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H0V TI1E NATION A7AS VOTED DRY
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ROCKINGHAM . POST-DISPATCu
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' The first 36 state to ratify, the- prohibition amendment to the Constitu
tion are shown In black n this map. When Nebraska, the thirty-sixth state
to take action, tvotetf In favor of ratification, nlati on-wide prohibition was
assured. Since that time several other states have ratified the amendment.
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AFTER LONG 'TIGHT
Campaign Comes to End With
; Surprising Suddenness. 1
BEFORE CONGRESS 40 YEARS
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Sheppsrd ' Prohibition ' Amendment,
, Eighteenth to Be Adopted, Rati- ;
fled in Less than Thin-. .
teen Months.
t TOifh mxrlft-nrtm that hns aurnrised
even the most optimistic of prohlbl-!
tlon advocates the United States has
voted Itself dry. It has done-this by
voting into the federal constitution an
imendment that prohibits the manu-
' fahwa " coin ttnnsnnrtflttnn of in-
toxlcatlng liquors within the United
1 States for beverage purposes, as well
us Its importation Into or exportation
' from the United States and all terrl
i tnrv anhlfft to its Jurisdiction.
"juor miy years iuo cuuivuieu iu u
taln prohibition either by state or fed
eral legislation has been waged with-
, out interruption, dui bow uiu ueoircu
' end has been reached by writing-the
' prohibitory regulations Into the or
. ganlc law. In this form, owing to the
difficulties attendant upon changes In
the Constitution, nation-wide prohlbl
: tlon becomes more of a permanent In
stitution ' than , an " experiment that
coma oe lenmnarcu vj wugreMiuuiu
... lofflalHtlnn. ... i V. . ,
The Sheppard prohibition amend-
ment, which has just1 been Tatlfled by
; more than three-fourths of the states
of the Union, the number required to
make It effective, becomes the elgh
' teenth amendment to the Constitution.
The resolution providing for its sub
mission to the stale legislatures, Intro
duced by Senator Morris Sheppard of
1 Texas; was finally adopted by congress
; December 18, 1917. . On January 10,
1919, less than thirteen months after
the adoption of the resolution by con
. gress, ratification of the amendment
, by the states. was accomplished. No
; other proposed amendment to the Con
stitution has been adopted with such,
i speed, with, the exception of that
. slavery. Action on the seventeen other
- v.Jn.nnt Yt V,., hoon nHmtoil
, Jias required from nine to, forty-three
inonths. The average time required
has been about two years.
4 t Tha war Is given the credit for has-
l the question was emphasized by the
war, emergency, and. the hnndwrltlng
t ou the wall was seen when congress
; passed a law providing tor nation-
, wide prohibition as a war measure, to
become effective JulyI, 1919, and to
. I continue until the armies of the Unit
' ed States have been demobilized. If
1 this law goes Into effect, as tontem
. plated, the country will go dry July 1,
' although the constitutional amend-
pent' will toot become effective until
one year after Its ratification by.the
Required number of state legislatures.
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Text p1 Amendment
; The text of the resolution embody
i ins the amendment which has now
,3 been1' adopted Is as follows: . ' ;
i joint resolution proposing
. an Amendment to the consti-
tution of the united. states.
Resolved by the senate and house of
' representatives fit the United States
i of America in congress assembled,
;J llwo-tlilrds of each bouga concurring
therein, that the following amend-
Dient to the Constitution be, and here
l by Is, proposed to the states to be-
;'come valid as a part of the Constltu
J tjon when ratified by the legislatures
tpt the several states as provided by
f I ihe Constitution:
f Section 1 After one year from the
VatiBcatlon of this .article the munu
; t acture, . sale or transportation of In--:?
toxlcatlng , liquors .within, the impor
J "tatloB'thereof into, or the exportation
thereof from the United States and
; nil territory subject to the Jurisdiction
" thereof for beverage purposes is here-
4 by prohibited. ' A '
', ) Section ,2 ;The congress and th
P- Several states have concurrent pow
K ter to enforce this article by approprl
.) iite lcglslr.tlon. . -. '
SecUi 8 This article shall be In
i , operative - unless 1 It shall have been
Ratified as on amendiont to the Con-
stitution by the legislatures of the sev
'era! states as provided In the Constl-
( tutlon within seven years from the
date of the submission hereof to the
states by the congress.
I CHAMP CLARK,
Speaker of, the House of Representa
tives.
THOMAS It. MARSHALL,
Vice President of the United States
and President of the Senate. ,'
I certify that this Joint resolution
originated In the senate. ,
, JAMES M. BAKER Secretary.
This resolution was adopted by the
senate on August 1, 1917, by a vote of
C5 to 20, and by the house of repre
sentatives on December 17 by a vote
of 282 to 128. House amendments were
adopted by tho senate December 18.
Mississippi First to Ratify.
Mississippi was the first state to
ratify the amendment, both senate and
house acting on January 8, 1918. Vir
ginia, Kentucky and South Carolina
took similar action during the same
month and North Dakota soon fol
lowed, but In most states action was
delayed until this year, when the vari
ous state legislatures convened. Then
the states took action on the amend
ment in rapid, succession. Following
North Dakota the states acted In tho
following order ' until Nebraska, the
thirty-sixth to act, completed the rati
fication: Maryland West Virginia
Montana California
Texas ' Washington
Delaware Indiana
South Dakota Arkansas
Massachusetts I'llnols
Hrlxona North Carolina
3eorg1a . Kansas
Louisiana . Alabama
Florida Iowa
Michigan Colorado 1
Ohio-' Oregon . - i.y ..
Oklahoma New Hampshire --
daho " ' tltah . -
Tennessee . . Nebraska
Maine .
t Before Congress 40 Years. -Bills
providing for nation-wide prohi
bition by legislation and resolutions
proposing constitutional amendments
for the same purpose have been before
congress almost continually for more
than 40 years. Senator H. W. Blair of
New Hampshire proposed the first
amendment In 1876. This provided only
for the prohibition of the manufacture
and sale of spirituous distilled liquors
for beverage purposes He introduced
a similar measure nine times, chang
ing It in 1886 to include all alcoholic
liquors.
Congressman Hobson of Alabama In
troduced the famous ."Hobson resolu
tion" in the house December 19, 1913,
The amendment was amended many
times by Hobson himself, finally pro
viding for a division of responsibility
for the enforcement of the law be
tween state and federal governments,
This was done to secure the support
of certain advocates of "state rights.'
The resolution came to a vote Decem
ber 22, 1914, but received only 197
votes, while 258 were necessary for Its
adoption. - , '
In 1914 Senator Works of California
introduced a bill providing for the pro
hibition of spirituous liquors, Including
wine and beer, but it received little
support from prohibition leaders and
did not come to a vote. " s
- i. May Go to Courts. '
There Is a probability that ontjprohl
bltlon forces will attempt to secure an
annulment of the ratification vote in
several states and will attack the b
gallty of the action of congress. In
San Francisco a court order has been
secured restraining Governor Stephens
temporarily from signing the ratifica
tion of the amendments It has been
stated that similar action may be taken
in other states, including Arkansas,
Colorado, Maine, Nevada, New Mexico,
Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Washington,
Missouri and Nebraska. In ,.- these
states, li Is declared, all action taken
by the state legislatures may be sub
mitted to the people' under a referen
dum. V
The Anti-Saloon league contends
i that this Is Impossible, outlining ita
nosltiou in the following statement:
: "Article V of the federal Constltu
' j tlon provides that the legislature oi
a state convention is the -only bod)
, which can ratify an amendment to th
'(Constitution. Congress, is given. the
'power to say which one shall hove th
1 authority. Congress had chosen th
state legislatures as'the bodies to rati
Ify tfte federal prohibition, amendment
A state referendum therefore would b
' ' illegal and void." , -: ;
i Attorneys for the liquor lnteresti
claim that there are many points oi
which tba amendment may be attacked
in tlie courts and plans have beet,
made, it is declared, for action along
these lines - y . ,
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FIGHT
Activities of Various Kinds Win
Wide Attention. ' ;
FRANCES E. WILLARD LEADER
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Known All Over World as Head of
. W. C. T. Uw Picturesque1 Career
of Carrie Nation Is
. '.; , Recalled. .
The final adoption of nation-wide
nrohibitlon calls to memory a number
of men "and women , who have achieved
not only national but world-wide fame
through their connection with the pro
hibition, or, ns it once was known, the
temperance, movement. . r
Some of these persons who have
been most prominent In the movement
were active so long ago tnnt meir
names mean little to those who have
not been closely connected with the
prohibition movement, but others are
well remembered by the present gen
eration. Among those who have won
the widest fame at various times
through their activity inr this work
may be mentioned. Gem. Neal Dow,
wlio Is credited with bringing prohi
bition to Maine; the first state to be
cosie dry ; John B, Gough, who be-,
came; a world-famous "temperance"
lecturer after, having been a drink ad
dict at twenty-five r Frances E; -Wll-lard,
who personifies the W. C. T. U.,
and Carrie Nation, the' eccentric sa
loon smasher, who. died only a short
time ago after a tempestuous career.
Gen. Neal Dow. .
Neal Dow was born in Portland,
Me., of Quaker parentage. He ,was
twice, mayor of Portland and a mem-;
ber of the state legislature. He en-h
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torea tne uivii war as coionei o ui
Thirteenth Maine volunteers. He was
wounded and. was a prisoner in Llbby
prison and was made a brigadier gen
eral for gallant service. Yet the coun
try knows Neal Dow simply as ."Fa
ther of the Maine Law" and, as a tem-
law of which he was the author In;
1801 una wHS-uie uni muie vv raiuir
lish Drohibltion. General Dow trav i
cled widely in foreign countries work-
ins for temperance, and on his nlne-i
tieth birthday memorial meetings
were held in many parts of the world.
He died In 189T. - , j
John B. Gough, who was the first
temperance advocate to attract more
.than local fame, was a native of Eng
land, where he was born In 1817, but
he came to the United States when he
was twelve years old. He'tearned the
bookbinding trade," but early became
addicted to liquor and could not hold
a position. He made such a living as
he could by singing in saloons. Later
he made a new start and married, but
when he lost his wife end child he
again took to drink and sank to new
depths.
The turning-point in his life came
when he was Induced by a Massachu
setts Quaker to sign a total abstinence
pledge. He became a temperance lec
turer, and after making many tours
in the United States he visited Eng
land, where "he conducted two cam
paigns. His fame spread throughout
the English- speaking nations and his
; books have been translated Into many
other languages.
Frances Willard's Fame World-Wide.
Frances E. Willard's fame is world-wide.
She was born In .Churchvllle,
N. ' Y., in 1839.- A graduate of th
1 Northwestern Femate college at Ev-
nnston, 111, in 1859, she taught and
traveled and from 1871 to 1874 sh
I was professor of esthetics In North
western university and dean of the
Gen. Neal Dow. t
woman's college, where she developed
the system of self-government that has
been widely copied. . , ' i
sn 1874 the National Woman's .Chris
tian Temperance Union was formed at
Cleveland," O., and Frances WHterd
.'.tound hr life wort :: She served for
five years as corresponding secretary
and then became president. In 1838
she founded the World's W. C. T. U,
which giew to have branches to 60
countries, and In 1888 she became Its
president' She wrote many temper
ance pamphlets and was the author of
four books. In the miffda of women
end o?. most men the,, World over
Frances Wlllard ana W. O. T. U. are
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Commissioner's Sale of Land
". Under and by virtue of an order of the
Superior Court of Richmond County
North Carolina, made in that special pro
ceeding, entitled "Bertha Bolton vs Mary
Bolton and R. L. McDonald, Guardian of
Mary Bolton," the undersigned commis
sioner will offee for sale to the highest
bidder, for cash, at the Court House door
in the town of Rockingham, N. C, at 12
o'clock, noon, on Saturday, February 15th,
1919, that certain lo or parcel of land,
situate lying and being in Rockingham
Township Richmond County, North Caro
lina, adjoining the landss formerly belong
ing th B. J. Bolton, C W- Worley, and
more particularly described as follows,
viz: '. ' ' ' ' . ' .i , ..
"Beginning, at a stake second corner of
d. W. Worley, formerly -owned by Sarah
S. Hasty,; bought of Mary A.. Pool, S. A.
Moffitt, and others, running in a north
erly direction with the old Guilford road
100 feet to a stake; thence in a westernly
direction 200 feet to a stake; thence in a
Southerly direction 100 feet' to a stake;
thence in ah Easterly direction 200 feet
with C. W. Worley'a line to the beginning.
, Sale subject to confirmation by the
Court ."' ,
' This 15th day of January, 1919 .
. W. S. THOMAS,
- COMMISSIONER
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of Real Estate.
North Carolina V.'
Richmond County " -
Under and by virtue of the power con
ferred upon me in a certain Mortgage
Deed executed by John Baldwin and wife,
which said Mortgage Deed is duly record
ed in the office of the Register of Dseds
for Richmond County, in book 83 page
90, default having been madejn the pay
ment of the indebtedness secured thereby,
I will on Monday February 24th, 1919 at
12 o'clock, M. in front of the court house
door in the town of Rockingham, offer
for sale the highest bidder for cash,? the
following described tract or parcel of
land:
Lying in the aforesaid, county and
State and In Black Jack Township on the
north prong of Cartledge's Creek; begin
ning at a rock in A. B. Webb's line and
runs S. 49 west 5.33 chs. to the edge of
the field; thence N. 65 west 10 chs. to" a
white oak pointer, a corner in a division
of the estate lands of Jerry Green, "de-.
ceased; thence Nv44 J-2 E. 8.50 chs. to a
rock in A. B, Webb's line; thence as his
line S. 50 E. 9.84 chs. to the beginning,
and being more -particularly described in
Mortgage deed above referred to.,
This Jan. 21. 1919.
J. R. Bennett,
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iNotice, .
To D. L. Tanner: You will take noti
that at a tax collector's sale for5 del
quent taxes for the county of Riehmoi
State of North Carolina, for th'e year 11
the undersigned did on the . 6th ;day
May, 1913, purchase 29 acres of land
Beaver Dam Township Richmond coun
N. C, thr. same being listed in your hai
for taxation, and unless you redeem ,t
same by paying the taxes and cost on
before the 6th day of May, 1919,' I ah
apply to the Sheriff of Richmond cour
for deed for same as the law provides.
.- .i , ci Wiley Taylor
Notice ,'
To Tanner Bros.: You Will talc
that at a tax collector's sale for del t
quent taxes for the county of RSchmor j
State of North Carolina, for ! the - ye
1917, the undersigned did on the 6th d E
of May 1918, purchase one lot in- W '
Rockingham, Richmond , county
the same being listed in your names 1 '
taxation and unless each of you redei i
the same by paying the taxes and cost j
ojf before the 6ih day of May.J 1919
shall apply to the- Sheriff of Richmo !
.county for, detd . for, same , as the,-1;
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