The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-01-09

] South Carolina recently repealed its
famous dispensary law and substituted
local option by counties. A movement
for state prohibition has just started.
and II out of Al counties have voted
for no saloons. A large percentage of
North Carolina has no saloons and the
the prohibition campaign is active.
Virginia has ~ dry counties out of
11S. West Virginia has 80 out of SIS.
and Gov. Dawson is actively fighting
the liquor traffic.
Fourteen of Maryland's % counties
are dry; in Delaware the election last
month resulted in about half the towns
going dry.
Louisiana has is dry parishes and
parts of others are also dry. and it is
Illegal to solicit orders for liquor in
any of the dry districts.
Arkansas has 60 out of 10 counties
dry and many dry towns in the others.
Missouri's localoption law has made
Sunday closing even in st. Louis is
vigorously enforced.
Texas is one of the most notable
examples of the revolution. for r47
counties are absolutely dry, So are
partly dry and only AZ are totally wet
The sale of liquor on dining cars is for
! hidden, and traveller on a train may
not even drink from his own flask
Oklahoma has just adopted con-
stitution that forbids the sale of liquor.
Kansas is prohibition state. and
the last of the "speak-easy" saloons
has Just been suppressed by popular
opinion.
Nebraska has local option by vii.
lagos and cities; 400 are dry, 600 wet.
South Dakota is about one-quarter dry.
North Dakota has been a prohibition
state so long that in some of the
counties there no jails.
Minnesota has 1913 dry towns and
rigid Sunday closing.
Iowa, once a prohibition state, has
Go out of SO counties dry and il other
counties have only one saloon each.
Wisconsin has $50 dry towns. Mich.
/ !gsn, under a county option law. has
only one dry county.
A prohibition wave is rolling through
,
while six allow saloons in only few
precincts.
Six hundred and eighty of Indiana's
1,OJ6 townships are dry, and the tenn
perance people expect to increase the
license fee to $1,000.
In Ohio LAO out of 1876 townships
are dry and 60 per cent. of the muni-
cipalities.
Pennsylvania seems little affected
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 "a towns in Vermont allow
liquor to be sold. New Hampshire is
nominally prohibition state, but only
62 per cent. of the population lives in
really dry territory. Massachusetts
! has $50 dry and 100 wet towns. Con.
necticut has So 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 Arl
IONA the Anti-Saloon league has
started campaign that has already
resulted In the passage of local option
Law in the aforementioned state. In
Montana. Idaho. Wyoming and Utah
although the saloons run about as they
like. they are beginning to realize that
sentiment is changing. The Mormon
church is fighting them, and the tenn
pe-ance people have already per
suaded Idaho to adopt Sunday
closing law.
On the Pacific slope California has
four dry counties and much dry terri
tory in the others, while in Oregon Il
counties are dry and ITO municipali
ties in the 81 wet counties are also
dry. Washington has only SO dry
towns.