The sun., 1919-01-17
Fight on Liquor Began in 1908
by Temperance Society in
Saratoga County, N. Y.
NEAL DOW THE PIONEER
List Of Prohibition Workers
Includes Bryan, Billy Sum
day and Frances Willard.

sale Of vodka for the sake OF national
morale and conservation during the war.
In Great Britain for ninety years an
ever increasing number OF total absti-
hence and temperance societies have
struggled to secure legislative action.
During the war the liquor trafflc In Eng
land was restricted, chiefly to conserve
the grains used In brewing. a mo
treat" Jaw was passed early in 1915.
Attempts were made TO make the army
and navy bone dry, but they did not
succeed. Both the Asquith and the
Lloyd George Ministries considered the
advisability OF passing drastic national
legislation. but found II would not be
accepted. Abstinence was urged, and an
example was set by the King.
In Canada prohibitory or local option
laws were passed IN various provinces
during the war, and toward Its close
rrohibitory restrictions were generally
applied to protect the soldiers and 10
aid recruiting
Iceland went dry in 1908. More than
half the towns OF Norway have pro-
hibited the sale OF liquor under local
option.
Liquor Exhausted in Germany.
Germany, as a war food measure to
save barley successfully cut down the
brewing of beer, beginning in 1914 with
a reduction to 40 per cent of the aver
age yearly output. Within certain areas
German soldiers in uniform could not get
spirits to drink, and throughout the en-
pire local authorities were given an op-
tional power to limit or stop the sale
OF spirits TO civilians. Germany in gen.
oral was dry when the armistice came
liquor stocks and materials being ex-
hausted.
France in 1914 prohibited the sale OF
absinthe as r war rrasure. Stocks OF
spirtuous liquors in France became 40
far reduced under the war that the sale
NJ high wine limitations injurious to
health was reported prevalent in the
northern provinces. The moderate use
OF wine is as much part of daily life
in France as eating and sleeping. and
the French people have never under
stood any sort of proposal to stop IT,
Figures showing the local and
national loss Of revenue that will result
from prohibition in the United States
always are attacked by prohibitionists
who claim the material loss will be
more than made up for by the saving In
policing and in penal institutions and
by the rise Of productive efficiency
among the nations workers. But such
savings have never been estimated in
figures at all convincing.
Many Plants VIII BE Wiped Out.
Unless these establishments already
have been put out OF business by war
time prohibition under the Jones amend
ment the Federal prohibition amendment
ratified yesterday will wipe out 236 dis
tiDeries, 1922 breweries and more than
100000 saloons and Wholesale liquor
businesses, whose employees will have
to find other work.
Prohibition will stop the payment In
salaries 70 employees OF more than
$40 00o, 900.
What 1t will do to the United States
Treasury is figured on the basis of the
Nrst drafts OF the new revenue bill
Internal revenue from spirits and fer
Inented liquors together was counted on
FOR $1,000, 100000. Besides this State
treasures will have annual losses Of
revenue running TO millions OF dollars
in some States
From 1914 to 1917 the national inter-
nal revenue receipts from spirituous liq-
uors averaged more than sl5b, 900, 900
and from fermented liquors close 10 $70,-
100000. In 1917 the receipts from spir-
ituous liquors were $ls2.l11.31s and
from fermented liquors ssl,ss7.1a4. Re-
ceipts from spirituous liquors in 1918
under war taxation were s3l7.5536s7
and from fermented liquors s1escs5,s57.
A few weeks ago, with permanent ma
tional prohibition about TO be realized,
the New York State Bureau OF Munich
pal Information announced that the
cities of the State would lose more than
s7.5oo.0o0 year In revenue. Cities out
side New York. 1t was said. were paying
s4.3o0.0o0 more for maintenance than
before the war, owing TO the general in
crease in costs Local option already
had deprived twenty cities OF $500. 1000
annual revenue.
Bryan's State CIinched Issue.
II Is doubly appropriate that Nebraska
should have been the state to clinch the
ratification OF the Federal amendment,
because the gain Of prohibition in State
legislation has spread from tho middle
West and because II is the home OF Mr..
Bryan. whose influence has been a pow
srful factor in bringing about prohibit
ton.
All the famous American evangelists
have been lighting for prohibition. John
Bartholomew Cough. English born.
American reared after the age of -.
and who admitted reclamation at rs,
preached prohibition for forty years
Sam Jones. a counterpart OF Billy Sun
day, fouGnt llquor. The Rev. j. Wilbur
Chapman, under whose wing Billy Sun
day started. was proud of his record OF
converts among heavy drinkers
Dwight l.. Mood often preached on
temperance. But none worked with
such results a g Billy Sunday. In each
Of his city campaigns Sunday delivered
his sermon ION Booze" to men only. II
generally begins with:
my friends, whskey has It's place
but it's place Is in hel--not In your
stomachs,' Sunday always asserts in
sermons that his life has been threat
ened by minions Of the 'llquor inter-
ests''
Father of Movement in L. 3.
The father OF temperance workers IN
America was Neal Dow. born In Port
land, Me, in 1904. He was a mem.
Der Of a Quaker family and while a
young man served two terms as MAYOR
OF Portland and one term in the State
Legislature. Early in the civil war hs
was commissioned brigadier- general. A,
Port Hudson he was wounded and taken
prisoner by the Confedcrates and sent
20 Libby Prison. But his mission as a
foe to liquor began fifteen years before
the war. In 1851 he had drawn the
Maine prohibition law
Dow travelled much In the caus.
through the United States and Canada
and visithd Great Britain, lecturing and
fostering the organization of temperate.
societies. In 1880 he was the Prohibi
ton candidate for President. He died II
1897.
or the famous American woman MR.,