Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-02-25
NO REACTION
IN PROHIBITION
Saloon Interests Misinterpret the Sto-
ry of the Ballot and Make Wrong
Deductions.
Deductions.

New York, Feb. 4.-The election of
a number of anti-prohibition governors
| in the south at the last election has
led to the belief that there is re-
action against prohibition in that sec
ton of the country. In order to find
how the prohibitionists viewed the
situation | had a talk ON the subject
with Rev. DR.. Ferdinand G.. Iglehart,
one OF the most active leaders OF the
anti-saloon movement in the country.
DR.. Iglehart says:
THE papers announce that some OF
the southern governors in their mes
ages have come out against prohibit
ton and are in favor OF local option
and the liquor people are fairly shout
ing with delight. In the conflict be-
tween the church and the saloon for
the past dozen years, the brewers and
distillers have claimed victories every
time. They have loudly proclaimed
reaction i'm the south, but all the
while the saloon has been reacted
out of two-thirds of the geographical
territory and from five-sixths OF the
population of the southern states.
"In his message Governor ONeal
of Alabama opposes state wide prohi-
bition and stands for local option.
The people declared against constitu
tional prohibition at the polls about
a year ago, partly because the state
already had one of the best statutory
prohibition laws in the United States.
1t is not certain that the new legSla
ture will take the advice of Governor
O'Neal and repeal the present law.
If it should do so the liquor men
would have small reason for comfort
as local option which the enemies of
temperance count such a boon has
ACCOMPLISHED the task of abolishing
the saloon almost everywhere north
and south. -"
Governor Blease ofSouth Carolina
also favors local option. Local option
has driven the saloon out of all the
counties of South Carolina but six.
Governor Colquitt Of Texas is for local
ctn 10 t.,iuJn i,Sfi
He reminds the members of the fegis-
lature, however, that they were. elect
ed on the platform of the
submission of a. constitutional
amendment to a vote of the people
which is true. But local option, which
the whiskey men pretend to hail as
such friend, has already driven the
saloon from 10000 square miles of
territory and from pretty nearly
100000 of the population of Texas.
''In the great reaction of the south
the liquor men forgot their rout i'm
Oklahoma, the defeat of the Demo
cratic candidate for governor of Ne
braska, the overwhelming victory of
their enemies i'm Tennessee. and the
election of Hoke Smith an anti-saloon
exponent as the governor of Georgia.
The tidal wave in the south is reced
ing so the brewers say, and SO it lis
in such away as to reveal, more dry |
territory.
THE southern people are AmeTir |
can born and are singularly religious.
They have the negro problem, and
are not going to have the saloon. We
point our enemies to two giants who |
have risen during the past year to |
confront them. William jennings |
Bryan, who from now on will give |
them no quarter and Emperor William
of Germany, whose public condemna
ton of the beer drinking habit will |
lead many Germans in this country |
to renounce the championship of the |
saloon i'm the wet and dry campaigns
Espiscopahans, Presbyterians, Dici-
pies Of Christ and Congregationalsts
have made definite and tangible state
ments looking toward unity with othe
protestant bodies. Others have ex-
pressed interest in unofficial ways,
and the whole Protestant system in
America is undergoing great changes.
Unity may be some distance off, but
there Is much talk about 1t. Some
favor Christian unity. which is count
ed to mean cooperation, and others
come out boldly for church union,
which means, they say, wiping out
Of all present bodies and their orga-
nizations, and the creation of but one
great Protestant body, with a name
yet to be selected.
A good many different men in half
4 dozen religious bodies, have ledto
his movement, and If unity takes
he place of disunton their names will
30 down to posterity because of their