The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-11-01
hafion Is to Stay There
aaass People Are Salts
4 with Great Benefits.
UoR SHIPMENTS ARE
ALMOST NOTHING NOW.
- Have So Few Prisoners
10y Are Compelled to Hire
ID 70 Work; Convict Labor
f Roads Is Scarce.

nn1anea. Ca, November i.~-Practi-
- - whole OF Georgia is solidly
DA thA prohibition movement, and
~ IN this State OF conditions
- from the new prohibition law
q the conclusion that the Sal Don
$50 70 stay. a..
osgtA II experiencing all me oAl-
- abundant upon the operation
r. - and radical law, and there Is.
~ nnrnA. much room for Improves
RnvvUver. tho leaders In this
Daan4 TO the elimination OF pub
n16nkfn9. to the retirement of con-
ne On ali SIDES, TO the falling OFT
1S1nD and disorder and TO an
- pu1,lic spirit which has al
C9v accepted these things as PROOF
II - BENEFITS of prohibition.
Ri n ~0ulA be idle 10 deny that there
been tremendous betterment In
occnomic and industrial affairs
F1Gra Nav I. when tho new law went
- afF>cf. The reason for this. ac-
n1nx to many authorities, is to be
5nA In the fact that liquor ship
1e q Georgia have in the past six
80 been cut down ninety per cent
|sSS nAfcaal ana executive officials are
i4rranx and Law practically to the
n ana observers who have studied
ratuatfon for wears say that, II left
NNikA vote OF the people. local option
MD be defeated by "a majority OF
oably three TO one.
Mi Candidates All Dry.
81 IN four candidates for the governor
krfn IN the recent primaries Were
SAw pfohtbitionista and the sena-
behind the anti-liquor laws If
6eUng that 10 candidate who HAD
Nw nope for his election would think
fnnninx for Office on local option
nk6o1m- Every wet candidate for
nxanutonal or any other once who
any opposition in the primary on
1eosnber !, was defeated Such stcrl-
- prohibitionists as william Schley
Inward. Charles r. Crisp and Thomas
Ill defeated their local option op-
60nonts by increased matorities
Due purely to tho falling on IN ehe
etty ofYenses resulting from the en-
orcement OF the anti-liQucr laws. Full
n County, Of which the city OF At
enta IL the seat. was recently able TO
Ebolfeh 1--WE OF its convict camps In
~ antaYview with q representative OF
- Christian Science Monitor, the
Sceetary Of tho State Prison Commits
- avs there was no doubt that to
- lblfien alone was due the credit
the fremendous reduction in the
65bor OF prisoners I'm all parts OF
otate. In Fulton County alone, he
"a. the number OF prisoners had
n reduced from 700 TO 225, and this,
his opinion. was due mostly 20 the
H0hIbition law. He stated. in addition,
would be fair 10 say that there
y been a Statewide reduction in
|1R1oOners of at leaSt twenty-five PEI
K Before the new laws took effect
E1koro were In all the larger cities and
ANY Of the smaller ones. clubs dis
nnnanE all grades of liquor to theiI
|HnmbArs and others. and there were
eonsed So called 'near-bear' saloons
Hnot OF which sold liquors of all kinds
There is not a club OF
1rAnr organization in the state at pre-
nc which openly sells or otherwise
IL IN liquor. The fact that news
n1ar was arrested recently for selling
nOuupaper printed in another part
a. country thar carried liquor
0ogt1seGncnt will give en- .dea OF the
H4tY with which tbs law In en-
Hbvo Few Prisoners.
n1aae convfcts are distributed
AOnt tho State and work the
~ GDme cities now have so few
nogu that they are now being
Daa1od to hire workers for the
0u hf0S,os. and county commits
800 arc employing road labor &c
= lwfanA
~ ACTIVITY OF outside liquor deal
III Baltimore and elsewhere r.
9 this mails with advertise.
IT Wh1alcey and other kinds Of
49, Aroused a strong feeling Of
nonE The Georgia dele gator
&46nGre1o has accordingly beer
- q bin forbidding tho use oil
a11s for liquor advertisements In
9x1toyy. Even with this evil un.
eod thu consumption OF into0t.
IN the state has been reduced
10y small fraction of Its origtna.