The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-25
TWENTY-sEvHN YEARS OF WAR
 ON SALOONS IN THE SOUTH

Tn The southern States of the Union, Erhere profsoition has won it's greatest recent origin. The first important victory scored by the dry, forces in ego Nov. 24, e1Ss5, when Atfanta held an electfonsfer the purpese of decid- Ing the liqhor issue It was the first and as a. result all of the saloons in Atlanta and Fulton county were clos ed About 1000 votes were cast, and The election had followed a hot cam saigu. by which the capital and metro polis Of Georgia was turned topsy- <r1rvy The. women were very active, and held prayer-meetings and rallies all over the city and county before and on election day.z Ahaf the arid regime was of great ad- wantage to the peace, prosperity and haDpiness of Atlanta. but the major opinion. and when the issue came up again in 1888 the s-wets'' were victor Eous and the saloons returned to At nanta, which had been the first big southern city to banieh them.
 Since then Atlanta and all Georgia have returned to the prohibition fold. zznder the operation of a Statewide prohfbitory law. and the movement has wpread all over the country south of 1lason's and Rdxon's line Alabama speedily repented and returned to the local option system, under which sa
 looms now operate in Birmingham, Mo- bile. Montgomery and other cities. Ar H<ansas has strong prohibition move ment. and about ha1f of it's counties gre 'sdry:" After suffering one defeat in an attempt to pass a State prohibi- tion law, the anti-eafoon forces of Florida have commenced another cam paign- Kentucky: the home of the dry sentiment. and over two-thirds of the population of the State is <now in dry territory. Active prohibition Louisianas and many cities and towns are now without saloons. Mississippi eaforosmsnt s of the sfafe-wiSe .- is Flaw s iaa passed in 1909 4 new movement for State prohibition has been launched in 1fissouri. following a defeat at the amendments have served to strengthen the State prohibition law which went into effect in North Carolina Jan. 1, 1909 Oklaholraa has conetitutional r:ro- hfbftion, and vote on submission two years ago was lost. In -tSouth Carolina last year the Statewide pro- hfbition primary ticket was defeated by a. narrow margin, and the cam paign still goes on Tennessee's prol1i- bftion law has been in effect over two years, but 1t is still possible to ac- quire the %'makings of jazz in Mem phis. Nashville and Chattanooga In hibition was defeated by very mar row margin in July Of last year, and another vote is likely in the near fu- aure- Outside of the larger cities, Vir- ginfa s general dry West Virginia passed a constitutional amendment this month which will result in the prohi- bition of the manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages in that State after Jan. 1, 1914 ssS.-
 The prevalence Of prohibition in the South has caused the brewers. to turn to the manufacture of a product call ed @-near-beer,' which looks like beer and tastes like beer, but which is all 7eged to contain only very small percentage of alcohol. This concoction has naturally attained a wide popular ify and the prohibitionists in many parts of the South are now taking up arms against it. The stdrys'' a1Iege that, When Eonsurned in large quantf- ties. ~near-beer'' is capable of produc- ing intoxfca ton