The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-01-03
PROHIBITION EFFECTIVE
In Shreveport-The Saloon Yielded to
the Law Without Contenticn-Near
Beer and Other Subterfuges-Status
of the Wholesaler.

Prohibition is effective in Shreveport
and Caddo parish since January I, be-
ginning at midnight in 1909.
The saloons were closed without any
demonstration, nor did the disorder an
| ticipated by the more radical occur The
yielding to the law was peaceful
1t is just as we'll to recognize the fact
| that the moral force of the State insist
on the execution of the law and there
shall not be tolerated any evasion, by
suhterfuges or tricks, without the ar
rest and the arraignment at the bar of
justice those who may venture on defy
ing the law.
It is conceded that there will be i'll
fringements Of the law, but it is believed
that the majority will not defy public
opinion
Any effort at treating the law with
contempt will operate against the of
tenders.
1t is not expected that men who have
been drinking whiskey for years or have
been regular patrons of the saloons shall
suddenly become 'teetotalers" but it will
operate to the benefit of great number
who can not become members Of some
social club or keep it stored away for
the use of friends. The saloons being
closed will limit the indulgence of drink,
especially by the class which can least
afford it. It will inure to the benefit of
more than one humble home the weekly
earnings of whose head has been swal-
lowed in beer or whiskey
While the social club may flourish and
every man SO inclined may have bottle
or a gallon jug handy Or at is side, the
open saloon will not be there to tempt
and induce the man who is striving to
reform and to quit the indulgence of
strong drink. 1t will also operate
against the social drink the treating
habit, in the saloons through which,
many young men, minors, have been
started down grade to evil and final de-
struction.
And there is another comforting re-
flection-the town is not going to shoel
the town will thrive without the
saloon In little while there will be
an adjustment of conditions which shall
receive the approval of the citizens not
welded to tie saloon, no, engaged in
the liquor traffic u.
AS Shreveport is law-abidi19 t. sa-,
neither the blind tiger nor other scife ..,,f
to defeat the law will be countenanced
The mayor has promised and he is
pledged to the enforcement of the law,
and it is expected that he shall see that
it shall be executed fairly and impair
TALLY.
No man engaged in the traffic, by re-
tail or wholesale, should be permitted to
place his individual construction on the
law. Every violator, of high or low de-
gree, should be held strictly accountable.
If there should be any doubt in the
operation of the law as applied to the
wholesalers and manufacturers, there
should be test of the law in the speed
lest time possible.
In Shreveport, as there are in every
town, there is class who believe that
the saloon will be in full swing in an
other year. This class must be disap-
pointed. Prohibition will never be re-
called in Shreveport and Caddo parish.
The sentiment of the people is being
strengthened for prohibition. The de-
claration is here made that there will
never again be a licensed saloon in
Shreveport