Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-26

Especial by Associated Prohibition Press.
Chicago, ILL.,. January. 19OS.--"Advices
now on file at national headquarters
from every section of the country indi-
cate that the Prohibition reform will
during 1908 surpass even the splendid
record of advance made during the
past twelvemonth.'' declares Chair,
man Charles r. Jones of the Prohibi-
ton national committee
Il see no sign Of reaction or of slack
ening interest or enthusiasm. so gra-
tuitously predicted by some critics.
he continued. ION the other hand, a
careful survey of the field must con-
vince the most Indifferent that all
achieved during 1907 is merely pre-
lude to the greater and more signifis
cant state and national Prohibition tri-
umphs which the people now seem de-
termined to win in the immediate fu-
ture
''The year 1907 has proved the most
remarkable year in the whole history
of the Prohibition movement.
'Tn fact. in some respects the reform
has made more apparent progress dur
Ing the twelvemonth just past than In
the half century preceding.
Public sentiment never was so thor
oughly enlisted on behalf of the cause,
the daily and secular weekly press was
never so friendly. with news and ed.
itorial columns constantly open to the
narration and discussion of it's nation
wide advance. and. most significant of
all. the business and labor worlds,
skepticai of the. practical results and
effects Of the antiliquor policy. have
come at last to recognize and actually
Endorse the force of the economic ar
gument so long preached to deaf ears
by every Prohibition agitator for more
than four decades
What is the cause of it all? Why
Is it that public attention il suddenly
focused upon this movement and thai
towns, cities. counties, states and even
the nation itself seem all at once ia
have become absorbed simultaneously
in this single issue, as if its instant
solution were. as it has indeed long
been asserted by our speakers. mat
ter of civic life and death to the PEG
pile and the republic?
There is but one logical explanation
The present hour is but the Towering
Of the Prohibition century plant drop
ped in American soil at Saratoga
Springs. N. Y, hundred years ago by
a little band Of temperance pioneers
led by Hon. Billy ]. Clark of New
York and faithfully cared for and nur
tured by ten decades of persistent and
interchangeable patriots from Ly
man Beecher and Neal Dow down tc
Frances Willard and the present gen
Grafton of thinking speaking and in
dependent voting organized Prohibi
tionists.
The Year 1903 Eagerly Awaited by
Prohibitionists of Nation.
t'This is one reason why the Prohi
bitionists of the United States are now
planning for next year the most nota
BILE national and world congress in the
history of the reform to be held at Sar
atoga Springs during the month o!
June Of the coming summer.
I'm addition to that. the Prohibition
party. now everywhere in fine fettle
believes that the Prohibition issue vii
become the dominant issue in the pres
idential contest of 1908 and that every
party in the field will be forced by
public sentiment to recognize it in
some way or suffer loss Of prestige
votes and influence
The Ground Of the Prol,ibitionists' Hope
"Just glance at the facts which
prompt this roseate prediction OF the
Prohibitionists.
Twice az Many People Now In prohi.
bition States as Ever In Nations
History.
"Take the list of states where com
plete state prohibition laws are now on
the statute books. Some misinformed
opponents frequently attempt to dis
count recent Prohibition progress by
asserting that there were more Prohi
'bition states and more people living in