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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2228, 4 November 1907, Page 3

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JpiRGHIBITION TRIUMPHANT. SEVEN-EIGHTHS O-F THE SOUTHERN STATES “DRY.” Mr. JOHN CORRIGAN describes in the American Review of Reviews the Prohibition wave in the South. Georgia’s adoption of State prohibition 'calls general attention to the progress of this wave:- — “Seven-eighths of the territory of the Southern Stntes is to-day “dry”, and it is believed that a majority of the population S.ivors national prohibition. “TO-DAY THERE ARE FEWER SALOONS IN THE THIRTEEN SOUTHERN STATES THAN IN NEW YORK. In New York there are 30,000 places where liquor is sold, and in the entire South only 29,000. In New York the estimated population in 190-5 was S,I6O,OQ'J and the Government issued in rthe State that year 31,080 ‘special-tax stamps’ to* persons desiring to engage in the manufacture and stile of liquor. The thirteen .Southern ■States, with 23,500,000 ' people, secured in 1900 less than 30,000 stamps. “In this .country temperance advocates have frequently drawn a parallel between the progress of the prohibition and the abolition movements. According to Mr. Corrigan, the success of prohibition in tlie Southern States is a sequel to negro slavery. For, he says, the negro problem and the whisky problem are very intimately commoted. When the blades were in the ascendant after the Civil "War, swarms of negroes, many of whom drunk with whisky, and all of them intoxicated with the delirium of newfound libertv, roamed the country atlarge. As the whites bavo regained authority they have found it more and more necessary to restrict the sale of liquor. It was the riot at "Atlanta last year which led directly to prohibition in Georgia. For two weeks following the outbreak the saloons were closed by order of the Mayor, and during that period perfect order was maintained. Here is a striking piece of evidence as to,the effect of prohibition at Knoxville, Ten ii cssee : WITH SALOONS: CRIMINAL RECORD, TWO YEARS, 1901-2. dols. Criminal costs 5,074.76 Jail record, ONE MONTH, February, 1903: Oohimitiments for public drunken-

ness ;•••• Number ot cases in criminal court, two years, 1901-2... 230 Population, 1903 35,000 WITHOUT SALOONS: CRIMINAL RECOR'D, TWO YEARS, 190D15. Criminal costs 2,070.21 Jail record, THREE YEARS AND NINE MONTHS, 11 1903-7: Commitments for public drunkenness Number of criminal cases, two years, 1903-1 105 Population, 1906 50,000 “If'th£ black man thus cures the white man of his drink mania, it wii.ll he one <ji the most colossal instances of returning good for evil ever witnessed in the history of rival races.” —.Review of Reviews, November, 1907. C.P.

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