Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-04-26

was divided as much as the town his dry enemies would shadow him, looking in his windows at night his wife was OStraciZed and his children were insulted al school. He said h9 tried to be jolly and spoke pleasantly to the neighbors. and every time he made an advance to any citizen it was thought that he was drunk. It seems to him that his dry neighbors wanted to quarrel and fight with him, and he wouldn't have it. so he pulled up and moved out. and the people who saw him off on the train acted as though disappointed because they had not thought to give him a coat of tar ana feathers. This man says there will be a great exodus from "dry and "night-ridden communities, and he cannot see who will take the places of those who will go away from home to enjoy a quiet life. It is certain that in many dry localities, here liquor is freely shipped from other states. and there is more drunkenness than in cities where it is easy to get liquor without violating the law. change is coming. Already many eXcitable and revengeful drys are beginning to say that they don't know but they would letting beer in, because, as they re- ,1,1,, I,,,1Y, on beer unless you go about it with that purpose in view, and drink all that is in sight. Within a year a man who travels over this state, tells me he would not be surprised to see plenty of dry counties and towns loosen up and let the amber beverage have show for it's money.
 met member of the legislature. a dry man for sure. and he pitied me when he knew l was from Milwaukee, as he had heard people bathed in beer outside and in. and he asked me if we didn't have trouble finding enough sober men to transact the business of the city. thought he was joking and told him We kept a certain num- Der of men in jail and let regular detail of sober men out every morn ing to transact business, and he said, i''I should think you would have to, and I found that he was dead earn est and sorry for us, told him We had thousand or more saloons open night and day the year round, and we had a less percentage of drunkenness than any dry community in the United States. He looked queer at me and e3t up to go, said he was glad to havte ;meI me- and | saw him whispering to }thc hotel clerk. and after he had gone lthe hotel clerk told me he did not want to help along any TOW, but that legis atCr told him the bald-headed man from Milwaukee. was probably the biggest liar on the face of Gods green earth. There you are. and now I am going down to Chattanooga, Tenn, where everybody in dry old Tennessee is getting rich sending llGuDr 10 uedf Olu deOISld. WHICH IS so dry that it can only get liquor through mail order house in an ad- joining state. As I look things over iiere and listen to the reports of trou be everywhere in the state, from the mountains where feuds grow and the graveyards yawn. and the moonshine distiller has his ready Winchester on the hair trigger. to the homes of the victims of Night Riders. where smoke fills the air. to the dry countries where the only drink lawful to get is a pat ent medicine for the liver, or the lungs or the stomach or the blood or the rheumatism, all of which will make the pateut as drunk as though he drank vanilla extract or alcohol, l think of the inspiring words that the girl at the ribbon counter of a depart ment store said to her chum, "Ain't il awful, Mabel?'