Evening journal., 1909-03-11

Bill defining "a substantial freeholder'
requiring him to be possessed OF $1,000
worth of unincumbered real property
fifth. Bill placing prohibitive tax on
distillers, especially in rural districts;
sixth. Search and Seizure bill; an act
making possible the discovery and pun
ishment Of speak-easy proprietors; sew
enth, An anti shipping law, which pro-
hibits shipment Of liquors for bever-
age purposes from Wilmington, New
Castle county, into Kent and Sussex
county; eighth, An anti-advertising |
law, making unlawful the advertising |
Of liquors for sale in newspapers in /
dry territory; ninth, An army post bill, /
which makes it unlawful to locate
saloons within a radius of two miles |
OF any United States Army post in
Delaware. These bills are all meritor-
ious and ought to pass.
The bill asking for resubmission for
rural New Castle county passed both
Houses of the Legislature, and having !
been signed by the Governor, is now
a law. This bill provides for a vote
to be taken in November 1910. Some
of the other bills have been reported
favorably. but have not come to
final vote. The army post bill has
been heartily recommended by Presi-
dent Taft. Hon. Luke Wright, Secre-
tary OF War; General ]. f. Bell, Chief
Of Staff, u. S. A., and Colonel John r.
Williams, commander at Fort DUPONT.
The different societies at this meeting
should have one of their members pre-
sent a petition and have every MEM
Der sign It, which should be sent to the
Senator and Representative in the
Legislature at Dover, asking them 10
support and work for the temperance
bills now before the Legislature; also
those societies that have no temper
ance committees should appoint such a
committee to take up the temperance
work in that society, by having the
different members sign the temperance
pledge and in other ways create de-
sire among your members to work for
the abolishment of the saloon in VIII
mington.
AS the result of Statewide prohibit
tion in Tennessee it is announced that
about half the saloonkeepers and mail
order liquor proprietors of Chattanooga
say that they are going later into
other lines of business. TfPse who
came down from points further north
will. for the most part, return. ma
jority of them going back to Louisville
and Cincinnati. Others will scatter
off to ST. Louis and Chicago. So what
is Tennessee's gain will be some other
places loss.
Idaho has just passed a good local
option law and a very stringent meas
ure of the same character has passed
the lower House of the Washington
. Legislature; prohibition amendment
has gone through one House Of the
rI~Ia
/ ty local option law through the other
House; Tennessee has extended the
four mile law to all sections OF the
State and as an extra precaution has
: prohibited both the sale and manu-
facture OF intoxicating liquors; North
Dakota has defeated clever attempt
on the part of the liquor forces to get
a re-submission of the prohibition
question, and Kansas has gone her sis
ter States one better and prohibited
the sale of liquor by drug stores for
J any purpose whatsoever.
The enactment of prohibition in Ten
nessee has greatly aroused the temp
: erance people Of Kentucky and great
pressure is being brought upon Gov
, ernor Wilson to call an extra session
! of the Legislature to consider the Same
matter. Petitions for prohibition,
signed by voters from nearly every
. county in the State have been present
J ed to him within the last ten days
; The Governor is consulting the State
a officials and an extra session is pos.
= sible.
The introduction OF Statewide
q prohibition hill in the Legislature oi
r Utah a few days since backed by ths
/ entire church element of the State and
D being almost sure Of passage furnishes
( another hopeful outlook for the brew.
D ers. while in Texas, South Carolins
r and Virginia, the Anti-Saloon League
3 is waging a very hopeful fight fol
= absolute prohibition.
!, In Columbus, Ohio, the annual out.
= put of the Hoster breweries was over
= $4,000 barrels less than last year, which
{ they attribute to the amount of dryness
= in Ohio and adjacent territory. Reckon.
}. ing the deterioration of property, loss
: of dividends. etc, not recouped by
3 profits. they have marked of a loss fol
I the year of s273,00O Naturally they are
= not jubilant.
S We must fight a little cut at a time
q do the work by lighting county by
county, State by State. until we whir
the whole thing out Of our land Does
/, the liquor traffic clamor for justice
, 1t had better take care how it utters
that prayer. lest God should answer
: it, What does the law of God say
is justice for the OK that gored. and
for the owner who knowingly kept it,
Then justice let it bel Justice for
broken hearts. for desolated homes. for
commercial disaster. for the manufac-
ture of paupers. lunatics, incapables
and criminals. Justice for myriads Of
little children perishing in hunger and
squalor, and reared in filth, disease
and moral corruption. to be the scourge
of society. Does the liquor traffic
claim its due compensation What Is
. it? The curse of the righteous God
! whose uttermost wrath rests upon all
! systems that make traffic of the man
/ hood which is sc precious in His sigh;
that He has redeemed 1t with the blood
of His own Son.
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