Rapid Spread of Prohibition.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 350, 21 February 1908, Page 3

Rapid Spread of Prohibition.

The Chicago Record Herald (quoted by the Evening correspondent) in a lute review rf nn It>nnp* writes as fnHnw» : "In 1870 onh about three* mi”inn n**ple wpr* b’” ing in p r <hihi’inn territory, in 1880 just shnu* seven million*, in 1890 over r levpn snill«nn«, in 1900 abon’ eighteen million and in the hot sever years that number ha« increased bv twenty two million, making n fn*«l forty million in “dry” »«-m'hrv in 1907 80 that as the Record Herald etate* half the pnpnlah'nn of the United States i*nnw livin'? in territory gnv erred by Er"hibition laws”. I< Georgia prohibition was carried abnu* 4tn 1, Now however the Ala bnma legislature ha« gnn* even one better than this fnr 'hey adopted Pro bibition by 70 to 4 in th* House, and 82 to 2 in th* Senate, or 102 to 6 al together. This is going some! 1