The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-11
PROHIBITION IN PRACTICE

The political prohibitionists of
Iowa in state convention in Des
MONIES on Wednesday, resolved to
wage a vigorous campaign for consti-
tutional prohibition through the adop-
ton of a constitutional amendment.
The patent and important fact that
such an amendment, even If foisted
upon the state by a majority vote,
would not be supported by public SEN
timent in many counties in the state
and would substitute clandestine sales
OF liquor without supervision or re-
strlction of any kind for wise regu-
lation as provided in the mulct law.
is wholly ignored by the short-sighted.
impractical advocates of constitutions
al prohibition.
Recently a number of southern
states permitted themselves to be
swept from their sane mornings by
wave of prohibition sentiment. The
result has been disappointing to the
cause OF temperance, to say the least.
Report on conditions in Mississippi.
Alabama and Georgia has just been
made by Rev Dr. Leonard w. Snyder
of New Orleans in a letter to the
Davenport Times The reverend gen
tleman visited those states and made
an investigation of the results of their
prohibition laws, and he does not
hesitate to say that "all these meas
ures have been proved to be a total
farce and failure which are causing
constantly more evils than they pre-
tend to cure" More specifically he
declares:
in the state of Georgia, especially
in the cities of Macon, Augusta and
Savannah, everything can re bought
In the line of Intoxicating liquors.
with the exception of Atlanta. where
only the sale of beer is allowed How
ever, the whiskey is not to be seen
IN conspicuous place, but is kept
out of sight, but YOU can have i. fo-
the asking. | have witnessed that
myself.
In Mississippi and Alabama boot
leggers, tigers and locker clubs, as
well as in Georgia. are selling, | am
informed, more whiskey today an
ever before, and | am also TOLD BY
respectable citizens of Macon, Angus
Ia and Savannah, both ladies and
gentlemen. that they have seen many /
boys between the ages of fourteen
and eighteen under the influence of
hquor which never had occurred. be- |
lore prohibition was adopted; in addi- I
ton | understand the negro has not
Deen benefited by this measure of pro
but has more appetite than
ever to indulge, because he now
drinks whiskey by the bottle. instead
o. puylng one drink at a time in the
salooh Many occasional drinkers
nave become accustomed drinkers
and many accustomed drinkers have
become habitual drinkers
Pollce records show a large in.
crease of arrests for drunkenness
since the prohibition laws have been
passed, and business and commerce
r general has not been benefited but I
has felt it's consequence. and ara I
greatly suffering today. However a I
lev business men will say. especiaIIy I
groeers. that business has Increased
by prohibition, but that is only dna N
their unlawful selling of whiskev on
Rev. DR.. Snyder concIudes-and his /
conclusion is supported by the obser.
walton Of all mankind, that people
who want liquor are going to have If
II the pillow stops You can no more
enforce a statute against the drinking
OF liquor > he declares, than you can
against the use of water In it's last
analysis, so-called prohibition merely
makes It a little more difficult for the
person with thirst to get a drink (
The Anti-saloon league cannot max
people stop drinking, the legislature
cannot do IT. nor can congress of the
United States compel them, even all
the powers of the world cannot ston
It What, then, is the remedy? Rev
MT Snyder makes answer in these /
words: eSe
Teach men to be temperate in all
lnlags' educate them to make the an.
Petile OF sense subject to nature and