Middletown transcript., 1909-03-20

dry COUNTIES. apW Ghere are 2l dry cohn-
ties. In shree.lourshs Of the states area,
the retail liquor traffic is prohibited.
II Colorado ont of the tWenty-ssven
municipalities yotipa under tIle local
oplfan law twenty voted pgaipat the sa-
loon. Wlsile al The election Of November
81, 1908. The saloons we're closed in
twsns two additional municipalities,
making total ot foFty-two municipalities
ii tie state that have no-saloon.
During the year California has added
two connsies and large number oi VII.
lagea to tI,s dry column. There are nov
six dry counties and $50 dry cities and
towns In California.
State prohibition law for Alabama went
into operation January 1st. 1909
Louisialba has more than 80, 900 square
miles Of ptohibition territory, six parishes
(conntiesA we're added to the anti-saloon
during l9b8.
LII Virginia over 400 drinking places
we're abolished during the past year, and
at the present time Of the 100 counties
that are 10 the State II counties are with.
ont iicensp.
There are over 45O no-license munich
palities lin Nebraska, 81 Of the counties
are entirely dry, 10 counties have but one
vet town each, and 5couuties have but
two vet towns each, while Az Of the ninety
county seats in the state grant no license.
Progress has been made III the anti
Saloon fight in Missouri, fifty counties
grant no license, while 27 others have
voted dry under. the county law, which
exempts cities Of $500 or more from the
laws operation.
Tie result Of the fight in Rhode Island
has closed 429 saloons doring the year
1908. The Legislature which met 10 early
Summer passed law limiting the nnm-
Der OF licenses to ! to every 500 inhabi-
tanfs.
Conditions insyermont are only slightly
better than year ago, out Of the total
number of 246 towns PIC are dry.
The conditions in New Hampshire re-
main about the same as year ago, there
are 5 dry cities aud 43 dry towns.
New Jersey has made very little ad-
vance along the line, has about so towns
dry.
New York stands about the same as q
year ago, Of the 9l5 townships Sl5 are dry.
The members Of the Legislature in Ten
nessee voted for statewide prohibition;
and while the Governor opposed pro-
hibition law, the majority Of the LegisIa-
ture passed the Law over the Governors
veto.
The latest reports from Utah state that
The passage of local option law in that
state may be expected at any time.
In Delaware the dry territory has not
made much advance, two saloons in rural
New Castle county have been closed dur
ing she year, and law passed BY the
Legislature resubmittinR the license ques-
tion to the voters in 1910.
Like few other states Mississippi has
made but little headway recently aud yet
after all they have 90 counties dry out Of
q total of Is counties.
To this list may be added:
North Carolina out Of a total Of 9S coun-
ties 6S are dry,
And while q small, portion Of Pennsyl'
yania is closed to the saloon business, and
called dry, there are some portions very
wet, take for example the County Of
Schuylkill In New Philadelphia, bOF-
ough in this county, the rate Of saloons is
one to every voters. Shenandoah in
the same county, has saloon for every
Is voters, claiming them to be necessary
for the travelling public, when the facts
are that after the accommodations Of the
family they have not room to entertain
40 additional bedbug.
Il might he we'll to add right lIere that
large per cent. OF the results brought
about in Indiana was due to remonstrance,
5O6 townships containing population Of
l 1,I25, 900 was added to the dry column by
this plan.
As fitting climax to the efforts OF the
local option crusade in the different states,
an act known as the Interstate Shipment
Amendment to tile Pnal Code was in
troduced and passed last week in the
House Of Representatives at Washington,
and 10 now up before the Senate. This
bill bars the shipment Of liquor into dry
territory.