TEMPERANCE COLUMN

Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 1 September 1909, Page 88

TEMPERANCE COLUMN

The following account gives a detailed showfeg of the progress of no-license in two typical States of the American Union. Very many other States show a similar state of affairs, and nine have adopted complete prohibition :—: — STATE PROHIBITION CAMPAIGN IN KENTUCKY Prohibitionists of Kentucky are pressing with unprecedented enthusiasm a campaign in every corner of their Commonwealth for State prohibition. The novel series of States, prohibition ohautauquas which are being held in strategic centres in leading counties from one end to the othsr of the -State have already developed surprising interest, and bid fair to attract the attention of the politicians. Each ehautauqua consists of a series of six days of rallies, concerts, addresses by prohibition speakers of national prominence, | whose speeches are interspersed with the | best' prohibition music obtainable. That Kentucky is ready for State prohibition is evident from the following list of dry counties, which shows at a glance that more than 90 per cent, of the State has already registered its verdict against the liquor trafiic, although the whisky centres' are doing their best to break down and nullify the local prohibition bulwark now in existence. Mr J. W. Pickett, acting chairmaai, sends the Associated Prohibition Press the following roll call to date of the wet and dry counties in Kentucky. The list shows that 96 -counties have abolished the liquor traffic so far as local prohibition can do so ; that only four counties remain entirely wet ; and the remaining 19 counties are wholy dry, with the exception of one, two, or three towns. The woolly "dry s " counties are as follow: — Adoir, Allen, Ballard, Floyd, Fulton, Gallatin, Lawrence, Lee, Leslie; Owen, Owsley, Pendleton, Barren, Bath, Boyle, Bracken, Breathdtt, Breckenridge, Bulfitt, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Carter, Casey, Clay, Clinton, Crittenden, Cumberland, Edmonson, Elliott, Estill, Fleming, Garrard, Grant, Graves, Grayson, Greene, Greenup, Hancock, Hanndin, Harlan. Harrison, Hart, Henry, Hickman, Hopkins, Jackson, Jessamine, Johnson, Knott, Knox y Larue, Laurell, Letcher, Lewis, Lincoln, Livingston, Logan, Lyon, Madison, Magoffin, Marion, Marshall, Martin, M'Lean, M'Nefee, Mercer, Mefcoalfe, Monroe, Morgan, Muhlenberg, Nicholas, Ohio, Oldham, Perry, Pike, Powell, Pulaski, Robertson, Rockcastle, Rowan, Russell, Simpson, Spencer, Taylor, Todd, Trigg, Trimble, Union, Washington, Wayne; Webster, Whitley, Wolfe, Woodford. The wholly wet counties are as follow : Campbell, Jefferson, Kenton, Meade. The following counties are dry, with the exoeption^of one, tiwo, or three towns. The -number of- these ie shown opposite each county name : — Anderson (2), Bell (2), Boone (1), Bourbon (1), Boyd (1), Carroll (2), Christian <(3), Clark (1), Scott (2), Daviess (1). Fayette (1), Franklin (1), Henderson (1), Shelby (1), Mason (1), M'Cracken (1), Montgomery (1), Nelson (2), Warren (1). The total population of Kentucky living in wholly dry territory is 1,541,613, or 66 per cent, of the total population of the State, which is 2,320,298. The following three cities of 5000 population and over are found in the dry counties : — Danville, Mayfield, Richmond. In word just received Mr E. D. Pickett (State chairman) adds that Bowling Green and Ashland (8428 and 6800 population respectively) are now dry cities, while Owensboro, Winchester, Maysville, Hopkinsville, Paris, MXddlesboro, and Dayton comprise the "wet"' precincts in the partially " wet " counties before noted.