The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-11-29
WOMEN AND CHILDREN
SINGING AND PLEADING
Opposing interests Have Bands
Playing al Polling Places
to Distract Attention
(By Associated prsss)

Birmingham Ala. Nov 20 Ala
bama voted on a constitutional amend
ment providing for the prohibition OF
liquor traffic The election was BIT
terly fought in every city In the state.
Ia Birmingham women and children
are gathered near polling places, sing
Ing and pleading for the success OF
the amendment The liquor interests
have hired bands and these, too. are
near polling places, playing loudly IL
an effort to drown out the pleas OF
the women.
The question of whether the state
constitution Is to be amended was
submitted at special session Of the
state legislature called by Goyernof
Conner last August That stssion was
one of the most bitter in the history
OF the commonwealth, and the cam
paign which followed was not more
peaceful.
The amendment which would for
ever bar liquor from the state Is the
crownlng feature of the most drastic
anti-liquor legislation ever introduced
n any state The present legislature
,lected on a local option platform
'ook the bit in its teeth and went tr
extremes unheard of before IN all lines
OF prohibition lawmaking
Recent Prohibition Battle
Obeying the platform which thu
people indorsed at the general eiec
tion Of 1906, the two houses passed IN
1907 local option bill which held
the county as the unit The oppon
ents of prohibition fought this act on
It's passage and in the larger counties
tried TO prevent IT'S application But
this agitation resulted in another
move by the radical prohibItl0nists
who at special session the same
year secured the passage almost unan
imously of the statewide prohibition
bill Again those opposed to prohibl
tion refused to give the law support
Again the prohlbitionists fetaliated
this time by the special session OF
1909. which broke all records by not
only submitting the question OF tht
emendment 10 the constitution, bul
enacted the now famous Fuller bill
which Is conceded 10 be the most dras
tie sumptuary law ever drafted
The bill voted on today provides
for the submission To the voters ol
an amendment to the constitution fol
the purpose Of forever prohibiting The
manufacture sale and keeping for SALE
Of alcoholic and malt liquors and olhei
lintoxicatins ltWOrs and beverage
With the Exception that alcohol pial
be sold for medical Sclentiflc aud me
chancal purposes, and wine for sacra
mental purposes, under such regula
Hions as the legislature may have pre-
seribed oi may hereafter prescribe
and 70 declare that nothing IN tbl
constitution of Alabama shall be con
sirued 10 prevent the legislature. un
der the police power. from deslgnai
ing the places where such liquors ma,
not be stored or kept
Supreme Court Ruling
The second provision would give q
the legislature the power TO prohihi
leitizens from keeping liuuor IN thei
homes II at any time prohibition e1
thusiasm became strong enough 70 de
mand this drastic action The latte
port Of the amendment ~ put fort
! frankly 10 meet the recent ruling q
tho supreme court that liquor Il
commodity which can he possesse
and stored where and in such quant
tles as lta owner may see fit. 50 Ion
as he does NOT offer Il Tor sale.