Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-30
West VIRGINIA I
has l |9I|l| DRY
afAss 49,
The New Yost Law Abolishes
All Saloons From That
i a State
RECORDS !! ! MUST !l|l Be /! KEPT / Z

next Tuesday midnight. 1t brings the
total number Of states in the prohibit
ton column up to nine.
With West Virginia added, the list
will be: Georgia, Kansas. Maine, Mis-
sissippi, North Carolina, North Dakota,
Oklahoma; Tennessee, West Virginia.
Thege nine states OF total prohibition
territory. plus the local n0-lincense
area, make up 2, 1872, 726 square miles
in which 46, O29, $50 persons or nearly
fifty per cent of the country's p0pula-
ton live according to the latest fig
ures Of the prohibition leaders.
A Big Majority.
The $4,000 majority with wich the
people of West Virginia accepted the
dry proposition was relatively the
largest ever given by any state. 1t
was approximately 2 to l for state
! wide suppression of the liquor bust
ness. It was a surprise even to the
prohibition forces, who were indebted
largely to the determined stand which
many of the large employees took in
favor Of their cause. The state has a
population Of 1,221,119 by the census
of 1910.
Differs From Others.
The mandate of the legislature, EN-.
bodied in the Yost bill, for the enforce
ment of the new law, beginning July
LIST, departs in many respects from the
methods hitherto tried along this line.
The chief features center about the
creation of a commissioner of prOhibi-
ton, whose particular business 1t will
be to see that by next Tuesday mid
night some 1900 liquor selling places
In the state have disposed Of their
stocks and that thereafter all persons
shall be punished by law, If they keep
liquor for sale.
The new office Of commissioner of
probition automatically falls to State
Tax Commissioner Fred O. Blue of
this city, who has been spending sew
eral months in preparation for strict
enforcement Of the e law.
Municipal Ordinances. +.
To save the state the time and ex-
pense of taking violations before
state courts, he has been urging NUM-
cipal ordinances governing the viola
lions, thus permitting the cases to be
@HUIOu5ll UOlOlC CuC AONOA NOuA zig -.r
In an effort to instruct the people
as to the provisions of the new law,
Commissioner Blue has also been lee.
turing throughout the state.
i ''In other states" says Mr.. Blpe.
where prohibition has been adopted,
one of the forces that has had to be
contended with has been the drug
store. The Yost law will regulate this
feature. Druggists may sell alcohol
only to persons not addicted to Its use
upon prescription e. a reputable ply
stefan, who has examined the person
and in detail set forth in the prescrip-
tion the persons for the use Of alcohol.
The governing bodies Of druggists
have approved Of this plan. For sci
entific or mechanical purposes alcohol
will be sold only after affidavit as to
Its intended uses, and uniform records
OF all such sales will be kept, to be in
spected periodically by those In
charge o the enforcement of the law.
""No druggist, however, can sell in any
form whisky, brandy, ale of any beyer-
age of an intoxicating nature.
Abolished Drink Clubs.
1.-THE Yost law also undertakes to
do away with the drinking clubs,
which have been the sources Of so
much trouble in other states" he
said. It provides that any person
directly or indirectly associated In
keeping such a club house or other
place where liquor is kept for gift,
barter or sale shall be punishable
upon conviction by q fine Of from
800 to $500 and by Imprisonment
from one to six months.
1.-The enactment of thu Webb-Ke1-
yon law by Congress will be of con-
siderable assistance in enforcing the
prohibition law in this state" he con-
tinued.
Records May Be Required.
"Oae of the benefits of the FEEDER
al Act is that records of interstate
shipments of liquors may be requir-
ed, and therefore every railroad, ex-
press company, and any kind OF
transportation company, including
steamboats, and vessels carrying
freight or express, either from an
other state into ours, or from one
part of our state to another part
must obey the laws of this state re-
specting liquors. Everyone of the
transportation companies will be re.
quired to keep special records at the
point of delivery showing the re-
ceipt of liquors, the kind and quaint.
ity, to whom consigned, when de-
livored, a1d the ccnsignee must sign
in person for the shipment. The
Webb-Kenyon act vests the right to
enforce these provisions of the law
and regulation hereunder against
interstate carriers. None Of these
carriers will be permitted to receive
consignments Of liquor to any point
where there ia not q regularly en-
ployed agent to keep such records,
and have them open for inspection
at all times.
Must Keep Account.
"Tha man who is engaged in the
steamboat business upon our waters,
interstate or %intrastate. must keep
these records. and will not be per
mitted to deliver any liquors or
make sale of any liquors upon board
this vessel while II our waters.
"This brings us to the question OF
how far one may get liquors for an
other. In the first place If M acts
as the agent of the seller. He is
-,,,,4v ~ ceiling II n acts agent