Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-11
For Sunday Reading
AN Sorts of Opinions
Prohibitions Failures.

| as an argument against prohibition the
record of states where prohibition has
| been adopted and afterWard repealed,
| declared unconstitutional, or annulled
in some other way, the argument being
| that most of the states that have tried
| il have found it a failure. Some twenty
states. it appears, have adopted pro-
| hibitory laws, of which only SIX nave
| kept tie pledge" Fourteen adopted
prohibition in the decade between 1876
and 1855, and of this group Maine IS
the only survivor. The other six have
gone dry since 1880. with only one
backslider-South Dakota. The record
appears concisely in the following ta-
BILE:
Mane--Adopted prohibition in 1916;
repealed in 1856; enacted prohibi-
ton in 1858.
New Hampshire-Adopted in 1855;
repealed in 1908.
Vermont--Adopted in 1850; re-
pealed i'll 1908.
achusetts--Adopted in 1852; re-
pealed in 1858; readopted in 1863; re-
pealed III 1875.
Rhode Handicapped in 1852: re-
pealed in 1853; readopted in 1886; re-
pealed in 1889.
nnecticut-Adopted in 1854; re-
pealed in 1872
New York-Adopted in 1855; de-
clared unconstitutional.
Ohio-Adopted in 1851; annulled by
a licensetax law.
Indiana-Adopted in 1855; declared
unconstitutional
Michigan - Adopted in 1855; re-
pealed in 1875.
Illinoisl-Adopted in 1851; repealed In
1853.
Observation-Disclosures in 1855; vetoed
by governor.
Iowa-Adopted partial prohibition in
1855: full prohibition in 1884; mulct
law in 1898.
Observation-Disclosures in 1855: repealed
in 1858
amendment in 1880.
North Dakota-Constitutio pro-
vision in 1890: repealed in 1895.
South Observation-Disclosures pro-
vision in 1890.
Georgia-Adopted prohibition in 1907.
Oklahoma-Adopted prohibition in
1907.
Alabama-Adopted prohibition in
1908
The Associated Prohibition Press
quotes in refutation of this indictment
of its cause an address by Rev Dr. e.
l.. Eaton, of Evanston, H.. Upon the
surface" DR.. Eaton admits, "it looks
as if the prohibition policy, having
been fully tried, was abandoned be-
cause it was found to be of no good"
Upon a closer examination. however,
he declares. it is plain that these
laws did not have fair trial. In
the first place, fifty years ago. "sen-
timent was not as we'll informed and
crystallixed as it is today" He says:
"a jug of whisky, a key of beer and
a loaf of bread at that time enjoyed
practically the same favor everywhere.
Nearly everybody supposed that alco-
medicine, and very many people re-
garded 1T as necessary for some or
all OF these purposes. But a great
change has come about. The last half
century has seen the most wonderful
advance in the knowledge Of the true
| nature of alcohol and of scientific tenn
perance which the world has ever wit.
messed; and the temperance reform
stands today upon quite another foot
ing than it did then.
Truly wonderful change has trans
PRED during these fifty years touching
the nature Of alcohol. The person
who now advocates the use Of al
cohol as a food stimulant. or a
medicine is at once and very properly
set down as an ignoramus on that
| subject. The future of prohibition GER
tainly looks brighter in a country
where scientific temperance is taught
| in the public schools of every state
! than it's past looked in a country where
| more than half Of the people had been
taught to believe that alcohol was a
food, a .stimulant, medicine, was used
my ministers and church members and
believed to be commended in the Word
of God.''