The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-04-24
Discussing tire Liquor Question

crease applies to liquor dealers only,
and one paper Of Atlanta will not
take their advertisements at any
price.
Money Sent Away.
fhe opponents of the law are max
ing a strong fight and argument out
of the amount of money that is sent
out of the city.
It is asserted that the sum OF
$4,000 was sent to Chattanooga
last month from Atlanta alone in pay
ment for liquors, and that not less
than S25O,0O0 has been expended
there since the list of January This
may be an exaggeration, but there
is no question that the express trade
is very large and is likely to continue
indefinitely. The prohibitionists ar
que that congress owes 1t to Georgia
to Kansas and to other prohibition
states to prevent this interstate jug
trade" by forbidding the shipment OF
LIQUORS into territory where the traffic
is forbidden by law. They are very
much in earnest about this matter,
and that accounts for the activity OF
senator's and representatives in con-
gress from this district.
The agitation is not without its
humor. The funny men of the news
papers are directing their jokes at
! prohibition, the comic papers are NIL
ed with cartoons, and some of them
are very good. For example, here is
little poem that worth reprinting:
Lay the jest about the julep in the
camphor balls at last,
! For the miracle has happened and the
olden days are past;
That which made Wilwauke famous
doesn't foam in Tennessee,
And the lid in Alabama is as tight
locked as can be;
And the comic paper colonel and his
| cronies we'll may sigh,
For the mint is waving gaily and the
south is going dry.
BY the stillside on the hillside in
Kentucky all is still,
And the only damp refreshments
must be dipped up from the rill
North Car'lina's stately governor
gives his soda glass shove
|
South Carolina gov.
It is useless at the fountain to be
! winkful of the eye,
For the cocktail glass is dusty, ant
the south is going dry.
It is water, water, everywhere, ant
not drop to drink;
We no longer hear the music OF th'
mellow crystal clink
When the colonel and the general ar(
the major and the iedge
, Meet to have little nip to give thu
f. appetite an edge;
For the eggnog it is nogless and tn
a rye has gone awry,
The Dunch bowl holds carnations
and the south is going Cry
: When the prohibition law wen
G into effect several of the wholesal
q dealers in Atlanta removed to Chat
G tapooga, where they are now WORK
v ing overtime to fill orders from thel
a former customers here. One OF Tn
" express companies hired a vacar
q store. formerly used as saloo1
a where it handles it's jug trade e'
a clusively and it is asserted that Their
is a method called "the lightnin
Chattanooga express by which an
a person can obtain liquor by applici
ton. Several enterprising citizens l
Atlanta order liquors shipped to
fictitious person without any addres
e and the packages are left in the e!
IS press Office until called for. Nothin
re in the law prohibits the express con
D. papy from retaining them indefinite
% iy. and the persons interested In TT
At shipment can open the package an
t. take out bottle whenever they Xix
b. Atlanta More Orderly.
t. There are other ways by which
IN white man can obtain liquor, but II
n the negro it is very difficult, al
s. everybody agrees that the city OF A
IN lanta has been much more order
n since the law was passed. !.
tie Col. Waxelbaum, a prominent CT
ne zen of Macon, who has always De'
in opposed to prohibition, admits tn
r. If has been a success in that city fro
RS every point of view. He declares tn
r. the merchants are now very genera
ue Nv reversing their opinions and won
wv vote almost as solidly against
wv neal of the law as they did in oppo
* ton to its enactment, because the "
in men of the wage-earning portion
he the population now have more mon
he 70 trade with, which their husban
use formerly spent at the saloons. I
IN chain gang at Macon, he says \
no been abolished by prohibition, a
there is very little use for the pol
lbt force.
,rs In Atlanta the police records sh
ga. THAT les sthan one-third as many cal
I'll, of arrests for drunkenness have DC
ci- reported since the prohibition
ar went into effect as during the corr
an bonding months Of the previous we
ne, Judge Bloodworth of the local pol
it'll court says that there has been
ess crease of SO per cent In the num-
INV of arrests for criminal offenses &
silly may be charged to the use OF liqu
81 attribute this almost soieiy
prohibition" said Judge Bloodwol
at because since the first OF Janu
10 there has been no falling off In OF
Try, offenses which are not affected by
and use of liquor"
an Other Good Results.