The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-01-29
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New York, Jan 17.-Uncle Sam
has been legally "dry" now for "a
hours. Prohibition in its nationwide
aspect has fallen upon the country
gently, it is reported by federal in
ternal revenue officials, largely be-
cause of well stocked cellars and the
knowledge of the accessibility of Gu
ba, where a man may quench any
kind of a thirst and still be within
the law. Meanwhile drug stores and
candy emporiums are reported doing
an increased business where a wink"
at the soda fountains nowadays car
ries no more suggestion of a "kick"
than a dash of ginger.
Meanwhile, the churches and other
organizations are celebrating the fl
nal triumph of prohibition after a
Campaign" which, they say, lasted
PTS years. Next Monday the army
of clergymen in greater New York
who meet annually for a union meet
ing and who represent nearly every
sect and creed-Jewish, Catholic, and
Protestant-will gather here and lis
ten to addresses by Federal Prohibi-
ton Commissioner Kramer, Wayne b.
Wheeler, general counsel for the An
ti-Saloon league and other notables
in the "dry" fight. Similar jubilee
meetings, it is said, will be held in
other parts of the country. Today
will be the Law and Order Sunday,
At these meetings various speak
ers are expected to touch upon some
of the historical dates of the anti
liquor movement in America, which
had it's inception in Maryland in 1912
when the colony passed a law pun
ishing drunkenness by a fine of 100
pounds of tobacco" Other curious
events in the struggle to give John
Barleycorn the count may be recalled
as follows:
Pennsylvania colony in 1914 made
it legal to sell to Indians as well as
whites, but a few years later Con-
necticut and Rhode Island penalized
rum selling to the redskins by impos-
ing heavy fines. In 1850 Connect
icut passed a law f%orbidding "tip-
ping for more thar half an hour at a
time" Four years later Massachu-
sets fined tavern keepers 20 shillings
for catering to a drunken man. Ma
ryland in 1868 voted to put any per-
son found drunk Sin the stocks for
six hours" Virginia decided ga com
mon drunkard' was any person who
had been intoxicated three times.
Even the clergy in Virginia some
times looked too long upon the wine
when it was red. It became so bad
that the assembly passed a law 'pro-
hibiting ministers from giving them
to excess in drinking or riot or
in playing at unlawful games" New
Jersey decided in 1868 that no per-
should be PERMITTED to drink
latter 9 pm" Massachusetts, two
years later posted drunkards' names
in public houses. The Quakers of
Pennsylvania and New Jersey in 1856
decided against intemperance. New
Hampshire in 100 forbade inn keep
ers from permitting '"townspeople
from remaining in their houses drink
ing on Saturday night or Sunday"
Trade in liquor with the Indians,
meanwhile, grew rapidly. It caused
Maryland colony in 1915 to prohibit
of more than one gallon of
liquor a day to any Indian under pen
Atty of 5000 pounds of tobacco" In
I757 the Georgia colony forbade the
granting of a license to sell liquor to
my person capable of gaining a
livelihood by honest labor" Penn
Quakers in 1760 endeavor-
ID to abolish the use of liquors at
funerals.
DR.. Benjamin Rush, perhaps the /;
American medical authority
# a century and a quarter ago, in ]
-785 issued his celebrated essay deal
ng with the effects of alcohol on the s
,ody and mind. Four years later the ]
irst Temperance society" in the t
was organized by the farm {
rs in Litchfeld county, Conn. In s
.794 the "whiskey rebellion" in OPP
position to the tax on distilled IL
Iuors broke out in western Pennsyl- i
-ania and was suppressed by the mil J
In 1902 congress passed a i
aw enabling the president to "take s
teps to prevent the traffic in liquor |
With the Indians" c
The Sober society, founded in AL {
entown, N. j., in 1905 was the next r
tep toward prohibition, the fore
unner or numerous organizations t
ounded later for dethroning King
AlcohoL Not many years afterward b
he American Society for the Promo Q
ion of Temperance was organized z