The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-01-19

nence Union of America. Three years
later women actively entered the cru
SADIE for temperance, the Women's
Christian Temperance union being or
ganized on Nov. 10, 1874. Vermont, in
1875. passed law declaring saloons to
be "nuisances. In 1888 came the era
of high license laws, several states
undertaking to control the traffic by
taxation.
In 1884 the ethird plenary council OF
the Roman Catholic prelates at Balti-
more, Md, declared against the liquor
business. The Protestant Episcopal
church organized the Knights OF Tenn
peranee society in 1885 and similar or
aanizations were formed by other re-
ligious denominations. In 1856 Con
press enacted that instruction con-
corning the effects OF alcoholic liquors
shall be given in the schools OF the Dis
trict of Columbia. in the United States
Military and Naval academies and in
other schools under government con-
troll"
Ohio in 1883 passed Sunday anti.
LIQUOR law In 1890 the secretary Of
war ruled that mo ardent spirits or
wine shall be sold in army canteens,
d ruling, however, which some years
later was rescinded Men and women
reformers i'm a temperance crusade IN
Bloomville. o.. in 1891 wrecked sa-
loon and destroyed its contents. Mrs
Carrie Nation took up the same tactics
elsewhere and made the Ratchet more
famous than it had been since the days
Of George Washington.
The first worlds convention OF the
Women's Christian Temperance union
was also held in Boston that year, The
Anti Saloon league was founded IN
Oberlin, O., by Howard II. Russell that
wear and spread all over the United
States. In 1894 enforcement OF the
state dispensary law in South Carolina
resulted in the killing OF a number OF
men in liquor raids.
Bv 1900 many counties throughout
the nation had become dry" through
local option. Omaha, Neb., in 1902
barred women and music from saloons.
In 1904 Virginia "outlawed" 25O places
for the sale of liquor. Iowa enacted
rigid anti bootlegger's law, Okla
homa's statehood bill. passed by Con-
oress in 1906, provided for prohibition
on Indian reservations for Fl years.
Montana passed an 'anti-wine room
law in 1907. Indiana citizens that year
closed more than 720 saloons by means
of Fhonstrances."
Alabama, Mississippi and North Car
olina became prohibition territory IN
1909. Texas in 1910 passed law max
ing it a felony punishable by from three
to five years imprisonment to sell liz
uors in no-license territory.
In 1911 the Illinois legislature en-
acted a law forbidding drinking on
trains. The United States supreme
court in 1912 handed down decision
unfolding the constitutionality OF pro-
hibition for the Indian section of Okla
homa. West Virginia about the same
time voted itself "dry" by state con
stitutional amendment. The Webb
KENYON act, prohibiting the shipment
in interstate commerce OF intoxicating
liquors when such liquors were TO be
used in violation of Jaw. was passed by
Congress in 1913 over President Iafts
veto
MANY states in 1914 adopted state
wide prohibition by constitutional
amendment. The Colorado Legislature
in 1915 made it unlawful to advertise
wine. beer or liquor anywhere in the
state" Florida that same year enacted
a law forbidding treating"
On Aug. |, 1917, the United States