition January / next; Mssis-
sippi will begin the enforcement of
it's prohibitory statute on the same
date; Kansas has been a prohibition
State since 1880; Maine since 1855;
North Dakota since 1899. and Okla
homa came into the Union withcdt
legalized saloons In 1907.
So persistent have the Massachu-
setts anti-saloon campaigners waged
their war that seventy-slx per cent.
of the territory. of the State is under
prohibitory law; seventy-fiye per
cent. of Minnesota is dry, while Ken
lucky, the home of moonshine whisky
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. counties and
cities of the Commonwealth.
Il is asserted by the officers of the
National Anti-Saloon League that in
two years eleven more States will en-
act constitutional prohibitory laws,
and that in thirteen others similar
statues will be debated in the Legisla-
lures, with every indication OF speedy
adoption.
With the same confidence it is de-
clared by the leaders in the temper
ance movement that county option
bills will 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 in
yasion OF the wet territory west of
the Mississippi will be made by the
local option revolution. Arizona,
California, Oregon, Colorado, Mon
tana. Idaho and Washington have
local option laws, and the only States
in the West completely under license
rule are New Mexico, Utah, Nevada
and Wyoming.
The battle has been delayed in the
latter territory, it is stated, because
of the comparatively small population
in that great section.
While the battle of the bottle has
been waged at the ballotbox and in
legislative halls, war has been con-
Quoted with equal vigor in the en-
forcement of the license laws IN many
of the large cities, so THAI Sunday
closing OF the saloons is in full force
/ in nearly all of the large cities of the
Union. The chief exceptions are New
York, Chicago, San Francisco and
i MILWAUKEE,. ee.-Philadelphia Ledger.