Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-03
27S YEARS WERE
 REQUIRED TO PUT THE COUNTRY DRY
Story. of Prohibition Fight Since the Colonial
 Days

uea largely because of we'll stocked eel .ial lars and knowledge of the access oec ability of Cuba where man may spo Quench any kind of thirst and ey atill be within the law. Meanwhile q drug stores and candy emporiums !ecs iness where a twink" at the soda thr fountains nowadays carries no more cou suggestion of "kick" than a dash Ell of ginger.
 dlti Pennsylvania colony in 1644 made torl 1t legal to sell liquor to Indians as tots we'll as to whites but few years later Connecticut and Rhode Island gaH penalized rum selling to the red- Auy skins by imposing heavy fines. In oN 1660 Connecticutt passed law for tas bidding "tippling for more than aIl nater Massachusetts fined tavern
 keepers 20 shillings for catering to a drunken man. Maryland in 1858 IEoted to put any person found hutklrunk Gin the stocks for six hours" ANirKinia also decided "a common one irunkard" was any person who had wasbeen intoxicated three times.
 M Clergy Drank.
 s. ulsn Even the clergy in Virginia some S$imes looked too long upon the wine
 when it was red. It became so bad |. $u9t 3Suc fAoSS1uVAy paSSCu AdW NAV-
 .hibiting ministers from giving them ck }elyes to excess in drinking or riot So4 Sr in playing at unlawful games." .ysvNew Jersev decided in 1868 that no asssserson should be permitted to drink ss 4after p. m." Massachusetts two sears later posted drunkards' names siGa 2 ah public houses. The Quakers of sRennsylvania and New Jersey in qeS6 declared against intemperance. K6A~ S>n <AN kaA Ia mn Keepers from permitting towns tqeople from remaining in their 4onses drinking on Saturday night a1elF Sunday"
 gersf Trade in liquor with the Indians A Aeanwhile grew rapidly. It caused ciev ve5Aryland colony in 1715 to prohibit Slling of "more than one gallon of naSs 5quor day to any Indian under
 snalty of 5000 pounds of tobacco" 4nsaA 1767 the Georgia colonw forbade SeAe granting of license to sell ons 9quor to any person "capable of < Aining a livelihood by honest la o9x 9r" Pennsylvania Quakers in 1760 nis 4deavored to abolish the use of li- bor at funerals.
 nroW pr. Benjamin Rush, perhaps the , oeg geatest American medical authority . century and quarter ago, in 7, As s86 iasued his celebrated essay s sng N 5aling with the effects of alcohol S, rxa the body and mind. Four years 0.zD Ser the first Temperance society" SR the country was organized by 200
 farmers in Litchfield county, Conn.
 In 1794 the "Whiskey Rebellion"
 in opposition to the tax on distilled
 liquors, broke out in western Penn
 sylvAnia and was suppressed by the
 military. In 1902 Congress passed
 . law enabling the President to "take
 steps to prevent the traffic in li-
 uuor with the Indians"
 Tie Sober Society, founded in AL
 lentown, N. J., in 1895, was the next
 step toward prohibition, the fore
 runner of numerous organizations
 founded later for dethroning King Alcohol Not many years afterward
 the American Society for the Pro-
 motion of Temperance was organized
 Maine Was First.
 Following the organization of the
 Congressional Temperance Society
 in Washington, the first national temperance convention met in Phil
 adeiphia in 1883. Next year Con-
 eress enacted a law forbidding the saIe of liquor to Indians under $500
 penalty. The Presbyterian General Assembly in Philadelphia at that time also declared against the !i-
 ouor traffic Neal Dow. the "fa-
 ther of prohibition in Maine," or
 ranixed the Maine Temperance Un-
 ion in 1887 and in 1889 Connecticut
 invented "local option" by leaving
 the licensing of saloons to the towns themselves
 inauguration of the Washingtonian Movement was announced in 1S4O and within . year it reported 100000 ningers of the pledge. In 1S42 Abra- s hnfn Lincoln addressing the Wash inetonian Society of Springfield, Ill.,, urxed Temperance revolvtion The next year Oregon passed g pro hibitory law but repealed it in lS4S: In 18lS John B. Cough, "arch foe of
 intemperance." began to lecture in Nassachusetts for 75 cents night.
 T'wp years later, "ensnared by trick
 of his enemies" he became intoxi-
 cated, but continued his campaign
 against drink both at home and
 The Democratic legislature of
 lfaine in 1046 enacted prohibitory
 law. In 18l8 the Methodist Epis-
 eonal church forbade members "buy.
 ;rs selIinr or drinking intoxicants."
 Isfhef Matthew, the renowned Cath,
 olie temperance advocate, arrived from Ireland in 1849 and began his N nIadee-siRning crusade throughout
 ths United States. A riot over the
 lieanse question in Chicago called
 ri the militia in 1855. Prohibitory
 1aWs which had been passed in sew
 nxAl states were repealed and in
 okh8r cases license amendments made
 fAem ineffective.
 President- elect Lincoln in 1860 re-
 fused to furnish drinks to the Notl-
 fieation Committee sent on June IS Y fn notify him of his election and re. M furncd unopened the hampers of M ihe and liquors sent to the White
 House In 1881 he signed an act of
 Gon9ress "forbiddinR the selling or Sixine of intoxicants to soldiers"
 7n 1662 Congress repealed the law
 SIlcwine . gill of whiskey ration to < ss Ssln ih the navy. Kansas in 1866
 ssssed | local option and prohibitory
 }cw. ohio in 1870 passed the Adair
 isw raking the liquor seller and the \ !SrorSrtY owner jointly responsible 4Sr efnjnry cansed by liquor.
 Trnncis Murphy delivered his first x kSimn6finee sermon m lSI! ana s SSis5 5 4 ffd s6rranixe the Catholic "o- "A Ann <.