The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-01-22
LONG DRY FIGHT
BROUGHT TO END
UNITED STATES MAKES WHIS-
KEY SELLING ILLEGAL.
Drive of Many Years.
Historical Data Covers Prohibition
Movement Extending Over
27S Years.

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hours. Prohibition in it's 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
Cuba where a man may quench any
kind of thirst and still be within
the law. Meanwhile drug stores and
candy emporiums are reported cong
an increased business where wink
at the soda fountains nowadays car
ries no more suggestion of kick"
than dash of ginger.
Meanwhile, the churches and other
organizations are celebrating the
final triumph of prohibition after a
campaign" which, they say, lasted
27S years. Next Monday the army OF
clergymen in Greater New York who
meet annually for union meeting
and who represent nearly every sect
and creed-Jewish, Catholic and Pro-
testant-will gather here and listen
to addresses by Federal Prohibition
Commissioner Kramer, Wayne B.
Wheeler, general counsel for the
Anti-Saloon League, and other not
bles in the 'dry" fight. Similar jubi-
lee meetings, it is said, will be held in
other parts of the country. Tomor-
row will be tsLaw and Order Sun
day"
At these meetings various speakers
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 law furnishing
drunkenness by 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
1t legal to sell liquor to Indians 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 law forbidding
t'tippling for more than half an hour
at time" Four years later Massa-
chusetts fined tavern keepers 20
shillings for catering to drunken
man. Maryland in 1858 voted to
put any person found drunk ''in the
stocks for six hours" Virginia de-
cided "a common drunkard' was any
person who had been intoxicated
three times.
Bad in Virginia.
Even the clergy in Virginia some
times looked too long on the wine
when it was red. It became so bad
that the assembly passed law 'tpro-
hibiting ministers from giving them
selves to- excessive drinking or riot or
in playing at unlawful games" New
Jersey decided in 1868 that no person
should be permitted to drink latter 9
p M Massachusetts, two years later
posted drunkards' names in public
houses. The Quakers of Pennsylvania
and New Jersey in 1856 declared
against intemperance. New Hamp-
shire in 100 forbade inn keepers
from permitting, "townspeople from
remaining in their houses drinking
on Saturday night or Sunday"
Trade in liquor with the Indians,
meanwhile, grew rapidly. 1t caused
Maryland colony in 1715 to prohibit
selling of more than one gallon of
liquor day to any Indian under pen
atty of 5000 pounds of tobacco" In
1857 the Georgia colony forbade the
granting of license to sell liquor to
any person capable of gaining live
lihood by honest labor" Pennsylvania
Quakers in 1850 endeavored to abol-
ish the use liquor at funerals.
DR.. Benjamin Rush, perhaps the
greatest American medical authority
of century and a quarter ago, in
1885 issued his celebrated essay deal
ing with the effects of alcohol on the
body and mind. Four years later the
first Temperance society" in the
country was organized by 200 farm
ers in Litchfeld county, Conn. In
1894 the "Whiskey Rebellion" in op-
position to the tax on distilled liq-
uors broke out in western Pennsyl-
vania and was suppressed by the mill
tary. In 1902 congress passed a law
enabling the president to "take steps
to prevent the traffic in liquor with
the Indians
The Soberty society, founded in AL
lentown, N. j., in 1905, was the next