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DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1010.
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL
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STATE WIDE PROHIBITION
IS FAILURE WHERE TRIED
lowaWad to Abandon It and
;' of LaW and
, Evansvlljo, Indiana,, April 26.
The Rov.-Dr. W. C. Holt,; founder of
tho Anti-saloon league's work ' In
- Indiana and whose recent reslgna
tlon from district suporlntendoncy
in league work created a sensation,
"lias -Just returned from a still hunt
through the south. This eminent
.tomporanco worker who refused to
continue longer In loaguo harness
bocauso he believes state wide
prohibition is the height of folly at
- this time, In tho stato, toured tho
south to observQ tho condition pre
vailing Under stato wide prohibitory
laws in Tennesseo and Alabama. He
colnes back to his homo more
strongly' convinced than ever that
the anti-saloon loaguo is twp gener
ations 6f more ahead of tlmo In Its
state wide propaganda.
' Dr. Helt ault active service In tho
loaguo work when tho stato directors
declared two months ago that tho
league's nest fight in Indiana would
bo to got a stato wide prohibition
'clause In tho constitution. Dr. Holt
'fiion 'declared, and now more em
phatically than over assorts, that
tills mo'vomont threatens to wrofik
tho cnuso of tomperanco In Indiana.
For moro than 25 years a minis
tor of the gospel, and still in high
standing with his church; supported
by tho Christian mon of Evansvlllo;
Hfroncr In ha nnvlctlnnft nnil cour
ageous in his utterances, Dr. Holt's
utterances . .aro being deeply studied
nnil the following account of his
trip south Is of i;nusual Interest:
Prohibition ns Applied to Cities.
Tho southern statos offer a moro
favorablo field for tho operation o'f
a prohibitory Jaw, than any other
section of our country. Thero aro
but fqw comparatively largo cities
In tho prohibition states. Thero Is
almost no foreign population, and
tho negroes aro practically dis
franchised. If wo fln,d that such a
. law is non-ef foctlvo under theso
favorable conditions, what must bo
oxpectod of tho law in our northern
cities, which 'are made up largely
of foreign bom people and tholr
children. Many of thorn aro among
our most respected citizens, yot they
havo their' pwn ideas in roteronco
to tho drink habit, and aro opposed
to prohibition.
In ordor to get facts first hand,
.find to satisfy mysolf as to tho oper
ation of prohibition in the southern
Ktltdtos, I rocontly visited three
rqpfcBtuitatlYO cltlos, vizi Montgom
rr. anil Birmingham, " Ala., nnd
NashyJIlo. Tonn. i' shall endeavor
to glvb nn unbiased report of facts
in roforonco to conditions now pre
vailing In thoBO prohibition cities.
Montgomery Is ono of tho most
beautiful and attractlvo cities in
this country. It is mado up of a
hjgh class of people, whom ono
would naturally oupposo to bo In
'favor of prohibition and tho onforco
mont of law.
' Thoro Is not a more "wldo open"
cHy In any wfet stato In this country
jlmji Is Montgomery. Every room
'Svhich was used for a saloon under
llconso Jaw, is preserved intact with
bar, furnishings, etc Theso places
aro ,banii oporntort now as formerly.
.with .the, exception, that a few "soft
drinks' havfe boon added to tho
, regular .tock of liquors. Tho law
prohibits screens, and none aro In
use.. Thfiso places aro now called
'Vf -M?H"" emporiums.' To tost
.WmaTtojr jxa o whothor or not any
" 9ff Jhaii soft drinks 'aro sold. I
Ktoiinarl In ono nlaco nnd Wd a lit
,tjea,.v'lth the bartondor. who in-
l . . . .. . . t. 1. mtlv nrfr
. torjuuu, iub 'nw w v-.
drTnkp. .B&fo,ro loavlng I fenia to
aIaAJ. iu I Is,.-!.
uapiiai National ohm
Salem, Oregon
tnltat, Surplus and VnflUlded
Profits, rUO.OOO.
nfflcvm and Dlrectorst
j ' if.' Albert President
a M nrnlmn . Vice-President
4
rjt, Jfo H Albert CaV!P,3
John A. (iaraon
Geo. F, notynn A
Southern States Make a Monkey
Order Trying.lt Out.
him; "Could you not accommodate
mo with somdthlng more than' a soft
drink?" "Yes, I guess I' can' he
said. "What, would you like?"
was then "up against It" good nnd
hard. I did "not want to mako tho
confession that I never drink liquor,
after calling for it, and excused my
self by saying: "It is now my sup
porting, and I am not in tho habit
of drinking anything Just beforo
eating." If nil kinds of liquor can
bo procured In ono placo, they can bo
procured In tho one hundred nnd
moro other places in tho city run
nng wldo .open.
Upon arriving In tho city, tho
first business placo I saw was a
gorgoous saloon. I had not gone
ono block bofore I met a man who
required tho entire width of tho
sldo walk for him to get along. I
stopped In ono of tho pool rooms to
soo tho' mon play, and a fine look
ing man asked mo if I would not
keep count for him while he play
ed. His tongue was so, thick ho
could scarcely talk, and , ho was
very unstoady on , his feet. Tho
poolroom was in connection with a
saloon, whoro ho had ovldontly pro
cured a "soft drjnk." Everybody
knows that theso places aro saloons,
puro nnd simple, whoro any person
enn got any kind of liquor he- may
order.' And this Is In a prblilbltlon
city.
Somo people will endeavor to
answor this fact by saying that tho
fault Is not In tho law, but In tho
officers whoso duty It is to onforco
the law. This Is truo. If wo woro
living under ldoal political condi
tions, with ovory offlcor a man who
would do his duty, prohibition would
bo mado a success, . But unfortu
natoly, wo do not liavo such Ideal
conditions In our municipal govern
ments. Wo aro forced to work un
der conditions as they nro, and not
under what wo might Imagine ldoal
.tondltlous to bo Conditions pre
vailing in our cities aro such as to
mako tho successful enforcement of
u prohibitory law practically Im
possible, and It is unwlso to at
tempt to se'euro such a result at the
prqsont tlmo.
Reaction has already sot In
against tho law, and tho general bo
Hot is that It will bo repealed, and
a local option law onuotod In Its
stead. Tho claim Is that this
ohango would pormit ouch local
community to deal with tho traffic
according to tho will of tho ma
jority. It is ostlmuted that two out
of throo porsons In Montgomery aro
oppoaod to prohibition, ail it aro llko-
wlso opposed to having a law, forcod
upon them by othor. sections pt tho
stato that they "do not want, and
will not enforce. This Is why a
prohibitory law Is dostlnod to fall
In our cltlos. whoro It Is opppaod by
a majority of tho people.
Tho. conditions in Birmingham aro
somewhat different from those In
Montgomery. Tho law has mado
8oruo lmprovomont by closing tho
saloons' and reducing tho number of
arrosts' for drunkenness. Bb tar asj
can bo soon from mo street mrm
Ingham Is ntrjctly a prohibition city.
It would bo tho most natural thing
In tho world for a pojson.' to, visit
this city. If" he- mado no IrtytRatlqn
as to conditions, nijd report Ihat pro
hibition Is surdly a. success.
r had a. oonvorsiitton with a Post
uuine oiurn, wuujnt i kvjfii'' ""
a prohibitionist, th&nee ho would
naturally be biased. Jn favor of the
Isw. Ho mado the following, stato;.
wants, whtoh I found, upon "further
inveatlgntlon, to bo osftrwelvo of
. KMiiernl sentiment of th poplo.
He sld: "Tho prosant aojulUJons
oyr the onan-jaloon traff'oJ
but the asUial conditions aro not
much ImnVovadt Any body can get
liquor who wants It, savo tho
negroes. They aro cut out.
"Ono of tho worst features of tho
blind tiger business )s tho private
house saloons in resfdenco sections
of tho city. When to bad saloons
proper they woro generally restrict
ed to tho buslness-portlon of town
but now they aro everywhere.
"As a corrective ogoncy, prohibi
tion in cities Is a failure All It
docs is to closo up ono' avenue and
open nnother.
"Thoro Is a movo on now to re
peal, or to modify, tho. present law
In some way so as to deal with tho
city problem In a- different mannor,
Limit tho number of saloons and
put- them under high license and
strict regulation. That seems to bo
tho only way of dealing with tho
city problem, with any degree of
success."
I called upon tho Intornal Rev
enue agent and learned that 1487
federal tax receipts havo been issued
this year in a city of about 75,000
population. This ono fact Is suf
flcient to show tho conditions pre
vailing In this city. That number
Is largely In excess of the licenses
Issued under tho saloon regime, so
Instead of prohibition reducing tho
number of "places whero liquor can
be procurred it has increased them
Further comment as to tho non
effectiveness of tho law In Blrmlng'
ham Is unnecessary.
I arrived In Nashville at 9 o'clock
Saturday night. After locating In
tho Tulano Hotel, I "took in" as
much of tho town as I could up to a
late hour.
A person walking the streets of
Nashville would never suspect that
tho city officials, saloon keepers and
citizens at largo had even so much
as heard of tho word "prohibition."
Tho word Is evidently not -found In
the city dictionary. I havo studied
tho saloon problem In a large num
ber of cities, and I do not recall ono
where thoro aro so many high toned
drink emporiums In ratio to the
number, as I found In this city.
What! such saloons In a prohibition
town?" Ves. nnd running wide
open, without lot or ninurance. won
they sell only soft drinks? Perhaps.
Thoso I visited were selling somo
kind of liquid that was certainly not
sofo, If coloi1 and odor can bo rolled
upon as circumstantial evidence,
Tho saloons In prohibition Nasa-
vlllo are soiling tho genuine article.
In violation of tho stato wldo pro
hibitory law? Yes, and thoy are
treating the law with utter con
tempt. Tho saloon keepers aro not
the only ones who aro thijs Ignoring
tho law. Tho city ornciais aro, ma
Ing no attempt to enforco the law,
and tho citizens back of tho officers
nrn lndlfforont to it. and not de
manding Its enforcement. Why?
Becnuso tho mnjority. of tho people
of tho city aro opposed to tho law.
A law can not, or at least will not
bo enforced If It does not receive
tho support of public sontlmont.
Under tho saloon roglmo, saloons
were centralized in the business part
of town, as In Birmingham, but now
thoy nro scattered all over tho city.
Thero Is a larger number now than
formerly, wjth nn Increased amount
of drunkenness. 1
Rov. Dr. Lofton, paBtor of Cen
tral Baptist Church, In his sermon
Sunday .night, said: "Do you know
that podplo aro mourring nil over
this town over tho prostitution of
law? Thero Is mourning nil over
Nashylllq tonight bocauso young
men nro walking tho streets drunk.
I havo novor soen as many men
drunk In twonty-two years I hav
been In Nashvlllo, as I havo seen the
past six mouths."
It not nocessary to multiply
words In voforoncd to the operation
of tho law In Nashville. It Is not
only a doad letter and a failure, but
It Is bolng trented with disdain. The
perplo will suffer this condition to
oxist for a tlmo, .hcn thoy will cast
It off. and with tho repeal of tho
law will go what good has come to
tho small towns and rural soctloris.
By seeking too much, that Is. move
than can bo successfully worked,
thoro Is grave danger of losing nil.
It U generally recognized that
Sho anti-BCohlbJUon gonjlmcnt Is In
creasing throughout tho stato,
caused by tho failure cf tho law In
cltlos.
Among tho large number or peo
ple with whom I tnlked in nil three
of tho cltlos, Including ministers,
buslnoss and professional mon, thoro
was not ono who did not express
hlmsoif as boUg very doubtful about
a prohibitory law bolng mado n uc
co68 In our contors of population.
Thoy aro giving tho law a (rial, and
It Is falling to make good.
I mot a traveling man In Ponsa-
cola, Pin., who llvos In Ohto. and
who makos tweuty-flvo statos In his
rounds. Ho Is an autl-salqqp man,
and said ho would votp ,dry it tho
fight is ovor brought nUx his
equnty. although ho is not Jn favor
of prohibition, tor cities, ebnjjse of
its talUr " corrective ngenoy.
He is situated W ho onnv "sea on
both sides of tho fdhco,".ns h ox
pressed It. nnd has glvan the drink
Mpblojw oonslitgrable study. Ho
said that' "JH'ohftdtloa (uncondition
al! Ill' tho toulh Is tho worst thing
thai could hfYO beon dano, Mon
will havo tfiW Wtiuor. "nfl you oah-
not atop Its sale to savo oueok.',
I askod him to glvo mo his vlows as
to tho host method ot dealing wlUt
A Storekeeper Says;
"A lady came into rny store lately and said :
" 'I have been Using a New Perfection Oil Cook-Stove all winter
in my apartment. I want one now for my summer home. I think
these oil stoves are wonderful. If only women knew what a
comfort they are, they would all have
one. I Spoke about my stove to a lot
of my friends, and they were aston
ished. They thought that there was
srricll and smoke from an oil stove, and
that it heated aroom just like any other
stove. I told them of my experience,
and ono after another they got one, and
now, not one of them would give hers
up for five times its cost.' "
The lady who said this had thought
an oil stove was all right for quickly
heating milk for a baby, qr boiling a
kettle of water, or to make coffee
quickly in the morning, but she never
dreamed of using it for difficult or
heavy cooking. Now she knows.
Do you really appreciate whit a New
Perfection OH Cook-Stove meant to you ? No
more coil to carry, no mora coming to the
dinner table so tired out that you can't eat.
lust light a Perfection Stove and Immediately
the heat from an Intense blue flame shoots
up to the bottom of pot, kettle or oven. Dut
the room Isn't heated. There is no smoke, no
smell, no outside heat, no drudgery in the
kitchen where one of these stoves la used.
11 Cook-grove
. It has a Cabinet Top with a shelf for keeping plates and food hot. The
nickel finish, with the bright blue of the chimneys, makes the stove ornamental
and attractive. Made with 1. 2 and 3 burners; the 2 and 3-burner stoves
can be had with or without Cabinet.
Every dearer everywhere ; If not at yours, write for Descriptive Circular
to the nearest agency of the
Standard Oil Company
(Incorporated)
tho traillc. He replied by saying
that none but pure liquor should bo
permitted to be sold. Limit the
number of saloons, And placo them
under strict regulation. No licenses
should bo given, but a permit to
sell, under n heavy tax. Mako tho
penalty for law violations severe.
Under such regulation tho law will
be self-enforcing, and tho saloon
keepers will become watch-dogs In
running down blind tigers. Prohibit
the sale In country districts and
small towns, when, a majority of tho
people aro in favor of tho law.
A wholesale liquor dealer ih
Pensacola Informed mo that his
business had Increased 75 per cent
slnco the several southern states
had gone dry. I asked him what ef
fect ho thought a law passed by
congress to prohibit the Inter-stato
shipment of liquor would' havo on
his trae. Ho said that It would
ca so a great reduction in his busi
ness, but It would have but llttlo
jffect upon the genoral trade. Each
stato would then manufacture
enough to supply Its own demand.
If tho public manufacture of liquor
should bo prohibited, it will still bo
mado by moonshiners and private
individuals. As long ns thero Is a
'domand, tho supply will bo fur
nislied In somo way.
Tho U. S. Marshall of Montgom
ery told men that moonshlno stills
woro Increasing In Alabama very
rapidly. That same condition pre
vails genorally throughout tho
south.
Only ono conclusion possibly can
be drawn from tho facts as horeln
set forth, viz: that prohibition, as a
correctivo agency in
dealing with
tho liquor traffic will not work
whoro it is opposed by a majority
of tho people Jt matters not how
much this fact may bo doplored. It
io looking us in the face, and wo
must look It in the face, and meet
this condition by somo other
method. Ideal conceptions are al
right as long as they are workable,
but. as soon ns they ceaso to be ef
fective, it Is tlmo to put them to
ono side, nnd resort to tho next best
method to moot present conditions,
and thus prepare tho way for tho
uso of a prohibitory law later on
wbou conditions havo so changed as
to mako such a law workable. It
will bo a difficult matter for tho
tem,!oranco people to break away
from their long cherished plnn nnd
purpose of uprooting tho drink ovll
at ono stroke, by tho nppllcation of
a prohibitory enactment. Thoy will
be forced to do so however, by stub
born and unyielding conditions. If
tho results of this failure could bo
confined to the cltlos, the caso
would not be so deplorable. The
opposition to tho law, and Its failure
to be enforced, will act as leaven to
tho country districts, and nW that
has been gained during the past
yoars of tempornnco warfaro will bo
lost. Tho tlmo ha rully come for
temperance-workers to drive their
stakos; to strengthen themsolves In
the torrltory already acquired, and
to chnngo tho method of campaign
In dealing with the complex city
problem. When a mothod has prov
en Itself to bo Ineffective, It Is not
wise to contluuo to push It In tho
face of suro defeat.
Tho .Qltles "Under review furnish
nmplo proof of the fact tliat a pro
hlbitory, law Is at present unwork
able In our cantors of population.
In referring to those oltlas.aa I have.
I do not moan to oast any reproach
upon them or to discredit thorn In
uny way. They ar now doing
what other oltte will o ns fast as n
law Is forced upon. them, against
thjlr protwt. They are simply car
rying out a olwrly daflnoc law In
humap nature, No. man. as a pri
vate oltUon, Is going to espouse and
put Into e&eeuton a law or principle.
fl Canlionar)' Note : Be sure ? 1
ff you get this stove see M
that the name-plate it
reads
against which ho is opposed. Neither
is a city. This law as applied to
cities 13 In advance of public senti
ment. It is premature. A genera
tion or two of educational work
must bo resorted to, before prohibi
tion will bo universally workable.
There is no doubting tho fact that
prohibition is working with a de
gree of success in small towns and
country districts in all states, but
In cities It is a signal failure, as a
rcmedlcal agency, with a few possl
blo exceptions.
o
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It is silver-plated, very pretty, nnd
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W. Harritt.
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Notlco of Intention to Improve Asy
'lum Avenue.
Notlco is hereby givpn that tho
common council of the city of Salem,
Oregon, deems it expedient and pro-
pose.' o improve Asylum Avenue in
tho city of Suloni, Oregon, with con-1
creto pavement from tho east line o'
14th street to tho center line of
21th street, according tohho plana
and specifications adopted April 1,
1910, for such Improvement, ai if on
file in the office of tho city recorder,
wh'ch said plans and specifications
aro hereby referred to for a more
perfect description of said improve
ment; said improvement to uo maae
at tho expenso of tho adjacent and
abutting property within tho Hmlt3
of said improvement,
This notlco is published for 10
days pursuant, to the ordor of the
common council, and the date of the
first publication thereof Is the 13th
day of April, 1910.
Romonstrances may bo filed
against said improvement within 10
days ot the final publication of this
notice,,
Dy order of tho common council.
W. A. M.oores, City Recorder.
4-13-12t
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School Donds.
Notice Is hereby given that the
Hoard of Directors of School District
No. 24, In Mnrion co nty, Oregon,
are to Issue popular loan notes, In
sums not less than $50 each, and
amounting. In the aggregate to $26,
000 to tho bona fldo resident citizens
of said district. Said notes aro to bo
Issued and delivered on tho 9th day
of May, 1910, and mado payable on
or bofore ten years from date of Is
sue, and are to bear interest at the
rate of 6 per cent per annum, pay
ablo semi-annually. Tho books for
said loan are this day opened in the
office of tho district clerk of said dis
trict, at No. 3S8 Stato street, Salem,
Oregon, and applications will bo re
ceived until noon of .e 7th day of
May. 1910.
By order ot the Board o directors
Dated this oth day of April, 1910.
H. A. JOHNSON, JR.
4-7-26t-d District Clerk,
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