The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-19
W0n,en's Home Page R''sss ss,r'ss;,, ss,s Feature.

stinence Union of America Three years later women actively entered the crusade for temperance, the Women's Christian Temperance Union being organized on November 19, 1874. Yer mont ip 1876, passed a law declaring saloons to be ''nuisances". In 1883 came the era of high license laws, several states undertaking 70 control the traffic by taxation.
 In 1884 the third p1enary council of tho Roman Catholic pilates at Baltimore, Md, declared against the liquor business. The Protestant Epis- copal church organized the Knights of Temperance Society in 1885 and sim liar organizations were formed by other religious denominations. In 1886 Congress enacted that ''intruc- tion concerning the effects of alco- holic liquors shall be. given in the
 Ohio in 1888 passed a Sunday anti in the United States Military and Ma val Academies and in other schools under government control"
 Ohio in ISIS passed a Sunday anti1 liquor law. In 1890 the Secretary of War ruled that mo ardent spirits or wine shall be sold in army canteens," {" @ ruling however which some years later was rescinded. Men and women reformers in temperance crusade in
 Bloornvi1le, O., in 1891 wrecked a saloon and destroyed its contents Mrs. Carrie Nation took up the same
 tactics elsewhere and made the
 hatchet more famous than it had been
 since the days of George Washington i The Anti-Sa1oon League was found
 ed in Oberlin, O., by Howard Russel
 and spread all over the United States
 In 1894 enforcement of the State dis l pensary law in South Carolina re suited in the killing of a number O. men in liquor raids
 By 1900 many counties throughou i the nation. had become dry" througl
 local option. Omaha, Neb., in 19O. barred women and music from sa
 looms, In 1904 Virginia out1awed 25
 places for the sale of liquor. low;
 enacted rigid "anti-bo -bootleggers
 law. Oklahoma's Statehood Bill
 passed by Congress in 1906. provide
 for prohibition on Indian reserva tions for 21 years. Montana passe ) an "anti-wine room'' law in 1907. Tn
 diana citizens that year closed mor than 720 saloons by means of ''remon strances.''
 Alabama, Mississippi and Mort Carolina became prohibition territor in 1909. Texas in 1910 passed a la making it a felony punishable by frol three to five years imprisonment sell liquors in no-1fcense territory. In 1911 the Illinois legislature CT
 acted a law forbidding drinking c ) trains. The United States SupreTi Court in 1912 handed down a dec ) sion upholding the constitutional s of prohibition for the Indian sectic f of Oklahoma West Virginia abo ) the same time voted itself "dry'' ] V State Constitutional amendment TT = Webb-Kenyon act, prohibiting u e shipment in interstate commerce = intoxicating liquors when such Ii
 uors were to be used in violation s law, was passed by Congress in 19 d over President Taft's veto.
 It Many states in 1914 adopted stat f wide prohibition by Constitution l. amendment The Colorado legisl Il ture in 1915 made it unlawful to "a e vertise wine, beer or liquor anywhe O in the state. Florida that same ye a enacted a law forbidding treating l., On August 1, 1917 the Unit d States adopted the resolution provi ing for submission to the states of t n National Prohibition Amendment n the Constitution and on the folio ing December IS similar appro1 was given by the House of Represe .a tatives. All the states except N, a Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode - land, later voted to ratify it.