The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-01-08
bike IS GOING DRY
-, WEAR FINDS SOUTHLAND
vs." ,,,c WAY TO TEMPERANCE.
GEORGIA FONT OF INTEREST
carolina, Alabama and Miss
,.,l,oi Join Dry Ranks, and
o,bsr states are Following.

,rosbinefon. Special: wave OF
Hi has swept with such re-
nsrkable effect over the SCUM anu
.a,,meni has so crystalized against
~ saloon and its kindred eVils that
ny se dawn Of the new year opens upon
'ns N, stretch of territory absolutely
$50, NJ llquor, while the arena where
pe,snrobibilionists have triumphed,
a. fbe battle-ground for impend-
M sghts for and against the sale OF
penorrs rejecting accurately the
Int stage of the prohibition move
fiasn, IN the South show that more
~, half the South's territory Is
ssrTr absolutely and that in the re-
.a;n,np area listed as wet" the sale
n lntoxicants is upon restricted
scale M, 49,,
,rlv remaining strongholds for the
saloons and il is unlikely that this
eordition will be modified except
,,roneh radical change in political
,houcht through failure 10 enforce the
laws against the liquor traffice, fall
are 10 solve the problem growing out
n deficits in county. municipal and
gate treasures from a loss OF the
vbiskev tax, or inability to cope with
ne illicit sale of whiskey and. per
hans other obstacles which follow In
M wake Of prohibition.
Georgia now holds the center OF the
stage and for a year has been expert
mentine ON what is strictly a near
nrohlbition" law in that II forbids the
sale OF liquors containing more than
| Der cent Of alcohol.
Statewide prohibition laws become
effective ON January ! in North Caro-
ina Alabama and Mississippi, in each
N which "A majority of counties had
heretofore prohibited the sale OF
ropor. Prohibition advocates in Louis
lana have suspended their fight TO test
the new Gay-Shattuck law for the reg
ulation of HE liquor traffic, which also
becomes operative January /.
The antisaloon people say they viii
b. content II this law is enforced rig
ldly. Tennessee is the chief center oil
Interest among the other states where
statewide prohibition fights are in
progress
Tie rrohibitionists assert that {
statewide bill will pass the Legis
. ature. which they expect 10 organize
and control. With the backing o.
STATE machinery. the local optioT
forces are equally confident that sucl
ON viii meet defeat.
Kentucky. the second largest State
In the Union. with 119 counties, hal
but four in which the sale of liquo
Is not prohibited.
Virginia presents a string of vic
tories for the anti-saloOn element, a
Prohibition now exists in eighty out o
the states 100 counties.
In Texas. where more than half tn
counties have accepted prohibition
the voters will be called upon soon I
vote upon a constitutional amendmen
for prohibition.
In Arkansas twothirds of its area
or seventy-five counties, are dry
and the question of statewide prob
biton VIII be presented to the voter
for decision Florida is partly dry
through local option, and like some 9
the other states. the sale of liquor
principally confined to the cities.
The results of prohibition general
are CLEANED from reports indicating
great decrease in the records OF a
rests for Drunkenness, an increase
the bank deposits of laborers, fewt
cases Of wife abandonment and a d
crease in criminality generally
The difficulty in enforcing the pr
hi0ltiOn law. however, is conceded
b one az the chief obstacles TO its a
solute success in many states. al
this phase Of the question. togeth'
with a falling of in revenues, is
some extent battling the authoritie