Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-02-16
The Present Status of the Tenn
perance Reform.

Comrades, let US rejoice that
prohibition is to keep up its on
ward march! There will be occa-
sional halts, but these will be as
nothing compared with the great
and ever greater advances! We
refer not only to the progress in
The United States, but also to the
prohibition victories in the British
Colonies, Australia, South Africa,
New leland and in Canada. The
prohibition agitation in England
Is bringing good results and the
situation in England from a pro-
hibition standpoint was never SO
favorable and SO encouraging as
to-day. Iceland already has pro-
hibition, Finland voted for it but
The Gar of Russia holds it back,
and Sweden has by national
plebiscite declared in favor of pro-
i,ibition by a vote of 1886, 249 to
16,471. This vote unmistakabl
shows that the Gothenberg, or
DISTINGUISHED Management system,
is not satisfactory even in the land
of its origin and long operation.
The effort to eliminate the liquor
selling profit which is supposed to
20 to the liquor seller, and leave
it to the town or state to make the
profit, is not likely to work ad-
vantageously to the state or town,
as has been amply proven in South
Carolina whore this system was
adopted fifteen years ago. Out of
forty-two counties Of the state only
six have retained the Dispensary
system, and we confidently expect
that in the very near future the en-
tire state will adopt prohibition.
Presumably the Gothenberg or
Dispensary is the best form of
license law, but all license laws
are wrong in principle and so far
as su%ppressing the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors is concerned are I'M
successful in practice.
We condemn the sale of intoxi-
eating drink in the saloon, the
hotel bar, the drug store, the
grocery store, the canteen, and the
restaurant. We condemn it's sale
anywhere and everywhere, and we
believe the Methodist Church was
right when it rose as a body and
spoke up in its general conference
saying, "The liquor traffic cannot
be licensed without SIM" If every
one who processes to hate sin
would live up to his pronounce
ment we should have national pro-
hibition in very short order. AL
though cruelty delayed by ayarice
and appetite, we do not doubt that
the order is on the way.
Those who are engaged either
directly or indirectly in the liquor
trade always T strenuously and
desperately opposed to Prohibi-
ton. The larger the measure OIL
prohibition the more strenuous the
opposition of the liquor tribe,
They are opposed to local option
in license states, for it may lead tc
local prohibition; still more are
they opposed to county option be-
cause it may lead to county pro-
hibition and yet still more are they
opposed to state wide prohibition
This of itself furnishes ample proc
that prohibition prohibits sufici.
entity to always hurt the liquo
business.
There are many triumphs for tn
temperance cause which cannot b
statistically enumerated. There i
not a state, and scarcely a com
munity where there has not been
temperance triumph, for che RICH
and the truth are indestructibl
and wherever they stand they ar
surrounded by a troop of angel
and God himself is keeping watct
The story of the recent struggle
and achievements in the states
am leaving largely for the respec
tive state presidents to rel ate froi
this platform. OF all che hol
crusades, OF all the sacrifices mad
for righteousness sake, of all IL
unselfish aspirations and er
deavors Of tile past, not any a,
cording to their day and genera
ton have exceeded in noble pu
pose, sublime pathos and splend.
heroism the work of our viii
ribbon comrades to free the
states from the be w~ildering, bruta
blighting, blaeti ng curse Of the /
galized saloon. The stats- wi,
prohibition FL lg still floats ov
Maine, Kanf as, North Dakot
Georgia, O klahoma, Alabam
Mississippi, North Carolina TIE
nessee, anfi temperance victori
IA the othe, u states during tho We
count not ably on the side viii