The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-25

wpFHUee movement ana US StASdH nv
and abroad the Boston Herald says:
Throughout the civilized world Their
IS rising tide of temperance reform
It's coming was long ago prophesied b.
Students capable of reading ahead TIL
xyns Of the times. Now, however, tn
movement is plain to the most easua
observer Steadily, uuquestlonably, tn
tide is rising, gaining strength as tn
DAYS 20 on. And the end is not yet.
Whether the result will be the wipinE
cut of the manufacture and sale OF IN
8pxieants within generation or TWO, OF
abe traffic will continue with It's oDJec
4ionable features alone eliminated, is
matter on which prophets disagree. Ii
zspenas upon the viewpoint of the IN
Iividral. Just as does the support which
r. being given to different methods OF
gutnhating the evil which is generally
attributed to the sale Of intoxieants.
Europe at Last Awake.
The United States has for nearly a
century past had a steady increase IN
the proportion of its population OPP
posed to the use of liquor and the de-
crease in the relative quantity used has
been marked for years, but Europe has
md no such crusades' as this eoun-
try has seen, nor in general has there
heen until recently any marked action
lending to combat the liquor evil, Now,
however. all this is changed. Conti-
mental Europe, long the home OF ha-
hitual, unrestYained, daily use of IN
aoxicants, is beginning to awaken to
She need of reform and is preparing
TO meet the issue.
There is q growing tendency every
where to regard alcohol more and more
as dangerous and to restrict and cur
tail its use.
Foremost in this attitude to a con
stantiy increasing extent throughout all
civilized countries are the members of
the medical profession. Physicians no
Hanger generally regard alcohol as a
necessary stimuIant. They have other
things which they prefer to use and
do use to an ever widening extent.
More than that, many of the foremost
members of the profession, men of in
aernational fame, are arrayed in the
party which regards alcohol as DANGER
ems and unnecessary in medical prac-
siee.
Continental Europe, while it has its
total abstinence societies and others
pledging their members to be abstemi-
sas in the use of alcoholics, has no no.
4iceable prohibition movement. 1t may
never have. The problem may possibly
be there solved without recourse to the
nkb 20 IN rna
parts of Europe have no such wide
spread drunkenness nor such saloon
problem as that which confronts Amer
saa.
Sweden's now familiar Gothenburg
system, adopted by Norway also before
The two kingdoms separated, which has
been suggested by not few students
rs possible solution for the American
xaleon problem, has practically wiped
EUE the drunkenness once so prevalent
IN that country as to be termed ma
tional vice.
In France and Belgium, however,
where the use of absinthe had become
so general as to threaten the national
welfare, prompt measures were taken by
the government to stamp out both the
and sale of that insidious
and harmful poison.
Problem in United States.
10 the United States recent events of
include not only many rad
zeal victories at the polls for prohibit
lion, usually expressed through local OPP
zion methods, but as well of a growing
sentiment among those who ordinarily
do not take sides with political prohibit
Fionists that there is great problem
before the Nation which must be met
and met promptly.
There is among those last named an
increasing tendency to more and more
favor prohibition as a temporary expe-
dent until some method of combating
the evils of intemperanee is worked out
and applied
Within the last few years the map
of the United States has been mate
nally changed, particularly in the South
and West. State after State has swung
wholly or in large part into the dry and
Bnliquored column. Even Texas, which
by many would have been supposed a
mast Improbable field for prohibition
efforts, is today throughout the greater
3saGt of Its great area almost as dry as
sue proverbial basket of chips. The
- red iikker" once so popular for re-
moving alkali dust from parched threats
and as q cure for snake bites has been
ar large measure discarded by a ma
lority of Texans.
Two years ago, in an address deliver
ed in Boston in the interests of Tus-
Sagee Institute, Booker T. Washington
made shis prophecy, Within two years
I believe whisky will be out of every
ine at the Southern States except Loui-
nana and Texas. "
The forecast of the negro educator
Ras not been borne out in its entirety,
but today the greater portion of "the
Sofid South - has abolished the sale of
antuxieants. Georgia, Alabama, Missis,
sIppl, North Carolina and Tennessee
aaFe State wide prohibition. South
Carolina, under its local option law, is
half dry. In Texas I52 out of 243 coun.
ties are entirely dry and sixtv-six par.
tiaiiy so. In Virginia in seventv-one
out Of one hundred counties there is nc
license. West Virginia has thirtv-twC
out of ffty-five counties totally drv
while in twelve counties liquor may bt
bought in but one place and in fiv,
counties In but two places. Arkansa.
Aas no license in fftv.nine out of sew
enty-niHe counties. Of Florida s FORTY
SIX counties but nine permit the sale o
liquor. Even Kentucky, noted as
Fhisky producing State. has ninety
ave out of its 10 counties in the loca
prohibition column. save that a few
tftIes are excepted. and there are al
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