The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-11-29

ANOrh4S&14& SOV
it is hoped will absolutely shut aquor
out of the state. Band Enusic was p1ac-
ed around each of the four voting
booths in Birmingham early today to
drown out the prayers and singing
and pleading of the women and child
rem, who gathered in an effort to in
fiuence the voters for prohibition.
The excitement Is intense and busi-
ness has practically suspended in
Birmin g ham,
Montgomery, Ala, Nov 2s.-After
a campaign in which hundreds of
! thousands of dollars have been spent,
and thousands of speakers have ad-
| dressed vast audiences, Alabama is to-
day in the tlroes of an election in
which constitutional prohibition is
the issue. Scenes of excitemen. are
reported all over the State. Women
and children are taking part in dem
| onstratlons and parades designed to
influence the voters to accep. the con-
stitu,ional amendment which will
make prohibition part of the or
ganic law of the state. The anti
amendment followers are also waging
a aard fight and have spent large
sums and employed more than a thou
sand public speakers.
Under the statewide prohibition
law passed by the Legislature. Ala
bama is already as dry as the pro-
verbal bone. These statutes are tae
most stringent ever adopted by any
| state, and every possible bulwark has
| been raised against the liquor traffic.
BY today's election, it Is hoped that
| these laws will be made permanent
| by a constitutional amendment.
The prospects are that the consti-
| tI;ional amendment will be adopted
by considerable majority, but 1t
will have to encounter the influence
| If a large amount of money turned
| loose by the liquor interests which
are making a last desperate stand in
| Alabama territory.
Nothing like the present laws were
| thought to be possible in this State
| a year ago. Today they are being so
rigidly enforced that anti-prohibition-
| lists acknowledge that they are COM
| piete,y routed.
The new laws We're framed by for
ner Chief Justice of Alabama Samuel
| .. Wsakley, one of the ablest law
| yers III the South. He worked the
| rabbits foot on EN-" figuratively
| speaking, by the use of such verbiage
as he found in the laws of other
| States which had stood the tests be-
| fore the higher courts, and so far as
possible followed the verbiage of the
Fedora, statutes themselves. He
| stakes his reputation that they can
not be successfully attacked by the
| higher courts.
The Carmichael law and the Fuller
law, the latter ponderous affair, 12.-
| 000 words long, contains the chief
| pToaibitive acts. The milk In the CO.
coanut is found in two provisions.
one making the maximum OF alcolol
| in beverages that can be sold one-half
! Of one per cent, and defining places
| where liquors and beers cannot be
sold or exchanged or given away, and
| the other making the possession OF
4 Federal license prima facie evidence
IF guilt and throwing the burden of
proof on the accused. This reverses
| IN sense the existing system of le-
| gal jurisprudence and makes escape
| exceedingly difficult.
The new laws prohibit the sale or
| giving away of liquors at all clubs,
and prevents the congregating of par
| ties al private homes for the purpose
Of drinking. Places of business, in
| GLIDING private Offices, cannot store
| liquors to be sold or given away and
| any place under suspicion can be raid
| ed as common nuisance and closed
| under an injunction gotten out by any
citizen unless proof of innocence Is
| forthcoming. Neither railroads nor
express companies are allowed to de-
liver liquors at homes, and foreign
| corporations doing business In the
| State cannot engage in traffic which
is outlawed for domestic concerns on
penalty of having their license re-
| voked. Police powers are extended
three miles beyond the corporate Inn
its, officers are given the broadcast
| latitude for raidng, sheriffs and otn-
er authorities who fail to do their du-
ty are subject to Impeachment and
punishment, all clubs are required TO
ssorganiZe within sixty days to frame
new constitutions and bylaws pre-
venting the sale or giving away of
liquors on their premises and to fur
Dish copies of the same with full lists
Of their me-nbsrs to probate judges
for filing under penalty OF having
their Charters revoked and their in
dividual members punished. The pos
session of a federal license requires
the holder TO prove his innocence OF
go to jail.
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