Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1910-04-13
PRACTICAL EFFECT
OF PROHIBITION

The question of how prohibition has
worked in the various states and cit
les OF the nation is OF interest to the
people Of Arizona. when this subject
is now up for discussion. The fol-
lowing results were obtained in the
various cities throughout the union
on the fifth OF April. last. These fig
ures tell their own story. The Los An
geles Examiner of April 6. contained
the following:
Results In the states holding cleo
tons show three distinct features
defeats OF prohibitionists in many OF
their greatest strongholds. the cleo
lion of a socialist mayor ard city tick
ct in Milwaukee by an overwhelming
plurality over both democrats and re.
publicans. and decided democratic
gains where straight party issues
we're not involved by local questions.
In Illinois and in Michigan the
"drys" met with decisive losses. which
has had the effect of much diseourag-
ing the leaders in that movement,
many cities going squarely over 20
he "wets"
The election Of q socialist mayor
n Milwaukee appears to be the most
spectacular feature of the entire bat
tie Of ballots. Where ordinarily a
COCO total vote is all the socialist
workers have expected, the socialist
candidate energies from the fight
with a plurality of fully 5000 votes.
In Nebraska the "wets" and the
4drysr broke about even. while In
Kansas the election OF democratic
mayor of Topeka is construed as a
rebuke to the republican governor
CHICAGO April l1.-@'Wet" victor
les were recorded here in almost
every important center of Illinois
where the saloon question was an is
sue.
In the cherished dry" strongholds
of Rockford. Decatur, DeKalb. Dixon,
Mattoon, Kiethsburg. Shelbyville and
long list Of other local option
towns the antisaloon forces we're
routed. In the saloon towns where
the "drys" made their hardest fight
! Springfield. Danville. Aurora. Bloom.
ington. woodstock. FreeDort. and 9th,
ers-the vets" carried the day. in
: many cases by larger maiorities than
they obtained two years ago.
The most important victories gained
by the 'drys" were at Monmouth and
/ Canton. where the saloons we're voted
out
Personal Liberty Idea.
IN the light OF the election returns
/ Illinois has plainly reversed itself OF
the saloon question since two years
ago. In all parts OF the state the
pendulum swung from the wet to dry
sentiment has made itself manifest
demonstrating the spread of the per
sonal liberty" idea.
BY the vets. the chance wal
hailed as return to sanity" BY ths
"drys" it was incurred as a calamit,
aud ascriBed to over confidence OF
the part Of the temperance people an,
TO the extraordinary activity and tire
mendous flood Of money" put forth b,
the VETS"
IN some Of the cities the intens
bitterness OF the liquor contest re
suited in riots. notably at Danville
7 where Evangelist BILLY" sunda
wired Governor Deneen a request Z
T call out the local company o. milid
{ and at Nation and Bloomington.
D OF all the dry towns captured b.
the vets the most lamented by tn
4 temperance people is Rockford Thi
3 fair city, which the anti-saIoon leagu
: has priced - e model temperate
town for the example Of other cities
I welcomed back the saloons by a ma
3 jority of 219. as compared with tn
E scant majority Of IA with which i
parted with them in 1908. With it
, 10000 inhabitants. Rockford was tn
2 largest dry" town in Illinois.
e Decatur. with $4,000 inhabitants, b,
throwing of the restraints of the 10
cal option law. practically gratifie,
he liquor people who had centere,
theis forces there IN a supreme Ell
iort to viz the town back to thei
column. In Springfield the dry
gained some comfort by cutting dowI
J the previous wet" majority to 1915
a loss of more than coo votes. This
gain. however. was counter-balancet
} by the vote OF Bloomington which
trebled the wet" majority of 1908.