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resorted to in concealing imported
liquor while in transit. It is put in
the middle of baled hay, at the bottom
of kegs of butter, and in ways past
finding out screened from the gaze of
man till delivered to the consignee.
Discoveries of such deviltry are con
tinually being made, but no one sup
poses that the whole truth is known.
* * * One thing the government can
do. If it finds, when liquor is seized
after reaching its destination, that it
comes from firms in Toronto or else
where licensed as wholesale dealers,
the licenses can be revoked. The best
way to deal with the difficulty is to go
to the fountain head, and make it un
profitable for wholesalers to violate
the law. When it becomes as unprofit
able to circumvent the law as it is
now profitable to do so, the evil will
cease.
Georgia “drys” are making a de
termined effort to secure the passage
of the Tippins bill, the object of which
is to abolish the near-beer business.
Complaint is made that the sale of the
“near” article often covers up sales
of the genuine.
o o o
Wide-awake Anti-Saloon League
men of Indiana, justly aroused
because of the failure of the 150
saloonists of Gary to observe the
Sunday closing law, threaten prose
cution. A general tightening of the
lid is forecast.
000
Fresno county, Cal., will vote on the
saloon question in May.
000
The annual meeting of the Ver
mont Anti-Saloon League will be
held March 19.
000
Rev. Donald McKenzie, a promi
nent worker for the Anti-Saloon
League of Minnesota, dropped dead
in a railway station at Duluth. His
home was at Mankato, and he was
known as a forceful speaker.
000
Carrying out the same plans as in
1909 the Virginia Anti-Saloon League
will demand public statements from
each candidate for governor and other
offices giving their views on Jiemper
ance legislation, and the candidate who
makes the most satisfactory reply will
receive the vote of the League’s mem
bership, which gave Governor Mann
victory in the last campaign.
000
Great things are being planned by
the Anti-Saloon League of Idaho. In
the first place, the League is giving
assistance to the effort to pass the
Sheppard-Kenyon bill in the national
congress; next, it will use all its in
ffuence in securing the nomination and
election of “dry” state officials, from
the governor down to the last county
and municipal officer, such officials
as will enforce the present option
laws. Thirdly, several important
elections will be held, and the League
expects to win all of them.
o o o
Most church people always rejoice
in anti-saloon victories. When the
city of Lamar, Mo., voted “dry” the
church bells, which had been rung
every hour in the day as a reminder
to the church folks to pray for vic
tory, pealed for half an hour.
o o o
So well pleased with seven years of
drougth were the people of Salineville,
Ohio, that they recently voted to con
tinue to keep out saloons.
o o o
Former Governor R. R. Glenn, of
North Carolina, will deliver an ad
dress in Reading, Pa., on the evening
of March 21, under the auspices of the
Pennsylvania Anti-Saloon League.
000
Hotels in North Carolina which
serve wines or liquors in any way in
connection with banquets or meals,
for which a charge is made, are guilty
of violating the prohibition law, ac
cording to a decision made by At
torney General T. W. Bickett.
000
The Texas Anti-Saloon League,
according to the statement of the
superintendent, J. H. Gambrell, is in a
flourishing condition. At its recent
convention a report of a busy year
was made. The League, says Dr.
Gambrell. has no debts that it has not
the money to meet.
000
Saloonists of Lestershire,/ N. Y.,
have circulated a petition urging the
passage of a special bill giving the
village authority to vote on local op
tion excise apart from the vote cast
in the town of Union.
000
Doubtless the “wets” of Colton,
Cal., are sorry the}'- contested the
recent election held there. Before
the contest the “drys” had a majority
of but two votes. The court rules,
however, that the real majority is
seventeen.
000
The spring election in Michigan
promises to be an interesting one in at
least twenty-five counties of that state
in which the people will vote on the
liquor question. Eighteen of these
counties are now “dry” and seven are
now “wet.” The outlook from the
temperance standpoint is encouraging.
Go to the Fountain Head
That the provincial government of
Ontario is doing its part in enforcing
the anti-liquor laws, but that because
of natural circumstances such enforce
ment is attended with some difficul
ties; and that there remains yet an
other way in which to stop violations
are things pointed out in an editorial
in the Hamilton, Ont., Spectator.
The Spectator says:
Here is a stretch of country three
times the size of older Ontario, almost
destitute either of railways or ordin
ary roads, in which there are thick
nesses innumerable and impenetrable
wherein the sale of liquor may be
concealed. The provincial government
is now spending more money than was
spent by any of its predecessors in
the endeavor to enforce thoroughly,
without fear or favor, the liquor license
act. But its force of detectives can
not be everywhere at once. Not only
are there boundless opportunities for
covert lawlessness in the nature of the
territory, but the utmost ingenuity is
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A local W. C. T. U. has been organ
ized in Jerusalem, Palestine.
The number of liquor licenses issued
in Holland is steadily decreasing.
The consumption of absinthe in
France has increased from 1,500,000
gallons in 1875 to 4,400,000 gallons in
1910.
The temperance people of Leeds,
England, have entered a hot protest
against liquor advertisements in the
street cars.
At a recent meeting of the Co
lombo Missionary Conference, Cey
lon, a strong protest was sent to the
government against increasing the
number of liquor licenses in the
island.
The Catch-My-Pal Total Absti
nence Society of Ireland now has
250,000 members. The Emerald Isle
is experiencing the greatest temper
ance revival in all its history.
The growth of temperance senti
ment in New Zealand is most encour
aging. The recent election showed it
had more than doubled the vote of
1908. In the 1911 election, the tem
perance votes were 56 per cent of the
total.
Nine hospitals in Dublin are using
only one-seventh as much alcohol as
twenty-five years ago, eight in Lon
don use less than one-half as much
as five years ago.
There are four countries in which
the per capita consumption of beer
exceeds that of the United States
(20.09):
Belgium .55-20
The United Kingdom, 31.44
Germany .26.47
Denmark .22.98
France drinks one-half as much
beer per capita as the United States
and fifty nine times as much wine.