The New York herald., 1920-01-18

ported by federal internal revenue Off
cials, largely because of we!l-stocked eel
lars and the knowledge of the accessi
bility of Cuba where a man may quenl
any kind of a thirst and still be withir
the law. Meanwhile drug stores and cand.
emporiums are reported doing an in
creased business where a wink" at th'
: soda fountains nowadays carries no more
suggestion of a kick than a dash oi
ginger.
Meanwhile. the churches and other or
CARNATIONS are celebrating the final tri
umph of prohibition after a Campaign
which, they say. lasted 27S years. Ton1or'
row the army OF clergymen in New York
city who meet annually for union meet
ing and who represent nearly every sect
and creed will gather here and listen to
addresses by Federal Prohibition Commits
sioner Kramer. Wayne B. Wheeler gen.
eral counsel for the Anti-Saloon League
and other notables in the dry fight
Similar jubilee meetings, II is said will
be held in other parts of the country. To
day is Law and Order Sunday"
At these meetings various speakers are
expected to touch upon some Of the his
torical dates of the anti-liquor movement
E in America, which had its inception in
Maryland in 1912 when the colony passed
a law Furnishing drunkenness by a fine
& IF 100 pounds OF tobacco" Other curious
events in the struggle to give John Barley.
corn the count may be recalled as fol-
lows
Pennsylvania colony in 1874 made II
legal to sell liquor to Indians as well az
to whites. but a few years later CQnnecti-
cut and Rhode Island penalized ruin SELL
4 ing to the redskins by imposing heavy
fines In 1850 Connecticut passed a law
forb'd6ing "tippling for more than halt
an hour at a time" Four years later
+ Massachusetts, fined tavern keepers e
r y, m Hriin nIren maj
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.
Liquor Trade Crew.
Even the clergy in Virginia some times
looked too long upon the wine when II
was red. 1t became 50 bad that the AS
sembly passed a law prob biting ministers
from giving themselves to excess in drink
ing or riot or in playing at unlawful
\ games" New Jersey decided in 1868 that
( no person should be permitted to drink
"after nine P. NJ. houses. The Quakers
y of Pennsylvania and New Jersey in less
declared against intemperance. New
Hampshire in 100 forbade innkeepers from
permitting ''townspeople from remaining
) In their houses drinking on Saturday
night or Sunday.
Trade in liquor with the Indians. mean
while, grew rapidly. II caused Maryland
Il colony in 1715 to prohibit selling of more
than one gallon OF liquor a day to any
NuGian under penalty Of 1900 pounds OF
tobacco" In 1857 the Georgia colony for
babe the granting Of a license to sell liquor
70 any person capable of gaining liveli-
hood by honest labor" Pennsylvania
Quakers in 1850 endeavored to abolish the
use Of liquor at funerals
Or. Benjamin Rush, perhaps the greatest
American medical authority of a century
and a quarter ago. in 1855 issued his cele-
hrated essay dealing with the effects OF
alcohol on the body and mand. -Four
q years later the first temperance society
IN the country was organized by 200 farm
srs in Litchfield county, Conn. In 1874 the
''Whiskey Rebellion in opposition to the
tax, on distilled liquors broke out in west.
ern Pennsylvania and was suppressed BY
the military. In 1902 Congress passed q
law enabling the President TO take steps
70 prevent the traffic in liquor with the
Indians"
The Sober Society. founded in Allentown
y, j.. in 1906, was the next step towards
prohibition. the foreerunner Of numerous
organizations founded later for dethron-
ing King Alcohol. Not many years after.
ward the American Society for the Pro-
motion OF Temperance was organized in
Boston.
F flowing the organization Of the Con-
xressional Temperance Society IN Wash
ington. the first national temperance con-
vetion met in Philadelphia inls23 Next
year Congress enacted law forb'ddins
The sale Of liquor to Indians under s5N
penalty. The Presbyterian General AS
sembly 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
1897 and in 1889 Connecticut invented local
opuon, by leaving the licensing of saloons
Towns imam
Lincoln On Temperance.
Inauguration OF the Washingtonian
Movement vas announced in ls40 and with.
m year it reported 10000 signers of the
pledge. In 1912 Abraham Lincoln address,
ing the Washingtonian Society Of Spring
field, Ill. urged "a temperance revolu-
ton.' The next year Oregon passed a
prohibitory law but repealed IL in lS4s
In lSi3 John 3. Cough arch foe of in
temperance" began 10 lecture In Massa-
chusetts for seventy cents a night TIVE
years later, "ensnared by a trick OF hi:
enemies, he became intoxicated but con.
tinued his campaign against drink ootl
at home and abroad
The Democratic Legislature of Maine
in 1916 enacted a prohibitory law In ls4t
the Methodist Episcopal Church forbade
members buying. selling or drinking In.
toXicants" Father Matthew the re.
nowned Catholic temperance advocate. ar.
rived from ireland in 1s49 and began his
plodgc-signing crusade throughout the
United States. a riot over the license
question in Chicago called out the militia
in 1850. Prohibitory laws which had been
passed in several States We're repealed
and in other cases license amendment
made them ineffective
President-elect Lincoln In 1850 refused
IN furnish drinks to the Notification Com
nittee sent on June 70 to notify him of
hlS election and returned unopened the
hampers OF wine and liquors sent to the
White House. In 1861 he signed an act OF
Congress forbidding thte selling or Civ
ing Of intoxicants TO soldiers" In 1862
congress repealed the law allowing a gill
ot whiskey ration to men in thee navy.
Kansas in 1856 passed a local option and
prohibitory law. Ohio in 1870 passed the
Adair law making the LIQUOR seller and
the property owner Jointly responsible for
injury caused by liquor
Francis Murphy delivered his first
temperance sermon in 1871 and helped 10 or
Eani2e the Catholic Total Abstinence
Union Of America. Three years later
women actively entered tthe crusade for
temperance. the Womens Christian Tenn
perance Union being organized on Novern-
her 10. 1874. Vermont. IN 1878. passed a.
law declaring saloons to be 'unisances -
In INA - 1T.