The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-03-01
ONLY THREE "WET."
WHOLE SOUTH EXCEPT FLORI-
DA. LOUISIANA AND TEXAS DRY.
Dry Forces in Louisiana Preparing to
Fight for Statewide Prohlbl-
ton Bill.

Atlanta. Feb. 21.-Into only three
States in the South-Florida, Louisi-
ana and Texas-may liquor in any
quantity be imported legally for per-
sonal use after June 80 next. They
alone have retained local option.
Congress by it's action in adopting
the Reed amendment makes absolute
the Statewide prohibition legislation
of Virginia, North Carolina, and
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
and Mississippi. Thus they join the
''bone dry States, Arkansas and
Tennessee. which already had enact
ed statutes forbidding the importa-
tion of liquor.
The Florida legislature at its bien-
nial session in April is expected to
adopt a resolution providing for a
referendum on the Statewide prohl-
bition although there are only five
out of 50 counties in the State where
liquor can be sold legally. Dry forces
in Louisiana are preparing to fight
for a Statewide bill at the next ses-
sion of the legislature in 1918. About
half of the Louisiana parishes are
dry under the local option law.
Went Dry in November.
Virginia became dry only on No
vember /, last, although the people
had declared for prohibition by So
900 majority on referendum IN
September, 1914. The prohibition
law passed by the legislature in Jan
uary, 1915, permitted every head OF
a household to receive a shipment OF
one quart of whiskey or one gallon
of wine or three gallons of beer a
month. Sale and manufacture with
in the State were prohibited.
North Carolina became a prohlbl-
tion State on January /, 1909, after
the people had ratified Statewide
bill by a majority of $4,000 at ref
erendum election in May, 1908. The
legislature passed law in 1915 per-
mitting any individual to receive one
quart of whiskey or wine or five gal
Ions of beer every fifteen days.
South Carolina adopted prohibi-
tion by referendum vote in Septem-
ber, 1915, after having had a dispen-
sary system since 1891. The law
permitted each person to receive a
gallon of either whiskey or beer or
wine month.
Georgia has been classed as a dry
State since January l, 1908, but the
prohibition law was not strictly en-
forced in some of the cities until May
/, last, when a drastic law abolishing
locker clubs became effective. Under
this law each person was limited to a
monthly shipment of two quarts of
whiskey, or one gallon of wine, or
forty-eight pints of beer.
Under DRY" Banner.
Alabama enlisted under the prohi-
bition banner in 1915 after several
Intellectual efforts to make the State
dry under the administration of
Governor Conner, for 1907-11. The
prohibition law permitted a citizen
to receive a shipment of two quarts
of whiskey, two gallons of wine or
four dozen bottles of beer every two
weeks
Mississippi has prohibited the
manufacture and sale of liquor with
in it's border since 1908 but no limit
was set on importation until 1914,
when law passed restricting each
individual to a shipment of one gal
lon at time. This law was ineffec-
tive, as it did not say how often a
shipment could be received. In 1916
a more drastic law was passed max
ing it unlawful for any person to re-
ceive more than a half gallon of vim
GUS liquor or three gallons of malt
ed or fermented liquors or one quart
of spirituous liquor within fifteen
days. The legislature also passed,
in 1916, an anti-liquor advertising
law.
Arkansas voted for Statewide pro
hibition by $4,000 majority last fall
and became the first ''bone dry
State in the South. BY voting down
a.repeal act the people ratified dras-
tic Statewide prohibition law enact
ed in 1915.
Tennessee adopted prohibition in
1908, but the law was not enforced
in the larger cities until 1915, when
the legislature enacted nuisance and
custer laws aimed at city officials
who failed to enforce the prohibition
laws. At a recent session the legis'
lature passed a bone dry bill pro,
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