Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1910-06-03

1549 to 16S in the month and from
every town and city came the same
story The Importance of all this to
Christians, upon whom falls so heavi-
ly the injury and material and moral
which the Gothenburgh system drink
shops occasion at glance. And the
happy thing is that they realize it.
The state church has been stirred
into a quite unusual activity in be-
half of prohibition. The representa-
tives of the Mission people, led by
the famous pastor, Waldenstrom,
have issued formal appeal to their
people to work for prohibition. Now
comes the news that all the best ele-
ments in Sweden are uniting to in
stitute on extra-legal national refer
endum on the subject of national
prohibition. The medical temper
ance league, the state church temper
ance society," the Y. M. c. A., the
the Baptist and Methodist churches,
the Good Templars, the White Rib
boners, the 10000 students Of the
Students Abstinence league, the
Army Officers Temperance society,
the Postman's Temperance league,
ETC., have formed a united committee
to carry out the task of registering
the opinion of every man and wom-
an in the nation They have arrang-
ed their finance committees, press
committees, agitating committees and
committees of action, and have di-
vided the land into districts and sub
districts. This movement is organ
lied on a national scale and will have
the sympathetic and active help Of
great sections of the population.
The impression which the five
weeks have made on the masses of
the population can be perhaps judged
from the following incident:
"A Swedish teacher going abroad
for study" writes Karlstad Tidning,
gave patriotic lecture in the cabin
of North Sea steamer to Swedish
emigrants. After It was over nice
looking young fellow came up to him
and said: Greet the dear old land
for me when you return. | should
never leave 1t If the prohibition re-
script remained in force. You see,
| am a drinking man, though ] have
a wife and children to care for |
have good employment always open
to me in Stockholm, but don't dare
take II. For a whole month under
prohibition | have been a free ana
happy man. If 1t had continued |
should have stayed in Sweden, but
now | am making for some American
prohibition state where | can't get
drink. And he was not the only one,
other passengers said the same thing
The five weeks of prohibition had
brought hope into their lives and
they We're going where the law helped
them rather than crushed them"
For the year 1909 A note or two
about the United States.
, II was year Of almost uninter-
-. ruutpd vintprv for tpmnprnnCp In
, Indiana and Ohio anti-saloon cleo
; tions drove the drink shops out of the
, country and smaller cities. Twenty
counties of Michigan went dry Ten
nessee adopted state prohibition. The
August elections in South Carolina
, all but cleared the state. A power
, ful agitation broke out in Washing,
? ton and Idaho. Florida took the
, first step to constitutional prohibit
3 tion.
5 Oregon.
IN 1904 every county was wet In
1906 eight counties became dry, is
counties became partly dry, and sew
u en- remained wet. In 1908 twenty
r one counties became dry and all the
{ rest partly dry. In 1910, II the citi-
. zens who believe In temperance get
b ont to the polls, the entire state will
e be dry