The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-19
FIRST SOCIETY
 FOR TEMPERANCE FOUNDED IN CONN.
Colonies Established Many Laws Regulating Liquor
 Trade.
VIRGINIA CLERGYMEN
 HIT IN ONE INSTANCE,
Many Rulings In Regard to Selling Liquor To
 Indians.

New York, Jan. 19-Uncle Sam has been legally "dry" now for AS hours Prohibition in its nationwide aspect has fallen upon the country gently, it is reported by federal internal rev i enue off1oa als, largely because of well ! stocked cellars and the knowledge Of the accessibility of Cuba where man may quench any kind of thirst and still be within the law. Meanwhile. .i drug stores and candy empenums are reported doing an increased business where wink at the soda fountains nowadays carries no more suggestion of a kick" than a dash of ginger.
 Pennsylvania colony in 1644 made it legal to sell liquor to Indiana as well as to whites but a few years later Connecticut and Rhode Island penalized rum selling to the redskins by imposing heavy fines. In 1850 Connecticut passed a law forbidding t'tippling for more than half an hour at a time" Four years later Massa- chusetts fined tavern keepers 20 shillings for catering to a drunken man. Maryland in 1858 voted to put any person found drunk Gin the stocks for six hours" Virginia decid ed "a common drunkard' was any person who had been intoxicated three times.
 Even the clergy an Virginia some times looked too long long upon the wine when it was red. It became so bad that the Assembly passed law "prohibiting ministers from giving themselves to excess in drinking or riot or in playing at unlawful games :" New Jersey decided in 1868 that no ! person should b. permitted to drink l "after D. m.'' Massachusetts two ] years later posted drunkards' names l in public houses. The Quakers of 1 Pennsylvania and New Jersey in 1885 1 declared against incompetence. New Hampshire in 1700 forbade innkeep- l CTS from permitting townspeople 1 from remaining in their houses drink ing on Saturday night or Sunday Trade in liquor with the Indians i nneanwhA.e, grew rapidly. It caused i Maryland colony in 1715 to prohibit i selling of more than one gallon ot Muuor a day to any Indian under pen atty of 5000 pounds of tobacco" IT 1757 the Georgia colony forbade the granting of a license to sell liquor tt any person "capable of gaining z livelihood by honest labor.'' Penn sylvania QuaRers in 1760 endeavoret to abolish the use of liquor at funerals
 The first Temperance society" il the country was organized by 2o'
 farm CTS III Litchfield county, Conn. II
 1794 the "Whiskey Rebellion" in op 1 position to the tax on distilled liquor broke out in western Pennsylvania anC
 was suppressed by the military. Il i1SO2 Congress passed a law enabl1n;
 the resident to 't2ke steps to proven
 the traffic in liquor with the In | Indians"
 The Sober Society, founded in Al lentown, N. J., in 1895, was the nex
 step towards prohibition. Not man
 years afterward the American Soc1et
 for the Promotion of Temperance wa
 organized in Boston.
 , Following the organization of tn Congressional Temperance Society l , Washington, the first national tenn | perance convention met in Philadel phia in 1893. Next year Congress CT l acted law forbidding the sale ( u l Huuor to Indians under $500 penalt, The Presbyterian General Assembly i | hiladelphia at that lime also declal Il ed against the liquor traffic. Nef Dow, the father of prohibition
 Maine" organized the Maine Temper ; ance Union in 1887 and in 1889 Cor necticut ivented 'Ioca1 option" t
 leaving the licensing of saloons to u :. towns themselves.
 Inauguration of the Washingte Movement was announced in 1S40 ar a within a year 1t reported 100, ,O(
 signers of the pledge. In 1842 Abr' !. ham Lincoln urged "a temperan' ?. revolution.' The next year Oregc 's passed a prohibitory law but repealt a it in 1S4S. In 1843 John B. Goug
 "arch foe of intemperance," began y. lecture in Massachusetts for 75 cen F a night. Two years later, "ensnar' ,- by trick of his enemdes.' he ocean Iv intoxicated but continued his car ;. padgn against drink both at home al
 abroad.
 The Democratic legislature
 Maine in 1s46 enacted a prohibito
 law. In 1s4s the Methodist Episcop of church forbade members "buyir
 selling or drinking intoxicants
 Father Matthew, the renowned Cat 'Il olic temperance advocate, arriv "A from Ireland in 1S49 and began l
 pledge-si gning crusade througho
 the United States. A riot over the cense question in Chicago called o II the militia in 1855. Prohibitory la
 which had been passed in sevel
 states were repealed and in oth
 dases license amendments ma
 them ineffective.
 President-elect Lincoln in 1860 l +o fused to furnish drinks to the Nob a cation Committee sent to notify h
 of his election and returned unopen - the hampers of wine and liquors st 1t to the White House. In 1861 S1 signed an act of Congress tforbiddi a. the selling or giving of intoxicants
 soldiers" In 1862 Congress repeal
 the law allowing a gill of whiskey les tion to men in the navy. Kansas or 1866 passed a local option and proh nd itory law. Ohio in 1870 passed | ie- Adair law making the liquor sel be and the property owner jointly m- sponsible for injury caused
 liquor."
 Francis Murphy delivered his fl