The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-01-19
The Transaction Has Not Been So Vio-
lent as Might Have Been Expected,
So Government Agents Report.

wink at the soda fountains nowadays
carries no more suggestion of kick"
than dash of ginger.
Meanwhile, the churches and other
organizations are celebrating the final
triumph of prohibition after cam
paign" which, they say, lasted 2TS
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 Prot
estant--will gather here and listen to
addresses by Federal Prohibition Com
missioner Kramer, Wayne b, Wheeler,
general counsel for the Anti-Saloon
league, and other notabes in the dry"
fight. Similar jubilee meetings, it is
said, will be held in other parts of the
country.
At these meetings, various speakers
are expected to touch upon some OF the
historical dates of the anti-liquor move
ment in America, which had its incep-
ton in Maryland in 1912 when the
colony passed law Furnishing drunk
enness by fine of 100 pounds of to-
baeeo.r Other curious events in the
struggle to give John Barleycorn the
count maybe recalled as follows;
Pennsylvania colony in 1914 made it
legal to sell liquor to Indians as well as
to whites but a few years later Con-
necticut and Rhode Island penalized
rum selling to the redskins by impos-
ing heavy fines. In 1850 Connecticut
passed law forbidding "tippling for
more than half an hour at a time. !"
Four years later Massachusetts fined
tavern keepers 20 shillings for catering
to a drunken man. Maryland in 1858
voted to put any person found drunk
"in the stocks for six hours" Virginia
decided "a common 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 1t became so bad
that the Assembly passed law pro
hibiting ministers from giving them
selves to excess in drinking or riot OF
in playing at unlawful games" New
Jersey decided in 1868 that no person
should be permitted to drink after 3
D. m" Massachusetts two years later
posted drunkards' names in public
houses. The Quakers of Pennsylvania
and New Jersey in 1855 declared
against intemperance. New Hampshire
in 100 forbade innkeepers from per
hitting 'townspeopie from remaining
in their houses drinking on Saturday
night or Sunday"
Trade in liquor with the Indians,
L. ax.1 al
Maryland colony in Ills 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 liveli-
hood by honest labor" Pennsylvania
Quakers in 1850 endeavored to abolish
the use OF liquor at funerals.
DIR. Benjamin Rush, perhaps the
greatest American medical authority of
century and quarter ago, in 1855
issued his celebrated essay dealing with
the effects of alcohol on the body and
mind. -Four years later the first tenn
perance society" in the country was or
ganized by 200 farmers in Litchfeld
county, Conn In 1894 the "Whiskey
Rebellion" in opposition to the tax on
distilled liquors broke out in western
Pennsylvania and was suppressed by
the military. In 1902 Congress passed
law enabling the president TO take
steps TO prevent the traffic in liquor
with the Indians
The Sober society, founded in Allen
town, n. j., in 1905, was the next step
towards prohibition, the forerunner OF
numerous organizations founded later
for dethroning King Alcohol. Not many
years afterward the American Society
for the Promotion of Temperance was
organized in Boston
Following the organization of the
Congressional Temperance society in
Washington. the first national temper
ance convention met in Philadelphia in
1888. Next wear Congress enacted
law forbidding the sale of liquor to In
dams under $500 penalty. The Presby
terrain general assembly in Philadelphia
at that time also declared against the
liquor traffic. Neal Dow, the father
Of prohibition in Maine" organized the
Maine Temperance union in 1887 and in
1899 Connecticut invented local OPP
ton" by leaving the licensing OF ss-
looms to the towns themselves.
Inauguration OF the Wsshingtonian
Movement was announced in 1870 and
within a year ii reported 100000 sign
ers Of the pledge. In 1912 Abraham
Lincoln, addressing the Washingtonian
society of Springfield. H., urged "a
temperance revolution" The next year
Oregon passed a prohibitory law but
repealed IL in ls4s. In lS43 John b.
Cough. arch foe Of intemperance," be-
gan TO lecture in Massachusetts, for 10
cents night. Two years later, ZEN
shared by a trick of his enemies, he
became intoxicated but continued his
campaign against drink both at home
and abroad.
The Democratic legislature Of Maine
in 1916 enacted a prohibitory law. In
ls4s the Methodist Episcopal church
forbade members buying. selling or
drinking intoxicants" Father Matthew,
the renowned Catholic temperance adj
yocate. arrived from Ireland in lS4a
and began his pledge signing crusade
throughout the United States. A riot
over the license question in Chicago
called out the militia in 1895. Pro-
hibitorv laws which had been passed in
several states were repealed and IN
other cases license amendments made
them Ineffective.
President elect Lincoln in 1850 refused
to furnish drinks to the notification
committee sent on June 10 to notify
him Of his election and returned un-
opened the hampers Of wine aud liquors
sent to the White House. In 1861 he
signed an act Of Congress -forbidding
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